Proposal for the mechanism of inversion of alkyl-lithiums
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 137-138
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000137
Abstract
The experimentally observed inversion at the RCH2Li carbon within alkyl-lithium aggregates is indicated by ab initio molecular orbital calculations on model compounds to involve novel RCH2Li2 fragments in which two lithium atoms stabilize a planar RCH2 group.Keywords
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