Phenanthroline and tert-butoxide have been established as powerful radical initiators in reactions such as the S(RN)1-type coupling reactions due to the cooperation of large heteroarenes and a special feature of tert-butoxide. The first phenanthroline-tert-butoxide-catalyzed transition-metal-free allylic isomerization is described. The resulting ketones are key intermediates for indenes. The control experiments rule out the base-promoted allylic anion pathway. The radical pathway is supported by experimental evidence that includes kinetic study, kinetic isotope effect, isotope-labeling experiments, trapping experiments, and EPR experiments.
The substituenteffects on the reactions of permanganate ion with unsymmetrical alkenes are analyzed on the assumption of a concerted (3 + 2) cycloaddition model by using an equation obtained by approximation based on the FMO theory in which development and localization of the frontier molecular orbitals at the reaction sites with progress of the reaction are considered. The Hammett plots are successfully
I likes rearrangements: Hypervalentiodine compounds can be used as environmentally friendly, mild, and selective reagents for highly enantioselective rearrangements of alkenes. For the first time, rearrangements to α‐arylated ketones can be performed enantioselectively using lactic acid‐based iodine(III) reagents.