Group transfer reactions aromatization

To illustrate how this applies in the present circumstances we consider a passible group transfer reaction between A2 dihydro-naphthalene, (gQ) > a hydrogen donor, and phenanthrene,(g gr > a substrate (hydrogen acceptor) which models a polynuclear aromatic moiety commonly found in coal. In the overall group transfer reaction ... 

Hydrocarbon analogues with p = 0, q = 2 provide another interesting example of a group transfer reaction in which the driving force of the reaction is aromatization of cyclohexadiene to benzene system (Scheme 6.3). 

Manufacture and Processing. Mononitrotoluenes are produced by the nitration of toluene in a manner similar to that described for nitrobenzene. The presence of the methyl group on the aromatic ring faciUtates the nitration of toluene, as compared to that of benzene, and increases the ease of oxidation which results in undesirable by-products. Thus the nitration of toluene generally is carried out at lower temperatures than the nitration of benzene to minimize oxidative side reactions. Because toluene nitrates at a faster rate than benzene, the milder conditions also reduce the formation of dinitrotoluenes. Toluene is less soluble than benzene in the acid phase, thus vigorous agitation of the reaction mixture is necessary to maximize the interfacial area of the two phases and the mass transfer of the reactants. The rate of a typical industrial nitration can be modeled in terms of a fast reaction taking place in a zone in the aqueous phase adjacent to the interface where the reaction is diffusion controlled. 

From a study of the decompositions of several rhodium(II) carboxylates, Kitchen and Bear [1111] conclude that in alkanoates (e.g. acetates) the a-carbon—H bond is weakest and that, on reaction, this proton is transferred to an oxygen atom of another carboxylate group. Reduction of the metal ion is followed by decomposition of the a-lactone to CO and an aldehyde which, in turn, can further reduce metal ions and also protonate two carboxyl groups. Thus reaction yields the metal and an acid as products. In aromatic carboxylates (e.g. benzoates), the bond between the carboxyl group and the aromatic ring is the weakest. The phenyl radical formed on rupture of this linkage is capable of proton abstraction from water so that no acid product is given and the solid product is an oxide. 

Okamura s school has made a close study of the monomer transfer reaction, and they take the view that with at least some aromatic monomers this is not a direct proton transfer from a position a to the site of the charge (reaction (XIII)), but an alkylation of one monomer and subsequent proton transfer from the alkylated phenyl group to another monomer molecule [123]. 

Song et al. extended this methodology to include cyanosilylation of aldehydes and ketones (Eq. 32) [160], They propose that NHC 276 interacts with TMSCN to form complex LXXVIII followed by cyano group transfer to the aldehyde (Scheme 48). The carbene is then regenerated and the desired product is obtained when LXXIX fragments. Concurrently, Kondo, Aoyama and co-workers describe similar reaction conditions for the synthesis of cyanohydrins in high yields [161, 162], while Suzuki and co-workers reported a cyanosilylation of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes in good yields [163]. 

Radical ion pairs also react by proton, atom, or group transfer. We illustrate proton transfer in reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons with tertiary amines. These reactions cause reduction or reductive coupling. In the reduction of naphthalene, the initial ET is followed by H" transfer from cation to anion, forming 67 paired with an aminoalkyl radical the pair combines to generate... 

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