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Nick A Giffin1, Arthur D Hendsbee, Jason D Masuda
1The Maritime Centre for Green Chemistry (MCGC), Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(27)H(38)N(2), is the first reported free imidazolidin-2-yl-idene carbene with 2,6-diisopropyl-phenyl groups in the 1,3-positions. The five-membered ring adopts a twisted conformation and the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 48.81 (6)°. Both isopropyl groups attached to one of the benzene rings are disordered over two sets of sites in 0.74 (2):0.26 (2) and 0.599 (8):0.401 (8) ratios.
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