Journal of fluorine chemistry

Competitive kinetic processes in the thermal rearrangement of 1, 1-difluoro-2-(dideuteriomethylene)-cyclopropane

WR Dolbier, E Gautriaud, X Cai

Index: Dolbier Jr., William R.; Gautriaud, Emilie; Cai, Xiaohong Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2005 , vol. 126, # 3 p. 339 - 343

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Abstract

The synthesis of 1, 1-difluoro-2-(dideuteriomethylene)-cyclopropane is reported along with the kinetics of its competing, reversible, first order rearrangements:(a) the degenerate rearrangement to 1, 1-difluoro-3, 3-dideuterio-2-methylene-cyclopropane, and (b) its rearrangement to 2, 2-dideuterio-1-(difluoromethylene)-cyclopropane. The observed experimental ratio of these two rate constants, 2.3, is consistent with Borden's theoretically ...