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Examples include pyrolysis of an alkylbenzene homogeneous aldehyde hydrogenation olefin hydroformylation to alcohol with paraffin by-product formation, aldehyde condensation to heavy ends, and olefin isomerization cyclo-addition reactions and hydrogen-halide reactions. 

In contrast to earlier interpretations gas phase decarbonylation of ionized 2,3,4,5-tetraphenyl-2,4-cyclopentadienone (147) does not result in the formation of an ionized tetraphenyl-substituted tetrahedrane (148), but yields exclusively the isomeric cyclo butadiene derivative (149) (Scheme 24). 

Cg Aromatic Reactions with Hydrogen. The mild acid nature of the family of aluminophosphate based sieves renders them selective for a number of rearrangements as observed in the reactions of olefins and paraffins described above. This property as well as their apparent low disproportionation activity observed in the alkylation of toluene suggests that they be evaluated as the acid function in bifunctional Cg aromatic isomerization. As described above, cyclo-olefins are most likely involved in the conversion of ethylbenzene to xylenes. Strong acid functions, such as in mordenite, actively isomerize cyclo-olefinic intermediates but also catalyze ring-opening reactions which lead to loss of aromatics. A more selective acid function must still effectively interconvert ethyl cyclohexene to dimethylcyclohexenes but must leave the cyclohexene rings intact. 

The cascade is initiated by a conrotatory 8w-electron ring closure of the polyene carboxylic acids 20, 21 to the isomeric cyclo-octatrienes 22 and 23, respectively, which subsequently undergo a disrotatory 6 r-elec-tron cyclization to 24 and 25, respectively. Termination of the cascade by an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction yields either the tetracyclic endiandric acid 26a, b or the bridged derivative 27. 

General Systems.—Allinger et al. have applied the force-field method to calculations of the energy and conformation of cyclic non-conjugated olefins, including cycloheptene, isomeric cyclo-octeries, cyclo-octadienes, and cyclo-decenes, and cis,cis-cyclodeca-l,6-diene the latter is predicted to exist as a 65 35 chair-boat mixture. Similar calculations have been carried out for various cyclic ketones. Cycloheptanone is expected to exist as a mixture of conformers, whereas cyclo-octanone and cyclononanone should exist as (1) and (2), respectively. The conformation (3 X = Hj) predicted for cyclo-... 

CsHi2RhCl]2 is formed from which the free cyclo-octa-1,5-diene may be obtained by displacement, without isomerization. Obviously, cyclo-octa-dienes are isomerized readily by aqueous solutions of rhodium trichloride but only the 1,5-diene forms a stable binuclear rhodium complex. The Group VI metal carbonyls also isomerize cyclo-octa-1,3-diene giving... 

COT is prepared by the polymerization of ethyne at moderate temperature and pressure in the presence of nickel salts. The molecule is non-planar and behaves as a typical cyclic olefin, having no aromatic properties. It may be catalytically hydrogenated to cyclo-octene, but with Zn and dil. sulphuric acid gives 1,3,6-cyclooclairiene. It reacts with maleic anhydride to give an adduct, m.p. 166 C, derived from the isomeric structure bicyclo-4,2,0-octa-2,4,7-triene(I) ... 

DimeriZa.tlon. A special case of the [2 + 2] cyclo additions is the dimerization of ketenes. Of the six possible isomeric stmctures, only the 1,3-cyclobutanediones and the 2-oxetanones (P-lactones) are usually formed. Ketene itself gives predominandy (80—90%) the lactone dimer, 4-methylene-2-oxetanone (3), called diketene [674-82-8], approximately 5% is converted to the symmetrical dimer, 1,3-cyclobutanedione [15506-53-3] (4) which undergoes enol-acetylation to so-called triketene [38425-52-4] (5) (44). 

Reaction of A with water under kinetic control conditions leads to the 5)5,19-cyclo-6 -ol (69a), whereas under conditions of thermodynamic control A rearranges to the isomeric cation B which reacts with water to give the B-homo-7)5-ol (70a). 

In contrast to the behavior of homoallylic alcohol (70a) when treated with methanesulfonyl chloride is pyridine, heating A -19-methanesulfonate (68b) in pyridine gives the 5)5,19-cyclo-6-ene (72). Vinylcyclopropane (72) is inert to the conditions used for converting vinylcyclopropane (73) to the A ° -B-homo-7)5-ol (70a). The latter results are only consistent with the existence of two discrete isomeric carbonium ion intermediates which give rise to isomeric elimination products. °... 

In the chloro series, the compounds to be considered are N=S-C1, cyc/o-N3S3Cl3, cyclo-N3S3CI3O3, and cyc/o-N4S4Cl2 the ionic compounds [S4N3]" "C1 and [cyc/o-N2S3Cl]+Cl and [c<2/ <2-N(SCl)2] [BCl4] together with various isomeric oxo- and fluoro-chloro derivatives. Thi-azyl chloride, NSCl, is best obtained by pyrolysis of the trimer in vacuum at 100°. It can also be made by the reaction of CI2 on NSF (note that... 

Still another possibility of isomerization is illustrated by the easy interconversions between pentaphenylpentadienoie aeid chloride and 2-chloropentaphenyl-3-eyelopenten-l-one. Interestingly, 2,4,6-trimethylpjrrylium iodide maj be sublimed without decomposition in a vacuum, possibly as a covalent 6-iodo-4-methyl-3,5-heptadien-2-one or 2-iodo-2,4,6-trimethyl-2H-pyran valenee isomer. In a related case, chlorocyclopropenes are covalent and are converted into cyclo-propenium derivatives only by the action of Friedel-Crafts catalysts (electron-deficient metallic chlorides) (ef. also Section II,C, 2,c.)... 

Oxepin is the Hantzsch-Widman name for a seven-membered unsaturated heterocycle with one oxygen atom and the numbering follows the convention for monocyclic heterocycles. However, the isomeric benzene oxide has different numbering in agreement with the 7-oxabi-cyclo[4.1.0]hepta-2,4-diene structure, position 1 now corresponds to position 2 in the oxepin. 

A small amount of this mixture can also be obtained when the isomeric 3-oxatetracy-clo[3.1.1.02,4.06,7]heptene is heated to 145°C. The major product, however, is 2-oxabi-cyclo[3.2.0]hepta-3,6-diene.113 2,3,5,6,9-Pentamethyl-4-oxa-9-azatetracyclo[5.3.0.02,6.03 5]dec-l(7)-ene-8,10-dione readily isomerizes to the corresponding oxepino[4,5-c]pyrrole. 14... 

In 2000, it was proposed that the regioselectivity of the [3 + 2] cycloaddition of fullerenes could be modified under microwave irradiation. Under conventional heating, N-methylazomethine yhde and fullerene-(C7o) gave three different isomeric cycloadducts because of the low symmetry of C70 vs. Ceo. Using microwave irradiation and o-dichlorobenzene as a solvent, only two isomers were obtained, the major cycloadduct 114 being kinetically favored (Scheme 39) [75]. The same authors had previously reported the 1,3-dipolar cyclo addition of pyrazole nitrile oxides, generated in situ, to Geo under either conventional heating or microwave irradiation. The electrochemical characteristics of the cycloadduct obtained with this method made this product a candidate for photophysical apphcations [76]. 

The rearrangement of the intermediate alkyl cation by hydrogen or methyl shift and the cyclization to a cyclopropane by a CH-insertion has been studied by deuterium labelling [298]. The electrolysis of cyclopropylacetic acid, allylacetic acid or cyclo-butanecarboxylic acid leads to mixtures of cyclopropylcarbinyl-, cyclobutyl- and butenylacetamides [299]. The results are interpreted in terms of a rapid isomerization of the carbocation as long as it is adsorbed at the electrode, whilst isomerization is inhibited by desorption, which is followed by fast solvolysis. 

Isomeric forms of cyclo-Se and cyclo-Sj can also be suspected as components of liquid sulfur at high temperatures. However, their relative energies have not yet been calculated on a high enough level of theory to obtain reliable data. 

The keto-derivative 21 is of interest because the relatively unreactive 3,5-cyclo-heptadienone substrate, which towards most dienophiles reacts with double bond isomerization, affords the desired endoperoxide (Eq. 16)33). Diimide reduction proceeds smoothly, leading to the keto-peroxide 21 in over 90% yield. 

Thus the range of bicyclic peroxides available via peroxymercuration may be quite limited. Nevertheless where the method works best, namely with 1,5- and 1,4-cyclo-octadiene, it makes a valuable contribution in that each peroxymercuration is regiospecific and leads to a dioxabicyclodecane that is isomeric with the [4.2.2] compound 23 available via photooxygenation (Eq. 18). Furthermore, the [3.3.2] compounds derived from 1,5-cyclooctadiene are, to the best of our knowledge, the only bicyclic peroxides obtained to date that do not contain either a 5- or a 6-membered dioxacycloalkane ring. 

The reaction of benzyne with furan was the first example of a Diels-Alder reaction of benzyne to be studied b. No authenticated examples of arynes are known which fail to give cyclo-adducts with furan i38>. The tetrahalogenobenzynes all form the expected adducts 103, X = F 6), Cl 57>i39)j gr 59) or i 59)). d0 other highly fluorinated arynes i40,i4i>. The isomeric adducts (104) and (105) have been detected by 19F n.m.r. spectroscopy when the dilithio-compound (12) was allowed to decompose in the presence of furan 28 103). 

Cyclopentane has the low chemical reactivity which is typical of saturated hydrocarbons, while 2-pentene is much more reactive. Similarly, ring structures containing double bonds, called cyclo-alkenes, can be shown to be isomeric with alkynes. 

The isomerization reactions in the skeleton of the reactant prior to aromatization clearly involve the basic processes which we have already discussed in some detail. In passing we may note that conversion to aromatic is so favorable at any temperature (say) >350°C that this would be, of itself, sufficient reason for an adsorbed cyclo-Ce intermediate to be of negligible importance compared to cyclo-C5 as a pathway for skeletal isomerization at these temperatures. 

The products for which the cyclo-C4 isomerization intermediate has been suggested, can also be explained by a sequence of vinyl insertions. Thus, two vinyl insertions would be adequate to explain the formation of m-xylene from 2,3,4-trimethylpentane. Although we have seen in previous sections that extensive reaction sequences are possible on platinum, isomerization by a single vinyl insertion process on chromium oxide is relatively difficult, and the chance of two occurring in sequence would therefore be expected to be very low. In fact, the proportion of m-xylene is comparable to that of o- and p-xylene. 

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