Ions, as intermediates

In some of these papers (e.g., Weiss et al., 1984) it is mentioned that various attempts to synthesize stable aliphatic diazonium salts failed, although the identified reaction products indicated the involvement of aliphatic diazonium ions as intermediates (see also Olah et al., 1966). 

Tropinone is a structural component of several alkaloids, including atropine. The synthesis is based on a double Mannich process with iminium ions as intermediates. The Mannich reaction in itself is a three-component domino process, which is one of the first domino reactions developed by humankind. 

Acetoxylation proceeds mostly via the radical cation of the olefin. Aliphatic alkenes, however, undergo allylic substitution and rearrangement predominantly rather than addition [224, 225]. Aryl-substituted alkenes react by addition to vic-disubstituted acetates, in which the dia-stereoselectivity of the product formation indicates a cyclic acetoxonium ion as intermediate [226, 227]. In acenaphthenes, the cis portion of the diacetoxy product is significantly larger in the anodic process than in the chemical ones indicating that some steric shielding through the electrode is involved [228]. 

Ethylation, which involves an unstable ethylcarbenium ion as intermediate, is much slower (1500 times over AICI3) than isopropylation. It is also the case in benzene alkylation with propene for the undesired formation of n-propylbenzene, which involves a primary n-propyl carbocation. Furthermore, as alkyl substituents activate the aromatic ring, consecutive alkylation of the primary product occurs with a greater rate than the first alkylation step ( 2 > i)-... 

N-Acyliminium ions as intermediates in alkaloid synthesis, 32, 271 (1988) Ajmaline-Sarpagine alkaloids, 8, 789 (1965), 11, 41 (1968)... 

The Pictet-Spengler reaction is the method of choice for the preparation of tetrahydro-P-carbolines, which represent structural elements of several natural products such as biologically active alkaloids. It proceeds via a condensation of a carbonyl compound with a tryptamine followed by a Friedel-Crafts-type cyclization. In 2004, Jacobsen et al. reported the first catalytic asymmetric variant [25]. This acyl-Pictet-Spengler reaction involves an N-acyliminium ion as intermediate and is promoted by a chiral thiourea (general Brpnsted acid catalysis). 

Nitrosation, diazotation, and deamination processes take place in the reactions resulting in alcohols and N2 gas as final products. From the studies on the pH-dependence of the rate constants at different temperatures, a mechanism was proposed involving diazonium ions as intermediates. With the prediction that coordination to the metal could stabilize the otherwise extremely reactive diazonium species, the mechanism of these reactions are being studied in organic media. 

A central feature of the mechanism that accounts for the catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons by appropriately cation exchanged zeolites is the formation of carbonium ions (also designated carbocations and alkylcarbenium ions) as intermediates. Many other reactions for which aluminosilicates, be they clay-or zeolite-based, also predicate (320) the existence of carbonium ion intermediates, formed usually by proton donation from Bronsted acid sites, have been discussed earlier (Section III,K). 

The eaq + H reaction, which also proceeds at a diffusion-controlled rate (58), most probably produces H as a primary product. The reaction e q + H - H has a negative AF of 54 kcal./mole (neglecting the energy of hydration of H which is small) (26) and the final product will be H2. As already pointed out, it is hard to prove the existence of hydride ions as intermediates in aqueous solutions. It should be noted here that although the reactions eaq + eaq and e aq + H were shown to produce H2, these reactions probably are not the source for the formation of the molecular hydrogen in the radiolysis of water (16,114). 

The term Kolbe electrolysis is sometimes exclusively used to denote the formation of alkyl dimers R-R, path a) in Eq. (94) (see Sect. 12.1), while the reaction leading to substituted alkyls, R-Nu, via carbonium ions as intermediates, path b) in Eq. (94), is named non-Kolbe electrolysis, abnormal Kolbe electrolysis,or... 

Cabaleiro and Johnson (1967) report that the addition of chlorine to -methyl cinnamate in chloroform or acetic acid is syn-selective, SS 0-75, in chloroform and acetic acid acetoxychloro derivatives are produced as well. Again, Dewar and Fahey (1964) argue that the normal course of addition of hydrogen halides onto olefins is a polar electrophilic process involving classical carbonium ions as intermediates and leading mostly but not exclusively to cis-adducts. A syn-preference was found in the additions of deuterium bromide to acenaphthylene, indene, and cis- and fraws-phenylpropene. In the case of indene, phenylpropene and methyl cinnamate, which are styrene analogs, concerted syn addition is symmetry-allowed (see bottom of p. 273). 

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