STEREOCHEMISTRY OF NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION TO CYCLOHEXANONE - THE IMPORTANCE OF 2-ELECTRON STABILIZING INTERACTIONS
STEREOCHEMISTRY OF NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION TO CYCLOHEXANONE - THE IMPORTANCE OF 2-ELECTRON STABILIZING INTERACTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00405a041
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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15
通讯作者:
CIEPLAK, AS
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作者:
CIEPLAK, AS
A theory of charge-transfer stabilization of the transition state for nucleophilic addition to a carbonyl group by electron donors is proposed. It is postulated, using the Bell-Evans-Polanyi principle, that the feature of this transition state critical for stereoselectivity of the reaction is the existence of a low-lying vacant orbital*, associated with the bond being formed in the reaction and that electron delocalization into that orbital will stabilize the transition state and may thereby enhance the reaction rate: thekinetic anomeric effect and thekinetic a effect are considered as the examples of such a stabilizing interaction. Stereochemistry of nucleophilic addition to cyclohexanone is determined by two factors according to this model: steric hindrance which favors the equatorial approach and electron donation from the cyclohexanone aCc and oCh bonds into the*, orbital, whichfavors the axial approach since the carbon-hydrogen bonds are better electron donors. Consequently, nucleophile structure, metal cations complexing the carbonyl oxygen, solvent, and counterions or other solutes may influence stereoselectivity of the reaction by changing the «(*,). Furthermore, it is shown that thismodel offers a simple and consistent way to rationalize kinetic and stereochemical effects of the so-called “remote polar substituents” which cannot be explained in terms of steric or electrostatic interactions but appear to be controlled by the overlap and energy gap between the remote electron-donor orbitals and the*„orbital.For an explanation of the stereochemistry of fast irreversible nucleophilic additions to cyclohexanone such as metal hydride reductions or additions of organometallic compounds, at least two different interactions must be invoked. This necessity was pointed out 2 decades ago in the first major review of the topic, which concluded in the following way.“... Thus, the steric direction of reaction of nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group of cyclic six-membered ketones is determined, apparently, by two competitive factors: a factor directing the entering substituent into the axial position, and a factor op-posing this, depending on steric hindrance and directing the substituent into the equatorial position. It appears probable that the first factor is determined not by thermodynamic stability of the final products but is mainly connected with the orientation of the charged... attacking agent under the action of polar influ-ences... connected for example, with the uncompensated dipole