The generation and trapping of enantiopure bromonium ions

…, L Kwok, R Pouwer, JM Redmond, AJP White

Index: Braddock, D. Christopher; Hermitage, Stephen A.; Kwok, Lilian; Pouwer, Rebecca; Redmond, Joanna M.; White, Andrew J. P. Chemical Communications, 2009 , # 9 p. 1082 - 1084

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Abstract

The bromonium ion is a species of fundamental interest in organic chemistry. 1 It was first proposed by Roberts and Kimball in 1937 to account for the well-established stereochemistry of the addition of molecular bromine to olefins. 2 Milestones in the history of the bromonium ion include Winstein and Lucas' experiment with 3-bromo-2-butanols to prove the existence of a cyclic symmetrical species, 3 the observation by Olah et al. of a bromonium ion by NMR 4 and the stable ...