Thermal Decomposition of Substituted Norbornadienone Ketals
Thermal Decomposition of Substituted Norbornadienone Ketals
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取代降冰片二烯酮缩酮的热分解
DOI:
10.1021/ja00955a035
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发表时间:
1966
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
S. D. Mcgregor
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文献类型:
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作者:
D. Lemal;E. Gosselink;S. D. Mcgregor
The Diels-Alder reaction of tetrachlorocyclopentadienone ketals with acetylenic dienophiles yielded 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrachloronorbornadienone ketals, some of which decomposed in situ and some were obtained in pure form. When pyrolyzed, these compounds gave twokinds of aromatic products: those which had lost the ketal bridge and those which had retained itin the form of an ester function. Both ionic and radical pathways for aromatization have been postulated; the influence of solvent polarity and of substituents on the choice betweenthese mechanisms is discussed. Evidence is presented that the ketal bridge was lost in the form of a dioxycarbene, though ethylenedioxycarbene mayhave fragmented as it was generated. The products derived from dimethoxy-carbene were highly dependent upon the reaction conditions. Whereas the dimer tetramethoxyethylene was formed in good yield in concentrated solution, trimethyl orthoformate was a major product in dilute solution and methyl acetate, carbon dioxide, and methyl radicals were generated in the vapor phase.The present study1 was undertaken with the goal of generating dioxycarbenes and elucidating their chemistry. These species were of considerable interest for the reason inter alia that their chemistry was difficult to predict. By virtue of the electron-donating capacity of oxygen, dioxycarbenes were expected to display properties intermediate between the electrophilic dihalo-and monoxycarbenes3 on the one hand and the markedly nucleophilic aminocarbenes4 on the other; the middle ground, however, obviously covers a broad range of reactivity. Indeed, there was no a priori basis for excluding the possibility that dioxycarbenes would rearrange or fragment in preference to undergoing familiar reactions of heteroatom-substituted carbenes.