作者:Rolf Huisgen、Jacques Penelle、Grzegorz Mloston、Anne Buyle Padias、H. K. Hall
DOI:10.1021/ja00027a035
日期:1992.1
2,2,4,4-Tetramethyl-3-thioxocyclobutanone S-methylide (TTCM) is a nucleophilic 1,3-dipole which is known to undergo two-step cycloadditions to very electron poor olefins. When this 1,3-dipole is generated from its precursor, the 1,3,4-thiadiazoline 7, in acrylonitrile or acrylic esters at 45-degrees-C, only cycloaddition and no polymerization is observed, suggesting a concerted cycloaddition. Small amounts of polymers were observed alongside the cycloadducts with nitroethylene, methacrylonitrile, and methacrylates. Most cycloadducts were produced as regioisomeric mixtures. The reaction of TTCM with benzylidenemalononitrile, a nonpolymerizable olefin, is nonconcerted and furnished in THF and 1 vol % methanol or 3 vol % water a 7-membered lactim methyl ether or lactam formed by interception of a ketene imine. The observed polymerizations are radical in nature and are proposed to be initiated by a minor contribution of a diradical intermediate to the cycloaddition reaction.