Computationally designed and experimentally confirmed diastereoselective rhodium-catalyzed Pauson-Khand reaction at room temperature

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7621-7623

  Baik, Mu Hyun ^a   Mazumder, Shivnath ^a   Ricci, Paolo ^b   Sawyer, James R ^a   Song, Ye Geun ^a   Wang, Huijun ^a   Evans, P Andrew ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION BARRIERS; CHARGE POLARIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DIASTEREOISOMERS; DIASTEREOSELECTIVE; DIASTEREOSELECTIVE REACTIONS; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; PAUSON-KHAND REACTIONS; RHODIUM-CATALYZED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION STATE;

CATALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RHODIUM;

STEREOSELECTIVITY;

RHODIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DIASTEREOISOMER; ELECTRON; HALOGENATION; OXIDATION; PAUSON KHAND REACTION; POLARIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CATALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RHODIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79957736107     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja107895g     Document Type: Article

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