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carbanion

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carbanion [¦kärb′an‚ī·ən]
(chemistry)
One of the charged fragments which arise on heterolytic cleavage of a covalent bond involving carbon; the fragment carries an unshared pair of electrons and bears a negative charge.


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Methylation analysis Methylation was performed with potassium methyl-suphinyl carbanion and methyl iodide in dimethyl sulphoxide as described by Harris et al.
This issue covers reactions of aldehydes and ketones and their derivatives; reactions of carboxylic, phosphoric and sulfonic acids and their derivatives; oxidation and reduction; carbenes and nitrenes; nucleophilic and electrophilic aromatic substitution; carbocations; nucleophilic aliphatic substitution; carbanions and electrophilic aliphatic substitution; elimination reaction; addition reactions (polar addition and cycloaddition); and molecular rearrangements.
In conjunction with butadiene monomer, such an organolithium based system produces allylic carbanions that are unique in terms of their structure, reactivity and solvency.
 
 
 
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