Kinetic control of stereochemistry in the addition of unsymmetrical ketens to cyclopentadiene
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications
- No. 10,p. 589-590
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c29700000589
Abstract
Assumption of an initial crosswise approach of cyclopentadiene and a keten, combined with simple frontier orbital considerations, leads to a prediction of stereochemistry in the electrocyclic addition which has been confirmed by experiment.Keywords
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