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Super-electron donors: Bis-pyridinylidene formation by base treatment of pyridinium salts
Murphy, John A.,Gamier, Jean,Park, Stuart R.,Schoenebeck, Franziska,Zhou, Sheng-Ze,Turner, Andrew T.
, p. 1227 - 1230 (2008)
Deprotonation of bispyridinium salt 7b affords bispyridinylidene 10, a very powerful neutral organic two-electron donor [E1/2 (DMF) = -1.13 V vs Ag/AgCI/KCI (sat)], presumably via the pyridinylidene 8. Donor 10 reduces aryl iodides and bromides to aryl anions in excellent yield and also reductively cleaves selected phenylalkylsulfones very efficiently.
