1749-36-6Relevant articles and documents
Photochemical pinacol rearrangement
Hoang, Mary,Gadosy, Timothy,Ghazi, Hedieh,Hou, Dong-Feng,Hopkinson, Alan C.,Johnston, Linda J.,Lee-Ruff, Edward
, p. 7168 - 7171 (1998)
Irradiation of 9,9′-bifluorene-9,9′-diol (1) gave 9-fluorenone and spiro[9H-fluorene-9,9′(10′-H)phenanthren]-10′-one (4), the latter arising from a pinacol rearrangement.- The distribution of fluorenone and ketone 4 was solvent dependent with the latter being the major product in trifluoroethanol, a solvent known to stabilize carbocation intermediates. Laser flash photolysis of diol 1 in 2,2,2-trifiuoroethanol or hexafluoro-2-propanol showed two transients absorbing at 350 and 505 nm with a weak band at 700 nm. The latter two peaks are assigned to the corresponding substituted 9-fluorenyl cation (5) formed from photoheterolysis of diol 1. Comparison of the decay kinetics between cation 5 and other 9-fluorenyl cations, the parent 9-fluorenyl and 9-phenyl-9fluorenyl cations, showed that the decay of 5 was relatively insensitive to the nature of the solvent as compared to the latter two carbocations suggesting that unimolecular rearrangement in 5 competes with nucleophilic quenching.
Ozonation of 1,1,2,2-tetraphenylethene revisited: Evidence for electron- transfer oxygenations
Schank, Kurt,Beck, Horst,Buschlinger, Michael,Eder, Joerg,Heisel, Thomas,Pistorius, Susanne,Wagner, Christiane
, p. 801 - 826 (2007/10/03)
Ozonolyses of 1,1,2,2-tetraphenylethene (TPE, 1) have been described many times in the literature, but the reports are contradictory. This reaction is particularly important for understanding the mechanism of alkene ozonolysis, in view of possible stabilization of reactive intermediates by aryl groups. Thus, systematic investigations of ozonolysis in both aprotic solvents and in protic solvents are reported here. Attention is directed to the following details that have been underestimated in the past: i) the actual electronic structure of ground-state ozone (O3), ii) differentiation between strained and unstrained alkenes, iii) the significance of both the O3 concentration and the TPE concentration, iv) the influence of various solvents, including pyridine, v) the influence of the reaction temperature, vi) the role of electron-transfer catalysis (ETC) and, yii) the effect of structural modifications. Our results suggest that ozonolysis of TPE (1) does not include a 1,3-dipolar reaction step, but represents a particularly interesting example of electron-donor (TPE)/electron-acceptor (O3) redox chemistry. The present investigations include several crucial results. First, pure 3,3,6,6-tetraphenyltetroxane (3, m.p. 221°(dec.)) and pure tetraphenylethylene ozonide (4, m.p. 153°(dec.)) are prepared for the first time, although 3 and 4 have long been known. Second, the singlet diradical character of O3, lessened by means of hypervalent-electron interaction and predicted by different calculations, is evidenced via reaction with the spintrap galvinoxyl (2,6-bis(1-1-dimethylethyl)-4-{[3,5-bis(1,1- dimethylethyl)-4-oxocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene]methyl}phenoxy; 8), and the zwitterionic reaction behavior of ground-state O3 is ruled out. Third, the electronacceptor ability of O3 is evidenced by reactions with suitable tetraaryl ethylenes: it is enhanced by addition of catalytic amounts of protons or Lewis acids. Fourth, the observed distribution of the O3 O-atoms to the two different olefinic C-atoms of the unsymmetric alkene 27b is in full agreement with an initial single-electron transfer (SET) step, followed by a radical mono-oxygenation to cause the crucial C,C cleavage. Final dioxygenation should lead to the generally known products (ozonides, tetroxanes, hydroperoxides). The regioselectivity is found to be inconsistent with the expected decay of an intermediate primary ozonide. Finally, the treatment of 1,2-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)acenaphthylene (36) with O3 (simultaneous transfer of three O-atoms) leads to the same experimental result as a stepwise transfer of one O-atom followed by a transfer of two O- atoms.
New Olefin and Oxiran Syntheses from Carbonyl Compounds, and Diethyl Sodiophosphonate Anions and 1-Aminophosphonate Amino-anions
Minami, Toru,Matsuzaki, Narihide,Ohshiro, Yoshiki,Agawa, Toshio
, p. 1731 - 1738 (2007/10/02)
Reaction of aromatic aldehydes, and phthalic and thiophthalic anhydrides, with diethyl sodiophosphonate (1) gives the trans-stilbenes (3), 3,3'-biphthalidylidene (30), and 3,3'-bis-(2-thiophthalidylidene) (33).Similar treatment of fluorenone (8) and xanthone (17) with (1) leads to 9,9'-bis(fluororenylidene) (9) and 9,10-dihydro-9-oxophenanthrene-10-spiro-9'-fluorene (10), and to 9,9'-bixanthenylidene (18) and 9,9'-bixanthenyl (19), respectively, but the reaction using anthrone (11) as a carbonyl reagent yields only anthraquinone (12) and anthracene (13).Similar treatment using N-methylisatoic anhydride (34) and N-methylisatin (36) produces NN'-dimethylisoindigo (35).Reaction of benzaldehyde and p-chlorobenzaldehyde with diethyl 1--cyclohexylphosphonate (40) gives mainly corresponding mixtures of trans- (41a,b) and cis-stilbene epoxides (42a,b), while similar treatment of p-nitrobenzaldehyde with (40) produces 4,4'-dinitrostilbene (3e).Reaction of (8) with (40), as well as with (1), gives (9) and (10).The mechanism of formation of these products is discussed.
