Facilitated inversion complicates the stereodynamics of an S<sub>N</sub>2 reaction at nitrogen center
Dóra Papp, Gábor Czakó
Abstract
Multiple-inversion, the analogue of the double-inversion pathway recently revealed for S<sub>N</sub>2@C, is the key mechanism in S<sub>N</sub>2 at N center undermining stereospecificity.
Topics & Concepts
Inversion (geology)StereospecificityNitrogen inversionNitrogenChemistryCenter (category theory)StereochemistryComputational chemistryCrystallographyGeologyOrganic chemistryCatalysisPaleontologyStructural basinAdvanced Chemical Physics StudiesMass Spectrometry Techniques and ApplicationsFluorine in Organic Chemistry