Archive for March 25th, 2020

The mechanism of Michael 1,4-Nucleophilic addition: a computationally derived reaction pathway.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

In 2013, I created an iTunesU library of 115 mechanistic types in organic and organometallic chemistry, illustrated using video animations of the intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC) computed using a high level quantum mechanical procedure. Many of those examples first derived from posts here. That collection  is still available and is viewable  in the iTunesU app on an iPhone or an iPad. The realisation struck me now that one of the types not described in that library was Michael-type 1,4-nucleophilic addition to an activated alkene, as described at Wikipedia. So here is that addition.

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