PRODUCTS AND KINETICS OF DECARBOXYLATION OF ACTIVATED AND UNACTIVATED AROMATIC CUPROUS CARBOXYLATES IN PYRIDINE AND IN QUINOLINE
PRODUCTS AND KINETICS OF DECARBOXYLATION OF ACTIVATED AND UNACTIVATED AROMATIC CUPROUS CARBOXYLATES IN PYRIDINE AND IN QUINOLINE
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00399a010
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
WOOD, JT
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作者:
COHEN, T;BERNINGER, RW;WOOD, JT
Aromatic cuprous carboxylates can be prepared in a state suitablefor kinetic and product studies of their decar-boxylations in quinoline and pyridine by reducing the cupric salt with copper in the decarboxylation solvent. The results were indistinguishable from those obtainedfrom the same salts prepared by treatment of the acids with cu-prous tert-butoxide, a more tedious procedure. The major neutral product, besides carbon dioxide, for the decar-boxylation of ArC02Cu is ArH except in the case of cuprous o-nitrobenzoate in which it is Ar2. The hydrogen which replaces the carboxyl group appears to be derived largelyfrom the solvent and is released during the substitution of aryl groups into solventmolecules and the couplingof solventmolecules. In quinoline, the latter type of product consists mainly of biquinolyls and some oxybiquinolyls. Since approximately the same composition of solvent-de-rived products is obtained from the decarboxylations of all of the aromatic salts and by heating pentafluorophenyl-copper in quinoline, it is believed that arylcopper and quinolylcopper intermediates are involved; this is the first evidence for such intermediatesin the case of nonactivated cuprous carboxylates. Such intermediates, the clean first-order kinetics, evidence against a radical process, and the similarity with respect to substituent, solvent, and ligand effects between this reaction and the Ullmann biaryl coupling as well as copper-induced exchange processes lead to a new mechanistic suggestion which involves an oxidative addition of the carboxyl CC bond to the cop-per® followed by loss of carbon dioxide. Anefficient method of preparation of 2-deuterioquinoline is presented, as is a nearly complete analysis of the 250-MHz spectrum of 2, 2'-difluorobenzophenone.