Investigation of Reactions Involving Pentacoordinate Intermediates The Mechanism of the Wittig Reaction /

• Main Author: Byrne, Peter A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Analytical chemistry.; Organic chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Organic Chemistry.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Analytical Chemistry.

In this thesis, the author outlines the discovery of an effect common to representative examples of all Li salt-free Wittig Reactions. The implications of such a universally applicable effect are that all such Wittig reactions occur through the same mechanism. Although the Wittig reaction was first...