20488-60-2Relevant articles and documents
Photochemical Reactions of Mesityl Azide with Tetracyanoethylene: Competitive Trapping of Singlet Nitrene and Didehydroazepine
Murata, Shigeru,Abe, Shizue,Tomioka, Hideo
, p. 3055 - 3061 (1997)
Irradiation of the title azide 4 in the presence of TCNE gives a mixture of two stable adducts. One of them is identified as the azomethine ylide 5, the structure of which is strictly determined by X-ray crystallography. The other is spectroscopically assigned to the spiroazepine 6. The effect of wavelength of the light employed in the photolysis reveals that the TCNE-4 charge-transfer complex (λmax 454 and 550 nm in dichloromethane) does not participate in the adduct formation. The ratio of the adducts obtained in the photolysis is dependent linearly upon the initial concentration of TCNE, which strongly suggests that the adducts 5 and 6 are produced by competitive trapping of singlet mesitylnitrene (8S) and trimethyldidehydroazepine (9), respectively. The rate constant for the reaction of 8S with TCNE is estimated to be on the order of 109 M-1 s-1 or greater. The PM3 calculation indicates that the azomethine ylide 5 is thermodynamically more stable than the aziridine 7, which is thought to be initially formed by the reaction of 8S with TCNE. Thus, we propose that these findings make the first example of competitive trapping of singlet arylnitrene and its ring-expanded isomer with an alkene, which definitely reveals the intervention of singlet nitrene in the photolysis of an aryl azide.
Azo synthesis meets molecular iodine catalysis
Rowshanpour, Rozhin,Dudding, Travis
, p. 7251 - 7256 (2021/02/26)
A metal-free synthetic protocol for azo compound formation by the direct oxidation of hydrazine HN-NH bonds to azo group functionality catalyzed by molecular iodine is disclosed. The strengths of this reactivity include rapid reaction times, low catalyst loadings, use of ambient dioxygen as a stoichiometric oxidant, and ease of experimental set-up and azo product isolation. Mechanistic studies and density functional theory computations offering insight into this reactivity, as well as the events leading to azo group formation are presented. Collectively, this study expands the potential of main-group element iodine as an inexpensive catalyst, while delivering a useful transformation for forming azo compounds.
Catalytic Nitrene Homocoupling by an Iron(II) Bis(alkoxide) Complex: Bulking Up the Alkoxide Enables a Wider Range of Substrates and Provides Insight into the Reaction Mechanism
Yousif, Maryam,Wannipurage, Duleeka,Huizenga, Caleb D.,Washnock-Schmid, Elizabeth,Peraino, Nicholas J.,Ozarowski, Andrew,Stoian, Sebastian A.,Lord, Richard L.,Groysman, Stanislav
supporting information, p. 9425 - 9438 (2018/08/17)
The reaction of HOR′ (OR′ = di-t-butyl-(3,5-diphenylphenyl)methoxide) with an iron(II) amide precursor forms the iron(II) bis(alkoxide) complex Fe(OR′)2(THF)2 (2). 2 (5-10 mol %) serves as a catalyst for the conversion of aryl azides
