STEREOELECTRONIC CONTROL IN ENOLIZATION-KETONIZATION REACTIONS
STEREOELECTRONIC CONTROL IN ENOLIZATION-KETONIZATION REACTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01605a013
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
SNEEN, RA
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作者:
COREY, EJ;SNEEN, RA
The stereochemistry of the enolization of 3/3-acetoxycholestan-7-oneto the A6-en-7-ol and of the ketonization of this enol have been studied using deuterium tracer. With hydrogen bromide as catalyst in chloroform solution the axial hydrogen at C6 is lost in enolization 1.2 times as rapidly as the equatorial hydrogen (corrected for isotope effect); for the reverse reac-tion, ketonization, an axial hydrogen is gained ca. 1.5 times as rapidly as an equatorial hydrogen. These values, which in theory should be identical, are in reasonably good agreement and indicate that despite a strong steric retardation of the gain and loss of an axial hydrogen, axial attack is still at least as favorable as equatorial attack. Correction for this steric effect gives the result that stereoelectronic factors favor axial attack over equatorial attack by a factor of at least 12. The acetic acid catalyzed enolization-ketonization reaction is even more specific and axial attack is favored over equatorial at-tack by a total factor of at least 9 with a stereoelectronic component of at least 50. The kinetic isotope effect of deuterium in enolization of 7-ketosteroids has been found to be ca. 7.4, close to the theoretical maximum at 10. A thermodynamic explanation is presented to explain the variation in degree of stereoelectroniccontrol with reactivity of the reagent andsup-porting data are cited from a comparison of chlorination and bromination experiments. The occurrence of a high degree of stereoelectronic control is postulated to explain the exclusive axial attack observed in reactions of steroidal 4, 5, 6-allyl cations.It has been shown previously2 that the bromination of steroid ketones via the corresponding enols is characterized in several cases, and perhaps gen-erally, by an effect which directs the incoming bromine substituent to the axial rather than the equa-torial position. Opposing this effectis the classical steric effect, which directs a large substituent such as bromine to the less crowded equatorial orientation. The net result ofthese two effects, which in-fluence therelative rates of formation of the epimers with axial and equatorial bromine, is clear in those cases where the bromoketone which is isolated is the unstable epimer, formed for kinetic rather than for steady-state reasons. In such instances the importance of the non-steric effectis apparent since the major product has invariably been found to be the epimer with axial bromine. 2 It has been proposed that the orienting influence which is responsible for this stereochemical pref-erence is stereochemical-electronicin nature and depends on the difference in degree of delocaliza-tion of electrons in perturbed axial and equatorial bonds which are alpha to an exocyclic-orbital. Reference to Fig. 1 indicates the relationship between stereochemical orientation and the extent of