Thermolysis of (2-oxacyclopentylidene)pentacarbonylchromium(0): evidence against free carbenes in thermal decomposition of metal–carbene complexes
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 21,p. 895-896
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39750000895
Abstract
Thermolysis of (2-oxacyclopentylidene)pentacarbonylchromium(0)(I) gives mainly the dimer and no cyclobutanone, a product characteristic of a free carbene; a bimolecular mechanism for decomposition of (I) is proposed based on kinetic studies.Keywords
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