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The role of aromatic radical cations and benzylic cations in the 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium tetrafluoroborate photosensitized oxidation of ring-methoxylated benzyl alcohols in CH2Cl2 solution
Branchi, Barbara,Bietti, Massimo,Ercolani, Gianfranco,Angeles Izquierdo,Miranda, Miguel A.,Stella, Lorenzo
, p. 8874 - 8885 (2007/10/03)
A steady-state and laser flash photolysis (LFP) study of the TPPBF 4-photosensitized oxidation of ring-methoxylated benzyl alcohols has been carried out. Direct evidence on the involvement of intermediate benzyl alcohol radical cations and benzylic cations in these reactions has been provided through LFP experiments. The reactions lead to the formation of products (benzaldehydes, dibenzyl ethers, and diphenylmethanes) whose amounts and distributions are influenced by the number and relative position of the methoxy substituents. This behavior has been rationalized in terms of the interplay between the stabilities of benzyl alcohol radical cations and benzyl cations involved in these processes. A general mechanism for the TPPBF 4-photosensitized reactions of ring-methoxylated benzyl alcohols has been proposed, where the a-OH group of the parent substrate acts as the deprotonating base promoting α-C-H deprotonation of the benzyl alcohol radical cation (formed after electron transfer from the benzyl alcohol to TPP*) to give a benzyl radical and a protonated benzyl alcohol, precursor of the benzylic cation. This hypothesis is in contrast with previous studies, where formation of the benzyl cation was suggested to occur from the neutral benzyl alcohol through the Lewis acid action of excited TPP+ (TPP*).
Heterolysis and homolysis energies for some carbon-oxygen bonds
Arnett, Edward M.,Amarnath, Kalyani,Harvey, Noel G.,Venimadhavan, Sampath
, p. 7346 - 7353 (2007/10/02)
Methods described previously for obtaining heterolysis (ΔHhet) and homolysis (ΔHhomo) enthalpies for bonds that can be cleaved to produce resonance-stabilized carbenium ions, anions, and radicals are extended to the study of carbon-oxygen bonds through the reactions of resonance-stabilized carbenium ions with substituted phenoxide ions. Titration calorimetry was used to obtain the heat of heterolysis, and the second-harmonic ac voltammetry (SHACV) method was used to obtain reversible oxidation potentials for the anions. In several cases, the electrode reactions were so fast that reversible potentials were obtained only with the greatest difficulty. Nonetheless, there is remarkably good agreement between these oxidation potentials for phenoxide ions obtained by electrochemical methods in sulfolane solution and those reported by others using entirely different techniques in different media. Such agreement provides unprecedented evidence for the soundness of the various methods used to study redox potentials of organic ions and radicals. As before, a wide variety of correlations was tested between ΔHhet and ΔHhomo. These two properties showed little correlation with each other, but ΔHhet gave good correlations between many properties for which neutral species are converted into ions or vice versa, such as redox potentials of both types of ions, the pKas of the anions, or the free energies of electron transfer. In contrast to the earlier study of cleavage to carbanions and carbenium ions, the present ΔHhet values are predicted well by a general equation that employs the pKR+ of the carbenium ion (without modification) and the pKa of the phenol. The improvement is consistent with the fact that the cleavage of carbon-oxygen bonds of the triarylcarbinols used to establish the pKR+ stability scale is a more appropriate model for the heterolysis of carbon-oxygen bonds in sulfolane at 25°C than it is for the cleavage of carbon-carbon bonds under the same conditions.
