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Charge delocalization and enhanced acidity in tricationic superelectrophiles.

ABSTRACT: This Article presents the results from studies related to the chemistry of tricationic superelectrophiles. A series of triaryl methanols were ionized in Brønsted superacids, and the corresponding tricationic intermediates were formed. The trications are found to participate in two types of reactions; both are characteristic of highly charged organic cations. One set of reactions occurs through charge migration. A second set of reactions occurs through deprotonation of an unusually acidic site on the tricationic species. One of the tricationic intermediates has been directly observed by low temperature NMR spectroscopy. These highly charged ions and their reactions have also been studied using density functional theory calculations. As a result of charge migration, electron density at a carbocation site is found to increase with progression from monocationic to pentacationic structures.

SUBMITTER: Naredla RR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3269261 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Charge delocalization and enhanced acidity in tricationic superelectrophiles.

Naredla Rajasekhar Reddy RR Zheng Chong C Nilsson Lill Sten O SO Klumpp Douglas A DA

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110727 33

This Article presents the results from studies related to the chemistry of tricationic superelectrophiles. A series of triaryl methanols were ionized in Brønsted superacids, and the corresponding tricationic intermediates were formed. The trications are found to participate in two types of reactions; both are characteristic of highly charged organic cations. One set of reactions occurs through charge migration. A second set of reactions occurs through deprotonation of an unusually acidic site on ...[more]

PMID: 21744820

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