Charge-Enhanced Acidity and Catalyst Activation

Masoud Samet; Jordan Buhle; Yunwen Zhou; Steven R. Kass

doi:10.1021/jacs.5b01805

Charge-Enhanced Acidity and Catalyst Activation

Masoud Samet, Jordan Buhle, Yunwen Zhou, Steven R. Kass

Chemistry (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

Acidities are commonly measured in polar solvents but catalytic reactions are typically carried out in nonpolar media. IR spectra of a series of phenols in CCl₄ and 1% CD₃CN/CCl₄ provide relative acidities. Nonprotonated charged substituents with an appropriate counterion are found to enhance their Bronsted acidities and improve catalyst performance by orders of magnitude.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4678-4680
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	137
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b01805
State	Published - Apr 15 2015

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