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SUBMITTER: Cheong PH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2819077 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100201 4
Density functional theory computations reproduce the surprisingly high regioselectivities in nucleophilic additions and cycloadditions to 4,5-indolynes and the low regioselectivities in the reactions of 5,6-indolynes. Transition-state distortion energies control the regioselectivities, activating the 5 and 6 positions over the 4 and 7 positions, leading to high preferences for 5- and 6-substituted products from 4,5- and 6,7-indolynes, respectively. Orbital and electrostatic interactions have onl ...[more]