Electron transfer-nucleophilic addition

SCHEME 14.6 Oxidation of anthracene via electron transfer-nucleophilic addition. 2ArH + ArH2+ + ArH H... 

Write a detailed mechanism for this condensation using only the molecules whose models are provided. Treat all proton transfers, nucleophilic additions, and elimination reactions as separate steps, and use curved arrows to show electron movement. Which of these steps do you think will be favorable Unfavorable Why ... 

Photochemical addition of ammonia and primary amines to aryl olefins (equation 42) can be effected by irradiation in the presence of an electron acceptor such as dicyanoben-zene (DCNB)103-106. The proposed mechanism for the sensitised addition to the stilbene system is shown in Scheme 7. Electron transfer quenching of DCNB by t-S (or vice versa) yields the t-S cation radical (t-S)+ Nucleophilic addition of ammonia or the primary amine to (t-S)+ followed by proton and electron transfer steps yields the adduct and regenerates the electron transfer sensitizer. The reaction is a variation of the electron-transfer sensitized addition of nucleophiles to terminal arylolefins107,108. 

Both, strained and unsaturated organic molecules are known to form cation radicals as a result of electron transfer to photoexdted sensitizers (excited-state oxidants). The resulting cation radical-anion radical pairs can undergo a variety of reactions, including back electron transfer, nucleophilic attack on to the cation radical, electrophilic attack on the anion radical, reduction of anion radical, and addition of anion radical to the cation radical. This concept has been nicely demonstrated by Gassman et al. [103, 104], using the photoinduced electron-transfer cydization of y,8-unsatu-rated carboxylic add 232 to y-ladones 233 and 234 as an example (see Scheme 8.65). 

The two principal anionic initiation processes are nucleophilic attack on the monomer and electron transfer. Nucleophilic attack is essentially addition of a negatively charged entity to the monomer and involves mainly alkali metal alkyls, living polymers, metal alkoxides, metal amides, and Grignard reagents. The general initiation process is... 

There is great interest in understanding the preference of different transition metals for cis or trans isomers or the way in which these complexes undergo geometrical isomerization. Indeed, the course of many reactions of these species, such as nucleophilic substitution, electron transfer, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, thermal decomposition, interaction with molecules of biological interest, and so on, is dictated by the geometry of these compounds. 

The mechanism of transamination is given in detail with the proper electron flow arrows. A series of proton transfers, nucleophilic additions, and leaving group departures are involved that take the amino acid to the ketoacid while simultaneously converting... 

The reaction of perfluoroalkyl iodides with electron donor nucleophiles such as sodium arene and alkane sulfinates in aprotic solvents results in radical addition to alkenes initiated by an electron-transfer process The additions can be carried out at room temperature, with high yields obtained for strained olefins [4 (equations 3-5)... 

The electrophilic character of sulfur dioxide does not only enable addition to reactive nucleophiles, but also to electrons forming sulfur dioxide radical anions which possess the requirements of a captodative" stabilization (equation 83). This electron transfer occurs electrochemically or chemically under Leuckart-Wallach conditions (formic acid/tertiary amine - , by reduction of sulfur dioxide with l-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide or with Rongalite The radical anion behaves as an efficient nucleophile and affords the generation of sulfones with alkyl halides " and Michael-acceptor olefins (equations 84 and 85). 

Reactions of highly electron-rich organometalate salts (organocuprates, orga-noborates, Grignard reagents, etc.) and metal hydrides (trialkyltin hydride, triethylsilane, borohydrides, etc.) with cyano-substituted olefins, enones, ketones, carbocations, pyridinium cations, etc. are conventionally formulated as nucleophilic addition reactions. We illustrate the utility of donor/acceptor association and electron-transfer below. 

Electron-transfer mechanism for nucleophilic addition. In accord with Mulliken theory, irradiation of the charge-transfer band of [Py+, BMeT] directly affords the radical pair via one-electron transfer (equation 46). 

However, the existence of an extremely reactive bound hydroxyl radical is questionable because it is difficult to understand why it does not immediately react with adjacent molecules (most of the reactions of hydroxyl radicals proceed with the rates close to a diffusion limit). Therefore, the mechanism proposed by Zhang et al. [7,8] seems to be much more convincing. They suggested that the genuine oxidizing free radical formed during SOD inactivation is the bicarbonate radical anion CO/, which is formed as a result of the oxidation of bicarbonate. It has also been suggested that DMPO OH is formed by the addition of water to an intermediate of the reaction of DMPO with CO/ via a nucleophilic or electron transfer mechanism. 

Otsuka and coworkers—addition of ligands to Pt and Rh complexes to facilitate water activation. Most researchers in the water-gas shift field focused their research primarily on the activation of CO through coordination that facilitated the nucleophilic attack by OH- or H20. In addition to this, Ostuka and coworkers28,40,47,55,56 added a new approach. It was based on a strategy that induces two-electron transfer from a low valent metal compound to a H20 molecule that leads to a hydrido-hydroxo-metal species, M + H20 <-> MH(OH). In so doing, they predicted that nucleophilic attack by the OH- on the coordinated CO would be more facile relative to the neutral H20 molecule. 

When a molecule accepts electrons, the electrons tend to go to places where/1 (r) is large because it is at these locations that the molecule is most able to stabilize additional electrons. Therefore a molecule is susceptible to nucleophilic attack at sites where/ "(r) is large. Similarly, a molecule is susceptible to electrophilic attack at sites where f (r) is large, because these are the regions where electron removal destabilizes the molecule the least. In chemical density functional theory (DFT), the Fukui functions are the key regioselectivity indicators for electron-transfer controlled reactions. 

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