Striking AcOH acceleration in direct intramolecular allylie amination reactions

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 11078-11082

  Nahra, Fady ^a   Liron, Frédéric ^a   Prestat, Guillaume ^a   Mealli, Carlo ^b   Messaoudi, Abdelatif ^b   Poli, Giovanni ^a  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b ICCOM CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amination; C H activation; Density functional calculations; Palladium; Solvent effects

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING EFFECT; ALLYLIC AMINATION; AMINATION REACTION; BENZOQUINONES; BIS-SULFOXIDE; C-H ACTIVATION; CATALYTIC CYCLES; CYCLISATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ORGANIC LAYERS; RE-OXIDATION; REACTION MIXTURE; ROUND-BOTTOM FLASKS; SOLVENT EFFECTS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; AMINATION; AMINES; PALLADIUM;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 70350475266     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200901946     Document Type: Article

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