Aromatic hydrocarbons double-bond addition

Naphthalene and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons show many of the chemical properties associated with aromaticity. Thus, measurement of its heat of hydrogenation shows an aromatic stabilization energy of approximately 250 kj/mol (60 kcal/mol). Furthermore, naphthalene reacts slowly with electrophiles such as Br2 to give substitution products rather than double-bond addition products. 

Cycloalkene (Section 5 1) A cyclic hydrocarbon characterized by a double bond between two of the nng carbons Cycloalkyne (Section 9 4) A cyclic hydrocarbon characterized by a tnple bond between two of the nng carbons Cyclohexadienyl anion (Section 23 6) The key intermediate in nucleophilic aromatic substitution by the addition-elimination mechanism It is represented by the general structure shown where Y is the nucleophile and X is the leaving group... 

Peroxyl radicals can undergo various reactions, e.g., hydrogen abstraction, isomerization, decay, and addition to a double bond. Chain propagation in oxidized aliphatic, alkyl-aromatic, alicyclic hydrocarbons, and olefins with weak C—H bonds near the double bond proceeds according to the following reaction as a limiting step of the chain process [2 15] ... 

Hydrocarbons containing one or more triple bonds in addition to double bonds have been excluded from the tile, as have been radicals (e.g. the allyl radical C3H5 ) and aromatic molecules, i.e. molecules for which more than one unexcited resonance structure (Kekule structure) can be written. Consequently, hydrocarbons such as phenyl-substituted polyenes, or annulenes — bridged or unbridged—have not been included. 

In contrast to saturated hydrocarbons, the unsaturated hydrocarbons react with atomic fluorine by two pathways, i.e. (atomic fluorine addition at >C=C< double bond and hydrogen substitution by fluorine atoms. The reaction of fluorine with aromatic hydrocarbons proceeds with the formation of F-derivatives and hydrogen atoms break off ... 

In addition to the species Pn+ and Pn+ M, one must consider the complexes formed by the carbenium ions with other n- or n-donors in the system, in particular the polymers formed from monomers containing aromatic groups or hetero-atoms. This means that the polymers formed from non-aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g., isobutene, form a distinct class of noncomplexing polymers we will call these the Class A polymers. It is likely that the internal double-bonds in, for example, poly-(cyclopentadiene) are such poor complexors for steric reasons, that polymers containing them can be placed into the same class. 

Reduction of unsaturated aromatic aldehydes to unsaturated hydrocarbons poses a serious problem, especially if the double bond is conjugated with the benzene ring or the carbonyl or both. In Clemmensen reduction the a,)8-unsaturated double bond is usually reduced [160], and in Wolff-Kizhner reduction a cyclopropane derivative may be formed as a result of decomposition of pyrazolines formed by intramolecular addition of the intermediate hydrazones across the double bonds [280]. The only way of converting unsaturated aromatic aldehydes to unsaturated hydrocarbons is the reaction of... 

Several classes of organic compounds can react with chlorine. While chlorine adds to an olefinic double bond (=C=C=) yielding addition products, reactions with aromatics and saturated hydrocarbons produce substitution products ... 

Perfluorination of unsaturated hydrocarbons such as alkenes, allenes (Fig. 7) [53] and aromatics (Fig. 8) [54,55] is also possible since the total energy released upon fluorine addition to a carbon-carbon double bond (typically between 251.4-292.9 kjmol-1) is not sufficient to break carbon-carbon single bonds. 

Rhodium(II) acetate catalyzes C—H insertion, olefin addition, heteroatom-H insertion, and ylide formation of a-diazocarbonyls via a rhodium carbenoid species (144—147). Intramolecular cyclopentane formation via C—H insertion occurs with retention of stereochemistry (143). Chiral rhodium (TT) carboxamides catalyze enantioselective cyclopropanation and intramolecular C—N insertions of CC-diazoketones (148). Other reactions catalyzed by rhodium complexes include double-bond migration (140), hydrogenation of aromatic aldehydes and ketones to hydrocarbons (150), homologation of esters (151), carbonylation of formaldehyde (152) and amines (140), reductive carbonylation of dimethyl ether or methyl acetate to 1,1-diacetoxy ethane (153), decarbonylation of aldehydes (140), water gas shift reaction (69,154), C—C skeletal rearrangements (132,140), oxidation of olefins to ketones (155) and aldehydes (156), and oxidation of substituted anthracenes to anthraquinones (157). Rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilation of olefins, alkynes, carbonyls, alcohols, and imines is facile and may also be accomplished enantioselectively (140). Rhodium complexes are moderately active alkene and alkyne polymerization catalysts (140). In some cases polymer-supported versions of homogeneous rhodium catalysts have improved activity, compared to their homogenous counterparts. This is the case for the conversion of alkenes direcdy to alcohols under oxo conditions by rhodium—amine polymer catalysts... 

The HO-H bond dissociation energy (BDE) is 499 kj mol-1, while the C-H bonds in saturated hydrocarbons are much weaker (BDE = 376-410 kj mol-1 Berkowitz et al. 1994 for a compilation, see Chap. 6). Thus, there is a considerable driving force for H-abstraction reactions by -OH. On the other hand, vinylic hydrogens are relatively tightly bound, and an addition to the C-C double bond is always favored over an H-abstraction of vinylic or aromatic hydrogens. Hence, in the case of ethene, no vinylic radicals are formed (Soylemez and von Sonntag 1980), and with benzene and its derivatives the formation of phenyl-type radicals has never been conclusively established. 

We will take a semiempirical approach using numerous molecules, models, assumptions, and estimates rather than doing new calorimetric experiments and/or quantum chemical calculations. Indeed, we will also test what is probably the simplest assumption - that (4n + 2) n electrons found within a conjugated ring species is expected to result in enhanced stability and that this compound is called aromatic. We will consider the dihydroindene (indane) skeleton composed of a benzene ring fused to a nonaromatic five-membered ring that lacks additional double bonds, and will use this carbocyclic hydrocarbon with X = Y = Z = CH2 as a paradigm for many heterocyclic derivatives for which the possible aromaticity is of relevance to the current chapter. Similarly we use indene with -X-Y- = -CH=CH-, Z = CH2 for a variety of unsaturated heterocycles of interest here. 

Although aromatic hydrocarbons are unsaturated, they have very different chemical properties to alkenes and allies. For example, benzene doesn t undergo an addition reaction with bromine despite having a double bond. 

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