Alkyl groups bridging

Alkyl groups bridging donor atoms in macrocyclic and cryptand ligands are sterically efBdent. 

The species at the centre of tire rings is usually Si or Ge and tire bridging atom is oxygen. In one study tire peripheral hydrogens on tire phtlialocyanine molecules were replaced by alkyl groups and tire resulting polymers could be rendered soluble in ordinary organic solvents [108, 109 and 110]. Successful deposition of several of tliese materials has been achieved and different techniques were employed to study tlieir stmctural properties [109, ill, ill, ill and 1141. 

The original acid—clay developers have been largely replaced by phenohc compounds, such as para-substituted phenohc novolaks. The alkyl group on the phenohc ring is typically butyl, octyl, nonyl, or phenyl. The acidity is higher than that of a typical unsubstituted novolak because of the high concentration of 2,2 -methylene bridges. 

Although many overall rearrangements can be formulated as a series of 1,2-shifts, both isotopic tracer studies and con utational work have demonstrated foe involvement of other species. These are bridged ions in which hydride or alkyl groups are partially bound to two other carbons. Such structures can be transition states for hydride and alkyl-group shifts, but some evidence indicates that these structures can also be intermediates. 

It is believed that this process involves migration through a pentacoordinate protonated cyclopropane in which an alkyl group acts as a bridge in an electron-deficient carbocation structure. The cyclohexyl- methylcyclopentyl rearrangement is postulated to occur by rearrangement between two such structures. 

The M(05H5)201 compounds, which are actually 01-bridged dimers, [(05H5)M(/l-01)2-M(05H5)], provide an extensive substitution chemistry in which /r-Ol can be replaced by a variety of ligands including H, ON, NH2, MeO and alkyl groups. 

Apart from information on stereochemistry, bromine bridging does not provide a priori any rule regarding regio- and chemoselectivity. Therefore, we systematically investigated (ref. 3) these two selectivities in the bromination of ethylenic compounds substituted by a variety of more or less branched alkyl groups (Scheme 4). 

Although alkyl groups in general increase the rates of electrophilic addition, we have already mentioned (p. 974) that there is a different pattern depending on whether the intermediate is a bridged ion or an open carbocation. For brominations and other electrophilic additions in which the first step of the mechanism is rate determining, the rates for substituted alkenes correlate well with the ionization potentials of the alkenes, which means that steric effects are not important. Where the second step is rate determining [e.g., oxymercuration (15-3), hydroboration (15-17)], steric effects are important. ... 

The second structural type found for organometallic cobalt porphyrins contains an organic fragment bridged between the cobalt and one pyrrolic nitrogen. Cobalt complexes of N-alkyl- or N-arylporphyrins arc well established (but will not be specifically addressed here). The bridged complexes are derivatives of these where the N-alkyl group also forms a cr-bond to cobalt. They are also related to the axially... 

For alkene bromination, present kinetic data show that their transition states are always bridged, whatever the number of alkyl groups on the double... 

The slight steric differences between the alkyl groups of the cations lead to quite different far-orders of their polyiodide anion structures. In solid tBu2iPrPSeI7 [Figure 16(c)], one iodide anion bridges two of the iPr3PSeI+ cations and is in further contact with three I2 molecules the other I anion is in contact with five I2 molecules.59... 

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