Stable carbocations. 211. 1-Phenylallyl cations and their rearrangement to indanyl cations in superacidic media
Stable carbocations. 211. 1-Phenylallyl cations and their rearrangement to indanyl cations in superacidic media
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00402a006
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发表时间:
1978-08
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
G. Olah;G. Asensio;H. Mayr
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作者:
G. Olah;G. Asensio;H. Mayr
“Relative assignment is uncertain. isomerizations were irreversible, as demonstrated by recooling the samples to—120 C. The benzenium ion 8, which might result from the electrocyclic ring closure of 4, was eliminated as the intermediate observed at-80 C on the basis of the 13C NMR spectrum. This spectrum shows three vinylic singlets and four vinylic doublets, while the spectrum of 8 is expected to display two singlets and five doublets in the same region. Therefore, 10 and/or 12 are suggested as possible observable intermediates in the rearrangement sequence 4— 14. In orderto differentiate between these two arenium ions, 2-(m-tolyl)-3-penten-2-ol (6) was treated with FSOsH-SbFs. Even at-120 C 7 could only be observed as a minor component in the spectrum of the cyclic intermediate. Rearrange-ment to the indanyl cation 15 occurred at—60 C. As expected for both 11 and 13, the 13C NMR spectrum of the intermediate ion showed four olefinic singlets and three olefinic dou-blets.Based on the NMR spectrum, the identification of 13 was possible. Since H (6') of 13 is the only proton attached to an even numbered carbon in the heptatrienyl backbone, it should be the most shielded olefinic proton. For the same reason, H (4') should be the most shielded vinylic hydrogen in 11. Figure lb clearly shows that the olefinic resonance at highest field is a singlet, in accord with H (6') of 13. On the contrary, H (4') of 11 should display a doublet. Analogously, the high-field absorption of Figure la can be assigned to H (6') of 12, a doublet split by H (5'j, whereas H (4') of 10 should show a triplet. As observed previously with other benzenium ions, 5 the methylene group of both 12 and 13 absorbed as a broad singlet. Only trace amounts of 16 could be detected toge ther with 12, indicating that in the allyl cation 7 C (3) attacks selectively at the C (2') position to yield the corresponding arenium ion 9. Mechanism. As depicted in Scheme I, the electrocyclic ring closure of 4 and 7 to 8 and 9 is proposed to be the initial step. Further rearrangements by a series of two 1, 2-hydride shifts yield 12 and 13, respectively. A deprotonation-reprotonation sequence cannot be accountable for the formation of 12 and 13 since this would imply protonation of indenes on the aro-matic ring. This hypothesis, however, is in contrast to the observation that indanyl cations do not show deuterium incorporation in their six-membered rings when they are pre-pared from phenylallyl alcohols and FSO3D. 3 The observation that 7 cyclizes fasterthan 4 can be explained by the fact that