Inside Cover: Isolation of a Neutral P 8  Cluster by [2+2] Cycloaddition of a Diphosphene Facilitated by Carbene Activation of White Phosphorus (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 16/2013) | Zendy

Dorsey Christopher L. | Zendy; Squires Brian M. | Zendy; Hudnall Todd W. | Zendy

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Inside Cover: Isolation of a Neutral P 8 Cluster by [2+2] Cycloaddition of a Diphosphene Facilitated by Carbene Activation of White Phosphorus (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 16/2013)

Author(s) -

Dorsey Christopher L.,

Squires Brian M.,

Hudnall Todd W.

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

angewandte chemie international edition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831

H-Index - 550

eISSN - 1521-3773

pISSN - 1433-7851

DOI - 10.1002/anie.201302123

Subject(s) - carbene , electrophile , white phosphorus , nucleophile , reactivity (psychology) , chemistry , cover (algebra) , cluster (spacecraft) , cycloaddition , phosphorus , organic chemistry , catalysis , computer science , programming language , medicine , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering

Piecing together a carbonyl‐decorated carbene and P 4 affords the two transient diphosphenes (puzzle pieces in foreground) that rapidly dimerize to give a P 8 allotrope (X‐ray structure). Whereas nucleophilic carbenes stabilize main‐group allotropes, in their Communication on page 4462 ff. , T. W. Hudnall and co‐workers show how the electrophilicity of carbenes dictates reactivity toward P 4 . By modulating carbene electrophilicity, two allotropes of phosphorus can be isolated and characterized.

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