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Alkynes hetero-substituted with third-row elements yield alkenes with a regiochemistry opposite to that obtained when using alkynes hetero-substituted with second-row elements. Early computational investigations of his reaction mechanism have identified the importance of the organocopper counter-cation (Li+) to the achievement of good reaction rates, but in the subsequent two decades no further progress has been reported regarding the exploration of the mechanism or the explanation of the experimental regiochemistry. In this work, density-functional theory is used to investigate the mechanism used and to describe a model that correctly explains both the reaction rates at sub-zero temperatures and the regiochemistry profiles obtained with each of the heteroalkynes. The rate-determining step is shown to vary depending on the heterosubstituent, and the alkyl transfer is consistently shown to occur, somewhat counter-intuitively, to the alkyne carbon that is complexed by Cu rather than to the \u201cfree\u201d alkyne carbon atom, which instead interacts with the counter-cation that stabilizes the developing electronic charge distribution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/catal13010017","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]],"date-time":"2022-12-23T03:55:21Z","timestamp":1671767721000},"page":"17","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Reaction Mechanism of the Cu(I) Catalyzed Alkylation of Heterosubstituted Alkynes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9316-9275","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pedro J.","family":"Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"FP-I3ID, FP-BHS\/Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias da Sa\u00fade, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Rua Carlos da Maia 296, 4200-150 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"UCIBIO@REQUIMTE, BioSIM, Departamento de Biomedicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chemla, F., and Ferreira, F. 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