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SUBMITTER: Singh KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2643095 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20081201 52
Ortholithiation of 3-fluorophenyl-N,N-diisopropyl carbamate by lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) in THF at -78 degrees C affords unusual rate behavior including linear decays of the carbamate, delayed formation of LDA-aryllithium mixed dimers, and evidence of autocatalysis. A mechanistic model in conjunction with numeric integration methods accounts for the time-dependent changes in concentration. The two critical rate-limiting steps in the model entail (1) an LDA dimer-based metalation of arylcarb ...[more]