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Stereoselectivity in a series of 7-alkylbicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-enes: Experimental and computational perspectives
Leber, Phyllis,Kidder, Katherine,Viray, Don,Dietrich-Peterson, Eric,Fang, Yuan,Davis, Alexander
, (2018/08/03)
Rate constants for overall decomposition (kd) for a series of exo-7-alkylbicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-enes are relatively invariant. For the alkyl substituents ethyl, propyl, butyl, isopropyl, and t-butyl, the ratio of the rate constant for [1,3] sigmatropic rearrangement to the rate constant for fragmentation, k13/kf, is significantly lower than k13/kf?=?150 observed for exo-7-methylbicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-ene. Regardless of the size and mass of the alkyl group, the stereoselectivity of the [1,3] carbon migration appears to be quite stable at 80% to 89% suprafacial inversion (si), an observation consistent with conservation of angular momentum but not conservation of orbital symmetry. This global result comports with the phenomenon of “dynamic matching” espoused by Carpenter and collaborators for [1,3] sigmatropic rearrangements in general.
Oxygen-Deficient Tungsten Oxide as Versatile and Efficient Hydrogenation Catalyst
Song, Jiajia,Huang, Zhen-Feng,Pan, Lun,Zou, Ji-Jun,Zhang, Xiangwen,Wang, Li
, p. 6594 - 6599 (2015/11/18)
Heterogeneous hydrogenation is one of the most important industrial operations, and reduced metals (mostly noble metals and a few inexpensive metals) generally serve as the catalyst to activate molecular H2. Herein we report oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide, such as WO2.72, is a versatile and efficient catalyst for the hydrogenation of linear olefins, cyclic olefins, and aryl nitro groups, with obvious advantages compared with non-noble metal nickel catalyst from the aspect of activity and selectivity. Density functional theory calculations prove the oxygen-deficient surface activates H2 very easily in both kinetics and thermodynamics. Testing on several oxygen-deficient tungsten oxides shows a linear dependence between the hydrogenation activity and oxygen vacancy concentration. Tungsten is earth-abundant, and WO2.72 can be synthesized in large scale using a low-cost procedure, which provides an ideal catalyst for industrial application. Because oxygen vacancy is a common characteristic of many metal oxides, the findings in this work may be extended to other metal oxides and thus provide the possibility for exploring a new type of hydrogenation catalyst.
