Inorganic chemistry
Mechanistic Discovery of a Nucleophile-Electrophile Coupling Mechanism in Binuclear Gold(I)-Catalyzed Photoredox Alkynylation of Tertiary Aliphatic Amines with 1-Iodoalkynes.
Rui Cao, Morteza Jamshidi, Saba Hadidi, Robert Stranger, Farshad Shiri, Alireza Ariafard
Published: 202510.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04207
Abstract
Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations were employed to elucidate the mechanism of the α-amino-C(sp3)-H alkynylation of tertiary aliphatic amines with 1-iodoalkynes catalyzed by [Au2(μ-dppm)2]2+ under light irrad…
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