Cyclopropane kinetics

The proposed mechanism involves a concerted 4-center cyclometala-tion with the hydrogen migrating as a proton. Hydride migration on [Cp IrH(i7 -C3H5)] gives [Cp Ir(PR3)(Pr)R] in the presence of PR3 and HR = arene or cyclopropane. Kinetics and labeling studies implicate [Cp Ir(i7 -propene)] as an intermediate. ... 

The behavior of strained,/Zuorimiret/ methylenecyelopropanes depends upon the position and level of fluorination [34], l-(Difluoromethylene)cyclopropane is much like tetrafluoroethylene in its preference for [2+2] cycloaddition (equation 37), but Its 2,2-difluoro isomer favors [4+2] cycloadditions (equation 38). Perfluoromethylenecyclopropane is an exceptionally reactive dienophile but does not undergo [2+2] cycloadditions, possibly because of stenc reasons [34, 45] Cycloadditions involving most possible combinations of simple fluoroalkenes and alkenes or alkynes have been tried [85], but kinetic activation enthalpies (A/f j for only the dimerizations of tetrafluoroethylene (22 6-23 5 kcal/mol), chlorotri-fluoroethylene (23 6 kcal/mol), and perfluoropropene (31.6 kcal/mol) and the cycloaddition between chlorotnfluoroethylene and perfluoropropene (25.5 kcal/mol) have been determined accurately [97, 98] Some cycloadditions involving more functionalized alkenes are listed in Table 5 [99. 100, 101, 102, 103]... 

Rearrangement studies give an interesting insight into the specific effect of fluonne on the thermodynamic stability and rearrangement kinetics of fluonnated cyclopropanes Fluorine decreases the thermodynamic stability of the cyclopropyl nng, in contrast with the generally observed effect of fluonne increasing the stability of molecules to which it is introduced [124]... 

The strength of the carbon-carbon bond adjacent to a difluoromethylene group IS hardly affected by the presence of fluorine on the cyclopropyl ring When heated, 2,2 difluoromethylenecyclopropane undergoes methylene-cyclopropane rearrangement [/2 ] Under kinetic control, 2,2 difluoro 1 methylenecyclopropane and (difluoromethylene)cyclopropane are formed in a 2 1 ratio, although the latter IS slightly more stable [129] (equation 27)... 

Kinetic ESR spectroscopy has been used to determine the rate constants for self-termination of MeS02, EtS02, PhSO 2 and 2,5-Cl2C6H3S02 radicals18. At 233 K and in cyclopropane as a solvent the values found for 2k, were in the range (4.5 1.5) x 109 m" 1 s 1 for all RSO 2 radicals. 

The stereochemistry of the resulting cyclopropane product (.s vn vs anti) was rationalized from a kinetic study which implicated an early transition state with no detectable intermediates. Approach of the alkene substrate perpendicular to the proposed carbene intermediate occurs with the largest alkene substituent opposite the carbene ester group. This is followed by rotation of the alkene as the new C—C bonds begin to form. The steric effect of the alkene substituent determines... 

The above described experiments over atomically clean single crystal catalysts have been extended to studies of the kinetics of various catalytic reactions over chemically modified catalysts. Examples are recent studies Into the nature of poisoning by sulfur of the catalytic activity of nickel, ruthenium, and rhodium toward methana-tlon of CO (11,12) and CO2 (15). ethane (12) and cyclopropane (20) hydrogenolysls, and ethylene hydrogenation (21). 

Intermolecular cyclopropanation of olefins poses two stereochemical problems enantioface selection and diastereoselection (trans-cis selection). In general, for stereochemical reasons, the formation of /ra ,v-cyclopropane is kinetically more favored than that of cis-cyclopropane, and the asymmetric cyclopropanation so far developed is mostly /ram-selective, except for a few examples. Copper, rhodium, ruthenium, and cobalt complexes have mainly been used as the catalysts for asymmetric intermolecular cyclopropanation. 

The reaction of aryldiazoacetates with cyclohexene is a good example of the influence of steric effects on the chemistry of the donor/acceptor-substituted rhodium carbenoids. The Rh2(reaction with cyclohexene resulted in the formation of a mixture of the cyclopropane and the G-H insertion products. The enantios-electivity of the C-H insertion was high but the diastereoselectivity was very low (Equation (31)). 0 In contrast, the introduction of a silyl group on the cyclohexene, as in 15, totally blocked the cyclopropanation, and, furthermore, added sufficient size differentiation between the two substituents at the methylene site to make the reaction to form 16 proceed with high diastereoselectivity (Equation (32)).90 The allylic C-H insertion is applicable to a wide array of cyclic and acyclic substrates, and even systems capable of achieving high levels of kinetic resolution are known.90... 

While thermodynamically, the direct metalation of cyclopropane can be envisioned from a synthetic point of view, this approach has been rarely used. A major obstacle appears to be kinetics which can be overcome by incorporation of a hydroxyl group (see Eq. 16)17). In special cases, such as bicyclo [1.1.0] butane and methylenecyclopropane (Eq. 17) 18) the enhanced thermodynamic acidity is aceom-... 

The [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement ofpropargyl esters [234, 561] is usually an equilibrium reaction for example steric repulsion can help to deliver mainly the allene [562] and faster reaction kinetics are observed with silver(I) and copper(I) catalysts [562-571] (see cyclopropane 169 in Scheme 1.75) [572], and recently also rhodium(I) catalysts [573]. 

Concerning the structure, the cyclopropane derivatives 524—526 deviate from the generally observed cycloadducts of cyclic allenes with monoalkenes (see Scheme 6.97 and many examples in Section 6.3). The difference is caused by the different properties of the diradical intermediates that are most likely to result in the first reaction step. In most cases, the allene subunit is converted in that step into an allyl radical moiety that can cyclize only to give a methylenecyclobutane derivative. However, 5 is converted to a tropenyl-radical entity, which can collapse with the radical center of the side-chain to give a methylenecyclobutane or a cyclopropane derivative. Of these alternatives, the formation of the three-membered ring is kinetically favored and hence 524—526 are the products. The structural relationship between both possible product types is made clear in Scheme 6.107 by the example of the reaction between 5 and styrene. 

Hj Dj exchange on, 26 39-43 heteropolyanion-supported, 41 230-231 high MiUer index, 26 12-15,35,36 -H-USY zeoUte, 39 186-187 hydrocarbons adsorption, 38 229-230 reactions of cyclopropane, cyclohexane, and n-heptane, 26 51-53 structural effects, 30 25-26 hydrogen adsorption on, 23 15 hydrogenation, 30 281-282 olefins, in ethanol, 30 352-353 in hydrogenation reaction, 33 101 -iron alloys, 26 75 isomerization, 30 2-3 isotope, NMR properties, 33 213,274 kinetic oscillations, 37 220-228 ball models of densely packed surfaces, 37 221-222... 

The cis-trans isomerization of cyclopropanes is not restricted to the deuterium-substituted molecules, cis- and traws-l,2-Dimethylcyclo-propane have been shown to imdergo reversible geometrical isomerization as well as slower structural isomerization. All the processes are homogeneous and kinetically first order, and almost certainly unimolecular. The reaction scheme is shown below. 

It will be noted that the isomerization to cyclopentene proceeds with a considerably lower energy of activation than the other cyclopropane isomerizations so far discussed. As a result these reactions have been investigated kinetically at temperatures about 100° lower than those not having a vinyl substituent. A number of substituted vinylcyclopropanes have been studied and the Arrhenius parameters for their isomerizations to substituted cyclopentenes determined. The results are shown in Table 4. From the results in Table 4 it can be seen that the isomerizations... 

No complete kinetic experiments have yet been described for the isomerization reactions of tricyclic systems containing two cyclopropane rings. A number of preliminary observations have been reported and some of the isomerizations noted are given below. 

No results have yet been reported for the kinetics of the pyrolysis of vinylcyclobutane though there is some indirect evidence that one of the reaction paths would yield cyclohexene. Kinetic results are available for isopropenylcyclobutane and by analogy with cyclopropane systems the behaviour of this compoimd should be very similar to vinylcyclobutane. It has been reported (Ellis and Frey, 1963) that the pyrolysis of isopropenylcyclobutane gives rise to ethylene, isoprene and 1-methyl-cyclohexene. These products arise by two simultaneous first-order processes which are both homogeneous ... 

The kinetics of these reactions in comparison with those for methylenecyclo-propane analogs of compounds 160 have been studied by following the progress at pressures up to 3 kbar by on-line FT-IR spectroscopy [129]. The rate-enhancing influence of the additional strain in 160 overcompensates the expected retarding effect of the increased steric shielding by the second cyclopropane unit in 1 compared to methylenecyclopropane, and the cyclization rates for compounds 160 were faster by a factor of 6.8 to 8.1 in comparison with the corresponding methylenecyclopropane derivatives. 

Kinetic resolution (enantiomer differentiation) of cycloalkenyl diazoacetates has been achieved (for example, according to Eq. 3) [34]. In these cases one enantiomer of the racemic reactant matches with the catalyst configuration to produce the intramolecular cyclopropanation product in high enantiomeric excess, whereas the mismatched enantiomer preferentially undergoes hydride abstraction from the allylic position [35] to yield the corresponding cycloalkenone. With acyclic secondary allylic diazoacetates the hydride abstraction pathway is relatively unimportant, and diastereoselection becomes the means for enantiomer differentiation [31]. 

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