Dimethoxycarbene: direct observation of an archetypal nucleophilic carbene

…, S Shen, K Krogh-Jespersen, A Matro

Index: Moss, Robert A.; Wlostowski, Marek; Shen, Shilan; Krogh-Jespersen, Karsten; Matro, Alexander Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 ,  vol. 110,  # 13  p. 4443 - 4444

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Abstract

Difluorocarbene and methoxychlorocarbene are representative electrophilic and ambiphilic carbenes2 that have been extensively studied and directly~ bserved.~.~ Dimethoxycarbene (DMC), perhaps the archetypal nucleophilic carbene, 2 is most frequently generated by pyrolyses of 7, 7-dimethoxynorbomadiene deri~ atives.~ Although much has been learned about its chemistry, these generative conditions are not easily adapted to direct ...