Posts Tagged ‘vinyl carbocation’

Secrets of a university tutor. An exercise in mechanistic logic: first dénouement.

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

The reaction described in the previous post (below) is an unusual example of nucleophilic attack at an sp2-carbon centre, reportedly resulting in inversion of configuration[cite]10.1021/ja00765a062[/cite]. One can break it down to a sequence of up to eight individual steps, which makes teaching it far easier. But how real is that sequence?

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