Acidities of radical cations derived from remotely substituted and phenyl-substituted fluorenes

FG Bordwell, JP Cheng, MJ Bausch

Index: Bordwell, Frederick G.; Cheng, Jin-Pei; Bausch, Mark J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 , vol. 110, # 9 p. 2867 - 2872

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Abstract

Abstract: Estimates of the acidities of the radical cations derived from remotely substituted and phenyl-substituted fluorenes have been made from measurements of the acidities and oxidation ptentials of the fluorenes and the oxidation potentials of their conjugate bases. The radical cation acidities of fluorene, 2-bromofluorene, and 4-azafluorene were all estimated to be-17. The pKHA.+ values for fluorenes bearing remote donor substituents were as ...