An unexpected role of a trace amount of water in catalyzing proton transfer in phosphine-catalyzed (3 + 2) cycloaddition of allenoates and alkenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3470-3471

  Xia, Yuanzhi ^a,b   Liang, Yong ^a   Chen, Yuanyuan ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Jiao, Lei ^a   Huang, Feng ^a   Liu, Song ^a   Li, Yahong ^b,c   Yu, Zhi Xiang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; DEUTERIUM; PHOSPHINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYCLOADDITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MICHAEL ADDITION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKENES; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAPHTHALENES; PHOSPHINES; PROTONS; WATER;

EID: 33947614581     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja068215h     Document Type: Article

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