Readme for the documentation of scientific data sets Author Readme: Ofial; Armin Date of creation Readme: 2025-03-04 ______________________________ Title of the scientific data set: Online monitoring of the reactions of 2-cyanobenzaldehyde with carbanions derived from ethyl 2-arylacetates Version: 1.0 Contact: Ofial, Armin; Dept. Chemistry, LMU Muenchen, Germany; ofial@lmu.de ______________________________ Author 1 of scientific data set: Thiruvengetam; Prabaharan Author 1 Identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-8490 Author 1 Affiliation: Dept. Chemistry, LMU Muenchen, Germany Author 1 Contribution: Researcher, DataCurator Author 2 of scientific data set: Ofial; Armin R. Author 2 Identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-2793 Author 2 Affiliation:: Dept. Chemistry, LMU Muenchen, Germany Author 2 Contribution: ContactPerson, ProjectLeader, DataCurator ______________________________ Project name: Cascade reactions with 2-cyanobenzaldehydes for the synthesis of 3-substituted isoindolinones ______________________________ Abstract: The reactions of deprotonated ethyl 2-arylacetates (aryl = p-nitrophenyl or p-cyanophenyl) with 2-cyanobenzaldehydes in DMSO at 20 °C were monitored by stopped-flow photometry. Folder names PT116 (aryl = p-cyanophenyl) and PT117 (aryl = p-nitrophenyl) refer to the individual series of experiments and are identical to those in the Supporting Information files "OpenData_SI_OnlineMonitoring.docx/pdf/rtf". Keywords: kinetics, reactivity, nucleophiles, time-resolved spectroscopy Methods for data collection: time-dependent photometric measurements ______________________________ File list: The zip file contains txt files with absorbance vs. time data; exp files used for the k(obs) determination; pdf files with results of the k(obs) determination. File formats: *.txt (raw data), *.exp (evaluated data), *.pdf (evaluated data, Supporting Information), *.docx (Supporting Information), *.rtf (Supporting Information). ______________________________ Remarks: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101106557 "ResolveByBio" (MSCA-2022-PF to P.T.).