Acid catalysis delivers the cis isomer as the kinetic product via a late transition state; base catalysis delivers the trans isomer via an early transition state.
provided the initiation and direction of the project. He has also prepared the manuscript.• Dr. Raghunath O. Ramabhadran provided guidance for the calculations for the transition states.• Dr. Dániel Csókás performed the experiments for base catalysis and provided the calculations for the transition states.• I performed the material synthesis and experiments for acid catalysis.
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