1610-51-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Flash vacuum pyrolysis over magnesium. Part 1 - Pyrolysis of benzylic, other aryl/alkyl and aliphatic halides
Aitken, R. Alan,Hodgson, Philip K.G.,Morrison, John J.,Oyewale, Adebayo O.
, p. 402 - 415 (2007/10/03)
Flash vacuum pyrolysis over a bed of freshly sublimed magnesium on glass wool results in efficient coupling of benzyl halides to give the corresponding bibenzyls. Where an ortho halogen substituent is present further dehalogenation gives some dihydroanthracene and anthracene. Efficient coupling is also observed for halomethylnaphthalenes and halodiphenylmethanes while chlorotriphenylmethane gives 4,4′-bis(diphenylmethyl)biphenyl. By using α,α′-dihalo-o-xylenes, benzocyclobutenes are obtained in good yield, while the isomeric α,α′-dihalo-p-xylenes give a range of high thermal stability polymers by polymerisation of the initially formed p-xylylenes. Other haloalkylbenzenes undergo largely dehydrohalogenation where this is possible, in some cases resulting in cyclisation. Deoxygenation is also observed with haloalkyl phenyl ketones to give phenylalkynes as well as other products. With simple alkyl halides there is efficient elimination of HCl or HBr to give alkenes. For aliphatic dihalides this also occurs to give dienes but there is also cyclisation to give cycloalkanes and dehalogenation with hydrogen atom transfer to give alkenes in some cases. For 5-bromopent-1-ene the products are those expected from a radical pathway but for 6-bromohex-1-ene they are clearly not. For 2,2-dichloropropane and 1,1-dichloropropane elimination of HCl occurs but for 1,1-dichlorobutane, -pentane and -hexane partial hydrolysis followed by elimination of HCl gives E, E-, E,Z- and Z,Z- isomers of the dialk-1-enyl ethers and fully assigned 13C NMR data are presented for these. With 6-chlorohex-1-yne and 7-chlorohept-1-yne there is cyclisation to give methylenecycloalkanes and -cycloalkynes. The behaviour of 1,2-dibromocyclohexane and 1,2-dichlorocyclooctane under these conditions is also examined. Various pieces of evidence are presented that suggest that these processes do not involve generation of free gas-phase radicals but rather surface-adsorbed organometallic species.
THERMAL CONVERSION OF 1,5,9-TRIYNES. CYCLOADDITIONS OR SIGMATROPIC SHIFTS?
Dower, William V.,Vollhardt, K. Peter C.
, p. 1873 - 1882 (2007/10/02)
The gas phase pyrolyses of variously labeled 1,5,9-decatriynes (1) and 1,5,9-cyclododecatriynes (2) were investigated to determine possible modes of thermal isomerizations.Conditions included temperatures in the range 400-600 deg C, pressures of 40 -10E-4 Torr, and contact times of ca 1 ms to 15 s.The labeling patterns in 1 and 2 were chosen such as to be able to distinguish direct intramolecular cycloadditions of the alkyne units to form an aromatic ring (perhaps with subsequent rearrangements), and sigmatropic shifts of the 1,5-diyne moieties.Methods for synthesizing the isotopically (particularly (13)C) labeled triynes were devised and implemented.The route to 5,6-(13)C2-1,5,9-decatriyne (1c) made use of a new procedure for the synthesis of symmetrically disubstituted alkynes involving coupling between two equivalents of an alkyl copper reagent and diiodoacetylene-(13)C2.The synthesis of 1,10-(13)C2-1,5,9-cyclododecatriyne (2b) was accomplished starting with K(13)CN, elaboration to labeled diethyl succinate, a crucial bis-Wittig condensation to labeled 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene 10, and bromination-dehydrobromination of the latter (NaOH-ethylene glycol).Products from the pyrolysis of unlabeled 1a included dicyclobutabenzene, naphtalene and 3,4-dimethylidene-1-(but-3-ynyl)cyclobutene.Pyrolysis of 1b gave 3,6-dideuteriodicyclobutabenzene and partially deuterated naphthalene, that of 1c produced 1,2-(13)C2-dicyclobutabenzene and 9,10-(13)C2-naphthalene.While the pyrolysis of 2a resulted in hexamethylidenecyclohexane (hexaradialene), 2b furnished 1,4-(13)C2-hexaradialene.The results rule out the occurence of cycloadditions of the alkyne units, but are consistent with the intervention of a series sigmatropic shifts which connect starting materials with products.
