Alkane desaturation by concerted double hydrogen atom transfer to benzyne

Dawen Niu, Patrick H. Willoughby, Brian P. Woods, Beeraiah Baire and Thomas R. Hoye ()
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Dawen Niu: University of Minnesota
Patrick H. Willoughby: University of Minnesota
Brian P. Woods: University of Minnesota
Beeraiah Baire: University of Minnesota
Thomas R. Hoye: University of Minnesota

Nature, 2013, vol. 501, issue 7468, 531-534

Abstract: Benzynes are capable of concerted removal of two vicinal hydrogen atoms from a hydrocarbon, a discovery enabled by the thermal generation of reactive benzyne intermediates through the hexadehydro-Diels–Alder cycloisomerization reaction of triyne substrates.

Date: 2013
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