✦ LIBER ✦
Stabilized carbanions by alkyllithium-induced decarboxylation of non-enolizable carboxylic acids. An anionic equivalent to the hunsdiecker reaction
✍ Scribed by John P. Gilday; Leo A. Paquette
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Intermediate dianions formed by nucleophilic attack of methyllithium on a-phenyl or a-phenylthio carboxylate salts fragment in highly coordinating solvents to produce stabilized carbanions.
Once formed, these anions may be conveniently functionalized with various electrophilic reagents.