Wittig Revisited: Cleaning up 50 years of Waste in Metal-Free Catalysis

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Recent thereotical determinations on the Wittig reaction point to low energy (terahertz) vibrations in the ~15-50 meV region being responsible for selectivity of this industrial proceess; recently confirmed by preliminary INS spectra taken on TOSCA. Although respectable statistics were generated for the Ph3P: and Ph3P=O, both neat and in toluene-d8 solution, results were quite poor for the ph-phospholanes, due to relatively small volume of sample available (~1.0g, however, highly dense) as well as our inepxerience preparing these samples. Current focus is therefore to complete INS determinations - armed with the experience & familiarity gained in the initial experiments. Specifically, to characterise the differences in structure and dynamics between the traditional Ph3P Wittig reagent and our novel ph-phospholane (C5-PhP) compound.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088985
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088985
Provenance
Creator Professor Stewart Parker; Dr Gregory Chasse; Dr Ray Burton-Smith; Dr Edwin Frondozo; Dr Stephen Kunkel
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-05-15T08:03:35Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-05-18T08:26:27Z