Probing the Stereoselectivity of the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Norbornene and Norbornadiene Diesters
摘要:
The ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of two optically active 2,3-dicarboalkoxynorbornadienes derived from (S)-(-)-2-methyl-1-butanol and (R)-(-)-2-butanol were carried out in the presence of the [RuCl2(P-cymene)](2) catalyst precursor activated by trimethylsilyldiazomethane (TMSD). H-1 and C-13 NMR analyses showed that a high degree of stereoregularity was achieved, and homonuclear proton-proton COSY spectroscopy indicated that the major trans fractions of the polymers were most likely isotactic, while the minor cis fractions were syndiotactic. Ring-opened metathesis polymers were also made from 2,3-dicarbomethoxynorbornadiene and exo,exo-2,3-dicarbomethoxy-5-norbornene. They were hydrogenated into the corresponding polynorbornanes using diimide. The NMR spectra of the reduced materials confirmed that the unsaturated parent polymers had an all-trans highly isotactic microstructure. A tentative mechanism involving arene loss, carbene formation, and monomer chelation is proposed to account for the observed stereoselectivities.
O'Dell, Richard; McConville, David H.; Hofmeister, Gretchen E., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1994, vol. 116, # 8, p. 3414 - 3423
作者:O'Dell, Richard、McConville, David H.、Hofmeister, Gretchen E.、Schrock, Richard R.
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Bridged Tolanes: A Twisted Tale
作者:Sebastian Menning、Maximilian Krämer、Andrew Duckworth、Frank Rominger、Andrew Beeby、Andreas Dreuw、Uwe H. F. Bunz
DOI:10.1021/jo5010235
日期:2014.7.18
The rotational motion of tolanes along their acetylene axis is not fully understood. What happens to the optical and electronic properties if the tolane backbone is forced into a twisted conformation? Several tethers were investigated to obtain tolanophanes, fixing the torsion angle of the two phenyl rings. X-ray crystal structures revealed tether-specific torsion angles in the solid state. The absorption, emission, and excitation spectra were recorded. Twisted tethered tolane conformers showed blue-shifted absorption; emission spectra were all torsionally independent and identical. The tethered tolanes were embedded in a rigid matrix by freezing to 77 K; well-resolved emission spectra were recorded for planar tolanes, but for twisted systems unexpectedly long-lived phosphorescence was observed. How is this triplet emission explained? Quantum chemical calculations (TDDFT/cam-B3LYP/6-31G*) of the unsubstituted tolane showed that intersystem crossing (ISC) is favored with large spin-orbit coupling, which occurs when the molecular orbitals are orthogonal to each other; this is the case at the crossing of S-1/T-7. Also, a small energy difference between singlet and triplet states is required; we found that ISC can favorably take place at four crossings: S-1/T-6, S-1/T-7, S-1/T-8,T-9, S-1/T-10.
MAIER, G.;JUNG, W. A., CHEM. BER., 1982, 115, N 2, 804-807