Butenes, addition reaction

Like butadiene, allene undergoes dimerization and addition of nucleophiles to give 1-substituted 3-methyl-2-methylene-3-butenyl compounds. Dimerization-hydration of allene is catalyzed by Pd(0) in the presence of CO2 to give 3-methyl-2-methylene-3-buten-l-ol (1). An addition reaction with. MleOH proceeds without CO2 to give 2-methyl-4-methoxy-3-inethylene-1-butene (2)[1]. Similarly, piperidine reacts with allene to give the dimeric amine 3, and the reaction of malonate affords 4 in good yields. Pd(0) coordinated by maleic anhydride (MA) IS used as a catalyst[2]. 

Addition Reactions. 1,3-Butadiene reacts readily via 1,2- and 1,4-free radical or electrophilic addition reactions (31) to produce 1-butene or 2-butene substituted products, respectively. 

Sulfuric acid is about one thousand times more reactive with isobutylene than with the 1- and 2-butenes, and is thereby very useful in separating isobutylene as tert-huty alcohol from the other butenes. The reaction is simply carried out by bubbling or stirring the butylenes into 45—60% H2SO4. This results in the formation of tert-huty hydrogen sulfate. Dilution with water followed by heat hydrolyzes the sulfate to form tert-huty alcohol and sulfuric acid. The Markovnikov addition implies that isobutyl alcohol is not formed. The hydration of butylenes is most important for isobutylene, either directiy or via the butyl hydrogen sulfate. 

Alkylation of isobutylene and isobutane in the presence of an acidic catalyst yields isooctane. This reaction proceeds through the same mechanism as dimerization except that during the last step, a proton is transferred from a surrounding alkane instead of one being abstracted by a base. The cation thus formed bonds with the base. Alkylation of aromatics with butylenes is another addition reaction and follows the same general rules with regard to relative rates and product stmcture. Thus 1- and 2-butenes yield j -butyl derivatives and isobutylene yields tert-huty derivatives. 

Separation and Purification of Isomers. 1-Butene and isobutylene caimot be economically separated into pure components by conventional distHlation because they are close boiling isomers (see Table 1 and Eig. 1). 2-Butene can be separated from the other two isomers by simple distHlation. There are four types of separation methods avaHable (/) selective removal of isobutylene by polymeriza tion and separation of 1-butene (2) use of addition reactions with alcohol, acids, or water to selectively produce pure isobutylene and 1-butene (3) selective extraction of isobutylene with a Hquid solvent, usuaHy an acid and (4) physical separation of isobutylene from 1-butene by absorbents. The first two methods take advantage of the reactivity of isobutylene. Eor example, isobutylene reacts about 1000 times faster than 1-butene. Some 1-butene also reacts and gets separated with isobutylene, but recovery of high purity is possible. The choice of a particular method depends on the product slate requirements of the manufacturer. In any case, 2-butene is first separated from the other two isomers by simple distHlation. 

An alternative view of these addition reactions is that the rate-determining step is halide-assisted proton transfer, followed by capture of the carbocation, with or without rearrangement Bromide ion accelerates addition of HBr to 1-, 2-, and 4-octene in 20% trifluoroacetic acid in CH2CI2. In the same system, 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene shows substantial rearrangement Even 1- and 2-octene show some evidence of rearrangement, as detected by hydride shifts. These results can all be accoimted for by a halide-assisted protonation. The key intermediate in this mechanism is an ion sandwich. An estimation of the fate of the 2-octyl cation under these conditions has been made ... 

The regiochemistry is determined by the regiochemistry of the fluoride ion addition reaction, that is, via the most stable perfluorocarbanion intermediate Von Werner used a similar reaction to prepare silver compounds from perfluoro-2-methyl-2-butene and perfluoro 2 methyl-2-pentene [271] Silver(I) fluoride adds to bis(ttitluoromethyl)ketene in DMF without fluoride ion catalysis [270] The analogous trifluorovinylsulfurpentafluoride reacts similarly to give the isolable pentafluorosulfur derivative [272] (equation 187)... 

The industrial reactions involving cis- and trans-2-butene are the same and produce the same products. There are also addition reactions where both 1-butene and 2-butene give the same product. For this reason, it is economically feasible to isomerize 1-butene to 2-butene (cis and trans) and then separate the mixture. The isomerization reaction yields two streams, one of 2-butene and the other of isobutene, which are separated by fractional distillation, each with a purity of 80-90%. Table 2-3 shows the boiling points of the different butene isomers. 

What evidence is there to support the carbocation mechanism proposed for the electrophilic addition reaction of alkenes One of the best pieces of evidence was discovered during the 1930s by F. C. Whitmore of the Pennsylvania State University, who found that structural rearrangements often occur during the reaction of HX with an alkene. For example, reaction of HC1 with 3-methyl-1-butene yields a substantial amount of 2-chloro-2-methylbutane in addition to the "expected" product, 2-chloro-3-methylbutane. 

Practically everything we ve said in previous chapters has been stated without any proof. We said in Section 6.8, for instance, that Markovnikov s rule is followed in alkene electrophilic addition reactions and that treatment of 1-butene with HC1 yields 2-chJorobutane rather than 1-chlorobutane. Similarly, we said in Section 11.7 that Zaitsev s rule is followed in elimination reactions and that treatment of 2-chlorobutane with NaOH yields 2-butene rather than 1-butene. But how do we know that these statements are correct The answer to these and many thousands of similar questions is that the structures of the reaction products have been determined experimentally. 

Conjugated dienes also undergo electrophilic addition reactions readily, but mixtures of products are invariably obtained. Addition of HBr to 1,3-butadiene, for instance, yields a mixture of two products (not counting cis-trans isomers). 3-Bromo-l-butene is the typical Markovnikov product of 1,2-addition to a double bond, but l-bromo-2-butene appears unusual. The double bond in this product has moved to a position between carbons 2 and 3, and HBr has added to carbons 1 and 4, a result described as 1,4-addition. 

Perhaps the most striking difference between conjugated and nonconjugated dienes is that conjugated dienes undergo an addition reaction with alkenes to yield substituted cyclohexene products. For example, 1,3-butadiene and 3-buten-2-one give 3-cycIohexenyl methyl ketone. 

A c/.v-fused chair-chair -like and a Tram-fused boat-boat -like transition state have been suggested to explain the stereochemical outcome from the addition reactions of the (E)- and (Z)-l-(/f>rf-butylsulfinyl)-2-methyl-2-butenes, respectively. 

The addition of the anions of racemic cyclic allylic sulfoxides to various substituted 2-cyclopentenones gives y-l,4-adducts as single diastereomeric products22. The modest yields were due to competing proton-transfer reactions between the anion and enone. The stereochemical sense of these reactions is identical to that for the 1,4-addition reaction of (Z)-l-(/erf-butylsulfinyl)-2-methyl-2-butene to 2-cyclopentenone described earlier. 

An enantioselective Michael addition reaction was also accomplished in an inclusion complex with a chiral host compound. Treatment of a 1 1 complex of 10c and 66b with 2-mercaptopyridine (137) in the solid state gave (+)-138 of 80% ee in 51% yield. By a similar method, 3-methyl-3-buten-2-one (139) gave (+)-140 of 49% ee in 76% yield [30]. 

The reactions of butadiene were very similar to the reactions of butane and 1-butene with addition being the most common reaction. The [V204]+ ion was the only ion to induce fission of butadiene but this was a minor pathway compared with the addition reaction. Only [V307]+ was involved in a dehydration reaction with butadiene to give the [V306C2H3]+ ion. 

It is clear that the aldehydes produced in the oxidation of butenes arise from addition reactions as already assumed by several workers (4, 16, 17). Nothing in the present work indicates whether the aldehydeforming addition product is a peroxy alkyl (17), (Reaction 2) or an alkoxy alkyl (16) radical (Reaction 3) as has been postulated, or both. 

The C=C consists of a cr bond and a tt bond. The tt bond is in a plane at right angles to the plane of the single cr bonds to each C (Fig. 6-1). The tt bond is weaker and more reactive than the a bond. The reactivity of the tr bond imparts the property of unsaturation to alkenes alkenes therefore readily undergo addition reactions. The tt bond prevents free rotation about the C=C and therefore an alkene having two different substituents on each doubly bonded C has geometric isomers. For example, there are two 2-butenes ... 

In a number of cases, an addition reaction of OH radicals to olefins has been required to explain several of the major products. Although OH abstracting from olefins and H02 reactions with olefins can also explain some of the products, only the addition reaction is uniquely satisfactory. Thus, it is difficult to see how CH3 radicals, required to explain the presence of methane, can be obtained from C2H3 radicals which would be formed in an abstraction reaction of OH with C2H4. Similarly, while acetone and propylene can be plausibly formed if H02 attack is mainly responsible for the removal of 2-butene, it is not easy to see how the large quantities of methane are produced. It is not possible, of course,... 

There is a striking similarity in the behavior attributed to the triplet biradicals believed to be formed in the reactions of both triplet methylene and triplet oxygen with the 2-butenes. It should also be pointed out that in the triplet addition reactions of methylene, cis and trans olefins do not give the same cis and trans product ratios, indicating that the rate of spin inversion necessary for closure in the biradical intermediate occurs at a rate comparable to the rate of rotation about C—C bonds. 

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