Hard-soft acid-base (HSAB) principle and difference in d-orbital configurations of metals explain the regioselectivity of nucleophilic attack to a carbinol in Friedel-Crafts reaction catalyzed by Lewis and protonic acids

Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section B Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 276-287

  Panda, Gautam ^a   Mishra, Jitendra K ^a   Shagufta, ^a   Dinadayalane, T C ^b   Sastry, G Narahari ^b   Negi, Devendra S ^c  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Friedel Crafts reaction; HSAB principle; Nucleophile; Tight ion pair

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645368062     PISSN: 03764699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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