Jw. Wong et al., COMPATIBILITY OF VARIOUS CARBANION NUCLEOPHILES WITH HETEROAROMATIC NUCLEOPHILIC-SUBSTITUTION BY THE S(RN)1 MECHANISM, Journal of organic chemistry, 62(18), 1997, pp. 6152-6159
Carbanions generated from 2,4,4-trimethyl-2-oxazoline (1a), 2-benzyl-4
,4-dimethyl-2-oxazoline (1b), 2,4-dimethylthiazole (13a), 2-benzyl-4-m
ethylthiazole (13b), N,N-dimethylacetamide (17a), tert-butyl acetate (
17b), ethyl phenylacetate (17c), N-methyl-N-phenyl-2-butenamide (22),
tert-butyl 3-butenoate (25), and dimethyl methylphosphonate (29a) by m
eans of KNH2 in liquid NH3 all reacted with 2-bromopyridine (2) via ph
otoassisted reactions that exhibited characteristics of the S(RN)1 mec
hanism. Similar results were obtained in reactions of these carbanions
with other substrates, including 2-chloroquinoline (6), iodobenzene (
9), bromobenzene (10), and bromomesitylene (11).