On the mechanism of the [4+2] cycloaddition of 1Ο2 with 1,3-dienes: Identifying the putative biradical/dipolar intermediate by employing the gem-diphenylcyclopropyl group as a mechanistic probe
摘要:
The mechanism of the [4+2] cycloaddition reaction of singlet oxygen (O-1(2)) with simple acyclic dienes, i.e. (E)/(Z)-1 and (E,E)/(Z,E)-2, was investigated by employing the gem-diphenylcyclo-propylcarbinyl radical clock as a hypersensitive mechanistic probe. In both cases, benzophenone, a decomposition product of the rearranged endoperoxide intermediates 11 and 12, was identified as the major product. The formation of this product is consistent with the intervention of an open biradical or dipolar intermediate having a lifetime greater than 2 psec. Our attempts to further trap any endoperoxide intermediate revealed a new mode of reactivity of these dienic systems with O-3(2), that mainly affords the corresponding 1,2-dioxolane derivatives (E)-13 and (E,E)-14, respectively, through a photoinduced electron transfer mechanism, co-sensitized by methylene blue (MB) and thiourea. The structures of (E)-13 and (E,E)-14 were supported by experimental and theoretical NMR studies.
Concerning the Reactivity of PTAD with Isomeric Dienes: The Mechanism of the Diels−Alder Cycloaddition
作者:Mariza N. Alberti、Michael Orfanopoulos
DOI:10.1021/ol900363n
日期:2009.4.2
Cyclopropyl substituted dienes are employed as mechanistic probes in the triazolinedione Diels−Alder (DA) reaction. In aprotic and protic solvents, apart from the DA adducts that bear an intact cyclopropyl group, complicated and rearranged products are also obtained. These results provide solid evidence for the involvement of an open intermediate with a lifetime greater than 2 × 10−12 s.