Microsolvation, aggregation, and pseudomonomolecular, ionic sp2-stereoinversion mechanism of two exocyclic β,β-di-tert-alkyl-α-arylvinyllithiums
作者:Rudolf Knorr、Karsten-Olaf Hennig、Petra Böhrer、Bernhard Schubert
DOI:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2014.05.031
日期:2014.9
A THF-solvated, crystalline, exocyclic alkenyllithium, (tert-alkyl)(2)C=C(Li) ePh, was synthesized and shown to be a disolvated dimer in the solid state and in toluene as the solvent; increasing amounts of the monomeric species emerged on cooling the toluene solution. In THF as the solvent, only the trisolvated monomer was present and identified as a contact ion pair (CIP) through its scalar C-13,Li-6 NMR coupling. This ground-state needs only one further THF ligand as a catalyst for breaking the C-Li bond with formation of a tetrasolvated, solvent-separated ion pair (SSIP) on the way to the transition state of cis/trans sp2-stereoinversion. The ensuing pseudomonomolecular, ionic mechanism is confirmed by low pseudoactivation parameters: enthalpy Delta H psi double dagger = 6.9(3) kcal mol(-1); entropy Delta H-psi(double dagger) = 23.3(9) cal mol(-1) K-1. Similar parameters were found with 2,6-dimethylphenyl in place of Ph. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.