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A GENERAL HYPOTHESIS FOR THE MECHANISM OF THE WITTIG REACTION
McEwen, William E.,Ward, William J.
, p. 393 - 398 (2007/10/02)
Arguments are presented that an ionic mechanism is operative in the Wittig reaction when a metal ion is a part of the transition state leading to oxaphosphetane formation but that formation of a spin paired diradical precedes oxaphosphetane formation in other cases.