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Landmark Crystal Structure of an Experimentally Utilized Tetralithium–Tetrapotassium Amide–Alkoxide Superbase
Author(s) -
Kennedy Alan R.,
MacLellan Jonathan G.,
Mulvey Robert E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20010903)40:17<3245::aid-anie3245>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - superbase , alkoxide , landmark , amide , crystal structure , lithium amide , chemistry , lithium (medication) , crystallography , organic chemistry , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , enantioselective synthesis , catalysis
At long last an experimentally utilized superbase has been crystallographically characterized. Isolated from a lithium amide–potassium alkoxide–arene mixture, this landmark compound adopts a novel sixteen‐vertex “carousel” arrangement stabilized by two distinct types of benzene ligation (see structure).