Cyclopropylidene: the origin of 1,1-diphenylallene in the reaction of N-Nitroso-N-(2,2-diphenyl)cyclopropyl urea with lithium ethoxide

✍ Scribed by W.M. Jones; Michael H. Grasley

• Book ID: 104212263
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 255 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)70568-5

✦ Synopsis

IN the course of an examination of the reaction of N-nitroso-N-(2,2-diphenyl)-cyclopropyl urea (I) with lithium ethoxide we have observed as the predominant product 1,1-diphenylallene. This observation was certainly not N=O 0 ' W. von E. Doering and P.M. 1 LaFlamme, Tetrahedron 1, 75 (1958).