Kouzou Matsumoto, Masaki Kannami, M. Oda
Mar 31, 2003
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Tetrakis(2-pyridyl)methane has been synthesized as the first member of tetrapyridylmethane family by nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 2-chloropyridine with tris(2-pyridyl)methyl anion in refluxing aromatic hydrocarbons; the use of 2-bromopyridine resulted in electron transfer giving rearranged dimer of tris(2-pyridyl)methyl radical.