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Kenneth Charles Westaway
Researcher at Laurentian University
Publications - 45
Citations - 2634
Kenneth Charles Westaway is an academic researcher from Laurentian University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kinetic isotope effect & SN2 reaction. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 45 publications receiving 2520 citations.
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Isotope effects in nucleophilic substitution reactions. V. The mechanism of the decomposition of 1-phenylethyldimethylphenylammonium halides in chloroform
TL;DR: In this article, secondary α and β hydrogen-deuterium kinetic isotope effects have been used together to show that the SN reaction between 1-phenylethyldimethylphenylammonium ion and bromide or iodide ion in chloroform occurs by way of an SN2 mechanism within a triple ion.
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Using secondary alpha deuterium kinetic isotope effects to determine the stereochemistry of an E2 reaction; the stereochemistry of the E2 reaction of 1-chloro-2-phenylethane with potassium tert-butoxide in tert-butyl alcohol
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the E2 reaction of 1-chloro-2-phenylethane with potassium tert-butoxide in tertbutyl alcohol occurs via an anti-periplanar stereochemistry.
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Solvent effects on ion pairing of tetra‐n‐butylammonium cyanide. A conductometric study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the nucleophilic bimolecular substitution (SN2) reaction between cyanide ions and para-substituted benzyl chlorides and found that the Cα-Cl bond was most influenced by the para substitution.
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The Rapid Synthesis of Organic Compounds in Microwave Ovens. Part 2.
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The effect of conjugation on the magnitude of secondary alpha deuterium kinetic isotope effects
TL;DR: The unexpectedly small secondary alpha deuterium KIE in the 4-methoxybenzyl chloride-thiophenoxide ion reaction is attributed to the increased conjugation between the aryl group and the alpha carbon in the S N 2 transition state as discussed by the authors.