Journal of the American Chemical Society

A Theoretical Investigation on the Mechanism and Stereochemical Course of the Addition of (E)-2-Butenyltrimethylsilane to Acetaldehyde by Electrophilic and …

LM Wolf, SE Denmark

Index: Denmark, Scott E.; Weber, Eric J.; Wilson, Thomas M.; Willson, Timothy M. Tetrahedron, 1989 , vol. 45, # 4 p. 1053 - 1066

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Abstract

The diastereoselectivity of the addition of (E)-2-butenyltrimethylsilane to acetaldehyde under electrophilic (BF3, H3O+) and nucleophilic (F–) activation is investigated using density functional theory (M06-2X). The interaction–distortion/activation–strain model of reactivity is