The acceptor, TCN”, prepared by oxidation of dimalonitrile VI11 or IX, is reversibly ionized by two one-electron reductions at a platinum electrode in butyronitrile with 0.1 M tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate at half-wave potential ElI2 (1) red= 4.145 V and E1/*(2)= 4.449 V vs. an Ag/AgN03 reference electrode. Allylic bromination of metacyclophane I11 followed by treatment with sodium cyanide provides diacetonitrile VI, ...
[Maxfield, MacRae; Willi, Steven M.; Cowan, Dwaine O.; Bloch, Aaron N.; Poehler, Theodore O. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1980 , # 20 p. 947 - 948]
[Maxfield, MacRae; Willi, Steven M.; Cowan, Dwaine O.; Bloch, Aaron N.; Poehler, Theodore O. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1980 , # 20 p. 947 - 948]