作者:Leslie W. Gibbs、Donald K. Wedegaertner
DOI:10.1021/jo00026a024
日期:1991.12
The thermal rearrangement of triphenylacetonitrile oxide (1a) to triphenylmethyl isocyanate (2) is a first-order process. Rate constants at five temperatures between 116 and 190-degrees-C were determined giving DELTA-H double-ended dagger = 9.3 +/- 1.1 kcal/mol and DELTA-S double-ended dagger = -58.2 +/- 2.4 cal/mol.K. The rearrangement of substituted triarylacetonitrile oxides (1b-d) occur only slightly faster than that of 1a. These results are interpreted in terms of a concerted single-step rearrangement in which the highly ordered transition state (6c) has a degree of radical character.