The cesium (
1-Cs, CsPhPAT) and lithium (
1-Li, LiPhPAT) enolates of 2,6-diphenyl-
-tetralone,
1, and the lithium enolate (
2-Li, LiPhAT) of 2-phenyl-
-tetralone,
2, are present in dilute THF solution asmonomers and dimers with
K1,2 = 1810 (
1-Cs, CsPhPAT), 2650 (
1-Li, LiPhPAT), and 1930 (
2-Li, LiPhAT)M
-1. These values were obtained by singular value decomposition analysis of the UV spectra and by thedependence of ion pair p
K's with concentration. On the ion pair p
K scales previously defined, the monomershave p
K = 17.80 (
1-Cs, CsPhPAT) and 11.14 (
1-Li, LiPhPAT). The monomers are much faster than dimersin alkylation reactions; reaction products from alkyl halides are those of C-alkylation, but
1-Cs (CsPhPAT)with methyl sulfonates gives large amounts of O-alkylation. Comparison with previous results shows that thereactivity of cesium enolates parallels their basicity but that lithium enolates show no correlation between ionpair p
K and alkylation reactivity.