By utilizing stable carbenes with low-lying LUMOs, coupling with the stable nucleophilic diaminocyclopropenylidene was achieved. This reaction resulted in the formation of two new and rare examples of a bent allene as well as the isolation of the first carbene-carbene heterodimer.
Keywords: allenes; carbenes; density functional calculations; dimerization; structure elucidation.
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