Chiral α-branched benzylic carbocations: Diastereoselective intermolecular reactions with arene nucleophiles and NMR spectroscopic studies

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 9668-9675

  Mühlthau, Friedrich ^a   Stadler, Daniel ^a   Goeppert, Alain ^b   Olah, George A ^b   Prakash, G K Surya ^b   Bach, Thorsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; POSITIVE IONS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

DIASTEREOSELECTIVITY; DISPLACEMENT REACTIONS; ELECTROPHILIC CARBON ATOM; NUCLEOPHILES;

ALCOHOLS;

LEWIS ACID;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHIRALITY; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RACEMIZATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33746590748     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja062102g     Document Type: Article

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