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SUBMITTER: Wonner P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6899570 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wonner Patrick P Dreger Alexander A Vogel Lukas L Engelage Elric E Huber Stefan M SM
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20191023 47
Chalcogen bonding is the non-covalent interaction between Lewis acidic chalcogen substituents and Lewis bases. Herein, we present the first application of dicationic tellurium-based chalcogen bond donors in the nitro-Michael reaction between trans-β-nitrostyrene and indoles. This also constitutes the first activation of nitro derivatives by chalcogen bonding (and halogen bonding). The catalysts showed rate accelerations of more than a factor of 300 compared to strongly Lewis acidic hydrogen bond ...[more]