Charge Delocalization Pathways in Persistent 1-Pyrenyl-, 4-Pyrenyl-, and 2-Pyrenylmethylcarbenium Ions as Models of PAH−Epoxide Ring Opening: NMR Studies in Superacids and AM1 Calculations
作者:Kenneth K. Laali、Poul Erik Hansen
DOI:10.1021/jo9707343
日期:1997.8.1
The relative stability, magnitude, and mode of charge delocalization into the pyrene moiety (Py) were evaluated for a series of tertiary and secondary 1-pyrenylmethylcarbenium ions PyC+R1R2 and PyC+R3H (with R-1 = R-2 = Me and Ph; R-3 = Me, Ph, CH2Ph, and (CH2)(10)Me), 4-pyrenylmethylcarbenium ions (with R-1 = R-2 = Me; R-3 = Me and Ph), and 2-pyrenylmethylcarbenium ions (with R-1 = R-2 = Me). The carbocations were generated from the corresponding carbinols by protonation with FSO3H/SO2ClF. The primary 1-pyrenyl- and 2-pyrenylmethyl cations could not be generated by ionization of their primary alcohols. Within the tertiary and the secondary carbocations, pi-charge delocalization into the pyrene moiety and the pyrenium ion character of the resulting carbocations increase in the order: 1-pyrenyl (alpha) > 4-pyrenyl (alpha beta) > 2-pyrenyl (beta). The NMR characteristics of the resulting ions are discussed and compared. The connection between charge delocalization/ stability in the regioisomeric pyrenylmethyl carbocations and the magnitude of carcinogenic activity in the benzannelated pyrenes, for which the bay-region diol-epoxides are the ultimate carcinogens, are discussed.