Recent Developments in Carbocation and Onium Ion Chemistry

Content: Experimental and computational NMR spectroscopic investigation of silyl-substituted carbocations / Hans-Ullrich Siehl -- Super-stabilization of [pi]-conjugated cations by annelation to bicyclic frameworks / Koichi Komatsu -- Unusually stable vinyl cations / Thomas Müller ... [et al.] -- Vinyl iodonium salts as precursors to vinyl cations / Tadashi Okuyama and Morifumi Fujita -- Generation of alkylideneallyl cations from alkylidenecyclopropanone acetals : selectivity of reaction with nucleophiles / Morifumi Fujita and Tadashi Okuyama -- Conformational studies of cyclobutylmethyl cations / V. Prakash Reddy, G.K. Surya Prakash, and Golam Rasul -- Persistent organic cationic complexes : structure and reactivity / Gennady I. Borodkin and Vyacheslav G. Shubin -- Activation of electrophilic sites by adjacent cationic groups / Douglas A. Klumpp -- Stabilized carbocations as redox active chromophores : preparation of electrochromic materials using stabilized carbocations / Shunji Ito, Koji Akimoto, and Noboru Morita -- Cation pool method and cation flow method / Jun-ichi Yoshida -- Fluorenylidene and indenylidene dications : insights about antiaromaticity / Nancy S. Mills -- Generation, stability, and reactions of alkylated fullerene cations / Toshikazu Kitagawa -- Carbocations on surfaces : formation of bicyclobutonium cation via ionization of cyclopropylcarbinyl chloride over NaY zeolite / Marcelo Franco ... [et al.] -- MO calculations involving [mu]-hydrido cation intermediates relevant to the heptane to toluene dehydrocyclization reaction / Ted S. Sorensen and Esther C.F. Yang -- Theoretical studies on structure and dynamics of carbonium ions / Pierre M. Esteves, Felipe P. Fleming and André G.H. Barbosa -- Quantum chemical studies of carbocations from oxidized metabolites of Aza-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons / Gabriela L. Borosky and Kenneth K. Laali -- How does carbocation stability control the Beckmann rearrangement reaction? / Salai C. Ammal and Hiroshi Yamataka -- Solvent effects on the chemistry of bromonium and [beta]-bromocarbenium ions as reactive intermediates / Cinzia Chiappe -- Syntheses of the CFY₂ (Y = Cl, Br) and CX₃⁺ (X = Cl, Br, OTeF₅) cations employing the noble-gas oxidant, XeOTeF₅⁺Sb(OTeF₅)₆⁻ / Hélène P.A. Mercier, Matthew D. Moran, and Gary J. Schrobilgen -- Organoxenonium salts : synthesis by "xenodeborylation", reactivities, and NMR spectroscopic properties / H.-J. Frohn and V.V. Bardin -- Halogen transfer reactions from bis-amino halonium ions to acceptor olefins : mechanism and strategies for chiral halogenation / R. Stan Brown ... [et al.] -- Synthesis of phosphonium salts by metal-catalyzed addition reaction / Mieko Arisawa and Masahiko Yamaguchi.