This work is supported by the Ministry of Education under Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars.
A novel rearrangement-addition reaction of trisubstituted gibberellin epoxides with trimethylaluminium is reported. The reaction proceeds stereospecifically to give tertiary methyl alcohols. The possible mechanism for...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The electronic and molecular structures of the monomer and dimer of trimethylaluminium have been studied using density functional theory and ab initio MP2 method. The optimized geometry of the monomer Al(CH3)3 is of C...