Gas-Phase Diastereoselectivity of Secondary 5-Substituted (X)-Adamant-2-yl (X = F, Si(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>) Cations
作者:Caterina Fraschetti、Francesca R. Novara、Antonello Filippi、Neil A. Trout、William Adcock、Ted S. Sorensen、Maurizio Speranza
DOI:10.1021/jo0702140
日期:2007.5.1
Secondary 5-X-adamant-2-yl cations I-X (X = F, Si(CH3)(3)) have been generated in the gas phase (total pressure = 760 Torr) from protonation-induced defluorination of epimeric 2-F-5-X-adamantanes 1(X) and their kinetic diastereoselectivity toward (CH3OH)-O-18 investigated in the 40-160 degrees C range. The experimental results indicate that the facial selectivity of I-X is insensitive to the composition of the starting 1(X) epimers as well as to the presence and the concentration of a powerful base (N(C2H5)(3)). This kinetic picture, supported by B3LYP/6-31G* calculations, is consistent with a single stable pyramidalized structure for I-X, that is, (Z)-5-F-adamant-2-yl (I-F(Z)) and (E)-5-Si(CH3)(3)-adamant-2-yl cations (I-Si(E)). The temperature dependence of the I-X diastereoselectivity lends support to the intermediacy of noncovalent adducts [(IXCH3OH)-C-.-O-18], characterized by a specific C2-(H+...O18)(H)CH3 hydrogen bonding interaction. Their conversion to the covalently bonded O-methylated (Z)- (IIXZ) and (E)-5-X-adamantan-2-ols (IIXE; X = F, Si(CH3)(3)) is governed by activation parameters, whose magnitude depends on the specific I-X face accommodating (CH3OH)-O-18. The gas-phase diastereoselectivity of I-X toward (CH3OH)-O-18 is compared to that exhibited in related gas-phase and solution processes. The emerging picture indicates that the factors determining the diastereoselectivity of I-X toward simple nucleophiles in the gaseous and condensed media are completely different.