Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (No. 0710RJZA114) and the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province Education Office (No. 0801-10).
The mechanism of ethylene insertion reactions catalyzed by cationic a-alkyl platinum complexes has been studied at the B3LYP level of density functional theory. The initial steps of the reactions proceed via the coord...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (0710RJZA114);the Natural Science Foundation of Department of Education, Gansu Province (0801-10, 1013B-01)
The mechanisms of the acid-catalyzed decarboxylation of pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid and mesitoic acid have been investigated based on density functional theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-311G (d,p) level. A polarizable...