reviewACS Central ScienceJun 12, 2017DIAMOND OA

Transition-Metal Catalysis of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to S N 1 and S N 2 Processes

GCGregory C. Fu

California Institute of Technology

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Abstract

2) have limited scope and are not generally amenable to enantioselective variants that employ readily available racemic electrophiles. Radical-based pathways catalyzed by chiral transition-metal complexes provide an attractive approach to addressing these limitations.

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  • Electrophile
  • SN2 reaction
  • Enantioselective synthesis
  • Nucleophile
  • Nucleophilic substitution
  • Combinatorial chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Catalysis
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