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Increasing the life expectancy of carbanions by zeolite inclusion
Michelle N Chrétien1, Gonzalo Cosa, Hermenegildo García
1Department of Chemistry, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
Carbanions have been detected for the first time in zeolite cavities where their lifetime is more than ten times longer than in solution; included carbanions show Grignard-like behaviour.