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SUBMITTER: Ford DD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5108296 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20160615 25
Chiral, neutral H-bond donors have found widespread use as catalysts in enantioselective reactions involving ion-pair intermediates. Herein, a systematic mechanistic study of a prototypical anion-binding reaction, the thiourea-catalyzed enantioselective alkylation of α-chloroethers, is detailed. This study reveals that the catalyst resting state is an inactive dimeric aggregate that must dissociate and then reassemble to form a 2:1 catalyst-substrate complex in the rate-determining transition st ...[more]