Deuterium propene

The use of deuterium labels in propene can help to establish the epimerisation of the intermediate alkyl species. 

Distribution of products from the reaction of propene with deuterium... 

The reaction of propene with deuterium has been studied over a variety of catalysts [92,103,105,118]. Some typical deuteropropane and deutero-propene distributions are shown in Table 8. Values of j3e as defined in Sect. 3.3 and a (Sect. 3.4) are also quoted. 

Whilst the use of deuterium allows a deeper insight into the mechanism of catalytic reactions than was previously possible, it nevertheless does not allow an absolutely rigorous analysis to be made. One of the major problems in ethylene—deuterium and propene—deuterium studies is that there is no method whereby the true fraction of olefin which has undergone an olefin—alkyl—olefin cycle and reappeared in the gas phase as olefin-d0 can be determined. This is especially true for reactions on metals such as palladium, ruthenium and rhodium where the olefin exchange results sug-... 

The reactions of the n -butenes with deuterium have been studied over alumina-supported platinum and iridium [103] and palladium [124]. In general, the results obtained are similar to those discussed above for ethylene—deuterium and propene—deuterium reactions. A comparison of the deuteroalkane distributions over platinum is shown in Fig. 17. 

Fig. 17. Deuteroalkane distributions observed in the reactions of deuterium with ethylene at 54°C (0)> propene at 73°C ( ) and but-l-ene at 67°C ( ) over platinum-alumina [103],...

Early kinetic studies on the structural isomerization of cyclopropane to propene provided estimates of activation parameters73 75 and prompted speculation that the reaction might well involve a trimethylene diradical intermediate. This possibility seemed reinforced when the thermal interconversion of the els and trans isomers of l,2-d2-cyclo-propane at 414 to 474 °C (equation 1) was reported in 195876. This structurally degenerate isomerization was found to be substantially faster than conversion to deuterium-labeled propenes—about 24 times faster at the high pressure limit76 77. 

The molecular mechanism of the selective oxidation pathway is believed to be the one shown in Scheme 2 (Section I). Adsorbed butene forms adsorbed 7r-allyl by H abstraction in much the same way as xc-allyl is formed from propene in propene oxidation (28-31). A second H abstraction results in adsorbed butadiene. Indeed, IR spectroscopy has identified adsorbed 71-complexes of butene and 7t-allyl on MgFe204 (32,33). On heating, the 7r-complex band at 1505 cm 1 disappears between 100-200°C, and the 7t-allyl band at 1480 cm-1 disappears between 200-300°C. The formation of butadiene shows a deuterium isotope effect. The ratio of the rate constants for normal and deuterated butenes, kH/kD, is 3.9 at 300°C and 2.6 at 400°C for MgFe204 (75), 2.4 at 435°C for CoFe204, and 1.8 at 435°C for CuFe204 (25). The large isotope effects indicate that the breaking of C—H (C—D) bonds is involved in the slow reaction step. 

Exercise 31-12 7r-Propenyl(ethyl)nickel decomposes at —70° to give propene and ethene. If the ethyl group is labeled with deuterium as —CH2—CD3, the products are C3H5D and CD2=CH2. If it is labeled as —CD2—CH3, the products are C3H6 + CD2=CH2. Are these the products expected of a radical decomposition, or of a reversible hydride-shift followed by decomposition as in the mechanism of Section 31-2B Suppose the hydride-shift step were not reversible, what products would you expect then ... 

Moreover, the inductive contribution of a p deuterium to the IE on amine basicity was estimated.31 The inductive effect on pK due to an sp2-sp3 C-C bond, with a dipole moment of 0.35 D, as in propene, can be assigned as 0.95, the ApAf between allylamine and methylamine. Above, in connection with the structural question of the extent to which IEs affect dipole moments, dCu dco is 0.5 pm and dfi/dd is 0.004e. These combine to a ApAT on deuteration of 0.001, which is much smaller than the measured IEs in Table 5. An inductive contribution does exist, but it is negligible. 

The propene ion is one system in which determination of isotope effects is hampered by hydrogen randomisation. Nevertheless, deuterium isotope effects upon ion abundances following El have been obtained by making allowances for the extent of hydrogen randomisation [see Sect. 7.5.1(f)]. For hydrogen atom elimination, the isotope effect/H//D has been put at 1.7—2.0 for source reactions [372] and 2.3—3.0 and 3.6 (first and second field-free regions, respectively) for metastable ions [510]. For hydrogen atom elimination from propenoic acid ions, the isotope effect /H//D has been put at 4.3 for metastable ions [587]. 

Selective trapping of alkyl radicals from the alkyl halide component during the course of the catalytic disproportionation is the same as the previous observation with silver, and it indicates that the prime source of radicals in the Kharasch reaction lies in the oxidative addition of alkyl halide to reduced iron in Equation 47. Separate pathways for reaction of i-propyl groups derived from the organic halide and the Grignard reagent are also supported by deuterium labelling studies which show that they are not completely equilibrated.(49) Furthermore, the observation of CIDNP (AE multiplet effect) In the labelled propane and propene... 

McGee also found the cyclopropane/propene ratio to decrease with increasing pressure in the photolysis of cyclobutanone. However, his data indicated that the change is entirely due to an increase in propene formation, while cyclopropane formation is claimed to be independent of pressure. McGee suggested, on the basis of these results, that propene and cyclopropane were not formed from the same excited state. The deuterium content of the olefin, formed in the photolysis of cyclopentanone-2,2,5,5-rf4, also indicates that the hot cycloalkane is not the only source of the CH2 = CH(CH2) 4CH3 product - . 

Naito et al. studied hydrogenation with use of adsorption measurements, mass spectrometry, and microwave spectroscopy for product analysis. In the room temperature deuteriation of propene, butene, and 1,3-butadiene, the main products were [ H2]-propane, [ H2]-butane, and l,2-[ H2]-but-l-ene, respectively. They showed, using mixtures of H2 and D2, that deuterium was added in the molecular form and at a rate proportional to the partial pressure of D2, as opposed to D surface coverage the reaction rates were zero order in hydrocarbon. They proposed, therefore, in contrast to the model of Dent and Kokes for ethene (but note in this case that reaction rate was 0.5 order in hydrogen pressure and proportional to ethene surface coverage), that hydrogenation proceeded by interaction of adsorbed hydrocarbon with gas-phase D2, that is by an Eley-Rideal mechanism. 

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