Bond breakage route edit

Breaking C-O bonds is not theory - but reality. I think that Dye's earlier cmpds were unstable becauase of reductive cleavage of the ether linkages in the cryptand. Benzyl ehters have long been known to break with Na, I think.--Smokefoot 05:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

About First Alkalide edit

  • What is the first Alkalide discovered in 1980s? Who discovered it ?I would like to know the detail for that. Thanks -Wolfch (talk) 22:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
It was actually [Na(2,2,2-crypt)]+Na, first prepared by James L. Dye and his colleagues in 1974 at Michigan State University:
  • J. L. Dye, J. M. Ceraso, Mei Lok Tak, B. L. Barnett, F. J. Tehan (1974). "Crystalline salt of the sodium anion (Na)". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96 (2): 608–609. doi:10.1021/ja00809a060.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • F. J. Tehan, B. L. Barnett, J. L. Dye (1974). "Alkali anions. Preparation and crystal structure of a compound which contains the cryptated sodium cation and the sodium anion". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96 (23): 7203–7208. doi:10.1021/ja00830a005.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Ben (talk) 14:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hydrogen alkalide edit

Has a similar hydrogen alkalide based on cryptands been synthesized? Does someone know if there are some reports on its synthesis?--188.26.17.81 (talk) 18:29, 7 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Recent refs on synthetic routes and possibly beyond –1 oxidation state edit

  • Attygalle, Athula B.; Axe, Frank U.; Weisbecker, Carl S. (2011). "Mild route to generate gaseous metal anions". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 25 (6): 681–688. doi:10.1002/rcm.4913.
  • Botana, Jorge; Miao, Mao-Sheng (2014). "Pressure-stabilized lithium caesides with caesium anions beyond the –1 state". Nature Communications: 4861. doi:10.1038/ncomms5861.

DMacks (talk) 20:17, 7 July 2018 (UTC)Reply