Mechanistic insights into direct amide bond formation catalyzed by boronic acids: Halogens as Lewis bases

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 6840-6843

  Marcelli, Tommaso ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amide coupling; Density functional calculations; Hydrogen bonds; Organocatalysis; Sustainable chemistry

Indexed keywords

AMIDE BOND FORMATION; BORONIC ACID; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; DFT CALCULATION; HALOGEN ATOMS; KINETIC PRODUCT; LEWIS BASIS; ORGANOCATALYSIS; RATE DETERMINING STEP; STEREO-SELECTIVE; SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY; TETRAHEDRAL INTERMEDIATES; WATER ELIMINATION;

ACIDS; AMIDES; CATALYSIS; HYDROGEN; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REACTION KINETICS;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

AMIDE; BORONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HALOGEN; LEWIS BASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMIDES; BORONIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; HALOGENS; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; LEWIS BASES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77956574761     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003188     Document Type: Article

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