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Heats of Hydrogenation, IV. - Homoaromaticity in Norcaradiene and Cycloheptatriene
Roth, Wolfgang R.,Klaerner, Frank-Gerrit,Siepert, Gerd,Lennartz, Hans-Werner
, p. 217 - 224 (2007/10/02)
By comparison of the heats of hydrogenation of fixed norcaradienes with analogous cyclobutane derivatives and from the difference of experimental heats of formation with values calculated by force-field methods the homoaromatic stabilization of norcaradienes and cycloheptatrienes are calculated and compared with the equilibrium position of the respective valence isomers.Key Words: Homoaromaticity / Resonance energy / Calculations, force-field / Heats of hydrogenation
PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF ALKYL HALIDES - VII. CYCLOPROPANATION OF ALKENES
Kropp, Paul J.,Pienta, Norbert J.,Sawyer, Joy A.,Polniaszek, Richard P.
, p. 3229 - 3236 (2007/10/02)
The previously observed cyclopropanation of alkenes by irradiation of diiodomethane (1) in their presence has been studied in more detail and found to be a synthetically useful procedure which is significantly less subject to steric effects than the traditional Simmons-Smith method.The results from photocyclopropanation of a variety of alkenes are summarized in Tables 1 and 3-4.In a number of cases the photochemical procedure afforded improved results over the Simmons-Smith method, particularly with sterically congested alkenes.Cycloalkenes showed relative rates of photocyclopropanation as a function of ring size similar to those of the Simmons-Smith method (Table 5).However, the photocyclopropanation reaction exhibited steadily increasing relative rates with increasing substitution about the double bond-in contrast with the Simmons-Smith method (Table 6), in which steric effects offset increasing nucleophilicity of the alkene with increasing substitution.The α-iodocation 2 is suggested as the methylene transfer species.In the presence of lithium bromide cation 2 was trapped to afford bromoiodomethane.
