The thermal decomposition of dibenzylmercury in aromatic solvents in the pores of 13X molecular sieve gives benzylated aromatic substitution products, rather than the hydrogen-abstraction and radical combination products obtained in the absence of the zeolite. The intermediacy of an electrophilic benzyl ‘cation’ is postulated.
H. Aǧirbas and R. A. Jackson, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1985, 2041 DOI: 10.1039/P29850002041
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