The selectivities of phase-transfer catalytically generated dichloro- and dibromo-carbenes towards alkenes are independent of the structure of the catalysts which indicates that free :CX2 is involved in all cases in spite of the fact that there is a strong catalyst influence on certain reaction paths starting from CX3-![[leftrightharpoons]](https://www.rsc.org/images/entities/char_21cb.gif)
:CX2.
E. V. Dehmlow and U. Fastabend, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1993, 1241 DOI: 10.1039/C39930001241
To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.
If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.
Please wait while we load your content...