Cyclohexane substituted cyclohexanes

Rate constants for the chemical exchange processes that occur in alkyl nitrites, cyclohexane, substituted cyclohexanes, sulfur tetrafluoride and formamide are pressure dependent. The mechanism for these thermally initiated, unimolecular gas-phase processes, reported by Lindemann in 1922, involves competition between the reaction and collisional deactivation of the critically energized molecule. A (Fqn [3]). 

For the refiner, the reduction in benzene concentration to 3% is not a major problem it is achieved by adjusting the initial point of the feed to the catalytic reformers and thereby limiting the amount of benzene precursors such as cyclohexane and Cg paraffins. Further than 3% benzene, the constraints become very severe and can even imply using specific processes alkylation of benzene to substituted aromatics, separation, etc. 

Nesselrodt D R, Potts A R and Baer T 1995 Stereochemical analysis of methyl-substituted cyclohexanes using 2+1 resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization Anal. Chem. 67 4322-9... 

Structural keys describe the chemical composition and structural motifs of molecules represented as a Boolean array. If a certain structural feature is present in a molecule or a substructure, a particular bit is set to 1 (true), otherwise to 0 (false). A bit in this array may encode a particular functional group (such as a carboxylic acid or an amidelinkage), a structural element (e.g., a substituted cyclohexane), or at least n occurrences of a particular element (e.g., a carbon atom). Alternatively, the structural key can be defined as an array of integers where the elements of this array contain the frequency of a specific feature in the molecule. 

The physical, chemical cind biological properties of a molecule often depend critically upo the three-dimensional structures, or conformations, that it can adopt. Conformational analysi is the study of the conformations of a molecule and their influence on its properties. Th development of modem conformational analysis is often attributed to D H R Bcirton, wh showed in 1950 that the reactivity of substituted cyclohexanes wcis influenced by th equatoricil or axial nature of the substituents [Beirton 1950]. An equcilly important reaso for the development of conformatiorml analysis at that time Wcis the introduction c analytic il techniques such as infreired spectroscopy, NMR and X-ray crystaillograph] which actucilly enabled the conformation to be determined. 

Several substituted cyclohexane derivatives may also be obtained by the reduction of a benzenoid precursor. Partial reduction of resorcinol, for example, and subsequent methyla-tion yields 2-methylcyclohexane-I,3-dione, which is frequently used in steroid synthesis (M.S. Newman, 1960 see also p. 71f.), From lithium-ammonia reduction of alkoxybenzenes l-alkoxy-l,4-cyclohexadienes are obtained (E.J. Corey, 1968 D). 

The term naphthenic acid, as commonly used in the petroleum industry, refers collectively to all of the carboxyUc acids present in cmde oil. Naphthenic acids [1338-24-5] are classified as monobasic carboxyUc acids of the general formula RCOOH, where R represents the naphthene moiety consisting of cyclopentane and cyclohexane derivatives. Naphthenic acids are composed predorninandy of aLkyl-substituted cycloaUphatic carboxyUc acids, with smaller amounts of acycHc aUphatic (paraffinic or fatty) acids. Aromatic, olefinic, hydroxy, and dibasic acids are considered to be minor components. Commercial naphthenic acids also contain varying amounts of unsaponifiable hydrocarbons, phenoHc compounds, sulfur compounds, and water. The complex mixture of acids is derived from straight-mn distillates of petroleum, mosdy from kerosene and diesel fractions (see Petroleum). 

The overall picture of the many results which have been obtained with hetero-substituted cyclohexane rings is a very consistent one. Cyclohexane itself in its lowest energy conformation adopts the so-called chair conformation, as depicted in Figure 3 by the two outer formulae (a, b). These are contained in energy wells ca. 42 kJ moP deep. Another conformation, of low abundance in cyclohexane at normal temperatures, but which is important in some substituted derivatives, is the twist form (c, d). This is ca. 22 kJ moP less stable than the chair forms, and it lies on the lowest-energy pathway between them. 

One-bond couplings ( /ch) in saturated systems do not seem to have been investigated extensively. The value for cyclohexane (an average of couplings to axial and equatorial protons) iSk 123 Hz, and is increased by substitution adjacent to the carbon by an electronegative element, as with the aromatic systems discussed above. 

Complex tautomerism for azoles with heteroatoms in the 1,2-positions occurs for pyrazoles which are not substituted on nitrogen. Scheme 10 shows the four important tautomeric structures (148)-(151) for 3-methylpyrazolin-5-one, and (152) and (153) as examples of other possible structures. A detailed investigation of this system disclosed that in aqueous solution (polar medium) the importance of the tautomers is (149) > (151) (150) or (148), whereas in cyclohexane solution (non-polar medium) (151) > (148) (149) or (150). 

Irradiation of the substituted pyrazole (523) gave the imidazoles (524) and (525). The amount of each isomer formed is solvent dependent. In ethanol 7% of (524) was formed together with 2% of (525). In cyclohexane, however, isomerization was more efficient, the percentages of the two isomers being 20% and 10%, respectively. 

Substitution on a cyclohexane ring does not greatly affect the rate of conformational inversion but does change the equilibrium distribution between alternative chair forms. All substituents that are axial in one chair conformation become equatorial on ring inversion, and vice versa. For methylcyclohexane, AG for the equilibrium... 

Energy differences between conformations of substituted cyclohexanes can be measured by several physical methods, as can the kinetics of the ring inversion processes. NMR spectroscopy has been especially valuable for both thermodynamic and kinetic studies. In NMR terminology, the transformation of an equatorial substituent to axial and vice versa is called a site exchange process. Depending on the rate of the process, the difference between the chemical shifts of the nucleus at the two sites, and the field strength... 

For substituted cyclohexanes, the slow-exchange condition is met at temperatures below about —50 C. Table 3.5 presents data for the half-life for conformational equilibration of cyclohexyl chloride as a function of temperature. From these data, it can be seen that conformationally pure solutions of equatorial cyclohexyl chloride could be maintained at low temperature. This has been accomplished experimentally. Crystallization of cyclohexyl chloride at low temperature affords crystals containing only the... 

The free-energy difference between conformers is referred to as the conformational free energy. For substituted cyclohexanes, it is conventional to specify the value of — AC ° for the equilibrium... 

Consider the conformations possible for 3-substituted methylenecyclohexanes. Dc you expect typical substituents to exhibit larger or smaller preferences for the equatorial orientation, as conpared to the same substituent on a cyclohexane ring ... 

It has generally been assumed that phosphorous oxychloride-pyridine dehydrations, the elimination of sulfonates, and other base catalyzed eliminations (see below) proceed by an E2 mechanism (see e.g. ref. 214, 215, 216). Concerted base catalyzed eliminations in acyclic systems follow the Saytzelf orientation rule i.e., proceed toward the most substituted carbon), as do eliminations (see ref 214). However, the best geometrical arrangement of the four centers involved in 2 eliminations is anti-coplanar and in the cyclohexane system only the tran -diaxial situation provides this. 

Other substituted cyclohexanes are similar- to methylcyclohexane. Two chair confonnations exist in rapid equilibrium, and the one in which the substituent is equatorial is more stable. The relative fflnounts of the two confor-rnations depend on the effective size of the substituent. The size of a substituent, in the context of cyclohexane confor-rnations, is related to the degree of branching at the atom connected to the ring. A single... 

Recendy, Darzens reaction was investigated for its synthetic applicability to the condensation of substituted cyclohexanes and optically active a-chloroesters (derived from (-)-phenylmenthol). In this report, it was found that reaction between chloroester 44 and cyclohexanone 43 provided an 84% yield with 78 22 selectivity for the axial glycidic ester 45 over equatorial glycidic ester 46 both having the R configuration at the epoxide stereocenter. 

The association of the excited state derived from four 2-substituted imidazo [4,5-/]quinolines with 2-propanol in cyclohexane has been studied. The unusual bathochromic shift and the bandwidth of the fluorescence spectra of these heterocyclic compounds in 2-propanol-cyclohexane solutions, compared with those... 

It has been found that the fusion of the pyrazole with the pyrrole ring is difficult, probably for steric reasons. All attempts to cyclize 3-amino- and 5-amino-4-acetylenylpyrazole have failed. For example, upon prolonged heating of 5-amino-4-acetylenylpyrazole 68 in DMF in the presence of Cul and (or) CuC=CPh, side transformations andresinification occurred. The side processes were suppressed by acylation of the amino group and substitution of DMF by inert cyclohexane. However, 80-90% of the starting compounds was recovered after heating acylamine... 

Nitrosyl chloride reacts with aliphatic hydrocarbons at room temperature under the influence of light to give a complex mixture of substitution products. When the reaction is run on cyclohexane at —25°, however, the pure oxime hydrochloride crystallizes from the reaction mixture with virtually no side products. 

Para substituted phenol ethers Ring substituted dihydroxj benzenes Cyclohexane alcohols Menthenols. ... 

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