Potential energy surface for (retro-)cyclopropanation: Metathesis with a cationic gold complex

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12162-12171

  Fedorov, Alexey ^a   Batiste, Laurent ^a   Bach, Andreas ^a   Birney, David M ^a,b   Chen, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATIONIC GOLD; CLOSE-IN; CYCLOPROPANATION; ELECTRON-RICH OLEFINS; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; GASPHASE; METAL FRAGMENTS; METATHESIS PATHWAYS; OVERALL REACTIONS; POTENTIAL MINIMA; PRODUCT RATIOS; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATION; RATE DETERMINING STEP; RATE LIMITING; TRANSITION STATE;

DISSOCIATION; GOLD; LIGANDS; OLEFINS; PHOSPHORUS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; PROPANE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REACTION RATES;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

ALKENE; CARBENE; CYCLOPROPANE; GOLD COMPLEX; LEWIS ACID;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; CYCLOPROPANATION; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79961160586     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja2041699     Document Type: Article

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