✦ LIBER ✦
Reaction of 2-butyl halides with sodium ethoxide and 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxide. Evidence that orientation is not determined by the steric requirements of alkoxide bases.
✍ Scribed by Richard A. Bartsch; Clinton F. Kelly; Gerald M. Pruss
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
Interpretation of the effect of base upon orientation in eliminations from 2-alkyl halides induced by alkoxide ions has been complicated by concomitant variation of base strength and size. For example, in a change from ethoxide to &-butoxide, both the basicity and the bulk of