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The thermal transformations of bicyclopropylidene and methylenespiropentane revisited
Schill, Heiko,Kozhushkov, Sergei I.,Walsh, Robin,De Meijere, Armin
, p. 1510 - 1516 (2008/09/19)
The overall and the individual rate constants of the unimolecular thermal isomerization of methylenespiropentane (4) to 1,2- and 1,3- dimethylenecyclobutanes (7 and 8) have been determined to be lg(k _4/s_1) = (13.78 ± 0.06) - (49.7 ± 0.2) kcalmol-1/RT·ln10, lg(k7/s-1) = (13.03 ± 0.19) - (48.0 ± 0.6) kcalmo-1/RT·ln10 and lg(k8/s-1) = (14.15 ± 0.19) - (52.4 ± 0.5) kcalmol-1/RT-ln 10, respectively. The activation energies are significantly lower than that for the rearrangement of the parent spiropentane. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2007.