Talk:Proline organocatalysis

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Reaction-diagram problem

I think there's a mistake in the enamine intermediate (first picture in brackets).

There seems to be in total 5 carbons between the two cycles (the left cycle being proline)

while the reagent could only afford 4 carbons in between the cycles.

To put it another way, the reagent is a 1,5-dicarbonyl while the enamine intermediate (first picture in brackets) would result from a 1,6-dicarbonyl. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:998:E1:8A53:B00B:195E:7A10:CEEF (talk) 07:58, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

:I agree. Will work on it today... DMacks (talk) 15:28, 29 November 2019 (UTC)