1. Latent Nucleophilic Carbenes
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Anatoliy Marchenko, Georgyi Koidan, Anastasiya Hurieva, Kostiantyn Shvydenko, Alexander B. Rozhenko, Eduard B. Rusanov, Andrii A. Kyrylchuk, and Aleksandr Kostyuk
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Organic Chemistry - Abstract
Using DFT and ab initio calculations, we demonstrate that noncyclic formamidines can undergo thermal rearrangement into their isomeric aminocarbenes under rather mild conditions. We synthesized the silylformamidine, for which the lowest activation energy in this process was predicted. Experimental studies proved it to serve as a very reactive nucleophilic carbene. The reactions with acetylenes, benzenes, and trifluoromethane proceeded via insertion into sp, sp
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- 2021