The Reaction of Potassium Amide in Liquid Ammonia with Diarylbromoethenes

GH Coleman, WH Holst…

Index: Coleman; Holst; Maxwell Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1936 , vol. 58, p. 2310

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Abstract

The behavior of certain diarylchloroethenes and ethanes with potassium amide in liquid ammonia has been reported in a previous paper.'These compounds are not affected by boiling alcoholic potassium hydroxide but are very rapidly changed with the loss of hydrochloric acid by potassium amide in liquid ammonia to the corresponding tolanes. To illustrate, 1, l-di-p-tolyl-2-chloroethene forms PI#'-dimethyltolane. A series of such para ...