Radical intermediates in the thermal decomposition of neophyl (tri-n-butylphosphine) copper (I) and neophyl (tri-n-butylphosphine) silver (I)

GM Whitesides, EJ Panek…

Index: Whitesides,G.M. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972 , vol. 94, # 1 p. 232 - 239

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Abstract

Abstract: The thermal decomposition of neophyl (tri-n-butylphosphine) copper (I)(3) in ether solation at tempera-tures between 30 and 125" takes place in large part by a free-radical mechanism. The initial homolytic scission of the carbon-copper u bond is follcwed by competing 1, 2-phenyl migration, coupling, and hydrogen abstraction reactions involving the resulting neophyl radicals. The products obtained from thermal decomposition of mixtures ...