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Chemical, Kinetic, and Spectroscopic Evidence for the Reaction of 1-Naphthylcarbene with Acetonitrile to form a Nitrile Ylid.

RL Barcus, BB Wright, MS Platz, JC Scaiano

Index: Barcus, Robert L.; Wright, Bradford B.; Platz, Matthew S.; Scaiano, J. C. Tetrahedron Letters, 1983 , vol. 24, # 37 p. 3955 - 3958

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Abstract

Abstract Laser photolysis of 1-naphthyldiazomethane or azirine 7 in acetonitrile gave the same transient absorption spectrum. The transient from each precursor reacted with acrylonitrile with identical rate constants. Photolysis of 1-naphthyldiazirine 6 in acetonitrile containing acrylonitrile gave products derived from carbenes and nitrile ylids.