Recently, our research group has been developing novel reactions involving powerful tetraazaalkene-based donors, reducing aryl halides into their corresponding aryl radicals or aryl anions. This thesis reports the development of new powerful donor D, a novel donor structure prepared by a novel route from precursor A. Oxdation of D into diction E provided suitable material for X-ray crystal analysis and electrochemical measurements of the redox potential for the D/E couple. Comparison with other neutral organic electron donors prepared in our group or published by others showed that the bispyridinylidene-based donors presented in this thesis are the isolated organic reagents with the most negative redox potentials recorded to date.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:501900 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Garnier, Jean |
| Publisher | University of Strathclyde |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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