Abstract
The rearrangement of the t-butyl group in t-butylferrocenyl carbenium ions (VI) and the hydrogen—deuterium exchange in the methyl group of methylferrocenyl carbenium ions (XVI) has been studied. The reaction rates depend on the size of the substituents at the carbenium ion center, an increase in the size of the substituents causing an increase in the rate. This effect is attributed, on the basis of the Gleiter and Cais models of ferrocenyl substituted carbenium ions, to increased steric hindrance between the substituents and the unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl ring.
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