MECHANISM OF THE REACTION OF MONO-OLEFINS WITH DIENOPHILES .2. A POSSIBLE FREE-RADICAL MECHANISM
MECHANISM OF THE REACTION OF MONO-OLEFINS WITH DIENOPHILES .2. A POSSIBLE FREE-RADICAL MECHANISM
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DOI:
10.1021/jo01121a015
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
WARK, BH
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作者:
RONDESTVEDT, CS;WARK, BH
The thermal condensation of olefins with dienophiles can be explained by an ionic mechanism (1), which requires that the dienophile become attached to one of the carbons of the olefinic double bond (2). One exception is inconsistent with the ionicmechanism unless one assumes improbable double-boned shifts before reaction; Bickford and co-workers (3) noted that methyl oleate reacted with maleic anhydride at 220 to form not only the products II and III predicted by the ionic mechanism, but also I and IV. Although they did not present a complete structure proof for I and IV, their oxidationexperiments constitute strong evi-dence for the assigned structures. They suggested a free-radical mechanism, by analogy to that accepted for autoxidation of methyl oleate, in which a hydrogen atom is lost from either a-carbon 8 or 11, followed by addition of the mesomeric radical in either extreme form to maleic anhydride. The reaction then continues by conventional chain propagation steps. Their mechanism accounts for the formation of I and IV, in which the maleic anhydride becomes attached to an-carbon of the original molecule. 1