CONFORMATIONAL AND MEDIUM EFFECTS ON INTRAMOLECULAR CARBENE REACTIONS
CONFORMATIONAL AND MEDIUM EFFECTS ON INTRAMOLECULAR CARBENE REACTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00760a033
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
RANDO, RR
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作者:
RANDO, RR
The photochemical decomposition of-diazoamides leads to the intramolecular formation of lactams. Thus, the photolysis of W, W-diethyldiazoacetamide (1) in dioxane produces 1-ethy 1-4-methy 1-2-azetidinone (2) and 1-ethyl-2-pyrollidinone (3) in roughly equal amounts. Striking solvent effects are observed on these reactions. As the polarity of the medium is increased, the ratio of jS-lactam/y-lactam increases.The gross effects of structure and electronic state on the reactivity of carbenes are fairly well under-stood. 3 On the other hand, the consequences of preferred conformations and solventeffects are less certain. It is the purpose of this report to point out rather profound influences of both conformation and solvent on the chemistry of the carbenes photochemically derived from-diazo amides. The influence of preferred conformations on the intramolecular reactions of certain carbenoids can be inferred from the work of Closs4 andKirmse. 5 These authors demonstrated that the relative amounts of cyclopropanes produced by intramolecular 1, 3 CH insertion were quite sensitiveto the effective crowding in the respective transition states. For example, the reaction of sec-butyllithium and methylene chloride leads to the formation of approximately nine times as much írarcs-dimethylcyclopropane as cis-. 4 The tran-sition state on the way to the cis isomer is, of course, the more crowded one. Kaplan and Meloy6 argued that the failure of 4-diazo-2, 2, 5, 5-tetramethyl-3-hex-anone to undergo Wolff rearrangement can be traced to an unfavorable diazo ketone conformation. One notes with interest the fact that although carbalkoxycarbenes undergo facile intermolecular CH insertion7 and double-bond addition reactions, 3 the intramolecular counterparts of these reactions are not achieved. For example, the photolysis of allyl di-azoacetate in cyclohexane affords allyl cyclohexyl-acetate as the sole product. 8 Intramolecular lactone formation does not occur. Lactone formation only starts to come into the picture when the alkoxy moiety is of exceptional bulk, as in tert-butyl diazoacetate. 9 Photochemical decomposition of this diazo ester in cyclohexane affords 9.5% y,-dimethylbutyrolactone along with 90.5% íerí-butyl cyclohexylacetate. All this suggests that the dominant factor in these reactions is