A multi-pronged mechanistic study of the phosphine-mediated conjugate addition of an alcohol to an acetylenic ester

Rhonda L. Stoddard, Jingwei Luo, Nicole van der Wal, Natasha F. O’Rourke, Jeremy E. Wulff, J. Scott McIndoe

New Journal of Chemistry · 2014 · 17 citations · 44 references

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The conjugate addition of an alcohol to a butynoate ester using an organophosphine catalyst was monitored using pressurized sample infusion electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PSI-ESI-MS), together with <sup>31</sup>P and <sup>1</sup>H NMR spectroscopy.

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