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Authors
- Duncan Browne
University College London ,
- William Nicholson Cardiff University ,
- Joseph Howard Cardiff University ,
- Giuseppina Magri Cardiff University ,
- Alex Seastram Cardiff University ,
- Adam Khan Cardiff University ,
- Louis Morrill Cardiff University ,
- Emma Richards Cardiff University
Abstract
Efforts to generate organomanganese reagents under ball milling conditions have led to the serendipitous discovery that manganese metal can mediate the reductive dimerization of arylidene malonates. The newly uncovered process has been optimized and its mechanism explored using CV measurements, radical trapping experiments, EPR spectroscopy and solution control reactions. This unique reactivity can also be translated to solution where upon pre-milling of the manganese is required.
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