Kc. Crellin et al., SITE-SELECTIVE SIGMA-BOND METATHESIS REACTIONS OF SC(CD3)(2)(-D-2]PROPANE, [1,1,1,4,4,4-D-6]-N-BUTANE, AND [2-D]ISOBUTANE() WITH [2,2), Organometallics, 13(9), 1994, pp. 3733-3736
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry is used to
show that Sc(CD3)(2)+ reacts with saturated alkanes larger than ethan
e in the gas phase by a four center a-bond metathesis reaction, with m
ethane elimination. These processes are facile at room temperature, in
volve little or no activation enery, and occur preferentially with pri
mary carbon-hydrogen. bonds.