ISSN:
0894-3230
Keywords:
unsaturated nitriles
;
homolytic reactions
;
cyclization
;
tert-butylmercury halides
;
proton donors
;
Chemistry
;
Theoretical, Physical and Computational Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Cyclizations are observed in the homolytic reactions of t-BuHgI with CH2=CHCH2YCH2CN [Y = CH2, O, CMe2, C(CO2Et)2, NCH2CN] and CH2=CHCH2CH2YCH2CN [Y = CH2, O, C(CO2Et)2] in Me2SO in the presence of hydriodic acid. Only with Y = C(CO2Et)2 does the adduct radical, t-BuCH2ĊHCH2YCH2CN, undergo facile 5-exo cyclization in the absence of a proton donor. The other 5-exo and all 6-exo cyclizations require substrate protonation to yield t-BuCH2ĊH(CH2)nYCH2C≡NH+ (n = 1, 2), which cyclizes readily to the iminium radical cation followed by electron transfer with I- or t-BuHgI2- to form the imine as a precursor to the cyclopentanone or cyclohexanone upon hydrolysis. For CH2=CHCH2C(CO2Et)2CH2CN the formation of the cyclopentanone is dramatically promoted by NH4I in the dark in the absence of any other acid. In this case, where cyclization of the adduct radical occurs readily without substrate activation, protonation of the cyclized iminyl radical allows the electron transfer with I- or t-BuHgI2- to occur with regeneration of t-Buċ. A similar effect is observed with CH2=CHCH2C(CO2Et)2CH2N3 where only a slow reaction is observed upon photolysis with t-BuHgI in the absence of NH4I, although apparently cyclization of t-BuCH2ĊHCH2C(CO2Et)2CH2N3 (with loss of N2) occurs readily. In the presence of NH4I the cyclized aminyl radical can be protonated and the resulting amine radical cation readily reduced by I- or t-BuHgI2- to continue a chain process. With the thioesters CH2=CHCH2YCH2C(O)SPh [Y = O, CH2, CMe2, C(CO2Et)2], significant cyclization upon photolysis with t-BuHgX occurred only for Y = C(CO2Et)2. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
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