Stable carbenes as strong bases
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 1267-1268
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39950001267
Abstract
The stable carbene 1,3-diisopropyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene has a pKa of 24 in (CD3)2SO and gives an elimination:substitution ratio with 2-bromopropane comparable to that of 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene (DBN).Keywords
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