Wes Lee, Mingbin Yuan, Christopher Acha, Ashley Onwu and Osvaldo Gutierrez
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 1767-1772
DOI:
10.1039/C8OB02346H,
Communication
Quantum mechanical calculations (DLPNO-CCSD(T) and dispersion-corrected DFT) are employed to gain insights into the mechanism and selectivity in the catalytic synthesis of dihydropyrido[1,2-a]indoles from the cascade reaction between nitrones and allenes. Implications for controlling diverging pathways is discussed.