New Insight into the Mechanism of the Co
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Valeria van Axel Castelli; Antonella Dalla Cort; Luigi Mandolini; David N. Reinh
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A thorough kinetic investigation of the triethylamine‐catalysed addition of benzenethiol to 2‐cyclopenten‐1‐one in chloroform shows that the highest energy transition state is a complex of thiol, enone, and base in a 1:1:1 ratio, but whether formation or disruption of the enolate−trieth