名称:
Study of I-Strain Relief in the Intermediate When Forming Spiro Ketones from Unsymmetrical Cycloalkylidenecycloalkanes, Their Dibromides, and Their Pinacols
摘要:
Three unsymmetrical intercyclic olefins, their dibromides, and their pinacols were prepared, each so the two carbons involved at the functional group were part of a different sized ring. The pinacols were reacted with 25% sulfuric acid and with boron trifluoride etherate, the dibromides with silver nitrate,and the olefins with mercuric acetate and with trifluoroperacetic acid. The predominant spiro ketone found in each product mixture was used to determine which carbon, and hence which size ring, could better undergo the sp(3) to sp(2) or the sp(2) to sp(3) transition. The findings were consistent with Brown's observations on ring strain.