GROUND-STATES OF MOLECULES .68. MNDO STUDY OF THE CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT
GROUND-STATES OF MOLECULES .68. MNDO STUDY OF THE CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00335a043
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
HEALY, EF
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作者:
DEWAR, MJS;HEALY, EF
MNDO calculations are reported for the Claisen rearrangements of 3-oxa-l-hexene, for its various methoxy and cyano derivatives, and for the 2-methoxy-5-cyano derivative. Thereactions are found to take place by a two-stage mechanism, analogous to that of theCope rearrangement of 2, 5-hexadiene but where the intermediate biradicaloid is not a stable species, undergoing conversion to theproduct without activation. The results agree with the available evidence concerning substituent effects and lead to verifiable predictions.The term “Claisen rearrangement” was originally applied to rearrangements of allyl aryl ethers toortho, or occasionally para, phenols, eg, 1—* 2. In recentyears, however, it has been extended to include the analogous rearrangements of allyl vinyl ethers to unsaturated aldehydes and ketones, eg, 3— 4.2 The latter reactions are analogues of Cope rearrangements of 1, 5-hexadienes (eg, 5-* 6) in which one of the saturated carbon atoms is replaced by oxygen and are now likewise classed as [3, 3] sig-matropic rearrangements. 3 Until recently it was generally as-sumed that reactions of this kind take place in a synchronous4 manner, via aromatic5, 6 transition states (TS), formed by a com-bination of-type and ir-type overlap of the 2p AOs of the carbon atoms in the two allyl moieties. As Doering and Roth7 pointed out some time ago, such a TS can in principle exist in geometries (7, 8) analogous to those of the chair and boat conformers of cyclohexane. They were able to show by an ingenious experiment that the chair TS (7) is favored. Similar considerations apply to the Claisen rearrangements of allyl vinyl ethers, and Schmidt et al., 8 have likewise shown that these too take place via chair-type intermediates, 9. This evidence shows clearly that neither reaction takes place by fission into radicalsand recombination. In each case formation of the new CC bond must begin before the breaking CC (or CO) bond has completely broken.