Conjugate radical

Additional evidence indirectly supports the reversibiUty of reaction 2. The addition of oxygen to a highly conjugated radical is readily reversible even at 40°C according to a study of the isomerization of methyl linolenate hydroperoxides in the presence of 02 (95). 

While generation of a Mn(V)oxo salen intermediate 8 as the active chiral oxidant is widely accepted, how the subsequent C-C bond forming events occur is the subject of some debate. The observation of frans-epoxide products from cw-olefins, as well as the observation that conjugated olefins work best support a stepwise intermediate in which a conjugated radical or cation intermediate is generated. The radical intermediate 9 is most favored based on better Hammett correlations obtained with o vs. o . " In addition, it was recently demonstrated that ring opening of vinyl cyclopropane substrates produced products that can only be derived from radical intermediates and not cationic intermediates. ... 

Heats of atomization belong to the most important characteristics of ground states. Unfortunately, the number of conjugated radicals for which experimental data are available is very limited. A heat of atomization is defined as the enthalpy of the reaction... 

Bond lengths in conjugated radicals can be estimated from a popular relationship between the bond length and tt bond order. 

Allyl (27, 60, 119-125) and benzyl (26, 27, 60, 121, 125-133) radicals have been studied intensively. Other theoretical studies have concerned pentadienyl (60,124), triphenylmethyl-type radicals (27), odd polyenes and odd a,w-diphenylpolyenes (60), radicals of the benzyl and phenalenyl types (60), cyclohexadienyl and a-hydronaphthyl (134), radical ions of nonalternant hydrocarbons (11, 135), radical anions derived from nitroso- and nitrobenzene, benzonitrile, and four polycyanobenzenes (10), anilino and phenoxyl radicals (130), tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine radical cation (56), tetracyanoquinodi-methane radical anion (62), perfluoro-2,l,3-benzoselenadiazole radical anion (136), 0-protonated neutral aromatic ketyl radicals (137), benzene cation (138), benzene anion (139-141), paracyclophane radical anion (141), sulfur-containing conjugated radicals (142), nitrogen-containing violenes (143), and p-semi-quinones (17, 144, 145). Some representative results are presented in Figure 12. 

For conjugated radicals, a contribution to AH° coming from a electrons can be treated as constant within the reaction series. Under this approximation, it is sufficient to consider only the n-electron energies. In general, the SCF values should be preferred, but it appears that a reasonable picture can be obtained in many cases even with HMO data. 

The former, which occurs in tetrahydrofuran, favors dimerization, while the latter, which takes place in hexamethylphoshoramide, is shifted far to the left. In spite of the complicating effects of solvation and association with counter ions, it appears that within a reaction series of conjugated radical ions, the following relation holds... 

The hyperfine coupling tensors of carotenoids were determined from the HYSCORE analysis of the contour line-shapes of the cross-peaks (Dikanov and Bowman 1995,1998, Dikanov et al. 2000), which provided the principal components of the tensors that appear to be rhombic. Such tensors are characteristic of planar conjugated radicals with the unpaired spin in a pz orbital of the carbon of the C-H group. 

Conjugated radicals, ions, or molecules are more stable than nonconjugated ones. 

The radical anions of polysilanes have been studied as unique a-conjugated radical ion species.2,4,56,57 Although many radical anions of polysilanes have been reported, most of them are unstable species that can only be observed at low temperatures. Quite recently, we found that the radical anions of longer ladder polysilanes are persistent at room temperature.58... 

A recent application of enantioselective conjugate radical additions was seen in the synthesis of (+)-ricciocarpins A and B [95]. The key step in the synthesis was an asymmetric addition of a functionalized radical precursor 141 to afford intermediate 142 (Scheme 37). A chiral catalyst screening revealed that Mgt and bisoxazoline ligand 19 was optimal for achieving... 

Scheme 37 Application of enantioselective conjugate radical addition total synthesis of Ricciocarpin A and B...

Scheme 39 Acetate aldols by enantioselective conjugate radical additions... 

With conjugated systems having a net charge, delocalization of the charge also occurs. The situation is analogous for unpaired electrons in conjugated radicals. 

Optical spectroscopy has merits in identifying radical cations, particularly when their spectra are known independently. For example, the radiolysis of quadricyclane led to the observation of the known spectrum of norbornadiene radical cation. In another study, irradiation of cyclooctatetraene radical cation caused the color of the sample to change from bright red to royal blue, suggesting the conversion to a different species, the previously identified semibullvalene radical cation. Further irradiation of the latter led to a characteristic banded (vibrationally resolved) spectrum the nature of this spectrum suggested that the rearranged species may be a linear conjugated radical cation and helped in its identification as 1,4-dihydropen-talene radical cation. ... 

CH2CI2, —78 °C (61) Catalyst for asymmetric 167 conjugate radical addition... 

Diels-Alder reactions of benzo[fc]furan-43-diones and benzo[b]furan-4,7-diones have been reported <99H(50)1137>. The activation of a C-0 bond in a Mn(C0>3 complexed benzo[i>]furan was examined <99AG2343>. The enzyme-catalyzed dealkylation of (+)-marmesin to the phototoxic psoralene (and acetone) has been investigated <99AG413>. A hi yielding synthesis of bidentate bisoxazoline DBFOX/Ph [(R,R)-4,6-dibenzofutandiyl-2 2 -bis(4-phenyloxazoline)] was developed. DBFOX/Ph was subsequently tested in enantio-selective conjugate radical additions onto 3-(3-phenyl-2-propenoyl)-2-oxazolidinone <99TA2417>. 

Many of these reactions support a measure of thermodynamic control in nucleophilic capture Conjugated radicals or products formed with release of ring strain are favored. For example, the addition of ethanol to radical cation 110 + is regiospecific, forming the more stable (benzylic) intermediate 111 + the capture of 112 + likewise forms a benzylic radical (113 ). Radical cation 48 + generates a... 

Encouraged by the excellent enantioselectivity in the conjugate radical addition, Sibi et al. further investigated the Michael addition of O-benzylhydroxylamine to pyrazol-derived croto-namides catalyzed by chiral bisoxazoline 30-MgBr2 complex (Scheme 8D.17) [38]. Good-to-high enantioselectivity (up to 95% ee) was achieved with 10 mol % of the catalyst. The trajectory... 

Scheme 8.26 An iron-catalyzed conjugate radical addition with tBu-BOX ligand.

While most carbon-centered radicals react fast or at least reversibly with 02, some highly conjugated radicals that have considerable spin density at a heteroatom do not react with 02 (for the reactions of heteroatom-centered radicals with... 

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