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Steric acceleration of an uncatalysed ene reaction at room temperature
N Choony1, P G Sammes, G Smith
1Department of Chemistry, School of Physics and Chemistry, UniS, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7XH. p.sammes@surrey.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
The bulky trityl steric buttress is used to effect an intramolecular, uncatalysed ene reaction that operates at room temperature, whilst smaller buttresses require heat.