Rearrangement of benzylidenecarbene formed by pyrolysis of the benzylidene derivative of meldrum's acid at 560°
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 21,p. 1175
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720001175
Abstract
Flash-vacuum pyrolysis of the benzylidene compound (2) gives acetone and phenylacetylene (98%); 13C labelling shows that the presumed intermediate benzylidenecarbene (3) appears to undergo 75% of hydrogen migration and 25% of phenyl migration at 560°.Keywords
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