.mu.-Hydrido-bridging in tricycloalkyl carbocations
.mu.-Hydrido-bridging in tricycloalkyl carbocations
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三环烷基碳阳离子中的μ-氢桥连
DOI:
10.1021/ja00178a043
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
S. Whitworth
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作者:
T. S. Sorensen;S. Whitworth
From 2-adamantanone, a series of tricyclic alkenes 5 (= 5-8) were synthesized in 10 steps. The analogous alkene 5 (= 4) could not be prepared by the same route. These structures, in each case, were designedto have an inwardly pyramidalized bridgehead hydrogen, which is suitably positioned so that the formation of a cationic center on the opposite bridgehead could then potentially lead to a µ-hydrido-bridging interaction. The nature of the hydrido bridge was found to be very structure-dependent, and one can correlate this behavior with the distance d between the terminal bridge-supporting carbons (C--H-C+) in the tricycloalkane framework. For the shortestdistances, one develops a fully symmetric µ-bridge, while larger d result in a gradation toward a normal tertiary carbocation structure. The cation 4 (= 5) is quite stable in a pXa sense (pXa=-1), and the p/fa relationship between this cation and the= 6 case was computed with semiempirical MO theory. The calculated pKi was-5.3, in good agreement with an experimental bracketing of the p/fa between-3 and-8. One also predicts from the MO theory that the unknown cation 4 (= 4) will have pXa=+ 10, ie, stable in neutral water.