Intermediates biradical

The photolysis of 3-( p-cyanophenyl)-2-isoxazoline in benzene produced a tricyclic product along with six other materials (Scheme 46) (B-79MI41616). Irradiation of the bicyclic 2-isoxazoline (155) produced benzonitrile, /3-cyanonaphthalene and polymer via a proposed biradical intermediate (156) (Scheme 47) (B-79MI41615). 

The addition of nitronic esters to alkynes to produce aziridines was postulated to proceed through a 4-isoxazoline as one of the intermediates (Scheme 132). A biradical intermediate (492) was also included in the mechanistic pathway for the reaction (77JA6667). 

Four-membered heterocycles are easily formed via [2-I-2] cycloaddition reac tions [65] These cycloaddmon reactions normally represent multistep processes with dipolar or biradical intermediates The fact that heterocumulenes, like isocyanates, react with electron-deficient C=X systems is well-known [116] Via this route, (1 lactones are formed on addition of ketene derivatives to hexafluoroacetone [117, 118] The presence of a trifluoromethyl group adjacent to the C=N bond in quinoxalines, 1,4-benzoxazin-2-ones, l,2,4-triazm-5-ones, and l,2,4-tnazin-3,5-diones accelerates [2-I-2] photocycloaddition processes with ketenes and allenes [106] to yield the corresponding azetidine derivatives Starting from olefins, fluonnaied oxetanes are formed thermally and photochemically [119, 120] The reaction of 5//-l,2-azaphospholes with fluonnated ketones leads to [2-i-2j cycloadducts [121] (equation 27)... 

Recently, the 1,3-sigmatropic shift in 2-cyanopyrrole was studied by using the SINDOl semiempirical method (90JOC2288). This study showed that the reaction occurred via a transition and that some biradical intermediates are probably involved in the reaction. 

When pyrrole is irradiated, only decomposition products were obtained. Theoretical data can fit this statement (Fig. 6). In fact, the direct irradiation populates the excited singlet state, which can be converted into the Dewar pyrrole or into the corresponding triplet state. Clearly, the intersystem crossing to the triplet state allows the system to reach the lowest energy state. The excited triplet state can give the biradical intermediate, and this intermediate can give either the decomposition... 

In contrast, when the irradiation is performed on 2-cyanopyrrole, the isomeric products are observed. In fact, in this case, the corresponding Dewar pyrrole shows a lower energy than in the previous case, allowing the formation of the isomeric products (Fig. 6). When 2-methylpyrrole is used as substrate, the formation of the triplet state is favored, but this triplet state cannot evolve through the formation of the biradical intermediate. 

Also in this case calculation results fit the experimental data (Fig. 7) [99H(50)1115]. In fact, the singlet excited state can evolve, giving the Dewar thiophene (and then isomeric thiophenes) or the corresponding excited triplet state. This triplet state cannot be converted into the biradical intermediate because this intermediate shows a higher energy than the triplet state, thus preventing the formation of the cyclopropenyl derivatives. 

When 2-cyanothiophene is used in calculations, the results fit the experimental results (Fig. 9). In fact, the formation of the triplet state of 2-cyanothiophene cannot allow the formation of the biradical intermediate allowing the formation of the Dewar thiophene [99H(50)1115]. 

In the photochemical isomerization of isoxazoles, we have evidence for the presence of the azirine as the intermediate of this reaction. The azirine is stable and it is the actual first photoproduct of the reaction, as in the reaction of r-butylfuran derivatives. The fact that it is able to interconvert both photochemically and thermally into the oxazole could be an accident. In the case of 3,5-diphenylisoxazole, the cleavage of the O—N bond should be nearly concerted with N—C4 bond formation (8IBCJ1293) nevertheless, the formation of the biradical intermediate cannot be excluded. The results of calculations are in agreement with the formation of the azirine [9911(50)1115]. The excited singlet state can convert into a Dewar isomer or into the triplet state. The conversion into the triplet state is favored, allowing the formation of the biradical intermediate. The same results [99H(50)1115] were obtained using as substrate 3-phenyl-5-methylisoxazole (68ACR353) and... 

Calculations are in agreement with the formation of excited triplet state, and this intermediate can evolve to the formation of the azirine via the biradical intermediate [99H(50)1115]. 

The irradiation of 3-carbomethoxyisoxazole (47) gave the corresponding oxazole (48) in very low yields (5-8%) without the isolation of the corresponding azirine (Scheme 22) [71JCS(C)1196]. Also in this case calculations show that the energy of the triplet state allows the formation of the biradical intermediate and then of the azirine. However, the low yields of the conversion can be explained considering that the transformation of the biradical intermediate into the azirine is an endothermic reaction (Fig. 10) [99H(50)1115]. 

The irradiation of 3-phenyl-4-acetyl-5-methylisoxazole (49) gave the isomeric oxazole (50) (Scheme 22) (75JA6484 76HCA2074). The reaction can involve the formation of the biradical intermediate starting from the triplet state, in agreement... 

Computational results are reported for the isomerization of 1,4,5-trimethyl-imidazole (99MI233). They show that the isomerization occurs through the Dewar isomer arising from the excited singlet state. The formation of the triplet state is energetically favored however, the biradical intermediate cannot be produced because it has higher energy than the excited triplet state. 

Calculations account for the experimental results (Fig. 20) (99MI233). The first excited singlet state (which accounts for the absorption at 269 nm calculated value 267 nm) was converted into the corresponding triplet state (69 kcal moF experimental 68 kcal moF ). The triplet state gives the cleavage of the S—N bond with the formation of the biradical intermediate. This intermediate leads to the product. 

Dimer and trimer byproducts have been isolated from MMA polymerizations and these are suggestive of 1,4-diradical intermediates.323 28 Lingnau and Mcycrhoff523 found that rates of spontaneous polymerization of MMA were substantially higher in the presence of transfer agents (RH). They were able to isolate the compound (98) that might come from trapping of the biradical intermediate (Scheme 3.65). 

Steady-state kinetics. The cycloaddition reaction between the singlet ground state of 2-isopropylidene cyclopentane-1,3-diyl ( = S ) with acrylonitrile (A) is believed to occur by way of a biradical intermediate (BR),17... 

Enediynes are of interest because of their ability to cleave DNA. The 10-membered oxadiyne (5) cycloaromatises to the isochroman (6) <96TL2433> and a biradical intermediate is proposed to account for the formation of an isochroman from an acyclic enediyne <96TL5397>. 

A simple example serves to illnstrate the similarities between a reaction mechanism with a conventional intermediate and a reaction mechanism with a conical intersection. Consider Scheme 9.2 for the photochemical di-tt-methane rearrangement. Chemical intnition snggests two possible key intermediate structures, II and III. Computations conhrm that, for the singlet photochemical di-Jt-methane rearrangement, structure III is a conical intersection that divides the excited-state branch of the reaction coordinate from the ground state branch. In contrast, structure II is a conventional biradical intermediate for the triplet reaction. 

Stereochemistry can be interpreted in terms of conformation effects in the 1,4-biradical intermediates.199 Vinyl enol ethers and enamides add to aromatic ketones to give 3-substituted oxetanes, usually with the cis isomer preferred.200... 

A study of the dimerization of (Me3Si)2Si=C(OSiMe3)Me was carried out by Conlin.173 The reaction followed clean second-order kinetics and had an act = 0.2 0.1 kcal mol-1 and log A = 7 1 s1. The study did not entirely resolve the question of whether the dimerization involves an ene mechanism or a biradical intermediate. 

In view of the results obtained for attack of acetone singlets on 1-methoxy-butene to yield singlet biradicals (partial loss of stereochemistry due to bond rotation in the biradical), acetone attack on dicyanoethylene to yield oxetane stereospecifically via a similar biradical intermediate is difficult to envision. Thus a new mechanism must be developed to account for these results. 

If triplet stilbene were formed in this way, analysis of the product ratio of steroisomers should indicate a 60 40 ratio. In fact, however, the stilbene produced was found to be about 99% trans although the reaction is about 50 kcal exothermic, enough energy to produce the triplet stilbene conceitedly. Thus it appears that the triplet cleavage prefers to go through a biradical intermediate even when a concerted process is energetically possible.<91>... 

In Chapter 3 we discussed two photochemical reactions characteristic of simple carbonyl compounds, namely type II cleavage and photoreduction. We saw that photoreduction appears to arise only from carbonyl triplet states, whereas type II cleavage often arises from both the excited singlet and triplet states. Each process was found to occur from discrete biradical intermediates. In this chapter we will discuss two other reactions observed in the photochemistry of carbonyls, type I cleavage and oxetane formation. 

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