Cyclization of 5-hexenyl radicals from nitroxyl radical additions to 4-pentenylketenes and from the acyloin reaction
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Abstract
Photochemical Wolff rearrangements were used to form 5-substituted-4-pentenylketenes 1a1d (RCH=CHCH2XCH2CH=C=O: 1a R = H, X = CH2; 1b R = Ph, X = CH2; 1c R = c-Pr, X = CH2; 1d R = H, X = O), which were observed by IR at 2121, 2120, 2119, and 2126 cm1, respectively, as relatively long-lived species at room temperature in hydrocarbon solvents. These reacted with the nitroxyl radical tetramethylpiperidinyloxyl (TEMPO, TO·) forming carboxy-substituted 5-hexenyl radicals 3, which were trapped by a second nitroxyl radical forming 1,2 diaddition products 4a4d. On thermolysis, 4a4d underwent reversible reformation of the radicals 3, which underwent cyclization forming cyclopentanecarboxylic acid derivatives 6 or 11 as the major products. However, in the case of 1b, the cyclopentane derivative was formed reversibly and on prolonged reaction times the only product isolated was PhCH=CH-(CH2)4CO2H (8b) from hydrogen transfer to Cβ and cleavage of the TEMPO group. Cyclopropylcarbinyl radical ring opening in the cyclized radical 5c from 1c led to the 2-(4-N-tetramethylpiperidinyloxybut-1-enyl)cyclopentane derivative 11 as the major product. In a test for 5-hexenyl radical ring closure in the radical anion intermediate of the acyloin condensation, the ester CH2=CH(CH2)3CO2Et (12a) gave the acyloin 13a (76%) as the only observed product, while PhCH=CH(CH2)3CO2CH3 (12b) with Na in toluene gave 21% of the acyloin product 13b and 42% of 2-benzylcyclopentanol (15) from cyclization of the intermediate radical anion.Key words: ketenes, free radical cyclization, TEMPO, acyloin condensation.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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