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Recently Reported Crystalline Isothiazole Carbenes: Myth or Reality
Author(s) -
DeHope Alan,
Lavallo Vincent,
Donnadieu Bruno,
Schoeller Wolfgang W.,
Bertrand Guy
Publication year - 2007
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/anie.200702272
Subject(s) - isothiazole , singlet state , chemistry , low energy , computational chemistry , crystallography , photochemistry , physics , organic chemistry , atomic physics , excited state
Singlet carbenes are not always stable : Isothiazole carbenes, recently reported as crystalline solids, cannot even be observed at room temperature; they rearrange into their 2‐imino‐2 H ‐thiete isomers with an energy barrier of about 1 kcal mol −1 (see scheme). See also the following Correspondence.
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