Double: bonds, 180 decomposition atoms

Hofmann rule The principal alkene formed in the decomposition of quaternary ammonium hydroxides that contain different primary alkyl groups is always ethylene, if an ethyl group is present. Originally given in this limited form by A.W. Hofmann, the rule has since been extended and modified as follows When two or more alkenes can be produced in a P-elimination reaction, the alkene having the smallest number of alkyl groups attached to the double bond carbon atoms will be the predominant product. This orientation described by the Hofmann rule is observed in elimination reactions of quaternary ammonium salts and tertiary sulfonium salts, and in certain other cases. 

The limitations of this reagent are several. It caimot be used to replace a single unactivated halogen atom with the exception of the chloromethyl ether (eq. 5) to form difluoromethyl fluoromethyl ether [461 -63-2]. It also caimot be used to replace a halogen attached to a carbon—carbon double bond. Fluorination of functional group compounds, eg, esters, sulfides, ketones, acids, and aldehydes, produces decomposition products caused by scission of the carbon chains. 

As far as oxidation of the polymer with oxygen of the air is concerned, the /3-hydrogen atom in the neighborhood of the C=C double bond is the most likely one to be attacked by oxygen with the formation of hydroperoxide which undergoes further decomposition [19]. OH and CO groups have been detected spectroscopically in the polymer [67,83]. 

For the catalyst system WCU-CsHbAICIs-CzHsOH, Calderon et al. (3, 22, 46) also proposed a kinetic scheme in which one metal atom, as the active center, is involved. According to this scheme, which was applied by Calderon to both acyclic and cyclic alkenes, the product molecules do not leave the complex in pairs. Rather, after each transalkylidenation step an exchange step occurs, in which one coordinated double bond is exchanged for the double bond of an incoming molecule. In this model the decomposition of the complex that is formed in the transalkylidenation step is specified, whereas in the models discussed earlier it is assumed that the decom-plexation steps, or the desorption steps, are kinetically not significant. 

Actually, in these derivatives the silicon atom bonded to the oxygen atom of the nitro group contains no protons. Hence, decomposition according to Eq. 1 is impossible. The fragmentation according to Eq. 2 is also unlikely because the Si=C double bond is thermodynamically unfavorable. 

SECONDARY REACTIONS. The reactions of the free radicals include (1) abstractions (of H atoms, with preference for tertiary H, and of halogen atoms), (2) addition to double bonds, which are very efficient scavengers for radicals, (3) decompositions to give both small molecule products, such as CO2, and (4) chain scission and crosslinking of molecules. 

There is no published example of a cyclopropanation of the double bond in chlorocyclopropylideneacetate 1-Me with retention of the chlorine atom. Thus, attempted cyclopropanations under Simmons-Smith [37] or Corey [38] conditions failed [25]. The treatment of the highly reactive methylenecyclopropane derivative 1-Me with dimethoxycarbene generated by thermal decomposition of 2,2-dimethoxy-A -l,3,4-oxadiazoline 26 (1.5 equiv. of 26,PhH, 100 °C,24 h),gave a complex mixture of products (Scheme 7) [39], yet the normal cycloadduct 28 was not detected. The formation of compounds 29 - 33 was rationalized via the initially formed zwitterion 27, resulting from the Michael addition of the highly nucleophilic dimethoxycarbene to the C,C-double bond of 1-Me. The ring closure of 27 to the normal product 28 is probably reversible, and 27 can rearrange or add a second dimethoxycarbene moiety and a molecule of acetone to form 33. 

This type of fragmentation has been observed for a number of compounds, most of them having an exocyclic double bond. The decomposition of cyclopentanone (3) into ethene and carbon monoxide was described as a typical example in Section II. Cleavage of y-thiobutyrolactone (54) into carbon monoxide, ethene, and thioformaldehyde [93JCS(P2)1249] was mentioned in Section V.E. Another typical example is the formation of atomic carbon from 5-diazotetrazole (89JA8784). 

Reactions of the recoil C1] with several olefins have been studied, including ethylene, propylene, cyclopentene, and cfs-butene-2, as well as with several paraffins. The type of products observed indicated the existence of several general modes of interaction, such as CH bond insertion, interactions with CC double bonds, formation of methylene-C11. The most important single product in all systems is acetylene, presumably formed by CH insertion and subsequent decomposition of the intermediate. Direct interaction with double bonds is shown by the fact that, for example, in the case of propylene, yields of stable carbon atom addition products were significantly higher than in the case of propane. The same was true for ethylene and ethane. 

The decomposition of (18) in the presence of electron-deficient oxygen acceptors such as tetracyanoethylene forms the tetracyanoethylene oxide (19)51, with 60% yield. The oxygen atom transfer may be considered a general reaction of carbonyl oxides in ozonolysis of C=C double bonds when oxygen-accepting substrates are present. 

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