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First Crystal Structure Analysis of an Aliphatic Carbocation—Stabilization of the 3,5,7-Trimethyl-1-adamantyl Cation by CC Hyperconjugation

✍ Scribed by Dr. Thomas Laube


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Weight
256 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-8249

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✦ Synopsis


forms beautiful single crystals."*] Sulfur and selenium also add to 1, giving the chalcogenides 7b and 7c, respectively. Table 1 gives spectroscopic data for 1 and 7. Moreover, an X-ray structure analysis is available for 7a."*l Other reactions often proceed in a complex manner-as observed for the vinyl derivative 2, R=Ph[']-since the propyne/allene isomerism allows several possible sites of attack. Thus, whereas the mild quaternization with iodomethane (in benzene at O0C) indeed gives the monophosphonium salt 8,["' the use of the reagent in excess leads, even at 20"C, to the totally unexpected formation of the butynylphosphonium salt 9.[I4l Presumably, ylidic intermediates play a role in the lengthening of the allene/propyne chain. The PhzP unit that is lost is found in the reaction mixture as [Ph2PMe2JI.