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New Carbocations—From Physical Organic Chemistry to Biochemistry
Author(s) -
Laube Thomas
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199627651
Subject(s) - carbocation , chemistry , physical organic chemistry , adamantane , organic chemistry , computational chemistry
In the first carbotetracation, 1 , the charged groups are tetrahedrally arranged on an adamantane cage. Carbocations are no longer a domain of physical organic chemistry. They also play a role in organometallic chemistry and biochemistry, as a new samarocene complex containing a norbornadienyl cation fragment and the newly coined term “Olah enzyme” testify.