Perfluorotetramethylcyclopentadienone as a Diels-Alder diene

S Szilagyi, JA Ross, DM Lemal

Index: Szilagyi,S. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1975 , vol. 97, p. 5586 - 5588

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Abstract

Largely ignored since its discovery and characterization by Wilkinson's group in the early 1960's,'3* perfluoro-tetramethylcyclopentadienone (1) is nonetheless a remarkable compound. This highly volatile yellow solid is stable as a monomer, apparently by virtue of the bulk of its trifluoromethyl substituent^.^ Its resistance to dimerization disguises the fact that 1 is an extremely reactive molecule, one aspect of whose multifaceted chemistry ...