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Lucrezia De Pascalis, Mei-Kwan Yau, Dennis Svatunek1, Zhuoting Tan1, Srinivas Tekkam, K N Houk1, M G Finn.
Abstract
Oxanorbornadienes (ONDs) undergo facile Michael addition with thiols and then fragment by a retro-Diels-Alder (rDA) reaction, a unique two-step sequence among electrophilic cleavable linkages. The rDA reaction rate was explored as a function of the furan structure, with substituents at the 2- and 5-positions found to be the most influential and the fragmentation rate to be inversely correlated with electron-withdrawing ability. Density functional theory calculations provided an excellent correlation with the experimentally measured OND rDA rates.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33851842 PMCID: PMC9020489 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01164
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.072