Nickel-Catalyzed Activation of Acyl C-O Bonds of Methyl Esters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2810-2814

  Hie, Liana ^a   Fine Nathel, Noah F ^a   Hong, Xin ^a   Yang, Yun Fang ^a   Houk, Kendall N ^a   Garg, Neil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C O activation; density functional calculations; methyl esters; nickel catalysis; oxidative addition

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ESTERS; NICKEL; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATALYTIC METHODS; DECARBONYLATIONS; KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS; METHYL ESTERS; NICKEL CATALYSIS; OXIDATIVE ADDITIONS; REACTION MECHANISM; SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE;

ORGANOMETALLICS;

CARBON; ESTER; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR MODEL;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; ESTERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

EID: 84956685887     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511486     Document Type: Article

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