Zhang, Xiang published the artcileMechanism for Ag (I)-catalyzed decarboxylative chlorination: a DFT study, Quality Control of 1949-41-3, the publication is Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (2016), 135(6), 1-9, database is CAplus.
Ag(I)-catalyzed decarboxylative chlorination of the carboxylic acid with t-BuOCl has been given a systematic theor. study. According to the calculations, the catalytic cycle was assumed to include four steps: proton-coupled two-electron transfer, oxidative decarboxylation, formation of Ag(II)-Cl (chlorine source) and chlorine abstraction. It was first suggested that this kind of reaction is driven by the proton-coupled two-electron transfer, which leads to the formation of Ag(II) species, carboxylate, chloridion and t-BuOH. Then the oxidative decarboxylation and formation of Ag(II)-Cl take place at the same time. The resultant alkyl radical from the former abstracts the chlorine atom of Ag(II)-Cl to give the final product. Based on a comparison of the reactivities among different carboxylic acids, the oxidative decarboxylation was established as the rate-determining step. Moreover, it proceeds preferentially in a concerted dissociative electron transfer pathway.
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts published new progress about 1949-41-3. 1949-41-3 belongs to catalysis-chemistry, auxiliary class Carboxylic acid,Benzene, name is 2-Methyl-4-phenylbutanoic acid, and the molecular formula is C8H5IO, Quality Control of 1949-41-3.
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