3-(Dimethylboryl)pyridine: synthesis, structure, and remarkable steric effects in scrambling reactions.
3-(Dimethylboryl)pyridine: synthesis, structure, and remarkable steric effects in scrambling reactions.
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10.1021/jo7018043
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2008-01
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S. Wakabayashi;S. Imamura;Y. Sugihara;M. Shimizu;T. Kitagawa;Y. Ohki;K. Tatsumi
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S. Wakabayashi;S. Imamura;Y. Sugihara;M. Shimizu;T. Kitagawa;Y. Ohki;K. Tatsumi
A facile method for the synthesis of 3-(dimethylboryl)pyridine (1a) is described. Compound 1a assembles into a rigid cyclic tetramer stabilized via intermolecular boron-nitrogen coordination bonds both in the crystalline state and in solution. The outstanding structural feature of 1a, as compared with previously reported 3-(diethylboryl)pyridine (2a) (which adopts a cone conformation), is that the tetramer of 1a adopts a 1,2-alternate conformation. To investigate the effect of substituents at the boron atom on the stabilities of the oligomers, scrambling experiments of the component molecules using 1, 2, and 3-(di-n-butylboryl)pyridines 3 were carried out. Although heating at 80-90 degrees C for 20 h was required to attain the equilibrium of the scrambling reactions when the component molecules of the tetramers were 2 or 3, the scrambling in 1 proceeded under relatively mild conditions (60 degrees C, 3 h). This difference in reaction conditions required for 1, as compared to conditions required for 2 or 3, could not be explained solely by the stabilities based on bond lengths or THC. It appears that whereas only an S(N)1-type pathway may be involved in the scrambling of 2 or 3, both S(N)1- and S(N)2-type mechanisms operate simultaneously during scrambling reactions of 1 or an intermediate mechanism between S(N)1 and S(N)2 operates, which was supported by kinetic studies and calculations using model compounds.