Migration of hydrogen

This 1,3-migration of hydrogen was also observed when 40 reacted with Lawesson s reagent to produce the dithiolactone 41. However, when y-hydroxy-a,P-unsaturated aldehyde 42 was reacted under similar conditions, thiophene 43 was prepared efficiently. These results are not surprising considering that the oxidation state of 42 is equivalent to the traditional saturated 1,4-dicarbonyl substrates of the Paal thiophene reaction via tautomerization of the double bond, and aromaticity is reestablished in the fully conjugated 43. 

It is of interest that the reversible migration of hydrogen between positions 1 and 2 of thi.s sj stem corre.spond to a 1,5-sigmatropie shift, a proee.s.s predicted to be favorable on theoretical grounds [R. R. Woodward and R. Hoffmann, J. Am. Ghem. Soc. 87, 2511 (1965)] and known to occur with exceptional facility (R. B. Woodward in Aromaticity, Spec. Publ. No. 21, p. 217. The Chemical Society, London, 1967). 

With aldoximes (R = H) a migration of hydrogen is seldom found. The Beckmann rearrangement therefore does not give access to iV-unsubstituted amides. 

The actual reported results bear out this analysis. Thus a thermal [1,3] migration is allowed to take place only antarafacially, but such a transition state would be extremely strained, and thermal [1,3] sigmatropic migrations of hydrogen are unknown." On the other hand, the photochemical pathway allows suprafacial [1,3] shifts, and a few such reactions are known, an example being " ... 

By varying the temperature at which the experiments were conducted and the distance between the activator and the sensor, the data were obtained (Fig. 4.17) which allowed us to calculate the activation energy of migration of hydrogen adatoms (protium and deuterium) along the carrier surface and coefficients of lateral diffusion of hydrogen atoms appearing due to the spillover effect (see Table 4.2). 

Radical migration of hydrogen is also known, though only over longer distances than 1,2-shifts, e.g. a 1,5-shift to oxygen via a 6-membered cyclic T.S. in the photolysis of the nitrite ester (129)—an example of the Barton reaction ... 

An alternative approach by Zhu et al. (1990) yielded a similar activation energy (for P), while providing new information on the donor-hydrogen dissociation reaction. With electrical measurements they studied the electric-field induced migration of hydrogen that is thermally released from PH... 

The migration of hydrogen through an allyl system is rearrangement of order 1, 3 because the univalent hydrogen move from C-l to C-3. 

Let there be the migration of hydrogen (or deuterium atom or an alkyl radical) in an alkene of the type. 

This is also a [1, 5] thermal migration of hydrogen. The hydrogen migrates so fast in preference to the methyl group that at room temperature one sees a singlet for the methyl group. 

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