Organic letters

Cooperative brønsted acid-type organocatalysis: alcoholysis of styrene oxides

T Weil, M Kotke, CM Kleiner, PR Schreiner

Index: Park, Kwang-Su; Kim, Jinyoung; Choo, Hyunah; Chong, Youhoon Synlett, 2007 , # 3 p. 395 - 398

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Citation Number: 72

Abstract

... At the B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level 23,24 a binary complex between 3 and 5a is thermochemically favored by 2.7 and 6.2 kcal/mol as compared to complexes 1a·3 and 1a·5a (Figure 1, Table 4). The rather strong complexation of epoxides with thiourea derivatives was recently ...