Interaction of 2-arylethyltin derivatives with triarylmethyl salts

Conclusions The reaction of (2-arylethyl)trimethyltin with tri-p-tolylmethyl borofluoride proceeds as a bimolecular-elimination according to kinetic analysis data and investigations with labeled atoms.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR., Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2120–2124, September, 1985.The authors are grateful to V. N. Setkina for assistance in the deuteration of organotin compounds, to Yu. I. Ranneva for the analysis of deuterium-containing hydrocarbons, and to Yu. K. Grishin for recording and interpreting the¹³C NMR spectra.