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Transition state analysis of enantioselective Bronsted base catalysis by chiral cyclopropenimines.


ABSTRACT: Experimental (13)C kinetic isotope effects have been used to interrogate the rate-limiting step of the Michael addition of glycinate imines to benzyl acrylate catalyzed by a chiral 2,3-bis(dicyclohexylamino) cyclopropenimine catalyst. The reaction is found to proceed via rate-limiting carbon-carbon bond formation. The origins of enantioselectivity and a key noncovalent CH···O interaction responsible for transition state organization are identified on the basis of density functional theory calculations and probed using experimental labeling studies. The resulting high-resolution experimental picture of the enantioselectivity-determining transition state is expected to guide new catalyst design and reaction development.

SUBMITTER: Bandar JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4230825 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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