The alkali metal-catalyzed addition of alkylaromatics to olefins offers unusual possibilities for synthesis in hydrocarbon chemi~ try.~-~ Thus so-dium, phenylsodium or sodium and a variety of “promoters” readily convert toluene and ethylene to n-propylbenzene, 3- ...
[White, Ronald E.; Miller, John P.; Favreau, Leonard V.; Bhattacharyya, Apares Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986 , vol. 108, # 19 p. 6024 - 6031]
