Determination of hyperfine splittings of biradical termini by combining biradical trapping and time-resolved ESR techniques
摘要:
ESR detection of spin-polarized short-lived biradicals has been shown to be a valuable tool in studying the mechanisms of photochemical reactions and in the investigation of the properties of biradicals. However, some important spectroscopic features of these species are not readily available because of certain peculiarities of biradical ESR spectra. This difficulty can be overcome through the conservation of spin polarization by the controlled scavenging of a biradical into a subsequent radical species whose spectroscopic features can be accurately evaluated. In particular, it is shown that the hyperfine splittings of a radical site in a biradical can be measured directly by time resolved ESR if the other site is scavenged by a selective spin trap. BrCCl3 was used as a selective scavenger of the acyl moiety of polymethylene linked acyl-alkyl and acyl-benzyl biradicals formed in the photolysis of substituted cycloalkanones in solution. Transformation of these polarized biradicals into correpsonding polarized monoradicals upon bromine abstraction by acyl site leads to much less complicated and much better resolved ESR spectra. The hyperfine splittings of the benzylic termini of several acyl-benzyl biradicals generated in this manner were evaluated and quantitatively compared with the splittings of benzyl and 1-phenylpropyl radicals formed in the photolysis of linear ketones.
Ylide-Functionalized Phosphine (YPhos)–Palladium Catalysts: Selective Monoarylation of Alkyl Ketones with Aryl Chlorides
作者:Xiao-Qiang Hu、Dominik Lichte、Ilja Rodstein、Philip Weber、Ann-Katrin Seitz、Thorsten Scherpf、Viktoria H. Gessner、Lukas J. Gooßen
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02830
日期:2019.9.20
phosphine (YPhos) ligands allow the palladium-catalyzed α-arylation of alkylketones with aryl chlorides with record setting activity. Using a cyclohexyl-substituted YPhos ligand, a wide range of challenging ketone substrates was efficiently and selectively monoarylated under mild conditions. A newly designed YPhos ligand bearing tert-butyl groups on the coordinating phosphorus atom is already active