The Putative Role of Homoconjugation in Radical Cations: Electron Transfer Photochemistry of 7-Methylenenorbornadiene and 7-Methylenequadricyclane
作者:Hengxin Weng、Xue-Mei Du、Heinz D. Roth
DOI:10.1021/ja00106a017
日期:1995.1
Photoinduced electron transfer from 7-methylenenorbornadiene, MN, and 7-methylenequadricyclane, MQ, to an excited sensitizer/acceptor in the presence of methanol generates products of several structure types. All products require nucleophilic capture of the radical cations, MN(.+) and MQ(.+), by methanol, followed by rapid rearrangements of the resulting free radicals to C-. as the key intermediate. The short lifetime of the primary products of capture is ascribed to the allylic nature of their C-4-C-5 bonds. The stereochemistry of the methoxy groups in the products indicates that the nucleophile attacks MQ(.+) exclusively from the ''exo'' face (''backside'' attack), whereas MN(.+) shows, in addition, a limited degree of attack from the ''endo'' face.