Using mechanistic and computational studies to explain ligand effects in the palladium-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alcohols

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 8499-8507

  Schultz, Mitchell J ^a   Adler, Ryan S ^a   Zierkiewicz, Wiktor ^b,c   Privalov, Timofei ^b   Sigman, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION;

DEPROTONATION; ISOTOPE EFFECTS; LIGAND EFFECTS;

PALLADIUM;

ALCOHOL; PALLADIUM;

ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PROTON TRANSPORT;

AEROBIOSIS; ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 20444502894     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja050949r     Document Type: Article

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