Is samarium diiodide an inner- or outer-sphere electron donating agent?
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 343-344
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a809277j
Abstract
From the measured value of E° (SmI2 +–SmI2) in THF and using free energy plots, the electron transfer between samarium diiodide and acetophenone was shown to be clearly of inner-sphere nature; on the other hand, with benzyl bromide it is closer to an outer-sphere process.Keywords
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