• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.183-187
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• 1993

Aryl carbenic anion radicals have been generated from the corresponding alkoxy-aryl diazo compounds by unimolecular decomposition reaction in various electrolyte/solvent systems. The electrochemical reductions of alkoxy-aryl diazo compounds in the electrolyte/solvent system are shown to initially be a one-electron process which affords the corresponding anion radicals. The unimolecular loss of nitrogen is favored at the propagation step and accelerated by the oxygen and carbon atoms of alkoxy group adjacent to the diazo function. The structure of the carbene anion radical in the termination is considered to be a resonance hybrid.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.426-432
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• 2013

The mechanisms concerning C-Cl activation of $CCl_4$ by $CHBr^{{\cdot}-}$ and $CBr{_2}^{{\cdot}-}$ have been comparatively investigated in theory. Optimized geometries and frequencies of all stationary points on PES are obtained at the BhandHLYP/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory, and then the energy profiles are refined at the QCISD(T) method with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis by using the BhandHLYP/aug-cc-pVTZ optimized geometries. Our calculated findings suggest that in the title reactions the major mechanisms consist of both Cl-abstraction and $S_N2$ substitution reactions. Also, a succeeding pathway described by electron transfer was revealed before the initial Cl-abstraction products separate. Those are consistent with relevant experimental results.