The Rearrangement of 1-para-Substituted Phenyl-1-cyclopropylethylenes
The Rearrangement of 1-para-Substituted Phenyl-1-cyclopropylethylenes
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DOI:
10.1021/jo01014a508
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发表时间:
1965-03
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
A. Ketley;J. L. McClanahan
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作者:
A. Ketley;J. L. McClanahan
There has been no systematic study reported of the effect of substituents on the rates of vinylcyclopropane rearrangements. We describe here results of part of such a study on the rates of rearrangement of a series of 1-para-substituted phenyl-l-cyclopropylethylenes. Pyrolyses were initially conducted using a glass wool packed flow system at 400. The reactions proceeded cleanly giving in each case 90% or more of the corre-sponding 1-para-substituted phenylcyclopentene. Since the reaction rates of all except the fluoro deriva-tive were immeasurably high at 400, kinetic runs were made, in the gas phase, in evacuatedsealed tubes at 350. The identity of the products to those ob-tained at 400 was shown by vpc Figure 1 shows first-order plots for each compound. All except the fluoro derivative fall onto one line and all, consequently, have the same rate of rearrangement (1.03±0.07 X 10-4 sec.-1). The p-fluoro derivative rearranges at approximately half this rate (5.03±0.33 X 10-5 sec.-1). These values are very close to the rate constant at 350 extrapolated from Frey’s and Marshall’s data1 for 1-methyl-1-cyclopropylethylene (1.15 X 10-6 sec.-1). The vinylcyclopropane rear-rangement appears, therefore, to be relatively insensi-tive to polar effects, at least as transmitted through the 1-carbon. This insensitivity can be explained by a mechanism in which the rate-determining step is the opening of the cyclopropyl ring either to thediradical or to the “expanded ring” 4 postulated by Schlag and Rabinovitch. 2 The lower rate of the fluorophenyl derivative may be due to the smallerconjugation of this substituent in the second step with the forming double bond of the cyclopentene. This could decrease the rate of closure of the five-membered ring below that of fission or expansion of thecyclopropyl ring. The second step would thus become rate-determining.