Discovery of and mechanistic insight into a ligand-modulated palladium-catalyzed wacker oxidation of styrenes using TBHP

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2796-2797

  Cornell, Candace N ^a   Sigman, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; PALLADIUM; STYRENE DERIVATIVE; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; DISSOCIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGAND BINDING; OXIDATION KINETICS; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; KETONES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALLADIUM; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STYRENES; TERT-BUTYLHYDROPEROXIDE;

EID: 14844318023     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja043203m     Document Type: Article

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