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- Title
Hydrocarbon synthesis: Ringing the chains.
- Authors
Hartwig, John F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the ring structures made from carbon atoms through chemical processes and reactions. It states that arene was formed through Diels-Alder reaction and catalytic transformations because a four-carbon unsaturated diene unit and a two-carbon alkene were bonded while alkylarene was created when chemists have mixed the alkyl halide and aluminium Lewis acid. It mentions that arenes have contributed in the field of medicinal chemistry, material science, and components of fuels. It says that chemists have learned that the Friedel-Crafts reactions have limitations because the primary carbocation rearranges to form a more stable secondary carbocation. It adds that the six-membered diene is a result of the Electrocyclization of triene that follows the Woodward-Hoffman rules.
- Subjects
CARBON; CHEMICAL reactions; CHEMICAL processes; AROMATIC compounds; LEWIS acids; FRIEDEL-Crafts reaction; CARBOCATIONS; CONSERVATION of orbital symmetry; CHEMICAL bonds; HALOALKANES; PHARMACEUTICAL chemistry; MATERIALS science
- Publication
Nature Chemistry, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
1755-4330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nchem.978