Benzenoid aromaticity

Compounds of special interest whose preparation is described include 1,2,3-benzothiadiazole 1,1-dioxide (a benzyne precursor under exceptionally mild conditions), bis(l,3-diphenylimida-zolidinylidene-2) (whose chemistry is quite remarkable), 6- di-melhylamino)julvene (a useful intermediate for fused-ring non-benzenoid aromatic compounds), dipkenylcyclopropenone (the synthesis of which is a milestone in theoretical organic chemistry), ketene di(2-melhoxyethyl) acetal (the easiest ketene acetal to prepare), 2-methylcyclopenlane-l,3-dione (a useful intermediate in steroid synthesis), and 2-phenyl-5-oxazolone (an important intermediate in amino acid chemistry). 

X-ray crystallographic studies are available on the ethoxy compound 1858 and on N,N-dimethylcyclopent[c]azepin-3-amine(19).59 The former is a fully conjugated, planar, 14k, non-benzenoid aromatic system, while the latter is virtually planar and, on the basis of bond length measurements, is best represented as the dipolar mesomer 19B. 

Cooper, D. L., Gerratt, J., and Raimondi, M. The Spin-Coupled Valence Bond Description of Benzenoid Aromatic Molecules. 153, 41-56 (1990). 

Non-benzenoid aromatic compounds containing a hydroxy group also react with arenediazonium ions and form arylazo derivatives. The first case of such an azo coupling process was found by Nozoe (1949) in his classic work on the natural product hinokitiol (12.15, R=CH3 Nozoe, 1959, 1991). Shortly afterwards Nozoe et al. 

The series of benzenoid aromatic hydrocarbons shown in Figure 6 have been studied in the present work, and should allow for an extrapolation towards an... 

As another example, the tropylium ion [3 ], which is stabilized by virtue of the 67t electrons spread over a heptagonal sp hybridized carbon framework [Hiickel s (4n 4- 2)v rule with = 1], is also unstable in the gas phase. Its formation from toluene or the benzyl cation has been a long-standing problem in organic mass spectrometry, and the reaction mechanism and energetics have recently been exhaustively discussed (Lif-shitz, 1994). It was, however, isolated as the bromide salt by Doering and Knox (1954, 1957), and was the first non-benzenoid aromatic carbocation. 

Lloyd, D. in Carbocyclic Von-benzenoid Aromatic Compounds, p. 24. Amsterdam-London-New York Elsevier Publishing Company 1966. 

The heteroaromatic compounds like furans, pyrroles or thiophenes cannot be generally used as dienes in Diels-Alder syntheses, because at the higher temperature required for the addition of less reactive dienophiles, the equilibrium is on the side of the starting materials due to the unfavorable T AS term comparable to the benzenoid aromatic compounds as mentioned. High pressure again shows the two effects already discussed the shift of the equilibrium toward the products and the enhancement of the rate of reaction which allows the temperature of reaction to be lowered. One... 

On the other hand, the anodic oxidation of 1,3,5-cycloheptatrienes is one of the most powerful key tools for the preparation of a variety of non-benzenoid aromatic compounds such as tropylium salts, tropones, tropolones, 2H -cyclohcpta h furan-2-oncs and azulenes14. 

Untch, K. First International Symposium on the Chemistry of Non-benzenoid Aromatic Compounds, Sendai, Japan, August, 1970. See also Jones, W.M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1972, 11, 325. 

Non-benzenoid aromatic compounds, flash vacuum pyrolysis for, 21 148 Non-benzenoid quinones, 21 238 Nonbenzidine-based dyes, 9 448 Nonblack fillers, 21 781... 

Non-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds.—The synthesis of aromatic molecules containing small, medium, and large rings, using the reaction of dicarbonyl compounds and bis-ylides, has been thoroughly reviewed.95... 

R. A. Raphael, in Non-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds (Ed. D. Ginsburg), Chapter VIII, Interscience Publishers, New York, 1958. 

In the case of benzenoid aromatics, A d values range between 10 and 10 provided tetraalkylammonium salts have been used as supporting electrolytes [9]. In solvents of low dielectricity constant. 

T. Nozoe, in Non-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds (D. Gins-burg, ed.) p. 339. Wiley (Interscience), New York and London, 1959. 

Two or more benzene rings fused together form a number of polycyclic benzenoid aromatic compounds, naphthalene, anthracene and phenanthrene, and their derivatives. All these hydrocarbons are obtained from coal tar. Naphthalene is the most abundant (5%) of all constituents of coal tar. 

Fortunately, there is now a comprehensive body of knowledge on the metabolic reactions that produce reactive (toxic) intermediates, so the drug designer can be aware of what might occur, and take steps to circumvent the possibility. Nelson (1982) has reviewed the classes and structures of drugs whose toxicities have been linked to metabolic activation. Problem classes include aromatic and some heteroaromatic nitro compounds (which may be reduced to a reactive toxin), and aromatic amines and their N-acylated derivatives (which may be oxidized, before or after hydrolysis, to a toxic hydroxylamine or iminoquinone). These are the most common classes, but others are hydrazines and acyl-hydrazines, haloalkanes, thiols and thioureas, quinones, many alkenes and alkynes, benzenoid aromatics, fused polycyclic aromatic compounds, and electron-rich heteroaromatics such as furans, thiophenes and pyrroles. 

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