1749-36-6Relevant academic research and scientific papers
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.
Oxidative Cleavage of Alkene C=C Bonds Using a Manganese Catalyzed Oxidation with H2O2 Combined with Periodate Oxidation
Mecozzi, Francesco,Dong, Jia Jia,Angelone, Davide,Browne, Wesley R.,Eisink, Niek N. H. M.
supporting information, p. 7151 - 7158 (2019/11/16)
A one-pot multi-step method for the oxidative cleavage of alkenes to aldehydes/ketones under ambient conditions is described as an alternative to ozonolysis. The first step is a highly efficient manganese catalyzed epoxidation/cis-dihydroxylation of alkenes. This step is followed by an Fe(III) assisted ring opening of the epoxide (where necessary) to a 1,2-diol. Carbon–carbon bond cleavage is achieved by treatment of the diol with sodium periodate. The conditions used in each step are not only compatible with the subsequent step(s), but also provide for increased conversion compared to the equivalent reactions carried out on the isolated intermediate compounds. The described procedure allows for carbon–carbon bond cleavage in the presence of other alkenes, oxidation sensitive moieties and other functional groups; the mild conditions (r.t.) used in all three steps make this a viable general alternative to ozonolysis and especially for use under flow or continuous batch conditions.
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.
Preparation of Condensed Aromatics by Superacidic Dehydrative Cyclization of Arvl Pinacols and Eooxides
Klumpp, Douglas A.,Baek, Donald N.,Prakash, G.K. Surya,Olah, George A.
, p. 6666 - 6671 (2007/10/03)
Aryl pinacols and epoxides, respectively, are cleanly and in high yield converted via superacidic dehydrative cyclization to the corresponding condensed aromatics. Dehydrative cyclization of benzopinacol (1a), triphenylacetophenone (2), and tetraphenylethylene oxide (9) give 9,10-diphenylphenanthrene (3a) as the major product in acidic media stronger than Ho = -11. Aryl pinacol 12a forms the condensed aromatic 13a as the major product in acidic media stronger than Ho = -13.5. It is proposed that the dehydrative cyclizations to provide aromatics 3a and 13a occurs through dicationic intermediates. Substituted benzopinacols 1f, 1g, and 1j are prepared and give the corresponding phenanthrenes (3f, 3g, and 3j) in high yields. The regiochemistry of the cyclization of substituted benzopinacols is controlled by deactivating substituents on the aryl rings. Aryl pinacols (12a-d) derived from acenaphthenequinone and pinacol 15 also give condensed aromatics (13a-d and 16, repectively) with superacidic triflic acid.
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.
