The kinetic range of carbene–pyridine ylide forming reactions
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 1479-1480
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39940001479
Abstract
Absolute rate constants for the ylide-forming reactions of 16 carbenes with pyridine range from 1.4 × 1010 to 1.2 × 105 dm3 mol–1 s–1, and can be rationalized by frontier molecular orbital theory.Keywords
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