Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Phenylation of Ketones by Reaction with Phenyl Halides and Alkali Amides1

WW Leake, R Levine

Index: Leake; Levine Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959 , vol. 81, p. 1169,1171

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Citation Number: 17

Abstract

However, it was not until recently4t5 that Roberts, et al., elegantly demonstrated that the reactions of halobenzenes with alkali amides in liquid ammonia probably proceed by an elimination-addition mechanism which involves the transitory existence of an electrically neutral benzyne intermediate I. Thus, these workers found that the reactions of chloro-and iodobenzene-l-14C gave essentially equal amounts of aniline-lJ4C and aniline-