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K. N. Houk
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 544
Citations - 19761
K. N. Houk is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 478 publications receiving 17032 citations. Previous affiliations of K. N. Houk include University of Pittsburgh & Leibniz University of Hanover.
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Transition structure for the reaction of a carbenoid, (fluoromethyl)lithium, with ethylene
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Mechanistic Insights into the Reaction of Amidines with 1,2,3-Triazines and 1,2,3,5-Tetrazines
TL;DR: In this paper , it was shown that 1,2,3-triazine and 1,4,5-tetrazine-amidine reaction proceeds through an addition/N2 elimination/cyclization pathway, rather than the generally expected concerted or stepwise Diels-Alder/retro Diels Alder sequence.
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Computations on Pericyclic Reactions Reveal the Richness of Ambimodal Transition States and Pericyclases
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Overcoming Kinetic and Thermodynamic Challenges of Classic Cope Rearrangements.
Ehsan Fereyduni,Ouidad Lahtigui,Jacob N. Sanders,Breanna M. Tomiczek,Michael D. Mannchen,Roland A. Yu,K. N. Houk,Alexander J. Grenning +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a reductive Cope rearrangement for Meldrum's acid-containing substrates was proposed, which can yield enantioenriched building blocks when chiral, nonracemic 1,3-disubstituted allylic electrophiles are utilized.
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An Experimental Stereoselective Photochemical [1s,3s]-Sigmatropic Silyl Shift and the Existence of Silyl/Allyl Conical Intersections.
Niels Hammer,Mette Louise Christensen,Yu Chen,Daniel Naharro,Fang Liu,Karl Anker Jørgensen,K. N. Houk +6 more
TL;DR: The mechanism of this unprecedented [1,3]-silyl shift has been elucidated by a series of experimental studies and CASSCF, DFT, and TD-DFT calculations on model systems and the experimental system, and is proposed to occur via a singlet silyl/allyl conical intersection.