Studies in Phosphinemethylene Chemistry. III. Triphenylphosphinechloromethylene1

D Seyferth, SO Grim, TO Read

Index: Seyferth,D. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1961 , vol. 83, p. 1617 - 1620

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Abstract

The electrophilic nature2 of halocarbenes is believed to be due to their electronic structure where carbon is in the singlet ground state, in which an electron pair fills a carbon sp2 orbital not used in bonding, leaving the pz orbital vacant. If this description of carbenes is accepted, then triphenylphosphinemethylenes,(C~ HF,) 3P-CX2-(CaHa) aP= CX2, can be regarded as donor-acceptor complexes formed between the nucleophile ...