Journal of the American Chemical Society

Elusive carbenes. Olefinic capture of cyclopropylchlorocarbene and related species

RA Moss, ME Fantina

Index: Moss,R.A.; Fantina,M.E. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1978 , vol. 100, p. 6788 - 6790

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Citation Number: 46

Abstract

Rules are often honored by exceptions. Consider the proposition:" if a singlet carbene has an internal insertion or cy-cloaddition available, it will not be possible to trap it efficiently with an external reagent".'Cyclopropylcarbene, for example, readily ring expands to cyclobutene* or fragments to ethylene and a~ etylene;*~-~,~ external traps, alkenes in particular, should be hard pressed to compete with these facile intramolecular modes of escape. One way to ...