SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS AT THE ORIGIN OF A FREE-RADICAL 1,2-ARYL MIGRATION AND IN THE RELATED DISPROPORTIONATION REACTION OF 10-HYDRO-9-P-X-PHENYL-9-PHENANTHRYL RADICALS
SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS AT THE ORIGIN OF A FREE-RADICAL 1,2-ARYL MIGRATION AND IN THE RELATED DISPROPORTIONATION REACTION OF 10-HYDRO-9-P-X-PHENYL-9-PHENANTHRYL RADICALS
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自由基 1,2-芳基迁移起源和 10-氢-9-P-X-苯基-9-菲基自由基的相关歧化反应中的取代基效应
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10.1002/chin.197720229
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发表时间:
1977
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B. Vittimberga
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作者:
R. Goerner;P. N. Cote;B. Vittimberga
A series of (9-pX-phenyl-9-fluorenyl) acetaldehydes (5)(X= H, F, Cl, OCH3, SCH3, SOCH3, SO2CH3, and CH3) have been synthesized, characterized, and decarbonylatedin thepresence and absence of benzyl mercaptan to yield (9-pX-phenyl-9-fluorenyl) carbinyl radicals (U·). In the presence of mercaptan, these radicals rearranged to yield 9, 10-dihydro-9-pX-phenylphenanthrenes (7) and 9-pX-phenyl phenanthrenes (6), and abstracted hydrogen from the mercaptanto yield 9-methyl-9-pX-phenylfluorenes (8). The relative percentages of these products were determined by NMR integration, and were used to calculate relative rearrangement rate constants (rel &r). An ex-cellent linear correlation was found between log rel 6r and Hammett’s<(p= 0.39, r= 0.988, s=±0.05). The meth-ylthio substituted compound showed a strong deviation in the direction of rate enhancement. In the absence of mercaptan the rearranged 10-hydro-9-pOi-phenyl-9-phenanthryl radicals (R·) were found to undergo a disproportionation reaction yielding 6 and 7 as the sole products. The relative percentages of these products were used to calculate relative disproportionation rate constants (rel ku)· Separate correlations were obtained between log rel &d and ffR or ur0 for the sulfur-containing substituents and for the non-sulfur-containing substituents. Evidence is presented which indicates that the substituent on the abstracting radical (R·) exerts the controlling influence on the rate of disproportionation.Free-radical carbon rearrangements in solution have been under investigation since their initial discovery by Urry and Kharasch1 in 1944. Yet, in spite of three decades of research in this area, until a short time ago little was known concerning the nature of the transition state for vicinal aryl migration, or the effects of substituentsupon its stability. Early work2* 5 implied a gross order of migratory abilities for substituted phenyl groups: pC^ NCgH*> p-H3CC6H4= ü CeHs> pH: jCOC (; H4· Unfortunately, these results were qualitative, and the systems studied were sufficiently sterically dissimilar to make conclusionsdrawn from comparison of the results highly tentative.