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SUBMITTER: Brown AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2909636 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brown Adam R AR Kuo Wen-Hsin WH Jacobsen Eric N EN
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100701 27
Primary aminothiourea derivatives are shown to catalyze enantioselective alkylation of alpha-arylpriopionaldehdyes with diarylbromomethane. Evidence for a stepwise, S(N)1 mechanism in the substitution reaction induced by anion binding to the catalyst is provided by catalyst structure-activity studies, kinetic isotope effects, linear free-energy relationship studies, and competition experiments. ...[more]