Evidence for Carbon–Carbon Meisenheimer–Wheland Complexes between Superelectrophilic and Supernucleophilic Carbon Reagents

…, E Del Vecchio, L Forlani, A Mazzanti…

Index: Boga, Carla; Del Vecchio, Erminia; Forlani, Luciano; Mazzanti, Andrea; Todesco, Paolo E. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2005 , vol. 44, # 21 p. 3285 - 3289

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Abstract

The observation, or the isolation (when it is possible), of intermediates in nucleophilic aromatic substitution [1a](SNAr; the so-called Meisenheimer complexes M) and in electrophilic aromatic substitution [1b, c](the so-called Wheland complexes W) reactions is an important confirmation of the proposed mechanisms. Our interest has, in the past, focused on intermediates in the SNAr reaction [2] and, more recently, also on electrophilic ...