A collaboration between research groups in UK, Spain and Italy led by Steven Nolan reveals the mechanism of the Au (I) catalysed formation of substituted indenes.
Read the conclusions of this mechanistic and computational study in this free to access until mid-January paper that is the inside cover of OBC Issue 1 2011.
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A combined mechanistic and computational study of the gold(I)-catalyzed formation of substituted indenes
Pierrick Nun, Sylvain Gaillard, Albert Poater, Luigi Cavallo and Steven P. Nolan
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 101-104
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00758G