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Tropylium cation

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260: 27: 46: 60: 536:. Unlike most alkyl bromides, this compound, later named tropylium bromide, is water-soluble but insoluble in many organic solvents. It is purified by crystallization from hot ethanol. Reaction with aqueous silver nitrate immediately gave silver bromide, indicating labile bromide. Tropylium bromide was deduced to be a salt, 652:) as a consequence of its Lewis acidity: it first acts as a Lewis acid to form an adduct with water, which can then donate a proton to another molecule of water, therefore indirectly acting as an Arrhenius acid: 1284: 1245: 1437:
Kitaigorodskii, A. I.; Struchkov, Yu. T.; Khotsyanova, T. L.; Vol'pin, M. E.; Kursanov, D. N. (1960). "Crystal structures of tropylium perchlorate and iodide".
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Balaban, Alexandru T.; Oniciu, Daniela C.; Katritzky, Alan R. (2004). "Aromaticity as a Cornerstone of Heterocyclic Chemistry".
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Lifshitz, Chava (1994). "Tropylium Ion Formation from Toluene: Solution of an Old Problem in Organic Mass Spectrometry".
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Green, Malcolm L. H.; Ng, Dennis K. P. (1995). "Cycloheptatriene and -enyl Complexes of the Early Transition Metals".
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and Knox in 1954 by analysis of its infrared and ultraviolet spectra. The ionic structures of tropylium perchlorate (
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Many metal complexes of tropylium ion are known. One example is , which is prepared by hydride abstraction from
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The tropylium cation reacts with nucleophiles to form substituted cycloheptatrienes, for example:
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In 1891 G. Merling obtained a water-soluble bromine-containing compound from the reaction of
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A mixture of Cl and is produced by treatment of tropylidene with phosphorus pentachloride.
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Eggers Doering, W. von; Knox, L. H. (1954). "The Cycloheptatrienylium (Tropylium) Ion".
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gives acidic aqueous solutions in much the same way.) The equilibrium constant is
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Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry: IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013
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Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science
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Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 5, p.1138 (1973); Vol. 43, p.101 (1963).
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Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their
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in which each carbon atom carries part of the positive charge.
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species with a formula of . Its name derives from the molecule
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The tropylium ion is an acid in aqueous solution (i.e., an
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Chemical Names: Tropylium; Cycloheptatrienylium; Cyc-
1015:, the tropylium cation undergoes rearrangement into 1246:International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 224: 758:The tropylium ion is frequently encountered in 293:: InChI=1S/C7H7/c1-2-4-6-7-5-3-1/h1-7H/q+1 142: 1347:Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 516:. The structure shown is a composite of seven 493:, planar, cyclic ion. It has 6 π-electrons (4 8: 1151: 1149: 1147: 1145: 1143: 1141: 1139: 1011:When treated with oxidising agents such as 1501: 1499: 1497: 1495: 892:Reaction with a cyclopentadienide salt of 258: 198: 18: 1191: 1189: 1187: 1185: 1183: 1181: 902:7-cyclopentadienylcyclohepta-1,3,5-triene 746:, making it about as acidic in water as 283:InChI=1S/C7H7/c1-2-4-6-7-5-3-1/h1-7H/q+1 1135: 505:of aromaticity. It can coordinate as a 314: 279: 254: 1107:cycloheptatrienemolybdenum tricarbonyl 780:, the benzyl fragment forms a cation ( 296:Key: OJOSABWCUVCSTQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 286:Key: OJOSABWCUVCSTQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 7: 1370: 1368: 1345:Merling, G. (1891). "Ueber Tropin". 215: 1575:Non-benzenoid aromatic carbocycles 1290:Compendium of Chemical Terminology 14: 501: = 1), which fulfills 25: 772: = 91 and is used in 435:(at 25 °C , 100 kPa). 1254:The Royal Society of Chemistry 1: 1474:Accounts of Chemical Research 1233:; Cyclohepta-2,4,6-trienylium 1580:Cycloheptatrienyl complexes 762:in the form of a signal at 472:tropylium tetrafluoroborate 424:Tropylium tetrafluoroborate 40: 1596: 1359:10.1002/cber.189102402151 883:lithium aluminium hydride 628:) have been confirmed by 429: 409: 375: 325: 305: 270: 126: 94: 82: 77: 39: 24: 1201:pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1157:"tropylium | ChemSpider" 599:) and tropylium iodide ( 484:phosphorus pentachloride 456:cycloheptatrienyl cation 1303:10.1351/goldbook.M04002 474:and tropylium bromide ( 1508:Reactions and Reagents 1506:O. P. 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a regular heptagon enclosing a smaller, concentric circle, with a plus sign in the middle
skeletal formula

ball-and-stick model

space-filling model
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Tropylium tetrafluoroborate
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