Exploring Hydrogen Bond and Bronsted Acid Catalysis
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 4144
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organo- and transition metal catalysis, organic chemistry, cyclopropenium and cyclopropenimine catalysis and applications, DFT calculations, hydrogen bond catalysis, mechanisms, fluorescencent compounds synthesis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of catalysis continues to evolve towards sustainable and renewable modes of reactivity, less reliant on precious metals, superseded by small molecule, viz., organocatalytic methodologies. The impetus for this shift being the intrinsic non-metal feature of organocatalysis, functional group tolerance and the involvement of multiple attractive noncovalent interactions in such processes. In this context, over the last two decades, hydrogen bond and Brønsted acid organocatalyzed approaches have emerged as promising subsets of catalysis and as such, they continue to receive tremendous attention from research groups. The basis for this being the proven high efficiency and versatility of these modes of catalysis for an ever-expanding list of synthetic transformations. Further hydrogen bond and Brønsted acid catalyzed protocols generally provide chemo-, regio- and stereoselectivity under mild conditions, thereby avoiding the production of by-products.
Inherit mechanistic differences between Brønsted acid catalysis and hydrogen bond catalysis, however, are not always simple to delineate experimentally. The distinction between the two, broadly speaking, being Brønsted acid catalysis involves protonated ion pairs, while hydrogen bond catalysis involves hydrogen bond complexes. This divergent character while often overlooked, nevertheless, is paramount to mechanistic understanding. Computational studies provide an ideal means for differentiating between these two activation modes.
Submissions to this special issue entitled “Exploring Hydrogen Bond and Brønsted Acid Catalysis” are welcome in the form of original research papers or short reviews that reflect the state of research in hydrogen bond catalysis and Brønsted acid catalysis. This includes computational, kinetic and/or experimental focused contributions.
Prof. Dr. Travis Dudding
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hydrogen Bond Catalysis
- Brønsted Acid Catalysis
- Computational Studies
- DFT Calculations
- Ion Pairs
- Organocatalysis
