Chemistry Letters

Facile carbon-carbon bond heterolysis. SN1-E1 reactions of t-cumyl and t-butyl substituted tricyanomethanes.

H Hirota, T Mitsuhashi

Index: Hirota, Hiroshi; Mitsuhashi, Tsutomu Chemistry Letters, 1990 , # 5 p. 803 - 806

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Abstract

The tricyanomethanide ion C (CN) 3− was found to serve as an efficient leaving group anion to generate unstable carbocations such as t-cumyl and t-butyl cations, the ability of carbon- terminated leaving groups so far examined being in the order C (CN) 2 N= NC 6 H 4 NO 2- p<< C (CN) 3<< C (CN) 2 NO 2.