Atom Abstraction Reactions

The first term is of importance in all atom abstraction reactions, however, since the reactions are often highly exothermic with consequent early transition slates, the effect may be small. 

Polar factors can play an extremely important role in determining the overall reactivity and specificity of hotnolytic substitution.97 Theoretical studies on atom abstraction reactions support this view by showing that the transition state has a degree of charge separation.101 10 ... 

A simple unifying theory to explain rate and specificity in atom abstraction reactions has yet to be developed. However, as with addition reactions, it is possible to devise a set of guidelines to predict qualitatively the rate and outcome of radical transfer processes. The following are based on those suggested by Tedder 2... 

The formation of adduct is followed by fragmentation and subsequent H-atom abstraction reaction from the sulfinic acid produced. Strong acid solutions of aromatic sulfoxides like thianthrene 5-oxide (7) or phenothiazine 5-oxide (8) gives rise to ESR signals, which... 

The chemical reactivity of the organoruthenium and -osmium porphyrin complexes varies considerably, with some complexes (M(Por)R2, M(Por)R and Os(OEP)(NO)R) at least moderately air stable, while most are light sensitive and Stability is improved by handling them in the dark. Chemical transformations directly involving the methyl group have been observed for Ru(TTP) NO)Me, which inserts SO2 to form Ru(TTP)(N0) 0S(0)Me and Ru(OEP)Me which undergoes H- atom abstraction reactions with the radical trap TEMPO in benzene solution to yield Ru(OEP)(CO)(TEMPO). Isotope labeling studies indicate that the carbonyl carbon atom is derived from the methyl carbon atom. "" Reaction of... 

Hydrogen Abstraction Photoexcited ketone intermolecular hydrogen atom abstraction reactions are an interesting area of research becanse of their importance in organic chemistry and dne to the complex reaction mechanisms that may be possible for these kinds of reactions. Time resolved absorption spectroscopy has typically been nsed to follow the kinetics of these reactions but these experiments do not reveal mnch abont the strnctnre of the reactive intermediates. " Time resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy can be used to examine the structure and properties of the reactive intermediates associated with these reactions. Here, we will briefly describe TR experiments reported by Balakrishnan and Umapathy to study hydrogen atom abstraction reactions in the fluoranil/isopropanol system as an example. 

Even if atomic oxygen-carbon cluster reactions are rapid, as is assumed in the new neutral-neutral model, the synthetic power of this model can be recovered if exothermic hydrogen atom abstraction reactions of the sort,... 

It has been proposed that this reaction intermediate could decompose to produce HCN and CH3 [55], Chemiluminescence from alkanes can be greatly enhanced by addition of HC1. The proposed explanation is that energy transfer from active nitrogen dissociates HC1 to produce chlorine atoms, which have rapid hydrogen-atom abstraction reactions with alkanes,... 

Along with free radical atom abstraction reactions, reactions of radical substitution are known where a free radical attacks the weak Y—Y bond and abstracts radical Y [56] ... 

This conclusion is partly true because superoxide is unable to abstract hydrogen atom even from the most active bisallylic positions of unsaturated compounds, while perhydroxyl radical abstracts H atom from linoleic, linolenic, and arachidonic fatty acids with the rate constants of 1-3 x 1031 mol-1 s-1 [24], However, the superoxide damaging activity does not originate from hydrogen atom abstraction reactions but from one-electron reduction processes, leading to the formation of hydroxyl radicals, peroxynitrite, etc, and in these reactions perhydroxyl cannot compete with superoxide. 

Antioxidant activity of flavonoids has already been shown about 40 years ago [90,91]. (Early data on antioxidant flavonoid activity are cited in Ref. [92].) Flavonoids are polyphenols, and therefore, their antioxidant activity depends on the reactivity of hydroxyl substituents in hydrogen atom abstraction reactions. As in the case of vitamins E and C, the most studied (and most important) reactions are the reactions with peroxyl radicals [14], hydroxyl radicals [15], and superoxide [16]. 

Nature has designed the active sites in the enzymes GO and glyoxal oxidase in order to perform a hydrogen-atom abstraction reaction from the a-carbon atom of an O-bound alcoholate (or aldehyde) in the rds. The essence of this chemistry is depicted in Fig. 8. 

If one takes out of this list the polyhalomethanes and tries to understand what the chemistry is about, certainly a simple-minded view is that this is simply a halogen atom abstraction reaction such as one finds in a gas phase reaction, like sodium atom with organic halides. There is a linear free energy correlation in that the logarithms of the rate constants bear a linear relation to one another. 

In kinetic studies, the abstraction of F from CF3CH2OH by ArN2+BF4 was shown to be an ionic process, whereas abstraction of an a-H atom from CH3CH2OH was determined to be a radical process. In other kinetic work, the expansion of cyclopentanones has been used to measure the kinetics of hydrogen-atom abstraction reactions for a range of hydrogen donors in benzene including (Me0)2P(0)H( 1.2 x... 

High-level computational methods are limited, for obvious reasons, to very simple systems. In the previous section we showed the contribution of the theory for a better imderstanding of the entropic and enthalpic factors that influence the reactions of hydrogen atom with the simplest series of silanes Me4 SiH , where n = 1-3. Calculated energy barriers for the forward and reverse hydrogen atom abstraction reactions of Me, Et, i-Pr and t-Bu radicals with Me4- SiH , where n = 0-3, and (H3Si)3SiH have been obtained at... 

The mechanism of H2 formation involves both unimolecular H2 elimination, when both of the H atoms of a hydrogen molecule originate from the same alkane molecule, and H atom elimination with subsequent H atom abstraction reaction. We show the mechanism on the example of cyclohexane photolysis hv = 7.6 eV) [91] ... 

Camphorquinone (12), which has been studied in several solvents, gives typical hydrogen atom abstraction reactions. It undergoes photoreduction in isopropyl alcohol39,71,72 and forms mixtures of solvent addition and reduction products when irradiated in methanol,39,71 aldehydes,73 and xylene.23 No transformation is observed in benzene or carbon tetrachloride.74... 

Figure 10.9. Orbitals for a hydrogen atom abstraction reaction. The middle is the orbital diagram for the transition state for H transfer.

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