Dimerization reactions oxidation

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... 

In fact, the primary bisphosphines 1,10,16, and 19 (Fig. 3) are air stable solids demonstrating exceptional oxidative stabilities. Recently, a primary bisphosphine 20 produced by dimerization reaction of anthracenyl primary phosphine has been shown to possess good oxidative stability [29]. 

Sulphines may react as dienophiles with 1,3-dienes with the formation of cyclic sulphoxides. Unstable 2,2-dichloro-5,6-dihydro-2ff-thiin-l-oxide 191 was formed in an exothermic reaction between 173aandcyclopentadieneat — 40 (equation 101). The simplest, parent sulphine, CH2 = S = O, prepared in situ by treatment of a-trimethylsilylmethanesulphinyl chloride with cesium fluoride, reacts with cyclopentadiene to give bicyclic, unsaturated sulphoxide 192 as a mixture of two diastereoisomers in a 9 1 ratio (equation 102). On the other hand, a,j8-unsaturated sulphine 193 (generated by thermolysis of 2-benzylidene-l-thiotetralone dimer S-oxide) in boiling toluene behaves as a 1,3-diene and was trapped by norborene forming sulphoxide 194 in 78% yield ° (equation 103). 

It was shown that complexes 19 of the zwitterionic precursors of ortho-quinone methides and a bis(sulfonium ylide) derived from 2,5-di hydroxyl 1,4 benzoquinone46 were even more stable than those with amine N-oxides. The bis(sulfonium ylide) complexes were formed in a strict 2 1 ratio (o-QM/ylide) and were unaltered at —78 °C for 10 h and stable at room temperature under inert conditions for as long as 15—30 min (Fig. 6.18).47 The o-QM precursor was produced from a-tocopherol (1), its truncated model compound (la), or a respective ortho-methylphenol in general by Ag20 oxidation in a solution containing 0.50-0.55 equivalents of bis(sulfonium ylide) at —78 °C. Although the species interacting with the ylide was actually the zwitterionic oxidation intermediate 3a and not the o-QM itself, the term stabilized o-QM was introduced for the complexes, since these reacted similar to the o-QMs themselves but in a well defined way without dimerization reactions. 

The methano-dimer of a-tocopherol (28)50 was formed by the reaction of o-QM 3 as an alkylating agent toward excess y-tocopherol. It is also the reduction product of the furano-spiro dimer 29, which by analogy to spiro dimer 9 occurred as two interconvertible diastereomers,28 see Fig. 6.23. However, the interconversion rate was found to be slower than in the case of spiro dimer 9. While the reduction of furano-spiro dimer 29 to methano-dimer 28 proceeded largely quantitatively and independently of the reductant, the products of the reverse reaction, oxidation of 28 to 29, depended on oxidant and reaction conditions, so that those two compounds do not constitute a reversible redox pair in contrast to 9 and 12. 

The electrode reaction of an organic substance that does not occur through electrocatalysis begins with the acceptance of a single electron (for reduction) or the loss of an electron (for oxidation). However, the substance need not react in the form predominating in solution, but, for example, in a protonated form. The radical formed can further accept or lose another electron or can react with the solvent, with the base electrolyte (this term is used here rather than the term indifferent electrolyte) or with another molecule of the electroactive substance or a radical product. These processes include substitution, addition, elimination, or dimerization reactions. In the reactions of the intermediates in an anodic process, the reaction partner is usually nucleophilic in nature, while the intermediate in a cathodic process reacts with an electrophilic partner. 

The intermediately formed alkyl radical could be either further oxidized in presence of IPT and water molecules yielding corresponding alcohols or recombine with other radical (dimerization reaction) ... 

TPP)Rh(L)J+C1 in the presence of an alkyl halide leads to a given (P)Rh(R) or (P)Rh(RX) complex. The yield was nearly quantitative (>80X) in most cases based on the rhodium porphyrin starting species. However, it should be noted that excess alkyl halide was used in Equation 3 in order to suppress the competing dimerization reaction shown in Equation 1. The ultimate (P)Rh(R) products generated by electrosynthesis were also characterized by H l MR, which demonstrated the formation of only one porphyrin product(lA). No reaction is observed between (P)Rh and aryl halides but this is expected from chemical reactivity studles(10,15). Table I also presents electronic absorption spectra and the reduction and oxidation potentials of the electrogenerated (P)Rh(R) complexes. 

Photochemical reactions, like any chemical reaction, can be classified into various groups, depending on the reactants and products, for example, elimination, isomerization, dimerization, reduction, oxidation, or chain reaction. One important practical field of photochemistry is organic photochemistry. In solution photochemical reactions, the nature of the solvent can markedly influence the reaction. The absorbtion of the solvent and of the reaction products is an important parameter for the choice of the reaction conditions. It is useful to have a solvent with a relatively low absorption in the desired wavelength. Sometimes photosensitizers are used these are substances that absorb light to further activate another substance, which decomposes. 

Complex 77 has also been reported to catalyze the oxidative dimerization of alcohols to esters when the reactions are performed in the presence of base [76]. The presence of base presumably encourages the reversible attack of the alcohol onto the initially formed aldehyde to give a hemiacetal, which is further oxidized to give the ester product. Alcohols 87 and 15 were converted into esters 88 and 89 with good isolated yields (Scheme 20). Alternative iridium catalysts have been used for related oxidative dimerization reactions, and the addition of base is not always a requirement for the reaction to favor ester formation over aldehyde formation [77, 78]. 

A third important reaction of aromatic radical-cations is carbon-carbon bond formation with a further aromatic substrate. This reaction is limited to the oxidation in acetonitrile of substrates with electrondonating substituents. Radical-cations from benzene, naphthalene and anthracene form a-complexes but do not form a a-bonded reaction intermediate. Tlie dimerization reaction has been investigated both by pulse-radiolysis [22] in water and by electrochemical methods [27] in acetoni-... 

Bicyclic derivatives of furazan A-oxide are prepared by nitrile oxide dimerization reaction. Dioxime 272 (R, R = Me) undergoes cyclization to the corresponding 4,4-tetramethylperhydrocycloocta[c]furazan A-oxide 273 (84% yield) by treatment with NaOCl/HaO/CHaCla at 0°C and then refuxing in toluene (equation 117). However, in the cases of sterically less hindered oximes 272 (R = H, Me R = H) only complex mixtures of oligomerization and cyclization products could be obtained ". Interestingly, the reaction of pyridyl oxime -274 with TsCl afforded 1,2,5-oxadiazole 275 as single product (equation 118). On the other hand, the reaction of Z-isomer of oxime 274 leads only to 0-tosylated oxime. ... 

When the aromatic substrates to be coupled do not contain any chiral information, stereodifferentiation may be achieved in those reactions that are mediated by chirally modified metal complexes. Thus, 2-naphthalenol is atropo-enantioselectively dimerized by oxidation with a chiral copper complex20,21. 

D. Dimerization Reactions between Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide... 

DNA is a relatively stable polymer. Spontaneous reactions such as deamination of certain bases, hydrolysis of base-sugar A-glycosyl bonds, radiation-induced formation of pyrimidine dimers, and oxidative damage occur at very low rates, yet are important because of cells very low tolerance for changes in genetic material. 

The formation of propene oxide as a side product of the acrolein formation or dimerization reactions is reported by many authors. Daniel et al. [95,96] demonstrated that propene oxide is formed by surface-initiated homogeneous reactions which may involve peroxy radical intermediates. The epoxidation is increased by a large void fraction in the catalyst bed or a large postcatalytic volume. In view of these results, the findings of Centola et al. [84] are understandable, as the wall of the empty reactor may have been sufficiently active to initiate the reaction. 

Although there is little doubt that the electron transfer reaction (Reaction 2) is involved in the over-all reaction (21), the suggestion that quantitative yields of disulfide (13) arise from the dimerization of thiyl radicals is inconsistent with the observed behavior of other free radicals (24). It seems preferable to suggest that some kind of coordination occurs as a prerequisite to the transfer of electrons (12,15). In this case, metal-thiol complexes should be formed as intermediates in the oxidation, in which the metal acts not only as an electron acceptor but also to locate the resultant thiyl entities in close proximity, thereby favoring dimerization reactions and producing disulfide. The electrons gained by the metal may then be passed on to an oxygen molecule. The over-all reaction may be represented as... 

Another complication of the reversible case may be that the reduction product A reacts chemically and is thus not available for reoxidation on the reverse scan, so only a small or no anodic peak is seen. In the usual electrochemical nomenclature, an electron-transfer reaction is called E and a chemical follow-up reaction C. The process in question would thus be an EC reaction the chemical step would after a reduction in most cases be a reaction with an electrophile, including protons, a cleavage reaction, where a nucleophile is expelled, or a dimerization for oxidation reactions with a nucleophile, loss of a proton or dimerization would be the most common follow-up reactions. 

Pyrimidines. Reaction of Thy with photoexited menadione or its electrochemical oxidation yields mainly to the N(l)-C(5)-linked dimer (Hatta et al. 2001). This can be accounted for if the precursor radical cation deprotonates at N( 1) (see above). For this N(l)-centered radical a second mesomeric form with the spin at C(5) can be written. Head-to-tail recombination leads to the isopyrimi-dine-type dimer [reaction (12)]. Isopyrimdines are unstable (see below) and add rapidly water [reaction (13)]. This dimer is also formed in the reaction with S04 , albeit with a lower yield. 

The photoactivated intermolecular dimerization reaction of aziridinyl ketone 18 leading to heterocycle 67 after the initial oxidation of piperazine 66 has also been described [84] (Scheme 1.17). 

The third step in the process involves cooling the reaction gases below their dew point, so that a liquid phase of weak nitric acid is formed. This step effectively promotes the state of oxidation and dimerization (Reactions 3 and 4), and removes water from the gas phase. This in turn increases the partial pressure of the nitrogen peroxide component. 

Many compounds will undergo dimerization reactions those containing thiols (e.g., disulfide formation) olefins, alcohols, and carboxylic acids (or other carbonyl chemistry e.g., aldol condensation reactions). Indoles have been shown to dimerize under acidic conditions. The dimerization is presumed to occur as shown in Figure 120 via protonation at C3 and nucleophilic attack of a second indole on C2. Phenols have been shown to dimerize under free radical initiated oxidative conditions, usually to ortho phenols. Nalidixic acid API undergoes dimerization under thermolysis conditions to decarboxylate and produce a dimeric structure (Fig. 121) (172). 

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