Studies of reactive intermediates using matrix and gas-phase techniques

✍ Scribed by Curt Wentrup; Robert Flammang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 186 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1395(199805)11:5<350::aid-poc20>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

In the direct investigation of reactive intermediates it is particularly valuable to use a combination of several spectroscopic techniques. This commentary highlights recent examples, using primarily flash vacuum thermolysis for the generation of the intermediates, and matrix IR spectroscopy in conjunction with gas-phase mass spectrometric methods for their identification. The examples include nitrile imines, nitrile ylides, nitrile sulfides and selenides, dinitrogen sulfide and several novel cumulenes (X=C=C=Y, RN=C=C=C=X).