Everything about SuperBASIC

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SuperBASICA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Perdeuteration of Arenes via Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Catalyzed by the Superbasic Sodium Amide Donor Species NaTMP·PMDETAInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Superbase version 2The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: 1,8-Bis(tetramethylguanidino)naphthalene (TMGN): A New, Superbasic and Kinetically Active “Proton Sponge”Cited 168 times
5. Go sideways: Sinclair QLA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Sinclair QDOSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• 1,8-Bis(tetramethylguanidino)naphthalene (TMGN): A New, Superbasic and Kinetically Active “Proton Sponge”

  Volker Raab, Jennifer Kipke, Ruth M. Gschwind · 2002 · Chemistry - A European Journal · 168 citations

• 1,8-Bis(hexamethyltriaminophosphazenyl)naphthalene, HMPN: A Superbasic Bisphosphazene “Proton Sponge”

  Volker Raab, Ekaterina Gauchenova, Alexei Merkoulov · 2005 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 163 citations

• Selective mono- or dimetalation of arenes by means of superbasic reagents

  Manfred Schlosser, Hoon Choi Jung, Sadahito Takagishi · 1990 · Tetrahedron · 107 citations

• Nanosized Ru on high-surface-area superbasic ZrO2-KOH for efficient generation of hydrogen via ammonia decomposition

  Shuang-Feng Yin, Bo-Qing Xu, Shui-Ju Wang · 2006 · Applied Catalysis A: General · 95 citations

• Synthesis of vinyl ethers of alcohols using calcium carbide under superbasic catalytic conditions (KOH/DMSO)

  Ryosuke Matake, Yusuke Adachi, Hiroshi Matsubara · 2016 · Green Chemistry · 95 citations

• Experimental Gas-Phase Basicity Scale of Superbasic Phosphazenes

  Ivari Kaljurand, Ilmar A. Koppel, Agnes Kütt · 2007 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 87 citations

• Complexes of Manganese, Iron, Zinc, and Molybdenum with a Superbasic Tris(guanidine) Derivative of Tris(2-ethylamino)amine (Tren) as a Tripod Ligand

  Harald Wittmann, Volker Raab, Andrea Schorm · 2001 · European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry · 83 citations

• Generating Superbasic Sites on Mesoporous Silica SBA-15

  Zheng Ying Wu, Qi Jiang, Yi Meng Wang · 2006 · Chemistry of Materials · 82 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Perdeuteration of Arenes via Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Catalyzed by the Superbasic Sodium Amide Donor Species NaTMP·PMDETA

  Andreu Tortajada, Eva Hevia · 2022 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 69 citations

• Reactivity of Superbasic Carbanions Generated via Reductive Radical‐Polar Crossover in the Context of Photoredox Catalysis

  Sascha Grotjahn, Christina Graf, Jan Zelenka · 2024 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 28 citations

• Alkene Isomerisation Catalysed by a Superbasic Sodium Amide

  Andreu Tortajada, Gian Luca Righetti, Ana McGinley · 2024 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 28 citations

• Regio‐ and Z ‐Selective Alkyne Hydroamination and Hydrophenoxylation using Tetrafluoro‐λ 6 ‐Sulfanyl Alkynes under Superbasic, Naked Anion Conditions

  Trapti Aggarwal, Kenshiro Hada, Yusuke Murata · 2023 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 16 citations

• Ru Nanoparticles on K Doped γ-Alumina with Abundant Surface Superbasic Sites for Ammonia Decomposition

  Xiaohua Ju, Lin Liu, Tong Zhang · 2023 · Catalysis Letters · 15 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Superbase version 2Arthur D. Tennick · 1994
• Illustrating Super-BASIC on the Sinclair QLDonald Alcock · 1985
• Using SuperbaseArthur D. Tennick, J. J. McCutcheon · 1989
• 📕Superbase version 2.0Arthur D. Tennick · 1993
• 📕SuperBaseNicolas Boutitie · 1987
• 📕Superbase revealedFred Dalgleish · 1993
• 📕QL SuperBASICA. A. Berk · 1984
• SuperbaseBruce Hunt · 1986

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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