Anhydrides Tetracyanoethylene

We have also used poly(propynoic acid) in our studies of the photochemical interaction of PCSs with dienophiles, such as maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, and styrene. This photochemical reaction of Diels-Alder type is accompanied by the breakdown of the conjugation system and the formation of slightly colored adducts266. Together with the cycloaddition reaction, photodegradation of PPA and its adducts takes place. A cycloaddition reaction is always preceded by the formation of a donor-acceptor complex of a PCS with a dienophile. 

The comparison of rates of cycloaddition of maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, and styrene to PPA shows that the latter, irrespective of the presence of electronegative groups, behaves in these reactions not as an electron-poor diene system. This fact, together with the composition of side products (giving evidence of PPA decarboxylation), allows the assumption to be made that the cycloaddition of dienophiles involves mainly decarboxylated polyene sections of cis-transoid structure213, 266. This is in agreement with the fact that PPA with predominant trans-transoid configuration interacts with these dienophiles at a substantially lower rate. The ultimate amounts of the dienophile combined with PPA of this structure is also considerably smaller. 

Thermal cracking at 150°C of the dimer (mixed isomers) of the silole in presence of reactive dienophiles (maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene or dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate) inevitably produced violent explosions arising from exothermic Diels-Alder reactions. 

Ethyl diphenylphosphinite, 131 Thionyl chloride, 297 to anhydrides Tetracyanoethylene, 289 of esters to amides... 

Benzeneseleninic anhydride-Cyanotri-methylsilane, 28 a-Methylbenzylamine, 185 Anhydrides Tetracyanoethylene, 289... 

The twisted alkene present in acetoxydithiocin (176 R = Ac) was suggested to be a possible cause of its relative unreactivity as a diene in Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions. No reaction is seen with maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, or hexafluoro-2-butyne at 45 °C higher temperatures were precluded by the thermal instability of (176 R = Ac) <78T363i>. iV-Phenyltriazolinedione reacted with (176 R = Ac), but afforded no identifiable products. 

Cycloaddition (Diels-Alder) reactions have been reported for [6]radia-lene (5) and its hexaalkyl derivatives 113 and 115, but not for the permethylated radialene 72, which was inert even to the reactive dienophiles TCNE and Af-phenyltriazolinedione [67]. The sterically least hindered radialene 5 reacted with acetylenic and olefinic dienophiles in a 1 3 ratio to give triphenylene derivatives such as 139 in low yield (Scheme 4.30) [5, 95]. On the other hand, radi-alenes 113 and 115 gave linear,/)-quinodimethane-type 1 2-adducts, when they were exposed to an excess of various common dienophiles inter alia maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, />-benzoquinone, acrolein, ethyl acrylate, acetylenedi-carboxylic acid) [89, 96, 97]. The 1 1 adduct 140, which was isolated so far only from the reaction with an equimolar amount of TCNE (92% yield) [97], presumably prefers the second cycloaddition step in the linear (para) position (141) over that in the angular (meta) position (142) for steric reasons. 

Endo adducts are usually favored by iateractions between the double bonds of the diene and the carbonyl groups of the dienophile. As was mentioned ia the section on alkylation, the reaction of pyrrole compounds and maleic anhydride results ia a substitution at the 2-position of the pyrrole ring (34,44). Thiophene [110-02-1] forms a cycloaddition adduct with maleic anhydride but only under severe pressures and around 100°C (45). Addition of electron-withdrawiag substituents about the double bond of maleic anhydride increases rates of cycloaddition. Both a-(carbomethoxy)maleic anhydride [69327-00-0] and a-(phenylsulfonyl) maleic anhydride [120789-76-6] react with 1,3-dienes, styrenes, and vinyl ethers much faster than tetracyanoethylene [670-54-2] (46). 

Benzo[Z)]furans and indoles do not take part in Diels-Alder reactions but 2-vinyl-benzo[Z)]furan and 2- and 3-vinylindoles give adducts involving the exocyclic double bond. In contrast, the benzo[c]-fused heterocycles function as highly reactive dienes in [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions. Thus benzo[c]furan, isoindole (benzo[c]pyrrole) and benzo[c]thiophene all yield Diels-Alder adducts (137) with maleic anhydride. Adducts of this type are used to characterize these unstable molecules and in a similar way benzo[c]selenophene, which polymerizes on attempted isolation, was characterized by formation of an adduct with tetracyanoethylene (76JA867). 

MA = maleic anhydride NPM = N-phenylmaleimide NQ = 1,4-naphthoquinone TONE = tetracyanoethylene... 

In another aspect of the mechanism, the effects of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents (p. 1065) indicate that the diene is behaving as a nucleophile and the dienophile as an electrophile. However, this can be reversed. Perchlorocyclopentadiene reacts better with cyclopentene than with maleic anhydride and not at all with tetracyanoethylene, though the latter is normally the most reactive dienophile known. It is apparent, then, that this diene is the electrophile in its Diels-Alder reactions. Reactions of this type are said to proceed with inverse electron demand ... 

The thermal Diels-Alder reactions of anthracene with electron-poor olefinic acceptors such as tetracyanoethylene, maleic anhydride, maleimides, etc. have been studied extensively. It is noteworthy that these reactions are often accelerated in the presence of light. Since photoinduced [4 + 2] cycloadditions are symmetry-forbidden according to the Woodward-Hoffman rules, an electron-transfer mechanism has been suggested to reconcile experiment and theory.212 For example, photocycloaddition of anthracene to maleic anhydride and various maleimides occurs in high yield (> 90%) under conditions in which the thermal reaction is completely suppressed (equation 75). 

Isopropenylbenzofuran (124, Scheme 30) affords good yields of the adducts 123 and 125 on separate reaction with maleic anhydride and tetracyanoethylene. With but-3-en-2-one, 2-isopropenylbenzofuran (124, Scheme 31) affords the adducts 126 and 127 in a combined yield of 29%. When the crude product was dehydrogenated with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone in boiling benzene, the aromatized product 128 (6%) was obtained. It was accompanied by the dicyanodibenzofuran 129, which was found to arise from the excess diene present in the reaction mixture. A speculative mechanism is shown. 

Furthermore, the synthetic utility of 2,6-divinyl-l,4-dithiin 68 as a reactive diene in Diels-Alder reactions was reported with tetracyanoethylene, maleic anhydride, A -phenylmaleimide, and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) and allowed the preparation of various dihydrothianthrene derivatives (Equation 9) <2003S849>. 

Diels-Alder [4 + 2]ir cycloadditions of 1-alkoxycarbonyl-l//-azepines are successful with all but the weakest dienophiles (e.g. maleic anhydride). Early work showed that with tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) cycloaddition at C-2—C-5 takes place readily in benzene solution at room temperature to yield adducts (140) (69JOC2888, 70JHC1249). The structure of the TCNE adduct with 5-bromo-l-ethoxycarbonyl-l//-azepine has been confirmed by X-ray studies (67JCSfBMi2). 

Fig. 8.15 The relation between i cr of the spectra of charge-transfer complexes and the half-wave potentials of electron acceptors [53]. Electron acceptor derivatives of phthalic anhydride, quinone and nitrobenzene, and tetra-cyanobenzene and tetracyanoethylene.

Unfortunately, salts of picric acid are also called picrates. Similar complexes are formed between phenols and quinones (quinhydrones).53 Olefins that contain electron-withdrawing substituents also act as acceptor molecules as do carbon tetrahalidesS4 and certain anhydrides.55 A particularly strong olefin acceptor is tetracyanoethylene.56... 

Adams and Cherry (78) have investigated the effects of stilbene substitution on the behavior of their excited complexes with fumaronitrile and find that the rate constants for fluorescence and nonradiative decay are insensitive to substitution, but that the rate constant for intersystem crossing is increased by electron-donating substituents (lower stilbene oxidation potential). This trend is attributed to a decrease in the energy gap between the excited complex and locally excited 3t (Fig. 4). The observed energy gap dependence of the exciplex lifetime could also account for the absence of fluorescence (or cycloadduct formation, see Section IV-B) from the excited charge-transfer complexes of t-1 with stronger electron acceptors such as maleic anhydride (76) or tetracyanoethylene (85). 

Cycloadduct formation is not observed upon irradiation of t-1 with fumaronitrile, maleic anhydride, or tetracyanoethylene. Irradiation of t-1 and maleic anhydride results in the formation of an alternating copolymer (96). The radical-ion pair or free radical ions obtained upon irradiation of the charge-transfer complex in polar solvent are presumed to be the initiating species. Irradiation of the ground state complex of t-1 and tetracyanoethylene at 580 nm in solution or the solid state results in neither adduct formation or t-1 isomerization (76). Irradiation of t-1 at 313 nm in the presence of tetracyanoethylene results in rapid isomerization followed by slow but quantitative formation of phenanthrene and tetracyanoethane (97). Product formation is proposed to occur via a dark reaction of dihydrophenanthrene with the electron-poor alkene. 

NMO NMP Nu PPA PCC PDC phen Phth PPE PPTS Red-Al SEM Sia2BH TAS TBAF TBDMS TBDMS-C1 TBHP TCE TCNE TES Tf TFA TFAA THF THP TIPBS-C1 TIPS-C1 TMEDA TMS TMS-C1 TMS-CN Tol TosMIC TPP Tr Ts TTFA TTN N-methylmorpholine N-oxide jV-methyl-2-pyrrolidone nucleophile polyphosphoric acid pyridinium chlorochromate pyridinium dichromate 1,10-phenanthroline phthaloyl polyphosphate ester pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate sodium bis(methoxyethoxy)aluminum dihydride (3-trimethylsilylethoxy methyl disiamylborane tris(diethylamino)sulfonium tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride f-butyldimethylsilyl f-butyldimethylsilyl chloride f-butyl hydroperoxide 2,2,2-trichloroethanol tetracyanoethylene triethylsilyl triflyl (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) trifluoroacetic acid trifluoroacetic anhydride tetrahydrofuran tetrahydropyranyl 2,4,6-triisopropylbenzenesulfonyl chloride 1,3-dichloro-1,1,3,3-tetraisopropyldisiloxane tetramethylethylenediamine [ 1,2-bis(dimethylamino)ethane] trimethylsilyl trimethylsilyl chloride trimethylsilyl cyanide tolyl tosylmethyl isocyanide meso-tetraphenylporphyrin trityl (triphenylmethyl) tosyl (p-toluenesulfonyl) thallium trifluoroacetate thallium(III) nitrate... 

Abbreviations arene, i/6-benzene or substituted benzene derivative bipy, 2,2 -bipyridyl Bu, Bu", Bu, iso-, n-, or rerf-butyl COD, 1,5-cyclo-octadiene Cp, /5-C5H5 DAD, dimethyl-acetylene dicarboxylate dam, 1,2-bis(diphenylarsino)methane DBA, dibenzylideneacetone DMF, A. A -dimethylformamide dpe, l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane dpen, os-l,2-bis(di-phenylphosphino)ethylene dpm, 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)methane ESR, electron spin resonance F6-acac, hexafluoroacetylacetone FN, fumaronitrile MA, maleic anhydride Me, methyl MLCT, metal ligand charge transfer phen, 1,10-phenanthroline Pr , Pr", iso- or n-propyl py, pyridine RT, room temperature TCNE, tetracyanoethylene tetraphos, (Ph2PCH2CH2)jP THF, tctrahydrofuran Xylyl, 2,6-Me2C6H3. 

Both l-(butadien-l, 3 -yl)silatrane (93) and -trialkoxysilane can react by a Diels-Alder-type reaction with tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) or maleic anhydride (MA) to give the corresponding adducts (equations 129 and 130). However, a higher temperature is required for effective conversion of trialkoxysilane355. 

It was shown that the diene reacted only slowly with tetracyanoethylene, even slower than with maleic anhydride. The reaction of the ortho adduct with maleic anhydride led to the same 1 2 adduct as the photochemical reaction between benzene and maleic anhydride. The previous failure to trap the diene with tetracyanoethylene resulted from an unexpectedly low dienophilic reactivity of this compound toward the ortho adduct in the presence of benzene. Tetracyanoethylene is apparently completely complexed in benzene solution. 

The Diels-Alder reaction with /V-phenylmaleimidc has frequently been used for the separation, purification, and structure determination of ortho photocycloadducts [12,47,86,90,108,116,126,132,133,138], Other dienophiles that have been successfully employed in Diels-Alder reactions with ortho adducts are A-(para-bromophenyl)maleimide [116,120], maleimide [116,118,127], maleic anhydride [127,191], tetracyanoethylene [11], and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxy-late [73,127], The Diels-Alder product of A-(para-bromophenyl)maleimide with the exo-ortho adduct formed from 1,4-dioxene and benzene [120] and the Diels-Alder product of maleimide with the endo-ortho adduct from cis-cy-clooctene and benzene [118] were obtained in crystalline form and their structures could be determined by means of x-ray diffraction. 

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