Structural Effects on Carbanion Basicity-Carbon Acidity

Structural Effects on Carbanion Basicity-Carbon Acidity 

Carbanions Derived from sp Hybridized C-H Bonds. There are 

TABLE 3.1. Gas-Phase AWacid Values of Simple Alkanes  

Data for a representative set of simple alkanes are given in Table 3.1 along with values calculated at the or levels of theory. There is a good cor- 

We will begin with the first group of species and then move to the second. To initially avoid a discussion of solvation effects on carbanion stability, we will begin with gas-phase data for simple representatives of model classes of compounds (Table 3.2). Later, the gas-phase data will be compared to data that have been obtained in solution (Section 4.3.3). 

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