Enantiomer-specific oxygen exchange reactions. 2. Acid-catalyzed water exchange with 1-phenyl-1-alkanols

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00092a005

The rate constants for three competing processes at the chiral center in the acid-catalyzed racemization of (R)-1-phenyl-1-propanol and (R)-1-phenyl-1-butanol at 64.5 ± 1.0 °C have been determined by chiral HPLC and GC/MS methods: oxygen exchange without