Carbanion Chemistry: Reactivity and Structure: Concepts in Organic Chemistry, cartea 17

I. Introduction.- II. Structures.- 1. Non-delocalized (?).- 2. Delocalized (?).- III. Preparations.- 1. From Alkyl Halides.- 2. From Alkanes by Proton Abstraction.- 3. From Unsaturated Compounds.- 4. From Other Organometallics by Changing the Metal.- IV. Reactions of ? Carbanions with Electrophiles.- 1. Substitution Reactions of Alkyl, (sp3) Anions.- 2. Addition Reactions of Alkyl (sp3) Anions.- 3. Vinyl (sp2), Aryl (sp2), and Acetylenic (sp) Anions.- V. Reactions of ? Carbanions with Electrophiles.- 1. Hydrocarbon ? Anions.- 2. Enolate Anions.- 3. Other O-Stabilized Monoanions.- 4. O-Stabilized Dianions.- 5. N-stabilized Anions.- 6. S-stabilized Anions.- VI. Eliminations.- 1. ?-Eliminations.- 2. ?-Eliminations.- 3. ?-Eliminations.- 4. ?-Eliminations.- 5. Cycloeliminations.- VII. Oxidations.- 1. Oxidations to Hydroperoxides, Alcohols, and Ketones.- 2. Oxidative Couplings.- 3. Dianion Oxidations.- VIII. Rearrangements.- 1. Intermolecular Rearrangements.- 2. Intramolecular Additions.- 3.Intramolecular Eliminations.- 4. Sigmatropic Carbanion Rearrangements.- 5. Electrocyclic Carbanion Rearrangements.- 6. Complex Intramolecular Rearrangements.- IX. Carbanion Equivalents.- X. Summary.- XI. References.

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