Photocycloaddition of cyclohex-2-enones to acrylonitrile
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The photocycloaddition of cyclohex-2-enones 1a, 1b, and 5a5c to acrylonitrile (2) in benzene has been studied. The reactions proceed with moderate regioselectivity and with preferential formation of diastereomeric mixtures of endo- and exo-5-oxobicyclo[4.2.0]octane-7-carbonitriles 3, 4, and 68. Very similar relative rates of conversion to products are observed in the photocycloadditions of 1b, 5a, and 5b to 2 and methacrylonitrile (9), respectively. In contrast, 5,5-dimethylcyclohex-2-enone (1b) forms cycloadducts with 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene (12) as efficiently as with the unsaturated nitriles, but the 2,5,5-trialkylcyclohex-2-enones 5a and 5b do not react with this alkene at measurable rates of conversion. A dual path mechanism is presented that involves either exciplex formation between triplet-excited cyclohexenones and electron-rich alkenes or radical addition of the former to electron-deficient alkenes bearing a substituent, exercising a resonance effect.Key words: [2+2]-photocycloaddition, cyclobutane, cyclobutanecarbonitrile, radical addition to unsaturated nitriles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".