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SUBMITTER: Bandar JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4230825 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20140716 30
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 calcul ...[more]