A Combined

Autor: Gabriella, Barozzino-Consiglio, Ghanem, Hamdoun, Catherine, Fressigné, Anne, Harrison-Marchand, Jacques, Maddaluno, Hassan, Oulyadi
Rok vydání: 2017
Zdroj: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 23(51)
ISSN: 1521-3765
Popis: Despite its common use in synthesis, the structure of isopropylliyhium in THF has never been determined, a dimer being generally proposed but not supported. This paper fills this data gap through a sophisticated NMR study that shows that, in THF at low-temperature, isopropyllithium is in the form of a 1:2 mixture of a trisolvated monomer and a disolvated dimer in equilibrium. The presence of the monomer, never evoked before, together with a hypo-solvation of the dimer hinted by DFT calculations, provides a rational explanation to the remarkable reactivity of this organolithium reagent in ethereal solvents.
Databáze: OpenAIRE