99-07-0Relevant articles and documents
Direct spectroscopic detection and EPR investigation of a ground state triplet phenyl oxenium ion
Li, Ming-De,Albright, Toshia R.,Hanway, Patrick J.,Liu, Mingyue,Lan, Xin,Li, Songbo,Peterson, Julie,Winter, Arthur H.,Phillips, David Lee
, p. 10391 - 10398 (2015)
Oxenium ions are important reactive intermediates in synthetic chemistry and enzymology, but little is known of the reactivity, lifetimes, spectroscopic signatures, and electronic configurations of these unstable species. Recent advances have allowed these short-lived ions to be directly detected in solution from laser flash photolysis of suitable photochemical precursors, but all of the studies to date have focused on aryloxenium ions having closed-shell singlet ground state configurations. To study alternative spin configurations, we synthesized a photoprecursor to the m-dimethylamino phenyloxenium ion, which is predicted by both density functional theory and MRMP2 computations to have a triplet ground state electronic configuration. A combination of femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, nanosecond time-resolved Resonance Raman spectroscopy (ns-TR3), cryogenic matrix EPR spectroscopy, computational analysis, and photoproduct studies allowed us to trace essentially the complete arc of the photophysics and photochemistry of this photoprecursor and permitted a first look at a triplet oxenium ion. Ultraviolet photoexcitation of this precursor populates higher singlet excited states, which after internal conversion to S1 over 800 fs are followed by bond heterolysis in ~1 ps, generating a hot closed-shell singlet oxenium ion that undergoes vibrational cooling in ~50 ps followed by intersystem crossing in ~300 ps to generate the triplet ground state oxenium ion. In contrast to the rapid trapping of singlet phenyloxenium ions by nucleophiles seen in prior studies, the triplet oxenium ion reacts via sequential H atom abstractions on the microsecond time domain to ultimately yield the reduced m-dimethylaminophenol as the only detectable stable photoproduct. Band assignments were made by comparisons to computed spectra of candidate intermediates and comparisons to related known species. The triplet oxenium ion was also detected in the ns-TR3 experiments, permitting a more clear assignment and identifying the triplet state as the π,π? triplet configuration. The triplet ground state of this ion was further supported by photolysis of the photoprecursor in an ethanol glass at ~4 K and observing a triplet species by cryogenic EPR spectroscopy.
Room-temperature copper-catalyzed arylation of dimethylamine and methylamine in neat water
Wang, Deping,Kuang, Daizhi,Zhang, Fuxing,Yang, Chunlin,Zhu, Xiaoming
supporting information, p. 714 - 718 (2015/03/18)
The first room-temperature copper-catalyzed arylations of dimethylamine and methylamine in neat water have been developed. Using a combination of CuI and 6,7-dihydroquinolin-8(5 H)-one oxime as catalyst, dimethylamine is arylated with various aryl halides to give the corresponding products in good to excellent yields. Further, this catalysis enables the selective arylation of methylamine to afford the high yields of monoarylated methylamines as the sole products.
RANEY nickel-catalyzed reductive N-methylation of amines with paraformaldehyde: Theoretical and experimental study
Ge, Xin,Luo, Chenxi,Qian, Chao,Yu, Zhiping,Chen, Xinzhi
, p. 43195 - 43203 (2015/02/19)
RANEY Ni-catalyzed reductive N-methylation of amines with paraformaldehyde has been investigated. This reaction proceeds in high yield with water as a byproduct. RANEY Ni can be easily recovered and reused with a slight decrease of the yield. Using density functional theory (DFT), the mechanism of RANEY Ni-catalyzed reductive N-methylation is discussed in detail. The reaction pathway involves the addition of amine with formaldehyde, dehydration to form the imine and hydrogenation. In the transition state of hemiaminal dehydration, the C-O bond cleavage of the aromatic amine is more difficult than that of the aliphatic amine. For the aromatic amine, a higher energy barrier must be overcome, which results in a relatively low yield. After addition of amine with formaldehyde and dehydration, imine is obtained and preferred to adsorb on the bridge site of the Ni(111) surface. The preferential pathways of imine hydrogenation involve the pre-adsorbed hydrogen atom attacking the nitrogen atom of the imine. The energy barrier of hydrogenation is much lower than that of addition and dehydration. Thus, the hydrogenation of imine is a relatively rapid reaction step. In the reductive N-methylation of secondary amine, the possible dehydration pathway is different from the one of the primary amine. In the dehydration of the secondary amine, the intermediate hemiaminal is initially adsorbed on the bridge site of the Ni(111) surface, then undergoes C-O bond cleavage, and eventually the hydroxyl is located in the bridge site. With the final hydrogenation, the product is obtained by adsorption on the top site of the Ni(111) surface.