ELECTRON-TRANSFER-INDUCED PHOTOADDITIONS OF THE SILYL AMINE ET2NCH2TMS TO ALPHA,BETA-UNSATURATED CYCLOHEXENONES - DUAL REACTION PATHWAYS BASED ON ION-PAIR-SELECTIVE CATION-RADICAL CHEMISTRY
ELECTRON-TRANSFER-INDUCED PHOTOADDITIONS OF THE SILYL AMINE ET2NCH2TMS TO ALPHA,BETA-UNSATURATED CYCLOHEXENONES - DUAL REACTION PATHWAYS BASED ON ION-PAIR-SELECTIVE CATION-RADICAL CHEMISTRY
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00232a023
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发表时间:
1988-11-23
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
KIM, JU
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作者:
HASEGAWA, E;WEI, X;KIM, JU
The photoaddition reactions of a series of conjugated cyclohexenones with the tertiary-silyl amine Et2NCH2TMS have been subjected to exploratory and mechanistic investigation. In general, photoadditions in these systems occur to generate in modest to good yields adducts resulting from carbon-carbon bonding between the enone^-carbons and amine silicon-substituted-carbon. These processes lead to formation of TMS and non-TMS adducts corresponding to substitution by the enone grouping for hydrogen or the trimethylsilyl grouping inthe amine. The polarity and protic nature of solvents used for these photoreactions appear to control the TMS to non-TMS adduct ratios, with the former being favored in low-polarity aprotic media (MeCN) and the latter in polar protic media (MeOH). A more detailed investigation of this phenomenon by using the photoadditions of 4, 4-dimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-one with Et2NCH2TMS has uncovered the source of this control. Accordingly the non-TMS to TMS adduct ratio in this system is found to be directly dependent upon the solvent polarity (£ T or AN values) and protic nature. Likewise, thisratio increases when the salts LiC104 and n-Bu4NC104 are present in the photolysis solution. Protic acids bring about the same result. On the other hand, the proportionof TMS adduct in the product mixture is enhanced when amine concentration is increased or by the additionof n-Bu4NOH. These effects are interpreted in terms of selective formation and chemical reaction of ion-pair intermediates. In aprotic solvents of low polarity, the solvent-separated ion pair (SSIP), generated by single electron transfer fromEt2NCH2TMS to the triplet excited state of the enone, rapidly collapses to a contact ion pair (CIP) comprised of the enone radical anionand amine radical cation. Rapid proton transfer in the CIP from the silicon-substituted «-carbon of the amine cation radical to oxygen of the enone anion radical produces the radical-pair precursor of the TMS adduct. However, in polar protic solvent and when protic acids or ionized salts are present, the SSIP dissociates to produce the free amine cation radical. This intermediate undergoes desilylation or deprotonation, forming radical precursors of the respective non-TMS and TMS adducts. While the desilylation processis preferred, deprotonation of the free amine cation radical becomes increasinglycompetitive when high concentrations of base, such as the amine or n-Bu4NOH, are present in the medium. Adduct formation when-amino radicals are produced in this way most probably involves conjugate addition to the ground-state enone. Support for this proposal is found in the observation that 9, 10-dicyanoanthracene serves as an electron-transfer sensitizer for silyl amine additions to cyclohex-2-en-l-one and its 4, 4-dimethyl analogue in MeCN.The area of electron-transfer photochemistry has received in-tense study during the past decade1 owing to a continuing interest in developing new excited-state organic processes and in understanding their mechanistic details. As the body of knowledge in this area has grown, it has become increasingly clear that a number of photoinduced, single-electron-transfer (SET) processes match the criteria required for synthetic utility. 2 A unique feature of excited-state transformations occurring by SET mechanisms is that the key reactive intermediates are ion and neutral radical