Reactions of the 1-ferrocenyl-1,3-diphenylallyl cation with nucleophiles

Conclusion The reactions of 1-ferrocenyl-1,3-diphenylallyl cation with nucleophiles have been studied. In most cases they take place at the secondary carbon cation center; products of reaction at the tertiary center are found only in the case of small nucleophiles (MeO^–, OH^–). The data are evidence for the importance of steric factors, and also show that the ratio of reaction products at the -and -positions does not directly reflect charge distribution in the 1-ferrocenylallyl system.Deceased.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2769–2776, December, 1986.