Hypervalent radicals

Excited electronic states play a crucial role in the chemistry of hypervalent radicals formed by collisional reduction of organic onium cations, where... 

The lifetimes of hypervalent radicals have been found to depend rather dramatically on isotope substitution. For example, dimethyloxonium, (CH3)2OH, dissociates completely on a 1 -ps time scale when formed by collisional reduction of the stable cation (CH3)2OH+. By contrast, (CH3)2OD furnishes an abundant survivor ion in the +NR+ mass spectrum that is evidence that the deuterated hypervalent radical is metastable [178,179]. From the time scale of the NR measurements and the survivor ion relative intensities one can estimate that (CH3)2OH dissociates >5 times faster than (CH3)2OD. Similar isotope effects have been observed for CH3OH [180], C2H5OH [181], and hypervalent ammonium radicals, e.g., CH3NH [182], (CH3)2NH [60], (CH3)3NH [183], and [pyrrolidinium] [184], which are metastable only as deuterated species. 

The composition of I, and possibly its structure, may be deduced by identifying Q. Certain examples from peroxide chemistry will illustrate the scope of the method. The reactions of ferrous(nitriloacetate) and ferrous(ethylenediamine-N,N -diacetate) with hydrogen peroxide are complicated processes.1 A particular scavenger T did indeed divert the reaction at high concentrations of T. The required levels of T were, however, much higher than those that would have been needed to trap the hydroxyl radical, HO. It is thereby ruled out. With this and with spectroscopic evidence, a reactive hypervalent iron complex was suggested as the intermediate. 

In this chapter, we will consider examples of RIs characterized by a hypervalent or valency-deficient carbon, such as carbocations, carbenes, carbanions, and carbon radicals. In the first part, we will consider examples that take advantage of stabilization and persistence to determine their structures by single crystal X-ray diffraction. In the second part we will describe several examples of transient reactive intermediates in crystals. ... 

In 2003, Togo and co-workers described a radical cyclization and ionic cyclization onto the aromatic rings of 2-(aryl)ethanesulfonamides 21 to produce 3,4-dihydro-2,l-benzothiazine 2,2-dioxides with polymer-supported hypervalent iodine reagents in good yields <03ARK11>. 

A Sml2-induced reductive cyclization of (V-(alkylketo)pyrroles provided an entry into medium ring 1,2-annelated pyrroles <06EJO4989>. An oxidative radical alkylation of pyrroles with xanthates promoted by triethylborane provided access to a-(pyrrol-2-yl)carboxylic acid derivatives <06TL2517>. An oxidative coupling of pyrroles promoted by a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent provided bipyrroles directly <060L2007>. 

On the other hand, Becker et al. also have attempted the anodic oxidation of RfCH2CH2I in acetonitrile and they have achieved the anodic transformation of C8F, 7CH2CH2I to the corresponding acetamide, trifluoroacetate, and benzoate derivatives in good yields [35]. They propose a different reaction mechanism involving a hypervalent iodanyl radical intermediate as shown in Eq. 17. 

The expressions nonclassical and hypervalent ion have also been used by some authors to describe distonic ions, but these are incorrect and thus should no longer be used. The term ylidion is limited to species where charge and radical are at adjacent positions. Thus, to describe the distance between charge and radical site, the terms a- (1,2-) distonic ion, p- (1,3-) distonic ion, y- (1,4-) distonic ion, and so forth are now in use [42,43]... 

It was reported that Pd(0)-catalyzed coupling reactions of allenic alcohols, amines and acids with hypervalent iodonium salts afforded cyclized heterocyclic tetrahydrofurans, tetrahydropyrans, pyrrolidines, piperidines, or lactones under mild conditions <99SL324>. Intramolecular 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer radical cyclization reaction of pyrrolidine derivatives was examined. Reaction of 3,4-dialiyloxy-JV-(0-bromobenzyl)pyrtolidine gave hexahydro-... 

Since the generation of radicals from cyclo-S or -Sg requires an activation energy of more than 29 kcalmol the radical mechanism may account for the thermally or photochemically initiated processes, but it cannot prevail for the transformations that occur at ambient temperature. Hypervalent thiosulfoxides... 

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Similar hypervalent iodine radicals (9-1-2) are formed in the reaction of alkyl radicals with alkyliodides (R + RI — R2I ), and as an intramolecular complex they are stable enough that a reaction with 02 is only low (Miranda et al. 2000). Such 9-X-2 radicals have also been postulated as intermediates in the reduction of alkylhalides by a-hydroxyalkyl radicals (Lemmes and von Sonntag 1982). 

Miranda MA, Perez-Prieto J, Font-Sanchis E, Scaiano JC (2000) Five-membered-ring 9-1-2 radicals direct detection and comparison with other hypervalent iodine radicals. Org Lett 1 1587-1589 Muiioz F, Schuchmann MN.OIbrich G, von Sonntag C (2000) Common intermediates in the OH-radi-cal-induced oxidation of cyanide and formamide. J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 2 655-659 Nagarajan V, Fessenden RW (1985) Flash photolysis of transient radicals. 1. X2" with X = Cl, Br, I, and SCN. J Phys Chem 89 2330-2335... 

V. V. Zhdankin, in his chapter, summarizes the use of hypervalent iodine reagents for carbon-carbon bond formations. The generation of radicals with hypervalent iodine compounds is used in decarboxylative alkylations of organic substrates, whereas phenols and phenol ethers seem to be ideal substrates for... 

In contrast to diaryl-A3-iodanyl radicals, cyclic dialkyl-A3-iodanyl radicals seem to be intermediates in the atom-transfer [Eq. (87)]. In the laser photolysis of diiodoalkanes, formation of the cyclic hypervalent iodanyl radicals 94 was detected by UV absorption spectra as intermediates with lifetimes around 9.5 x IQ 6 s (94a), 1.4 x 10 5 s (94b), and 4.4 x IQ-6 s (94c) [162]. 

The use of hypervalent iodine reagents in carbon-carbon bond forming reactions is summarized with particular emphasis on applications in organic synthesis. The most important recent methods involve the radical decarboxylative alkylation of organic substrates with [bis(acyloxy)iodo]arenes, spirocyclization of para- and ortho-substituted phenols, the intramolecular oxidative coupling of phenol ethers, and the reactions of iodonium salts and ylides. A significant recent research activity is centered in the area of the transition metal-mediated coupling reactions of the alkenyl-, aryl-, and alkynyliodonium salts. 

The five-membered hypervalent iodine heterocycles, benziodoxoles, are commonly used as convenient radical precursors [3,33]. The main advantage of benziodoxoles over the non-cyclic hypervalent iodine reagents is the higher thermal stability allowing the preparation of otherwise unstable derivatives with I-Br, I-OOR, I-N3, and I-CN bonds. The stable cyanobenziodoxoles 36-38 are prepared in one step by the reaction of cyanotrimethylsilane with the respective hydroxybenziodoxoles 35 (Scheme 16) [34, 35], or from acetoxybenziodoxole... 

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