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The lithium salt of carbazole, LiCb, is monomeric in THF in the concentration range (1−5) × 10 - 3 M. It is a contact ion pair (CIP) with an effective ion pair p K of 13.48 on a scale where fluorenyllithium solvent separated ion pairs (SSIP) are 22.90 (per hydrogen). The cesium salt, CsCb, is a mixture of monomer and dimer with K 2 = 300 M - 1 . The monomer forms a 1:1 complex, CsCb·CbH, with K c = 62 M - 1 . The ion pair p K of monomeric CsCb is 19.24.
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Abbotto et al. (1998) studied this question.
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