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SUBMITTER: Zhang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2883295 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20050601 12
[reaction: see text] Olefinic pyrazines are found to react with benzene in CF3SO3H and give anti-Markovnikov-type addition products. We propose that this is caused by two effects: destabilization of the carbocationic intermediates that would lead to Markovnikov-type products and the generation of a considerable amount of positive charge at the terminal carbon of the olefinic groups. This suggests that acid-catalyzed addition reactions can give anti-Markovnikov-type products when a multiply charg ...[more]