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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Synlett. 2017 Mar 10;28(12):2407–2421. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1588778

Chart 2.

Chart 2

Second-order rate constants kHO and carbon acid pKas for ionization of imidazolium cations at C(2), calculated as shown in Scheme 4B. A representative carbon acid pKa for a thiazolium cation is also reported.