Tunneling

We are interested both in the impact of quantum mechanical tunneling on rates of synthetically relevant reactions and on the dynamics of unusual reactions.

Guo, W.; Robinson, E. E.; Thomson, R. J.; Tantillo, D. J. Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 4606-4609: "Heavy Atom Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Total Synthesis"

Ahmed, Y. G.; Gomes, G.; Tantillo, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 5971-5983: "Vibrationally Assisted Tunneling through the Bread of a Proton Sandwich - Connections to Dynamic Matching"

 

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