SYNTHESIS AND INTERCONVERSION BY HYDROGEN-EXCHANGE OF ISOMERIC QUINHYDRONES
SYNTHESIS AND INTERCONVERSION BY HYDROGEN-EXCHANGE OF ISOMERIC QUINHYDRONES
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00445a018
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
PAUL, IC
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作者:
DESIRAJU, GR;CURTIN, DY;PAUL, IC
Isomeric quinhydrones, 2-phenylquinone/2-(4'-chlorophenyl) hydroquinone (1: 1)(la) and 2-(4'-chlorophenyl)-quinone/2-phenylhydroquinone (1: 1)(lb), have been prepared as crystalline solids and shown to resist interconver-sion by a redox (hydrogen exchange) process even at temperatures as high as 140 C when kept in the solid state. It is suggested that these unsymmetrically substituted complexes are inert to oxidation-reduction interconversions because of a stabilizing combination of hydrogen bonding and charge-transfer forces. A semiquantitative survey of the rates in solution of the redox equilibration of a number of quinone-hydroquinone pairs has been studied by NMR spectroscopy as the basis for the rational selection of the pair of quinhydrones described above.Molecular complexes (1: 1)(quinhydrones) of benzoqui-nones and hydroquinones have long been known as stable solids which, however, in solution separate into their components. 3 The possibility of preparing isomeric quinhydrones by virtue of the presence of different substituents on the quinone and hydroquinone ring has been recognized, and in-vestigations of deuterium-and carbon-14-labeled compounds have been carried out as a method of studying the redox interconversions in solution of such compounds. 4 In other cases where preparation of isomeric pairs of substituted quinhydrones has been attempted, the rapid redox interconversion in solution coupled with a lack of adequate methods of char-acterization has led to confusing results.® Neverthelesscrystals of unsymmetrically substituted complexes of this type as, for