Synthesis and properties of the tristyrylmethyl anion

K Komatsu, S Shirai, I Tomioka…

Index: Komatsu, Koichi; Shirai, Shuzo; Tomioka, Isao; Okamoto, Kunio Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1984 , vol. 57, # 5 p. 1377 - 1380

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Abstract

The title anion (3) having a C 3v symmetric structure was generated from newly synthesized tristyrylmethane (4) and was characterized by means of 1 H and 13 C NMR spectroscopy. The pK a value of 4 was determined as 20.1 in DMSO–EtOH (9: 1), indicating considerable conjugative stabilization of the anion 3. The cyclic voltammetry of 3 in acetonitrile exhibited only irreversible one-electron oxidation peak corresponding to the formation of a ...