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Inside Back Cover: Alkali Metal Carbenoids: A Case of Higher Stability of the Heavier Congeners (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 27/2016)
Author(s) -
Molitor Sebastian,
Gessner Viktoria H.
Publication year - 2016
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.201603827
Subject(s) - alkali metal , reactivity (psychology) , lithium (medication) , cover (algebra) , chemistry , potassium , block (permutation group theory) , metal , sodium , inorganic chemistry , polymer chemistry , medicinal chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematics , biology , combinatorics , medicine , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering , endocrinology
The reactivity of s‐block metal organyl compounds generally increases when going down the group of the periodic table. However, V. H. Gessner and S. Molitor report in their Communication on page 7712 ff. the reverse of this trend for alkali metal carbenoids by replacement of lithium by sodium or potassium, allowing for unexpected control of the stability and reactivity of these usually highly reactive species. This is depicted by a soccer player on the Na/K team who kicks the Li out of the molecular structure.