It has been demonstrated by means of spectroscopic studies involving cyclizable alkyl halides that lithium dimethylcuprate can react with organic halides by a single electron transfer pathway. The reaction of lithium diorganocuprates (LiCuR2) with alkyl halides is of major synthetic imp0rtance.l
EPR evidence for a single electron transfer mechanism in reactions of aromatic ketones with lithium amides
โ Scribed by E.C. Ashby; A.B. Goel; R.N. DePriest
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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