Steric and electronic factors in the addition of phenylsulfinyl carbene to methyl-substituted ethylenes.
β Scribed by Clifford G. Venier; Mark A. Ward
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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β¦ Synopsis
The unusual stability of phenylsulfinyl carbene, signalled by (1) the ease by which it is formed unimolecularly from phenyl diazomethyl sulfoxide, (2) the lack of C-H insertion reactions, and (3) the high degree of stereoselectivity in cycloaddition to Z-2-butene and cyclohexene, 2 strongly suggests that the sulfinyl sulfur can stabilize the carbene by donation of its lone electron pair into the empty orbital of the carbenic carbon, a conclusion at odds with the generally held view that the sulfinyl function is an electron-withdrawing group.3
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