Peterson

Forbes M D E, Peterson J and Breivogel C S 1991 Simple modification of Varian E-line microwave bridges for fast time-resolved EPR spectroscopy Rev. Sc/. Instrum. 66 2662-5... 

Peterson I R, Veale G and Montgomery C M 1986 The preparation of oleophilio surfaoes for Langmuir-Blodgett deposition J. Colloid Interface Sc/. 109 527-30... 

Peterson I R 1984 Optioal observation of monomer Langmuir-Blodgett film struoture Thin Solid Films 116 357-66... 

Peterson I R 1987 Langmuir-Blodgett films structure and application J. Mol. Electron. 3 103-11... 

Bibo A M and Peterson I R 1989 Disclination recombination kinetics in water-surface monolayers of 22-tricosenoic acid Thin Solid Films 178 81-92... 

Peterson I R 1980 Defect density in a metal-monolayer-metal cell Aust. J. Chem. 33 1713-6... 

Peterson I R 1986 A structural study of the conducting defects in fatty acid Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers J. Mol. Electron. 2 95-9... 

Peterson K A, Engholm J R, Rella C W and Sohwettman H A 1997 Piooseoond infrared studies of protein vibrational modes Accelerator-Based Infrared Sources and Applicationseds G P Williams and P Dumas (Bellingham, WA SPIE) pp 149-58 Proc. SPIE vol 3153... 

Judson R S, W P Jaeger, A M Treasurywala and M L Peterson 1993. Conformational Searching Methods for Small Molecules. 2. Genetic Algorithm Approach. Journal of Computational Chemistry 14 1407-1414. 

Peterson Olefination review . Synthesis 1984, 384 Organic Reactions 1990, 38 1. 

The phosphorus ylides of the Wittig reaction can be replaced by trimethylsilylmethyl-carbanions (Peterson reaction). These silylated carbanions add to carbonyl groups and can easily be eliminated with base to give olefins. The only by-products are volatile silanols. They are more easily removed than the phosphine oxides or phosphates of the more conventional Wittig or Homer reactions (D.J. Peterson, 1968). 

The Peterson reaction has two more advantages over the Wittig reaction 1. it is sometimes less vulnerable to sterical hindrance, and 2. groups, which are susceptible to nucleophilic substitution, are not attacked by silylated carbanions. The introduction of a methylene group into a sterically hindered ketone (R.K. Boeckman, Jr., 1973) and the syntheses of olefins with sulfur, selenium, silicon, or tin substituents (D. Seebach, 1973 B.T. Grdbel, 1974, 1977) illustrate useful applications. The reaction is, however, more limited and time consuming than the Wittig reaction, since metallated silicon derivatives are difficult to synthesize and their reactions are rarely stereoselective (T.H. Chan, 1974 ... 

The following acid-catalyzed cyclizations leading to steroid hormone precursors exemplify some important facts an acetylenic bond is less nucleophilic than an olelinic bond acetylenic bonds tend to form cyclopentane rather than cyclohexane derivatives, if there is a choice in proton-catalyzed olefin cyclizations the thermodynamically most stable Irons connection of cyclohexane rings is obtained selectively electroneutral nucleophilic agents such as ethylene carbonate can be used to terminate the cationic cyclization process forming stable enol derivatives which can be hydrolyzed to carbonyl compounds without this nucleophile and with trifluoroacetic acid the corresponding enol ester may be obtained (M.B. Gravestock, 1978, A,B P.E. Peterson, 1969). 

Figure 9.19 The hyper Raman spectrum of ethane. (Reproduced, with permission, from Verdick, J. E, Peterson, S. El., Savage, C. M. and Maker, P. D., Chem. Phys. Letters, 7, 219, 1970)...

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