%0 Journal Article
%T Cation affinity numbers of Lewis bases
%A Christoph Lindner
%A Raman Tandon
%A Boris Maryasin
%A Evgeny Larionov
%J Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.3762/bjoc.8.163
%X Using selected theoretical methods the affinity of a large range of Lewis bases towards model cations has been quantified. The range of model cations includes the methyl cation as the smallest carbon-centered electrophile, the benzhydryl and trityl cations as models for electrophilic substrates encountered in Lewis base-catalyzed synthetic procedures, and the acetyl cation as a substrate model for acyl-transfer reactions. Affinities towards these cationic electrophiles are complemented by data for Lewis-base addition to Michael acceptors as prototypical neutral electrophiles.
%K ab initio
%K cation affinity
%K Lewis basicity
%K organocatalysis
%K proton affinity
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.8.163