Allyl system anion

The formation of 1-and 2-aIkenes can be understood by the following mechanism. In the presence of formate anion, the 7r-allylpalladium complex 572 is converted into the 7r-allylpalladium formate 573. The most interesting feature is the attack of the hydride from formate to the more substituted side of the (T-allylic system by the cyclic mechanism shown by 574 to form the 1-alkene 575[367]. The decarboxylation and hydride transfer should be a concerted... 

Complexes 79 show several types of chemical reactions (87CCR229). Nucleophilic addition may proceed at the C2 and S atoms. In excess potassium cyanide, 79 (R = R = R" = R = H) forms mainly the allyl sulfide complex 82 (R = H, Nu = CN) (84JA2901). The reaction of sodium methylate, phenyl-, and 2-thienyllithium with 79 (R = R = r" = R = H) follows the same route. The fragment consisting of three coplanar carbon atoms is described as the allyl system over which the Tr-electron density is delocalized. The sulfur atom may participate in delocalization to some extent. Complex 82 (R = H, Nu = CN) may be proto-nated by hydrochloric acid to yield the product where the 2-cyanothiophene has been converted into 2,3-dihydro-2-cyanothiophene. The initial thiophene complex 79 (R = R = r" = R = H) reacts reversibly with tri-n-butylphosphine followed by the formation of 82 [R = H, Nu = P(n-Bu)3]. Less basic phosphines, such as methyldiphenylphosphine, add with much greater difficulty. The reaction of 79 (r2 = r3 = r4 = r5 = h) with the hydride anion [BH4, HFe(CO)4, HW(CO)J] followed by the formation of 82 (R = Nu, H) has also been studied in detail. When the hydride anion originates from HFe(CO)4, the process is complicated by the formation of side products 83 and 84. The 2-methylthiophene complex 79... 

The addition of the anions of racemic 1-(diphenyl)- and l-(diethoxyphosphinyl)-2-butenes to 2-cyclopentenone or 2-cyclohexenone gives y-l,4-add ucls. () A1 ly 1 systems give exclusively. vy/t-adducts while (Z)-allyl systems give exclusively //-adducts. 2-Cycloheptenone gives diastereomeric mixtures of 1,4-adducts and 1,2-addition products1. 

It has been contended that here too, as with the benzene ring (Ref 6), the geometry is forced upon allylic systems by the a framework, and not the 7t system Shaik, S.S. Hiberty, P.C. Ohanessian, G. Lefour, J. Nouv. J. Chim., 1985, 9, 385. It has also been suggested, on the basis of ab initio calculations, that while the allyl cation has significant resonance stabilization, the allyl anion has little stabilization Wiberg, K.B. Breneman, C.M. LePage, T.J. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, 61. 

For substituted allylic systems, both a- and y-substitution can occur. Reaction conditions can influence the a- versus "/-selectivity. For example, the reaction of geranyl acetate with several butylcopper reagents was explored. Essentially complete a- or y-selectivity could be achieved by modification of conditions.28 In ether both CuCN and Cul led to preferential "/-substitution, whereas a-substitution was favored for all anions in THF. 

In contrast to the allyl system, where the reduction of an isolated double bond is investigated, the reduction of extensively delocalized aromatic systems has been in the focus of interest for some time. Reduction of the systems with alkali metals in aprotic solvents under addition of effective cation-solvation agents affords initially radical anions that have found extensive use as reducing agents in synthetic chemistry. Further reduction is possible under formation of dianions, etc. Like many of the compounds mentioned in this article, the anions are extremely reactive, and their intensive studies were made possible by the advancement of low temperature X-ray crystallographic methods (including crystal mounting techniques) and advanced synthetic capabilities. 

The energy level diagram including electron populations for the allyl radical, cation, and anion can be shown as illustrated in Figure 5.16. The orbital diagram and energy levels for the allyl system is shown in Figure 5.17. 

Allyl anion is too strongly basic to be studied as the free anion in solution. Bordwell developed an acidity scale based on equation 1 in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) at 25 °C3 and applied the method to a number of more acidic substituted allylic systems. A summary of some results is shown in Table 10. DMSO is sufficiently polar that there is little ion... 

Allylmetallic reagents The ally] anions obtained by reductive metallation of ally I phenyl sulfides with lithium l-(dimethy amino)naphthalenide (LDMAN, 10, 244) react with a, 3-enals to give mixtures of 1,2-adducts. The regioselectivity can be controlled by the metal counterion. Thus the allyllithium or the allyltitanium compound obtained from either 1 or 2 reacts with crotonaldehyde at the secondary terminus of the allylic system to give mainly the adduct 3. In contrast the allylcerium compound reacts at the primary terminus to form 4 as the major adduct. 

According to this mechanism, the first formed ion pair is 19a. Owing to dispersal of charge in the allylic system, the bond between halogen and C(2) is weakened so that an open carbenium ion (19c) readily forms, allowing for the possibility of front-side attack by the anion with the resulting formation of syn 1,2-adducts. This intermediate explains the formation of the cis-],2-adducts by chlorine addition to cyclic systems. However, syn 1,2-dichlorides can also result from linear dienes by rotation around the C(l)—C(2) bond in 19c to produce 19d, followed by back-side attack by the anion with respect to its position in 19d. Syn 1,4-adducts should instead arise by attack of the anion on C(4) in either 19a, 19c or 19d. Formation of anti dichlorides (1,2- or 1,4-) can only occur when there is appreciable translocation in the ion pair 19a to give 19b. Attack by the anion at C(2) in 19b yields anti 1,2-dichloride and attack at C(4) yields anti 1,4-dichloride. 

Organomagnesium compounds react with imines, prepared from 3-methoxy-2-naphth-aldehydes by a 1.4-addition mechanism. This reaction can be performed with high diastere-oselectivity. The method was applied for the synthesis of optically pure S-tetralones . Vinyhnagnesium bromide reacts as an acceptor with a ketone dimethyl hydrazone zincate 207, yielding a 1,1-bimetallic species, which can be reacted sequentially with two different electrophiles (equations 131 and 132) . The reaction proceeds via a metalla-aza-Claisen rearrangement, where the dimethylhydrazone anion behaves as an aza-allylic system . 

Figure 4.2 Hiickel MOs for the allyl system. One pc orbital per atom defines the basis set. Combinations of these 3 AOs create the 3 MOs shown. The electron occupation illustrated corresponds to the allyl cation. One additional electron in

Unfortunately, while it is clear that the allyl cation, radical, and anion all enjoy some degree of resonance stabilization, neither experiment, in the form of measured rotational barriers, nor higher levels of theory support the notion that in all three cases the magnitude is the same (see, for instance, Gobbi and Frenking 1994 Mo el al. 1996). So, what aspects of Hiickel theory render it incapable of accurately distinguishing between these three allyl systems ... 

Another example is the allylic system. The allyl cation (8), anion (9), and... 

The use of a metal catalyst, such as palladium, also provides for some asymmetric induction when an allylic system is treated with a stabilized anion (Scheme 22.13)82-103 or with other nucleophiles.82,87,104-111 This approach also allows for the kinetic resolution of allyl acetates.104,112... 

Remember that no resonance form has an independent existence A compound has characteristics of all its resonance forms at the same time, but it does not resonate among them. The p orbitals of all three carbon atoms must be parallel to have simultaneous pi bonding overlap between Cl and C2 and between C2 and C3. The geometric structure of the allyl system is shown in Figure 15-10. The allyl cation, the allyl radical, and the allyl anion all have this same geometric structure, differing only in the number of pi electrons. 

The molecular orbital energy diagram for the carboxylate anion is the very similar to that of the allyl system. There are just two main differences. 

In the triarylallyl carbanion study and in the absence of accepting stilbene, EjZ photoisomerization of the irradiated carbanion was observed and the effect of changing the substituent at position 2 was examined. Starting from the zero coefficient at carbon-2 in the non bonding MO of the allyllic system, Tolbert considers that the substituent at the 2 position does not affect the energy of the MO. If an electron transfer mechanism governs the reactivity, the substituent on this position will not modify the process in a significant way. The experimental results were very dependent on the C-2 substitution and this reaction was therefore considered as relevant of the intrinsic photochemistry of the anion [145]. This view has been confirmed in other studies on 1,3-diphenylallyl carbanion the kinetic parameters of the photoisomerizations were found to be inconsistent with an electron transfer mechanism [146, 147]. 

The members of the allyl system are reactive intermediates, and there are three of them the allyl cation 1.1, the allyl radical 1.2 and the allyl anion 1.3. They have the same orbitals, but different numbers of electrons. 

The cation, radical and anion have the same a framework 1.4, with fourteen bonding molecular orbitals filled with 28 electrons made by mixing the Is orbitals of the five hydrogen atoms either with the 2s, 2px and 2py orbitals of the three carbon atoms or with the sp2 hybrids. The allyl systems are bent not linear, but we shall treat the % system as linear to simplify the discussion. 

X-Substituted Allyl Anions. Allyl anions with alkyl substituents almost always react with carbonyl electrophiles at the more substituted a position, as in the reaction of the prenyl Grignard reagent with aldehydes to give the product 4.39, presumably because the metal attaches itself preferentially to the less-substituted end of the allyl system and then delivers the electrophile in a six-membered transition structure 4.38. In contrast, alkylation of a similar anion with an alkyl halide gives mainly the product 4.40 of y attack, which is normal for an X-substituted allyl anion when a cyclic transition structure is not involved. 

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