Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Some observations pertaining to the mechanism of metalation of aromatic substrates with alkyllithium reagents

DA Shirley, TE Harmon, CC Fong

Index: Shirley,D.A. et al. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1974 , vol. 69, p. 327 - 344

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Abstract

Abstract Metalation of 3, 5-diethylanisole with carbon-14 labelled ethyllithium has demonstrated that an adduct of EtLi to the ring is not an intermediate in the process; an alternative radical and radical anion route involving capture of a hydrogen atom by R radical dot