Dimerization reactions coupling

Many anodic oxidations involve an ECE pathway. For example, the neurotransmitter epinephrine can be oxidized to its quinone, which proceeds via cyclization to leukoadrenochrome. The latter can rapidly undergo electron transfer to form adrenochrome (5). The electrochemical oxidation of aniline is another classical example of an ECE pathway (6). The cation radical thus formed rapidly undergoes a dimerization reaction to yield an easily oxidized p-aminodiphenylamine product. Another example (of industrial relevance) is the reductive coupling of activated olefins to yield a radical anion, which reacts with the parent olefin to give a reducible dimer (7). If the chemical step is very fast (in comparison to the electron-transfer process), the system will behave as an EE mechanism (of two successive charge-transfer steps). Table 2-1 summarizes common electrochemical mechanisms involving coupled chemical reactions. Powerful cyclic voltammetric computational simulators, exploring the behavior of virtually any user-specific mechanism, have... 

The radical-substrate dimerization (RSD) mechanism is as depicted in Scheme 2.8, involving, as a first follow-up reaction, coupling of the electron transfer intermediate with the substrate. There are, in fact, several versions of the RSD mechanism according to the nature of the electron transfer step,... 

The radical site of the intermediates in the dimerization reaction is stabilised by resonance and examples have been noted where dimerization occurs by substitution onto the aromatic ring. This is the major reaction course for the reduction of 1-acetylnaphthalene [3 ] which yields 1 in alkaline solution by a radical-ion radical coupling. In the reduction of acetophenone, small amounts of related reaction products, 2 and two diastereomers of 3, can be detected. The yields of these compounds are increased by the reduction of acetophenone encapsulated in a cyclodextrin [32],... 

The radical anion of /3-trimethylsilylstyrene also undergoes dimerization but coupling takes place at the carbons a to silicon 33). The kinetics of the alkyne dimerization, followed by ESR, showed the reaction to be second order in radical anion 43). With Li+, Na+, K+, or Rb+ as the counterions, the rate increases in the order Si < C < Ge 45). Consistent with the increased stability of the trimethylsilyl-substituted radical anion, the radical anion of 1,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)butadiyne, produced by reduction with Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs in THF is stable at room temperature even on exposure to air, whereas the carbon analog, 1,4-di-r-butyl-1,3-butadiyne radical anion, dimerizes by second-order kinetics at -40° (42). The enhanced stability of the trimethylsilylalkynyl radical anions has been attributed to p-drr interactions (42). 

Tetrabutylammonium fluoride, 286 Titanium(IV) chloride-Diethylalumi-num chloride, 309 Vinylene carbonate, 342 Dihydroxylation (see Addition reactions to carbon-carbon multiple bonds) Dimerization (see Coupling reactions) Displacement reactions (see Substitution reactions)... 

Reactions of monomeric and dimeric rhodium(II) porphyrins with carbon monoxide - As already reported in Sect. 3.3, a carbonylrhodium(II) porphyrin behaves as an acyl radical. Hence, if possible, dimerization or coupling reactions occur. Evidence for the formation of isomeric 2 1 Rh(P) CO adducts, namely a monoadduct of the dimer and a metallo ketone complex, and a dimeric 1 1 adduct in the reaction of [Rh(OEP)]2 with carbon monoxide according to sequences (38) and (39) has been presented [340,341] solution equilibria and structures have been studied essentially by lHNMR, 13CNMR, and IR spectroscopy. The first half of sequence (38) and reaction (39) occurred in parallel at CO pressures up to 12 atm at 297 K. At higher pressures, or at lower temperatures, the double-insertion of CO shown in the last step of (38) was observed. 

Adler and Freudenberg reported a detailed study [21] of the polymerization of coniferyl alcohol with metalloenzymes. Coniferyl alcohol is activated by metal ions to form a radical that can be represented by four resonance states (Eq. 4) and dimerizes by coupling. In the early stage of the reaction, the formation of... 

Trimer VI and phenol are the products predicted from the first step of the redistribution reaction trimer VII would be expected from coupling of some of the phenol with the starting dimer (Reactions 18 and 19). 

These latter workers liave demonstrated, by electrochemical experiments, the different reactivities of 125 and its cis isomer.Thus, whereas 125 is formed essentially reversibly and lost in a slow dimerization reaction and a slow coupling with unreduced thioindigo, its cis isomer is rapidly consumed in isomerization, radical-radical, and radical-parent coupling reactions. Similar differential reactivities with carbon dioxide, acrylonitrile, and cin-namonitrile were also observed. For 6,6 -diethoxytliioindigo, it was found that the electroreduction of the cis and trans isomers occurred at different... 

The IFP-SABIC Alphabutol process utilizes a proprietary homogeneous titanium based catalyst which demonstrates high dimerization activity coupled with excellent selectivity to butene-1 at moderate pressures and temperatures. This performance is influenced by the catalyst composition and reaction parameters. 

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