Facile dichloromethane activation and phosphine methylation. Isolation of unprecedented zwitterionic organozinc and organocobalt intermediates
- 20 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 8,p. 890-892
Abstract
Both C–Cl bonds of CH2Cl2 are readily activated by CoCl2 and metallic Zn allowing quantitative methylation of phosphines; unprecedented zwitterionic Co(II) and Zn(II) intermediates have been characterized which display α-metallated phosphoniums.Keywords
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