Regio- and Stereochemistry of Gas-Phase Acid-Induced Nucleophilic Substitutions on Chiral Allylic Alcohols<sup>1</sup>
作者:Maurizio Speranza、Anna Troiani
DOI:10.1021/jo971283p
日期:1998.2.1
The regio- and stereochemistry of the nucleophilic attack of (S)-trans-3-hexen-2-ol (M-s) and (S)-trans-4-hexen-3-ol (E-s) on the corresponding O-protonated (L = H) and -methylated (L = CH3) derivatives (MsL+ and EsL+) are investigated in the gas phase at 40 degrees C (720 Torr). The MsL+ and EsL+ intermediates are produced in the gas phase by the attack of the ionic Bronsted and Lewis acids, formed by stationary gamma-radiolysis of bulk CH3Cl, on the corresponding chiral alcohols, i.e., M-s and E-s. In these systems, firm evidence in favor of the concerted S(N)2' pathway, accompanying the classical S(N)2 one, is obtained by excluding the following: (i) the isomerization of MsL+ (or EsL+) before the attack by the nucleophile NuH = M-s (or E-s); (ii) the isomerization of the (C6H11)(2)OH+ substitution intermediates before neutralization; (iii) the intermediacy of allylic cations. The regioselectivity factors (S(N)2'/S(N)2 = 1.4 (M-s), 1.1(E-s)) confirm previous experimental and theoretical evidence about the prevalence in the gas phase of the S(N)2' pathway, over the competing S(N)2 one. Orientation of NuH by MsL+ (or EsL+) determines the regiochemistry of the allylic substitution, When NuH approaches the oxonium intermediate from the direction syn to the leaving moiety LOH, a frontside S(N)2 displacement takes places favored by preliminary proton bonding between LOH and NuH. The S(N)2' reaction instead follows attack on the pi-LUMO of the oxonium ion by the NuH juxtaposed anti to the leaving LOH group. Observation of a predominant anti-S(N)2' orientation provides the first experimental basis of modern concepts pointing to Coulombic interactions as the main intrinsic factors governing the S(N)2' stereochemistry and to solvation and ion pairing as the factors determining the low efficiency of S(N)2' reactions and their preferred syn stereochemistry in solution.