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The kinetics of the transfer of X+ from the bromonium and iodonium ions of adamantylideneadamantane (1-Br+ and 1-I+) to some 1,ω-alkenols and alkenoic acids in ClCH2CH2Cl at 25°C was investigated. In all cases, the expected products of halocyclization were observed. For the iodonium ion transfer the reaction kinetics are second order overall, first order in both 1-I+ and acceptor olefin. Transfer of the bromonium ion from 1-Br+ to these acceptor olefins exhibits different kinetic characteristics. In most cases, the rate of the Br+ transfer is subject to strong retardation in the presence of added parent olefin (Ad=Ad), suggestive of a common species rate depression. In some cases, such as 4-penten-1-ol (2b) and 4-pentenoic acid (4b), the reaction can be completely suppressed at high [Ad=Ad]. In other cases, such as 3-buten-1-ol (2a), 5-hexen-1-ol (2c), cyclohexene, 4-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohexene (3), and 5-endo-carboxynorbornene (5), added Ad=Ad does not suppress the reaction completely. In the cases of the 1,ω-alkenols, the reactions appear to exhibit kinetic terms that are greater than first order in alkenol. In these cases, alcohols such as 1-pentanol also accelerate the reaction, pointing to the involvement of the hydroxyl group of the second alkenol as a catalytic species. A unifying mechanism consistent with the data that involves two reversibly formed intermediates is presented.

The transfer of Br+ from the bromonium ion of adamantylideneadamantane (1-Br+/CF3SO3-) to the reactive alkenes cyclohexene, ω-alken-1-ols, 3a-c, and 4-pentenoic acid, 4, in 1,2-dichloroethane at 25 deg C has been investigated. 1H NMR analysis of the reactions of equimolar 1-Br+/CF3SO3- and olefin indicates the products to be expected cyclic ones in the cases of 3a-c and 4, and trans-2-bromocyclohexyltrifluoromethane sulfonate in the case of cyclohexene, along with adamantylideneadamantane (Ad=Ad).Detailed kinetic analysis shows that the reaction rates are suppressed by the addition of free Ad=Ad, suggestive of a common species rate depression.In the case of certain of the cyclization reactions such as that of 4-penten-1-ol, 3a, the cyclization reaction is bimolecular in acceptor olefin.A primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect of 2.0 on the cyclization of 3a-OH relative to 3a-OD exists.The role of the second molecule appears to be that of a general base in assisting the cyclization of an intermediate ω-hydroxy cyclic bromonium ion.A general mechanistic scheme for Br+ transfer from 1-Br+ to the reactive alkenes is proposed.

Ring-scission of cis- or trans-2-alkyl- (or aryl-) 3-chlorotetrahydropyrans proceeds regioselectively and highly stereoselectively to give (E)-alk-4-en-1-ols, but in the parallel tetrahydrofuran series (Z)-/(E)-mixtures, dependent on percursor geometry, are formed.In this paper the stereochemistry and conformation of the tetrahydro-pyran and - furan precursors are considered.The cis/trans-composition of 2,3-dihalogenotetrahydro-pyrans and-furans made by various routes is reported.Reaction with Grignard reagents gives separable cis-/trans-mixtures the stereoisomeric composition of which, in the cases examined, does not depend on the stereoisomeric composition of the dihalide, but does vary with the halogen and the composition of the Grignard or dialkylmagnesium; possible reasons are discussed.The stereochemistry and conformation of the 2-alkyl- (or aryl-)3-chlorotetrahydropyrans is analysed by n.m.r. methods (J2a,3acis ca. 1.5 Hz; J2a,3atrans ca. 9.8 Hz) but assignments for the two tetrahydrofuran series with J2,3 2.6-3.6 and 4.3-5.9 are made uncertain by pseudorotation.The stereochemical identity of the two series is rigorously proved by isolation of cis- and trans-2-allyl-3-chlorotetrahydrofuran.On the one hand the former is hydrogenated to the cis-2-propyl compound, correlated with other members of the alkyl series, but on the other it is oxidised and the acid is converted into the cis-p-bromophenyl ester.The stereochemistry and conformation of the latter is rigorously demonstrated by an X-ray structure.The stereochemistries and conformations of the 2-deuterio- and 2-methoxy-3-chlorotetrahydropyrans are discussed, and consideration is then extended to the 2-alkyl-3-chloro-2-methyltetrahydro-pyran and -furan series.