• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Mechanistic investigation in the [1,4] and [1,2] Wittig rearrangement reactions: a DFT study
  • Contributor: Nath, Shilpa R.; Joshi, Kaustubh A.
  • imprint: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018
  • Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01045e
  • ISSN: 1463-9076; 1463-9084
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  • Description: <p>Mechanistic pathways associated with the sigmatropic Wittig rearrangement reactions along different routes have been investigated using density functional theory. The reaction barriers for the one-step as well as two-step pathways have been calculated and the [1,4]-Wittig rearrangement is predicted to occur<italic>via</italic>a two-step mode. Detailed natural bond orbital calculations have been carried out to get deeper insights into these mechanistic pathways.</p>