M. Khaldi et al., DRAMATIC EFFECT OF SUBSTITUENTS AND TMEDA ADDITIVE ON THE REGIOSELECTIVITY OF DIRECTED ORTHOMETALATION OF TETRASUBSTITUTED AROMATICS, Tetrahedron letters, 35(3), 1994, pp. 401-404
The regioselectivity of the directed orthometalation of terrasubstitut
ed aromatic N,N-diethylamides was found to depend of the ring substitu
ents and of the base used A dramatic effect of the additive TMEDA to s
-butyllithium has been observed which could be explained in terms of s
teric bulk.