Ligand steric contours to understand the effects of N-heterocyclic carbene ligands on the reversal of regioselectivity in Ni-catalyzed reductive couplings of alkynes and aldehydes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6956-6959

  Liu, Peng ^a   Montgomery, John ^b   Houk, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENES; CONTOUR MAP; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE LIGANDS; NHC LIGANDS; REDUCTIVE COUPLING REACTION; REDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; STERIC HINDRANCES; STERIC INFLUENCE;

ACETYLENE; ALDEHYDES; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REDUCING AGENTS; REGIOSELECTIVITY;

LIGANDS;

ALDEHYDE; ALKYNE; CARBENE; N HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE; NICKEL; PHOSPHINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; REDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

ALDEHYDES; ALKYNES; CATALYSIS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS; METHANE; NICKEL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILANES;

EID: 79955678637     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja202007s     Document Type: Article

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