Structural elaboration of the surprising ortho-zincation of benzyl methyl ether

Liam Balloch; Alan R. Kennedy; Jan Klett; Robert E. Mulvey; Charles T. O'Hara

doi:10.1039/b924791b

Structural elaboration of the surprising ortho-zincation of benzyl methyl ether

Liam Balloch, Alan R. Kennedy, Jan Klett, Robert E. Mulvey, Charles T. O'Hara

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Abstract

Breaking with convention, the reaction of the sodium zincate, [(TMEDA)Na(μ-TMP)(μ-tBu)Zn(tBu)] with benzyl methyl ether (PhCH2OMe) produces exclusively an ortho-zincated intermediate [(TMEDA)Na(μ-TMP)(μ-C6H4CH2OMe)Zn(tBu)] instead of the expected 'thermodynamic' α-metallated product.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2319-2321
Number of pages	3
Journal	Chemical Communications (London)
Volume	46
Issue number	13
Early online date	20 Jan 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/b924791b
Publication status	Published - 7 Apr 2010

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ortho-zincation
benzyl methyl ether
chemistry

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