Investigations into the chemistry of thermodynamically unstable species. The direct polymerization of vinyl alcohol, the enolic tautomer of acetaldehyde

AK Cederstav, BM Novak

Index: Cederstav, Anna K.; Novak, Bruce M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1994 , vol. 116, # 9 p. 4073 - 4074

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Abstract

Although thermodynamics provide an important driving force in determining the direction of chemical reactions, it is often possible tocircumvent thisdictate by taking advantage of kinetics. In fact, considerable leverage can be realized by exploiting favorable relative rates even under conditions in which there is an opposing and significant energetic bias such as in the case of enol-keto tautomerizations. Kinetic supremacy will be illustrated in this ...