Electrophilic addition reactions features

Carbocations also feature as intermediates in electrophilic addition reactions (see Section 8.1) and in Friedel-Crafts alkylations (see Section 8.4.1). 

Most reactions of carbonyl groups occur by one of four general mechanisms nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic acyl substitution, alpha substitution, am carbonyl condensation. These mechanisms have many variations, just a alkene electrophilic addition reactions and 8 2 reactions do, but the varia tions are much easier to learn when the fundamental features of the mechanisms are understood. Let s see what the four mechanisms are and what kinds of chemistry carbonyl groups undergo. 

Thus alkynes, like alkenes, undergo electrophilic addition reactions. We will see that the same electrophilic reagents that add to alkenes also add to alkynes and that— again like alkenes—electrophilic addition to a terminal alkyne is regioselective When an electrophile adds to a terminal alkyne, it adds to the sp carbon that is bonded to the hydrogen. The addition reactions of alkynes, however, have a feature that alkenes do not have Because the product of the addition of an electrophilic reagent to an alkyne is an alkene, a second electrophilic addition reaction can occur. 

Like an 8 1 reaction, the first step in the electrophilic addition reaction is the rate determining step. According to the Hammond postulate, the transition state for this step resembles the carbocation intermediate. Structural features that stabilize the carbocation intermediate also stabilize the transition state and accelerate the electrophilic addition reaction. 

Conjugated dienes undergo two-step electrophilic addition reactions just like simple alkenes (Section 6.3). However, certain features are unique to the reactions of conjugated dienes. 

Substituted benzene compounds belong to a class of conjugated compounds called arenes. Examples include benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, and phenanthrene. The common structural feature of arenes is a monocyclic or polycyclic system of k electrons that results in a special stability called aromaticity. As a result, aromatic compounds are much less reactive in electrophilic addition reactions than we would expect based on the reactivity of polyenes. 

Although pyrrole appears to be both an amine and a conjugated diene, its chemical properties are not consistent with either of these structural features. Unlike most other amines, pyrrole is not basic—the pKa of the pyrrolin-ium ion is 0.4 unlike most other conjugated dienes, pyrrole undergoes electrophilic substitution reactions rather than additions. The reason for both these properties, as noted previously in Section 15.5, is that pyrrole has six 77 electrons and is aromatic. Each of the four carbons contributes one... 

This special feature arises from the combination of the transition metal behavior such as the coordination of a carbon-carbon multiple bond, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, P-hydride elimination, addition reactions and the behavior of classical c-carbanion towards electrophiles. 

Interestingly, deprotonation of the 3-oxo-pyrrolo[l,2-f]oxazole 277 with r-BuLi at —78°C took place at the C-5 position. Addition of an electrophile provided the substituted products 278 in good yields. Stannyl and silyl chlorides, dimethyl sulfate, ketones, and benzaldehyde were successfully used as electrophiles. A significant feature of this lithiation-substitution reaction is the generally high Ar-diastereoselectivity only single diastereomers of products were isolated (Scheme 41) <2001JA315>. 

An additional important feature of this class of polymers lies in the fact that their polymerisation and doping processes may be driven by a single electrochemical operation which, starting from the monomer, first forms the polymeric chain and then induces its oxidation and deposition in the doped form as a conductive film on a suitable substrate. The polymerisation reaction may be basically described as an electrophilic substitution which retains the aromatic structure and proceeds via a radical cation intermediate ... 

The reductive NO chemistry will cover some new developments on the electrophilic reactions of bound nitrosyl with different nucleophiles, particularly the nitrogen hydrides (hydrazine, hydroxylamine, ammonia, azide) and trioxodinitrate, along with new density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations which have allowed to better understand the detailed mechanistic features of these long-studied addition reactions, including the one with OH-. The redox chemistry of other molecules relevant to biochemistry, such as O2, H2O2 and the thiolates (SR-) will also be presented. 

A range of methods has been developed for the protection of the carbonyl group in multifunctional aliphatic and alicyclic aldehydes and ketones. This has been necessary because in many multistage syntheses, modification of other functionalities (e.g. oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, nucleophilic and electrophilic additions and displacements, etc.) requires a differing range of experimental conditions, and that protective group must be selected which is stable in the presence of the reaction medium. A further feature that should be noted is that... 

Abstract Cascade reactions involving a transition metal-promoted step and a Michael-type addition process have emerged as a powerful tool to construct cyclic and polycyclic structures. In this review, recent advances in this field are presented. The first part is related to cycloaddition reactions based on zwitterionic jr-allylPd complexes. The second part deals with Michael initiated metal-catalyzed cyclofunctionalization reactions of unactivated C C jt-bonds. Parts three and four feature reactions where an initial Michael addition reaction is followed by either a coupling reaction or an electrophilic trapping. Part five is devoted to Michael terminated reactions. 

This review article deals with addition and cycloaddition reactions of organic compounds via photoinduced electron transfer. Various reactive species such as exdplex, triplex, radical ion pair and free radical ions are generated via photoinduced electron transfer reactions. These reactive species have their characteristic reactivities and discrimination among these species provides selective photoreactions. The solvent and salt effects and also the effects of electron transfer sensitizers on photoinduced electron transfer reactions can be applied to the selective generation of the reactive species. Examples and mechanistic features of photoaddition and photocycloaddition reactions that proceed via the following steps are given reactions of radical cations with nucleophiles reactions of radical anions with electrophiles reactions of radical cations and radical anions with neutral radicals radical-radical coupling reactions addition and cycloaddition reactions via triplexes three-component addition reactions. 

Reactions with nucleophiles The most striking feature about this alkyne is that it is extremely electrophilic in nature, and electrophilic additions are suppressed whilst nucleophilic additions proceed with ease in reactions with a wide range of nucleophilic species (cf. fluoroalkenes) [309, 310] (Figure 7.88). 

Miyabe et al. developed a tandem addition/cycUzation reaction featuring an unprecedented addition of alkoxycarbonyl-stabihzed radicals on oxime ethers [117], and leading to the diastereoselective formation of /1-amino-y-lactone derivatives [118,119]. The reaction proceeds smoothly in the absence of toxic tin hydride and heavy metals via a route involving a triethylborane-mediated iodine atom-transfer process (Scheme 37). Decisive points for the success of this reaction are (1) the differentiation of the two electrophilic radical acceptors (the acrylate and the aldoxime ether moieties) towards the nucleophilic alkyl radical and (2) the high reactivity of triethylborane as a trapping reagent toward a key intermediate aminyl radical 125. The presence of the bulky substituent R proved to be important not only for the... 

Reaction involving the formation of a sulfonium intermediate (80) followed by a sigmatropic rearrangement was formulated by Trost and Biddlecom (Scheme 8) and cyclization initiated by an allylic copper carbenoid (81) was proposed by Cohen and coworkers (Scheme 9). The common feature of all of these proposed mechanisms relies on the electrophilic addition of the donor to the acceptor prenyl pyrophosphate and is... 

After some comments on what was named the medium polarity effect and the medium dielectric constant the authors came to the following conclusions such nucleophilic addition reactions of diphenylmagnesium compounds with ketones and metallation reactions of 1-alkynes have some common features. Apparently, they can both be considered as a special case of aromatic electrophilic substitution, differing from (what the authors named) the classical examples of this reaction, in that the latter one has a more pronounced reagent-like transition state. 

The present work gives analytical treatment to the main types of heterolytic processes with the participation of silica surface sites, the specific features for reactions of the electrophilic proton substitution in the structural silanol groups at interaction with some halo-and pseudohalosilanes, halogenides and oxohalogenides of various elements. Some possibilities of the addition reactions in the synthesis of the surface chemical compounds are considered. 

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