Chemical and physical properties of fluorenylidene: equilibration of the singlet and triplet carbenes

…, JJ Zupancic, KJ Kaufmann, GB Schuster

Index: Grasse; Brauer; Zupancic; Kaufmann; Schuster Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1983 , vol. 105, # 23 p. 6833 - 6845

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Abstract

Abstract: Irradiation of 9-diazofluorene, with a pulsed laser on a picosecond or nanosecond time scale at room temperature, or at 10 K in a glassy matrix, gives detectable fluorenylidene. This species is shown to exist, under most experimental conditions, as a rapidly equilibrating mixture of singlet and triplet carbenes. The reaction of fluorenylidene with acetonitrile, cyclohexane, and various alcohols and olefins was studied. The products ...