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Reactions of Difluorovinylidene—A Super‐Electrophilic Carbene
Author(s) -
Sander Wolfram,
Kötting Carsten
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3765(19990104)5:1<24::aid-chem24>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - carbene , electrophile , matrix isolation , xenon , covalent bond , ab initio , chemistry , charge (physics) , computational chemistry , spectroscopy , ab initio quantum chemistry methods , photochemistry , infrared spectroscopy , organic chemistry , physics , molecule , catalysis , quantum mechanics
Even xenon reacts with difluorovinylidene at cryogenic temperatures to form a charge‐transfer complex (see picture). Several other reactions, including the addition of N 2 or CO, the addition to π systems and the insertion into covalent bonds have been investigated by means of matrix isolation spectroscopy and ab initio calculations.