Bis(pentafluorophenyl)tin Dibromide as a Novel Organotin Halide Lewis Acid Catalyst

Synlett

Volumn 1996, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 877-879

  Chen, Jianxie ^a   Sakamoto, Katsumasa ^a   Orita, Akihiro ^a   Otera, Junzo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 0001090756     PISSN: 09365214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-1996-5626     Document Type: Article

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4. 3 or HMPA complex was reported to catalyze ring opening of oxiranes: Shibata, I.; Yoshimura, N.; Baba, A.; Matsuda, H. Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 7149. However, it is not probable that the tin complex works as Lewis acid in this case.
5. Increase of Lewis acidity by incorporating organofluorine substituents was described in ref. 1
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9. 3SnBr that should be produced if the redistribution occurred is ruled out because of its weeker Lewis acidity than that of diorganotin dihalides.