Theoretical study on β-H elimination in Heck reactions of heterocyclic substrates

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1007, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-40

  Tang, Shi Ya ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Fu, Yao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Arylation; H elimination; DFT; Heck reaction; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872196465     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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