Direct, facile aldehyde and ketone α-selenenylation reactions promoted by L-prolinamide and pyrrolidine sulfonamide organocatalysts

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5678-5687

  Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Mei, Yujiang ^a   Lou, Bihshow ^a,d   Xu, Dingguo ^a   Xie, Daiqian ^a,b,c   Guo, Hua ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; AMINES; HYDROGEN BONDS; KETONES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT) CALCULATIONS; PHTHALIMIDE; PYRROLIDINE; SELENENYLATION REACTIONS; TRANSITION STATES (TS);

CATALYSTS;

ALDEHYDE; ENAMINE; KETONE; N (PHENYLSELENO)PHTHALIMIDE; PHTHALIMIDE DERIVATIVE; PROLINAMIDE; PROLINE; PYRROLIDINE TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONAMIDE; REAGENT; SELENIUM; SULFONAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALPHA SELENENYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961985214     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo0506940     Document Type: Article

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