Methane addition reactions with

In H abstraction, a hydrogen radical reacts with a molecule (primarily a paraffin) and produces a hydrogen molecule and a radical. In the same way, a methyl radical reacts to produce a radical and methane. Similar reactions with other radicals (ethyl and propyl) can also occur. In addition, some radicals like H, CH, etc, are added to olefins to form heavier radicals. 

Many phenols undergo aldol-like addition reactions with carbonyl compounds in the presence of acids or bases. Thus benzenol reacts with methanal under mild alkaline conditions to form (4-hydroxyphenyl)methanol ... 

A 10 mole mixture of propyne and methane undergoes an addition reaction with 4 moles of H2. After the reaction has finished, there are only propane and methane gases left in the container. What is the number of moles of CH in the initial mixture ... 

Several new complexes of iminophosphoranes have been reported by Cavell and co-workers (Scheme 9). Reaction of dimethyl zinc with bis- trimethylsilyl-imino-diphenylphosphorano methane (61) yields zinc complex (62) via elimination of methane. Complex (62) did not react with adamantyl nitrile or isonitrile but does undergo nucleophilic addition reactions with hetereroallenes such as carbodiimides and isocyanates. Thus, treatment of (62) with adamantyl isocyanate produces the novel tripodal alkyl zinc complex (63). Iminophos-phorane (61) reacts with [Sm(NCy2)3(THF)] and tetrakis(benzyl)zirconium(IV)... 

Snider and coworkers125 have reported the Lewis acid catalyzed [2 + 2]cycloaddition of (phenylsulfonyl)allene 112. The reaction with methylenecyclohexane in dichloro-methane gives a 25% yield of an 8 1 mixture of 210 and 211 (equation 132). An addition reaction of l-(p-tolylsulfonyl)ethylene with enamines gives aminocyanobutanes via the zwitterionic intermediate (212) as shown in equation 133126. 

Waters61 have measured relative rates of p-toluenesulfonyl radical addition to substituted styrenes, deducing from the value of p + = — 0.50 in the Hammett plot that the sulfonyl radical has an electrophilic character (equation 21). Further indications that sulfonyl radicals are strongly electrophilic have been obtained by Takahara and coworkers62, who measured relative reactivities for the addition reactions of benzenesulfonyl radicals to various vinyl monomers and plotted rate constants versus Hammett s Alfrey-Price s e values these relative rates are spread over a wide range, for example, acrylonitrile (0.006), methyl methacrylate (0.08), styrene (1.00) and a-methylstyrene (3.21). The relative rates for the addition reaction of p-methylstyrene to styrene towards methane- and p-substituted benzenesulfonyl radicals are almost the same in accord with their type structure discussed earlier in this chapter. 

We came up with the idea of using a dummy ligand, as shown in Scheme 1.23 [34]. Reaction of dimethylzinc with our chiral modifier (amino-alcohol) 46 provided the methylzinc complex 62, which was subsequently reacted with 1 equiv of MeOH, to form chiral zinc alkoxide 63, generating a total of 2 moles of methane. Addition of lithium acetylide to 63 would generate an ate complex 64. The ate complex 64 should exist in equilibrium with the monomeric zincate 65 and the dimer 66. However, we expected that the monomer ate complex 64 and the mono-... 

Copper enzymes are involved in reactions with a large number of other, mostly inorganic substrates. In addition to its role in oxygen and superoxide activation described above, copper is also involved in enzymes that activate methane, nitrite and nitrous oxide. The structure of particulate methane mono-oxygenase from the methanotrophic bacteria Methylococcus capsulatus has been determined at a resolution of 2.8 A. It is a trimer with an a3P33 polypeptide arrangement. Two metal centres, modelled as mononuclear and dinuclear copper, are located in the soluble part of each P-subunit, which resembles CcOx subunit II. A third metal centre, occupied by Zn in the crystal, is located within the membrane. 

The bromoallene (-)-kumausallene (62) was isolated in 1983 from the red alga Laurencia nipponica Yamada [64a], The synthesis of the racemic natural product by Overman and co-workers once again employed the SN2 -substitution of a propargyl mesylate with lithium dibromocuprate (Scheme 18.22) [79]. Thus, starting from the unsymmetrically substituted 2,6-dioxabicyclo[3.3.0]octane derivative 69, the first side chain was introduced by Swern oxidation and subsequent Sakurai reaction with the allylsilane 70. The resulting alcohol 71 was protected and the second side chain was attached via diastereoselective addition of a titanium acetylide. The synthesis was concluded by the introduction of two bromine atoms anti-selective S -substitution of the bulky propargyl mesylate 72 was followed by Appel bromination (tetrabromo-methane-triphenylphosphine) of the alcohol derived from deprotection of the bromoallene 73. 

The oxidation and the partial oxidation method, the CO2 from an ammonia plant in a reaction with methane, and water all produce different ratios of CO and H2. In addition, CO2 can be removed by solvent extraction. So, the trick is to use two or three of these processes to get the C0 H2 ratio to about 1 2. 

The procedure is based on the reaction of lithinm ethynyltellurolates (generated by the successive treatment of acetylenes with n-BuLi and elemental tellnrinm) with iodochloromethane giving ethynylchloromethyl tellurides. Subseqnent reaction with lithinm tellnride forms lithinm(ethynyltelluro) methane tellurolates which cycUze via an intramolecnlar addition of the tellnrolate to the ethynyltelluro moiety. ... 

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