1,1-Ethylene-1H-azulenium ion and its alkyl substituted derivatives: Synthesis, characterization, and some reactions thereof

Tetrahedron

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 6081-6096

  Oda, Mitsunori ^a   Kajioka, Takanori ^a   Uchiyama, Takuya ^a   Nagara, Kohki ^a   Okujima, Tetsuo ^a,b   Ito, Shunji ^a,b   Morita, Noboru ^a,b   Sato, Toshio ^a,b   Miyatake, Ryuta ^a   Kuroda, Shigeyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azulenium ions; Carbocations; Spiro compounds; Tropylium ions

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033532013     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(99)00280-X     Document Type: Article

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