Substrate-dependence of carbene reactivity: a theoretical study of 1,2-versus 1,4-addition
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 1,p. 20-22
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820000020
Abstract
An investigation by the M.N.D.O. method shows that the nucleophilicity of a singlet carbene is of less potential value as an energy lowering factor for the barrier to 1,4-addition than 1,2-addition reactions and that neither electrophilic nor nucleophilic singlet carbenes promote the synchronous 1,4-addition reaction over the corresponding 1,2-addition pathways.Keywords
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