Ion, bromonium

Such a carbocation however has been demonstrated to be less stable than an alterna tive structure called a cyclic bromonium ion, m which the positive charge resides on bromine not carbon... 

Thus the mechanism for electrophilic addition of Bi2 to ethylene as presented m Figure 6 12 IS characterized by the direct formation of a cyclic bromonium ion as its... 

Step 1 Reaction of ethylene and bromine to form a bromonium ion intermediate... 

Step 2 Nucleophilic attack of bromide anion on the bromonium ion... 

Step 2 IS the conversion of the bromonium ion to 1 2 dibromoethane by reaction with bromide ion (Br )... 

Table 6 3 shows that the effect of substituents on the rate of addition of bromine to alkenes is substantial and consistent with a rate determining step m which electrons flow from the alkene to the halogen Alkyl groups on the carbon-carbon double bond release electrons stabilize the transition state for bromonium ion formation and increase the reaction rate... 

Step 2 of the mechanism m Figure 6 12 is a nucleophilic attack by Br at one of the carbons of the cyclic bromonium ion For reasons that will be explained m Chapter 8 reactions of this type normally take place via a transition state m which the nude ophile approaches carbon from the side opposite the bond that is to be broken Recall mg that the vicinal dibromide formed from cyclopentene is exclusively the trans stereoisomer we see that attack by Br from the side opposite the C—Br bond of the bromonium ion intermediate can give only trans 1 2 dibromocyclopentane m accordance with the experimental observations... 

Some supporting evidence is described in the article The Bromonium Ion in the Au gust 1963 issue of the Jour nal of Chemical Education (pp 392-395)... 

The idea that a cyclic bromonium ion was an intermediate was a novel concept when It was first proposed Much additional evidence including the isolation of a sta ble cyclic bromonium ion has been obtained since then to support it Similarly cyclic... 

FIGURE 6 13 Mechanism of bromohydrin formation from cyclopentene A bridged bromonium ion is formed and is attacked by a water molecule from the side opposite the carbon-bromine bond The bromine and the hydroxyl group are trans to each other in the product... 

This suggests that as water attacks the bromonium ion positive charge develops on the carbon from which the bromine departs The transition state has some of the character of a carbocation We know that more substituted carbocations are more stable than less substituted ones therefore when the bromonium ion ring opens it does so by breaking the bond between bromine and the more substituted carbon... 

Bromonium Ion (Section 6 16) A halonium ion in which the halogen is bromine (see halonium ion)... 

If the addition of Br to the alkene results in a bromonium ion, the anti stereochemistry can be readily eiqilained. Nucleophilic ring opening by bromide ion would occur by backside attack at carbon, with rupture of one of the C—Br bonds, giving overall anti addition. 

Interpretation of tiie ratio of capture of competing nucleophiles has led to the estimate that bromonium ions have lifetimes on the order of 10 s in methanol. This lifetime is about 100 times longer than fliat for secondary caibocations. There is also direct evidence for the existence of bromonium ions. The bromonium ion related to propene can be observed by NMR spectroscopy when l-bromo-2-fluoropropane is subjected to superacid conditions. The terminal bromine adopts a bridging position in the resulting cation. 

Bromonium ions can be also produced by an electrophilic attack by a species that should generate a positive bromine ... 

The highly hindered alkene adamantylideneadamantane forms a bromonium ion which crystallizes as a tribromide salt. An X-ray crystal structure (Fig. 6.1) has confirmed the cyclic nature of the bromonium ion species. This particular bromonium ion does not react further because of extreme steric hindrance to back-side proach by bromide ion. 

Fig. 6.1. Cfystal structure of bromonium ion from aiJamantyli-deneadamantane. (Reproduced from Ref. 39 permission of the Ameriean Chemieal Society.)...

Another aspect of the mechanism is the reversibility of formation of the bromonium ion. Reversibility has been demonstrated for highly hindered alkenes. This can be... 

Both proton loss and rearrangement reflect the greater positive charge at carbon in a chloronium ion than in a bromonium ion because of the weaker bridging by chlorine. 

The positive bromine which leads to bromonium ion intermediates is softer and also has unshared electron pairs which can permit a total of four electrons to participate in the bridged bromonium ion intermediate. This would be expected to lead to a more strongly bridged and more stable species than is possible in the case of the proton. The bromonium ion can be represented as having two covalent bonds to bromine and is electrophilic but not electron-deficient. 

This scheme represents an alkyne-bromine complex as an intermediate in all alkyne brominations. This is analogous to the case of alkenes. The complex may dissociate to a inyl cation when the cation is sufficiently stable, as is the case when there is an aryl substituent. It may collapse to a bridged bromonium ion or undergo reaction with a nucleophile. The latta is the dominant reaction for alkyl-substituted alkynes and leads to stereospecific anti addition. Reactions proceeding through vinyl cations are expected to be nonstereospecific. 

The formation of a bromohydrin via the addition of hyprobromous acid to olefins complements the above mentioned route. This reagent adds to the double bond in a tm/w-diaxial manner, the addition being initiated by the attack of a positive bromonium ion from the less hindered side. The... 

In analogy with the peracid attack on steroidal double bonds, the formation of the bromonium ion, e.g., (81a), occurs from the less hindered side (usually the a-side of the steroid nucleus) to give in the case of the olefin (81) the 9a-bromo-l l -ol (82). Base treatment of (82) provides the 9 5,1 l S-oxide (83). Similarly, reaction of 17/3-hydroxyestr-5(10)-en-3-one (9) with A -bromosuccinimide-perchloric acid followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide and sodium borohydride furnishes the 3, 17 5-dihydroxy-5a,l0a-oxirane. As mentioned previously, epoxidation of (9) with MPA gives the 5, 10 -oxirane. °... 

The elements of bromine azide have been added to steroid olefins. The addition can be rationalized as proceeding through a positive bromonium ion under the ionic conditions of Hassner and Boerwinkle (bromine plus sodium azide and hydrochloric acid in nitromethane-dichloromethane) or Ponsold (A-bromosuccinimide or A-bromoacetamide in chloroform contain-... 

The preparation of e/n-difluoro compounds by the oxidative fluorodesul-furization ot 1,3-dithiolanes readily proceeds by treatment with a pyridinium polyhydrogen fluoride-Af-halo compound reagent the latter serves as a bromonium ion source [2], l,3-Dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin is the most effective of several At-halo oxidants. It is believed that /V-halo compounds combine with hydrogen fluoride to generate in situ halogen fluorides, the oxidants. Formation of gem-difluorides from dithiolanes derived from ketones is efficient and rapid, even at -78 °C, whereas the reaction of dithiolanes derived from aldehydes requires higher temperature (0 °C) (equation 4). 

In order to explain the observed product, a cyclic bromonium ion intermediate has been proposed. 

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