The use of chemical probes to differentiate between polar and SET-hydrogen atom abstraction pathways involved in the reduction reaction promoted by an 8-Al-4 anion
摘要:
The mechanism for the reduction of aromatic ketones and alkyl halides with lithium tetrakis(N-dihydropyridyl)aluminate was found to proceed competitively by hydride reduction and by single electron transfer (SET)-hydrogen atom abstraction processes. A series of ketyl fragmentation probes were used to differentiate the two pathways. A SET process is the dominant pathway when the ketones involved are sterically hindered or when strong electron acceptors are used as the substrates. The observation that EPR-active intermediates can be detected, or that small amounts of radical derived products are formed, demonstrates only that a SET pathway is available but cannot be used to establish the mechanism of the major product-forming reactions.
Use of fragmentation probes in a study of the reduction reactions of 8-B-4 complexes
作者:Dennis D. Tanner、Guo Jian Xie、John Hooz、Chi Ming Yang
DOI:10.1021/jo00077a042
日期:1993.12
The reduction of a number of mechanistic probes with several borate complexes, NaBH4, Li(C2H5)3-BH, and lithium dimesityl borohydride, has been shown to occur by both an electron transfer-hydrogen atom abstraction mechanism and a hydride transfer process. Although the electron transfer-hydrogen atom abstraction mechanism can nearly always be detected or be initiated, it is usually only a minor reaction, and only when the reducing agent and/or the substrate is sterically hindered or when the acceptor is a strong oxidizing agent is the homolytic pathway preferred.