Dilithium diphenylmethanediide; generation, redox relationship with lithium chlorodiphenylmethanide, implication with regard to aggregation

NJR van Eikema Hommes, F Bickelhaupt…

Index: Eikema Hommes, Nicolaas J. R. van; Bickelhaupt, Friedrich; Klumpp, Gerhard W. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1991 , # 6 p. 438 - 440

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Abstract

Dilithium diphenylmethanediide, Ph2CLi2, prepared by reaction of dichlorodiphenylmethane with lithium p, p′-di-tert-butylbiphenyl, reacts with organic halides and carbonyl compounds to give lithium Chlorodiphenylmethanide, Ph2CLiCl, as a major product and is assumed to exist in two different states of aggregation.