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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jul 6;137(27):8838–8850. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04844

Table 2.

Comparison of C-C bond forming TSs for reaction (2). (3R,4S) = major product. See Scheme 4 for aldehyde coordination sites.

TS σ-crotylruthenium
isomer
Aldehyde
R group
Aldehyde
coordination site
ΔΔG
(kcal mol−1)
CH…O
TS-4(3R,4S) Chair E Equatorial 1 0 No
TS-4(3S,4S) Chair Z Equatorial 1 1.0 No
TS-4(3R,4R) Chair Z Equatorial 1 2.5 Yes
TS-4(3S,4R) Chair E Equatorial 2 3.1 No