19398-77-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Addition reactions of organometallic reagents to nitrogen trifluoride and enhanced alkyl-alkyl coupling by NF3
Belter, Randolph K.
, p. 110 - 113 (2015/04/27)
A survey of the reaction of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) with various organometallic reagents finds that organomagnesium (Grignard) reagents are the most useful for producing N,N-difluoroaminoalkanes. Alkyl-alkyl coupling is a persistant side reaction. Organolithiums are marginally effective. Organocopper, organozinc reagents undergo primarily alkyl-alkyl coupling catalyzed by the presence of NF3. Organocalcium and organoaluminum reagents are unreactive.
Ring opening of decalin via hydrogenolysis on Ir/- and Pt/silica catalysts
Haas, Andreas,Rabl, Sandra,Ferrari, Marco,Calemma, Vincenzo,Weitkamp, Jens
experimental part, p. 97 - 109 (2012/07/13)
The catalytic conversion of cis-decalin was studied at a hydrogen pressure of 5.2 MPa and temperatures of 250-410 °C on iridium and platinum supported on non-acidic silica. The absence of catalytically active Br?nsted acid sites was indicated by both FT-IR spectroscopy with pyridine as a probe and the selectivities in a catalytic test reaction, viz. the hydroconversion of n-octane. On iridium/silica, decalin hydroconversion starts at ca. 250-300 °C, and no skeletal isomerization occurs. The first step is rather hydrogenolytic opening of one six-membered ring to form the direct ring-opening products butylcyclohexane, 1-methyl-2-propylcyclohexane and 1,2- diethylcyclohexane. These show a consecutive hydrogenolysis, either of an endocyclic carboncarbon bond into open-chain decanes or of an exocyclic carboncarbon bond resulting primarily in methane and C9 naphthenes. The latter can undergo a further endocyclic hydrogenolysis leading to open-chain nonanes. All individual C10 and C9 hydrocarbons predicted by this direct ring-opening mechanism were identified in the products generated on the iridium/silica catalysts. The carbon-number distributions of the hydrocracked products C9- show a peculiar shape resembling a hammock and could be readily predicted by simulation of the direct ring-opening mechanism. Platinum on silica was found to require temperatures around 350-400 °C at which relatively large amounts of tetralin and naphthalene are formed. The most abundant primary products on Pt/silica are spiro[4.5]decane and butylcyclohexane which can be readily accounted for by the well known platinum-induced mechanisms described in the literature for smaller model hydrocarbons, namely the bond-shift isomerization mechanism and hydrogenolysis of a secondary-tertiary carboncarbon bond in decalin.
Factors controlling photochemical cleavage of the energetically unfavorable Ph-Se bond of alkyl phenyl selenides
Ouchi, Akihiko,Liu, Suyou,Li, Zhong,Kumar, S. Ajaya,Suzuki, Toshiaki,Hyugano, Takeshi,Kitahara, Haruo
, p. 8700 - 8706 (2008/03/12)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Primary photochemical paths of alkyl phenyl selenides (1) were investigated, and an origin of large deviations in the chemical yields of products obtained by carbon radical reactions induced by photolysis of phenyl selenides was clarified. KrF excimer laser photolyses of n-pentyl phenyl selenide (1a) yielded 1-pentene (2a), n-pentane (3a), n-decane (4a), dipentyl selenide (5a), benzene (6), dipentyl diselenide (7a), and diphenyl diselenide (7) as major photoproducts, with compounds 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, and 7 formed by pentyl-Se bond cleavage, and 5a, 6, and 7a by Ph-Se bond cleavage. The selectivity of the photoproducts revealed the occurrence of an unexpected amount of Ph-Se bond cleavage (35% in n-hexane at 248 nm) during photolysis. Solvent viscosity, wavelength of light, and the structure of alkyl substituents were the major factors that controlled Ph-Se bond cleavage. The ratio of Ph-Se bond cleavage decreased with increasing solvent viscosity and laser wavelength. The effect of alkyl substituents on the ratio of bond cleavages, Ph-Se/total C-Se, was investigated for five alkyl phenyl selenides; the ratio decreased in the order pentyl > 2-methylallyl > allyl > 1-ethylpropyl > tert-butyl groups. The contribution of Ph-Se bond cleavage is most probably the origin of the large deviations in the yields of radical reactions induced by photolyses of 1, which can be minimized by selecting appropriate solvents and wavelength of light.
New Electrochemical Synthesis of Ketones from Organic Halides and Carbon Monoxide
Ocafrain, Maitena,Devaud, Marguerite,Troupel, Michel,Perichon, Jacques
, p. 2331 - 2332 (2007/10/02)
The dissolution of a stainless steel anode provides catalytic nickel species which enable the efficient synthesis of ketones by electrolysis of organic halides in DMF in the presence of bipyridine and carbon monoxide.
Hydrogen Atoms as Convenient Synthetic Reagents: Mercury-Photosensitized Dimerization of Functionalized Organic Compounds in the Presence of H2
Muedas, Cesar A.,Ferguson, Richard R.,Brown, Stephen H.,Crabtree, Robert H.
, p. 2233 - 2242 (2007/10/02)
Hydrogen atoms are generated by mercury photosensitization in an unexceptional apparatus that makes them readily available for organic chemistry on a preparatively useful scale at 1 atm of pressure and temperatures from 0-150 °C. The H atoms add to CH2=CH-CH2X to give the intermediate radical CH3-(?CH)-CH2X, which dimerizes to give CH3CH(CH2X)-CH(CH2X)CH3. The saturated substrates CH3CH2CH2X undergo H abstraction to give CH3CH2(?CH)X as intermediates and CH3CH2CH(X)-CH(X)CH2CH3 as final products. The reaction shows a tolerance for different functional groups, X, which may be an alkyl or fluoroalkyl chain or contain vinyl, epoxy, ester, ketone, nitrile, and silyl groups. Radical disproportionation products are also formed but are easily separated. H atoms attack the weakest C-H bonds of the substrates with high selectivity. In our earliest direct mercury photosensitization, Hg* often failed to attack the substrate C-H bonds to give dimers; the presence of H2 strongly suppresses direct Hg* chemistry. H atoms are not sensitive to steric or polar effects Radical fragmentation is avoided by using "high" pressures (1 atm). Intramolecular radical additions to C=C bonds and methyl group 1,2-shift were also seen in some cases. Exceptional product ratios are observed for cross-reactions involving hydroxyalkyl radicals where H-bonding favors the homodimers in certain cases. Several bond strengths of C-H bonds α to CO were determined: EtCO2Me, 94.5; i-PrCO2Me, 92.7; cyclopentanone, 94.3; (i-Pr)2CO, 91.9 kcal/mol.
Making Mercury-Ptotosensitized Dehydrodimerization into an Organic Synthetic Method: Vapor Pressure Selectivity and the Behavior of Functionalized Substrates
Brown, Stephen H.,Crabtree, Robert H.
, p. 2935 - 2946 (2007/10/02)
Mercury-photosensitized dehydrodimerization in the vapor phase can be made synthetically useful by taking advantage of a simple reflux apparatus (Figure 1), in which the products promptly condense and are protected from further conversion.This vapor pressure selectivity gives high chemical selectivity even at high conversion and on a multigram scale.Mercury absorbs 254-nm light to give the 3P1 excited state (Hg*), which homolyses a C-H bond of the substrate with a 3o>2o>1o selectivity.Quantitative prediction of product mixtures in alkane dimerization and in alkane-alkane cross-dimerizations is discussed.Radical disproportionation gives alkene, but this intermediate is recycled back into the radical pool via H atom attack, which is beneficial both for yield and selectivity.The method is very efficient at constructing C-C bonds between highly substituted carbon atoms, yet the method fails if a dimer has four sets of obligatory 1,3-syn methyl-methyl steric repulsions, as in the unknown 2,3,4,4,5,5,6,7-octamethyloctane.We have extended the range of substrates susceptible to the reaction, for example to higher alcohols, ethers, silanes, partially fluorinated alcohols, and partially fluorinated ethers.We see selectivity for dimers involving C-H bonds α to O or N and for S-H over C-H.An important advantage of our experimental conditions in the case of alcohols is that the aldehyde or ketone disproportionation product (which is not subject to H. attack) is swept out of the system by the stream of H2 also produced, so it does not remain and inhibit the rate and lower the selectivity. kdis/krec is estimated for a number of radicals studied.The very hindered 3o 1,4-dimethylcyclohex-1-yl radical is notable in having a kdis/krec as high as 7.1.
