The reaction of dicarbomethoxycarbene with diethyl ether. The mechanism of the formation of cleavage products.

✍ Scribed by Garabed K Agopian; Duncan W Brown; Maitland Jones Jr.

• Book ID: 104237219
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)85492-7

✦ Synopsis

Carbenes react with ethers by three major pathways; carbon-hydrogen insertion, carbonoxygen uinsertion*f and cleavage of one of the groups originally attached to the ether oxygen.