38581-03-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
The gas-phase fragmentation of trineopentylstannyl cation: A rare example of ss-methyl migration within a main group organometallic compound
Dakternieks, Dainis,Lim, Allan E. K.,Lim, Kieran F.
, p. 1425 - 1426 (2007/10/03)
The lowest-energy fragmentation pathway of trineopentylstannyl cation is the first example of β-methyl migration to an organotin compound in the gas-phase; the origin of the migrating methyl groups is confirmed by an isotopic labelling experiment.
Direct observation of α-hydrogen transfer from alkyl to alkylidyne ligands in (Me3CCH2)3W≡CSiMe3. Kinetic and mechanistic studies of alkyl-alkylidyne exchange
Caulton, Kenneth G.,Chisholm, Malcolm H.,Streib, William E.,Xue, Ziling
, p. 6082 - 6090 (2007/10/02)
α-Hydrogen atoms in (Me3CCH2)3W≡CSiMe3 are found to migrate to the α-carbon atom of the alkylidyne ligand leading to the equilibrium (Me3CCH2)3W≡CSiMe3 (2a) (Me3CCH2)2(Me3SiCH 2)W≡CCMe3 (2b). The equilibrium has been observed to follow reversible first-order kinetics with ΔH° = 2.3 (0.5) kcal mol-1 and ΔS° = 8.1 (1.3) eu. The activation parameters for the conversion 2a → 2b are ΔH? = 27.5 (0.6) kcal mol-1 and ΔS? = -2.0 (1.7) eu and for the back-reaction 2b → 2a are ΔH?' = 25.4 (0.8) kcal mol-1 and ΔS?' = -9.5 (1.9) eu. Isomerizations involving (Me3CCD2)3W≡CSiMe3(2a-d 6) and (Me3CCHD)3W≡CSiMe3 (2a-d3) revealed that the isomerization between 2a and 2b occurred by consecutive α-hydrogen/α-deuterium transfers with a large primary kinetic isotope effect kHH/kDD = 5.1 (0.3) and kHH/kHD= 3.0 (0.2) at 100 °C. Crossover experiments indicate that the isomerization is a unimolecular process. These results are discussed in terms of a concerted four-center transition state leading to a bis(alkylidene) activated complex or reactive intermediate. An alternate reaction pathway involving the simultaneous transfer of two α-hydrogen atoms is ruled out by the rule of the geometric mean. The molecular structure of 2A-d6 was determined by X-ray crystallography. The molecule has rigorous C3 symmetry with W≡C = 1.739 (8) A? and W-CSp3 = 2.096 (5) A?. At -169 °C, crystal data are a = 15.232 (3) A?, c = 17.140(4) A?, Z = 6, dcaicd = 1.36 g cm-3, and space group R3.
