Direct observation of the cyclopropene-vinylcarbene rearrangement. Matrix isolation of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-ones
摘要:
4-Oxocyclohexa-2,5-dienylidenes 4b-g have been generated in argon matrices at 10 K by visible-light irradiation of the corresponding quinone diazides 5. Carbenes 4 have been characterized by IR and UV-vis spectroscopy and by their characteristic thermal reaction with molecular oxygen. On irradiation into the longest-wavelength absorption (420-700 nm), carbenes 4c-g rearrange to give the highly strained bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-ones 3c-g, while 4b is photostable under the same conditions. The photochemical 4 --> 3 rearrangement is completely reversible: infrared irradiation or visible light irradiation (lambda > 470 nm) of the cyclopropenes 3 lead back to triplet carbenes 4 quantitatively. In addition, several of the 1,3-bridged cyclopropenes 3 undergo a thermal rearrangement to give carbenes 4. This indicates that the highly strained cyclopropenes 3 are thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding carbenes 4 and kinetically only stabilized by a shallow energy barrier. Even under the conditions of matrix isolation at cryogenic temperatures, cyclopropenes 3 are metastable compounds.
spectra have been recorded for all the synthesized salts; the data are in good agreement with the rather limited published data and constitute a first extensive report of 13C-NMR chemical shifts in diazoniumsalts. An excellent linear relationship emerged between Brown's substituent constants s+p and the 13Cipso chemical shifts. The diazoniumsalts obtained proved to be much more soluble in organic
Direct observation of the cyclopropene-vinylcarbene rearrangement. Matrix isolation of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-ones
作者:Goetz Bucher、Wolfram Sander
DOI:10.1021/jo00031a009
日期:1992.2
4-Oxocyclohexa-2,5-dienylidenes 4b-g have been generated in argon matrices at 10 K by visible-light irradiation of the corresponding quinone diazides 5. Carbenes 4 have been characterized by IR and UV-vis spectroscopy and by their characteristic thermal reaction with molecular oxygen. On irradiation into the longest-wavelength absorption (420-700 nm), carbenes 4c-g rearrange to give the highly strained bicyclo[3.1.0]hexa-3,5-dien-2-ones 3c-g, while 4b is photostable under the same conditions. The photochemical 4 --> 3 rearrangement is completely reversible: infrared irradiation or visible light irradiation (lambda > 470 nm) of the cyclopropenes 3 lead back to triplet carbenes 4 quantitatively. In addition, several of the 1,3-bridged cyclopropenes 3 undergo a thermal rearrangement to give carbenes 4. This indicates that the highly strained cyclopropenes 3 are thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding carbenes 4 and kinetically only stabilized by a shallow energy barrier. Even under the conditions of matrix isolation at cryogenic temperatures, cyclopropenes 3 are metastable compounds.
Ried,W.; Dietrich,R., Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1961, vol. 649, p. 57 - 70
作者:Ried,W.、Dietrich,R.
DOI:——
日期:——
Laser flash photolysis studies on 4-oxocyclohexa-2,5-dienylidenes
作者:B. R. Arnold、J. C. Scaiano、G. F. Bucher、W. W. Sander
DOI:10.1021/jo00050a020
日期:1992.11
Reactions of 4-oxocyclohexa-2,5-dienylidene (1) and two derivatives have been investigated using laser flash photolysis techniques. Photolysis of 4-diazocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one (4) in 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane allows the indirect detection of the corresponding carbene 1. This carbene reacts with triplet oxygen at close to the diffusion-controlled rate, forming the carbonyl 0-oxide (lambda(max) = 470 nm). Reaction of triplet 1 with moderate concentrations of cyclohexane leads to formation of phenoxyl radical (lambda(max) = 395 nm). At high concentrations or in neat cyclohexane the predominant path appears to be carbene insertion into the C-H bond. Other reactions examined include 0-H insertion in methanol and the indirect formation of ylides from acetone, acetonitrile, and pyridine. The reactivity pattern that emerges indicates that carbene 1 and its derivatives, 2 and 3, have triplet ground states and that the singlet-triplet energy gap is moderately large. Ylide formation is only observed when the reactants are present in low concentrations and involve a two-step reaction from the triplet carbene; no ylides are observed in neat acetone or acetonitrile suggesting that for the singlet carbene insertion into C-H bonds is favored over direct ylide formation.