American Chemical Society, Organic Letters, 20(11), p. 4684-4687, 2009
DOI: 10.1021/ol901984x
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Ion pair "leakage" pathways, located computationally by means of multidimensional potential energy surface scans, rationalize the unsymmetrical D-label scrambling observed experimentally in the DCl addition products of nortricyclene and norbornene. "Classical" addition transition structures can interconvert ("leak") to symmetrical nonclassical 2-norbornyl ion pair species, either TS's or a minimum, before products form.