Preparation of Arylethynylcarbinols

ET Clapperton, WS Macgregor

Index: Clapperton; MacGregor Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1949 , vol. 71, p. 3234

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 5

Abstract

Discussion.-In view of the higher base strength of cyanide ion, it would seem surprising that carbon monoxide is capable of displacing it. The apparent similarity in the strength of bonding to nickel can be understood in terms of the double bonded situation in nickel carbonyl and the argument that the cyanide is chiefly single bonded.