N-heterocyclic carbenes: Organocatalysts with moderate nucleophilicity but extraordinarily high Lewis basicity

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 6915-6919

  Maji, Biplab ^a   Breugst, Martin ^a   Mayr, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

correlation analysis; imidazoles; kinetics; linear free energy relationships; methyl cation affinities

Indexed keywords

CARBENES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHILES; IMIDAZOLES; LEWIS BASICITY; LINEAR FREE-ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS; METHYL CATION AFFINITIES; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENES; NUCLEOPHILICITIES; ORGANOCATALYSTS; ORGANOCATALYTIC;

ALKALINITY; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; FREE ENERGY;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79960235339     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201102435     Document Type: Article

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