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SUBMITTER: White NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4210054 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20141010 42
A novel oxidative N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reaction pathway has been discovered. Alkyl and aryl enals undergo β-hydroxylation via oxygen atom transfer from electron-deficient nitrobenzenes, followed by trapping of the resultant acyl azolium by the solvent. The proposed mechanism involves a single electron transfer event to initiate the reaction followed by radical recombination. This represents a profound mechanistic departure from the established two-electron disconnects in NHC catalysi ...[more]