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Professor Ann O'Donoghue's Outputs (4)

Substituent effects on the dehydration of arene hydrates in aqueous solution (2013)
Journal Article
O'Mahony, M. J., More O'Ferrall, R., Boyd, D., Lam, C., & O'Donoghue, A. (2013). Substituent effects on the dehydration of arene hydrates in aqueous solution. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 26(12), 989-996. https://doi.org/10.1002/poc.3174

Rate constants have been determined by UV spectrophotometry at 25 °C for the acid-catalyzed dehydration of different types of monocyclic arene hydrates including those substituted at the 1-, 2- or 3-positions. General acid catalysis was not observed,... Read More about Substituent effects on the dehydration of arene hydrates in aqueous solution.

Mechanistic insights into the triazolylidene-catalysed Stetter and benzoin reactions: role of the N-aryl substituent (2013)
Journal Article
Collett, C., Massey, R., Maguire, O., Batsanov, A., O'Donoghue, A., & Smith, A. (2013). Mechanistic insights into the triazolylidene-catalysed Stetter and benzoin reactions: role of the N-aryl substituent. Chemical Science, 4(4), 1514-1522. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2sc22137c

The in situ observation, isolation and reversible formation of intermediate 3-(hydroxybenzyl)azolium salts derived from NHC addition to a range of substituted benzaldehydes is probed. Equilibrium constants for the formation of these 3-(hydroxybenzyl)... Read More about Mechanistic insights into the triazolylidene-catalysed Stetter and benzoin reactions: role of the N-aryl substituent.