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Paterno-Buechi Reaction of 2-Morpholinoacrylonitrile with Benzil
Doepp, Dietrich,Memarian, Hamid Reza,Fischer, Michael Alexander,Eijk, Alexander M. J. van,Varma, Cyril A. G. O.
, p. 983 - 984 (2007/10/02)
In the lowest excited triplet state, benzil (1) adds highly regio- and stereoselectively to the olefin 2-morpholinoacrylonitrile (2) to form solely the oxetane 5. Key Words: Benzil, lowest triplet state of / Addition, stepwise / Oxetanes / Captodative substitution
