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SUBMITTER: Doni E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755536 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130719 30
The prevalence of metal-based reducing reagents, including metals, metal complexes, and metal salts, has produced an empirical order of reactivity that governs our approach to chemical synthesis. However, this reactivity may be influenced by stabilization of transition states, intermediates, and products through substrate-metal bonding. This article reports that in the absence of such stabilizing interactions, established chemoselectivities can be overthrown. Thus, photoactivation of the recentl ...[more]