Nonbonded, attractive cation-π interactions in azide-mediated asymmetric ring expansion reactions

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3318-3327

  Katz, Christopher E ^a,c   Ribelin, Timothy ^a   Withrow, Donna ^b   Basseri, Yashar ^b   Manukyan, Anna K ^b   Bermudez, Amy ^b   Nuera, Christian G ^b   Day, Victor W ^a   Powell, Douglas R ^d   Poutsma, Jennifer L ^b   Aubé, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CONFORMATIONS; ETHANOL; KETONES; STEREOSELECTIVITY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

1,3-HYDROXYALKYL AZIDES; AZIDES; NONBONDED INTERACTIONS;

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; AZIDE; KETONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATION; ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ALKYLATION; AZIDES; CARBON; CATIONS; CYCLIZATION; ETHANOL; GASES; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROPANE; SOLVENTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 43449134368     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo800222r     Document Type: Article

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