Base catalyzed disproportionation of cyclohexadiene and related reactions

✍ Scribed by John E. Hofmann; Perry A. Argabright; Alan Schriesheim

• Book ID: 104223561
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)90421-0

✦ Synopsis

In the light of recent interest in hydrocarbon carbanion reactions in polar solvents (l) we wish to report the discovery of a homogeneous base catalyzed trans-hydrogenation reaction. Kinetics of this reaction indicate that hydride transfer is the rate-determining step. Carbon-carbon hydride transfers are well known in acid media (2, 2) and are important in