PREPARATION AND CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SEVERELY HINDERED β-DIKETONES. DIPOLE MOMENT DETERMINATIONS AND THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS.

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)86578-9

Several β-diketones bearing bulky substituents at the intercarbonyl positions have been prepared by alkylation of the cobalt(II) complexes of the unsubstituted diketones.Agreement between experimental and calculated dipole moments is fairly good thus rend