Reversible cyclopropyl ring opening of 1-aroyl-2-phenylcyclopropane radical anions. Determination of the ring opening and closure rates of the intermediate ketyls
作者:Dennis D. Tanner、Jian Jeffrey Chen、Christine Luelo、Pollyanna M. Peters
DOI:10.1021/ja00028a045
日期:1992.1
The phenylcyclopropylketyl ring opening has been used as a mechanistic probe for the detection of radical intermediates. The reaction is of limited use since the ring-opening reaction is reversible. 1-Benzoyl-2-phenylcyclopropane (II) was considered to be a better probe since the ring opening of its radical anion was believed to be irreversible. In this study, the ring opening of II.- is also found to be reversible since the radical-initiated reduction of (+)-trans-1-benzoyl-2-phenylcyclopropane ((+)-trans-II) with 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenylbenzimidazoline (DMBI) leads to racemized and isomerized products ((+)-trans-11 and (+/-)-cis-II). The rate constants (k(o)) for the ring opening of both trans- and cis-II ketyls have been estimated from the intramolecular competitive reduction of both trans- and cis-1-(p-chlorobenzoyl)-2-phenylcyclopropane with DMBI (k(o,trans) = (2.8 +/- 0. 1) x 10(5) s-1, k(o, cis) = (1.6 +/- 0.2) x 10(6) s-1, 22-degrees-C). The rate constants for the ring closure (k(c)) of the opened radical to give the trans and cis ketyls were estimated from the DMBI reduction of trans-II using dicyclohexylphosphine as a hydrogen atom donor (k(c,trans) = 4 x 10(2) s-1, k(c,cis) = 23 +/- 9 s-1, 61-degrees-C).