Neutral propene

Various forms of radiation have been used to produce ions in sufficient quantitites to yield neutral products for subsequent analysis. In principle, it should be possible to use intense beams of UV below ionization threshold for this purpose. To date, however, efforts to collect neutrals from resonant multiphoton ionization (REMPI) have not succeeded. In one experiment, 1 mbar of gaseous -propyl phenyl ether was irradiated at room temperature with a 0.1 W beam of 266 nm ultraviolet (from an 800 Hz laser that gives 8 n pulses) concurrent with a 0.5 W beam at 532 nm. The beams were intense enough not only to ionize the ether in the mass spectrometer, but also to excite it so that it expels propene. After several hours of irradiation < 10% of the starting material remained. Production of carbon monoxide and acetylene (decomposition products of the phenoxy group) could be detected by infrared absorption spectroscopy, but the yield of neutral propene (as measured by NMR spectroscopy) was infinitesimal. 

As a reaction initiating species, isoprene radical cation CsHg can initiate co-oligoma zation by direct attack on a neutral propene monomer which may result in a cyclic product as shown below. 

Both cis- and rrans-l-arylsulfonyl-2-arylsulfenyl propenes (56) underwent a Smiles rearrangement under electron impact at 20 and 70 eV and formed a diarylsulfide ion [M — 104]+ (equation 27a)39 through a process where a bond between the R C H group and the sulfide sulfur is formed and a rearomatization occurs by a loss of the neutral thiirene dioxide or a simultaneous expulsion of SOz and propyne. The ion m/z 148 was also obtained from all of the sulfonyl-sulfides, 56 (equation 27b) and here the loss of R2 seemed to be related to the bond strength39. In addition to the above compounds 56 exhibited some simple cleavages before and after sulfone-sulfinate rearrangements. 

A clear experimental estimate of the intrinsic reaction barrier to olefin insertion is still missing. The NMR analysis of Erker and co-workers estimated the intrinsic activation barrier for 1-olefin insertion into the Zr-C bond of the (MeCp)2Zr( j.-C4H6-borate betaine) to be about 10-11 kcal/mol [69, 77]. Very recent NMR experiments of Casey and co-workers on the propene insertion into the Y-C c-bond of the neutral group 3 (C5Me5)YCH2CH2CH(CH3)2 system resulted in a AG of 11.5 kcal/mol [70],... 

The 1,3-hydrogen shift in propene is one of the model reactions which, despite the fact that it does not occur, is used to illustrate the principles involved in the W.-H. treatment of sigmatropic reactions. The situation for the neutral system... 

Peroxynitrous acid, which has an estimated lifetime of 1-3 s at neutral pH, has been studied through ab initio calculations that suggest that peroxynitrous acid, per-oxyformic acid, and dimethyldioxirane have, despite diverse 0—0 bond energies, similar activation energies for oxygen-atom transfer." The transition-state structures for the epoxidation of ethene and propene with peroxynitrous acid are symmetrical with equal or almost equal bond distances between the spiro oxygen and the carbons of the double bond. 

A a-5-bonded r-alkene (r] ) intermediate (325) has been invoked to account for the hydrogenation of the thiaplatinacycle (324) to the complex (326) in which two hydrogens have been added and a hydrogen shift has occurred." When coordinated to neutral and cationic palladium(II) and platinum(II) centres, the diphosphine 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propene, on treatment with benzylamine, was found to undergo isomerization to coordinated c/i-l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)propene rather than the expected nucleophilic addition to the double bond. 

Until there is a sufficient excess of ethene over [PdH(TPPTS)3] their fast reaction ensures that aU palladium is found in form of tratts-[Pd C(CO)Et (TPPTS)2]. However, at low olefin concentrations (e.g. in biphasic systems with less water-soluble olefins) [PdH(TPPTS)3] can accumulate and through its equihbrium with [Pd(TPPTS)3] (eq. 5.5) can be reduced to metallic palladium. This is why the hydroxycarbonylation of olefins proceeds optimally in the presence of Brpnsted acid cocatalyts with a weekly coordinating anion. Under optimised conditions hydrocarboxylation of propene was catalyzed by PdC + TPPTS with a TOE = 2507 h and l = 57/43 (120 °C, 50 bar CO, [P]/[Pd] = 4, P-CH3C6H4SO3H) [38], In neutral or basic solutions, or in the presence of strongly coordinatmg anions the initial hydride complex cannot be formed, furthermore, the fourth coordination site in the alkyl- and acylpaUadium intermediates may be strongly occupied, therefore no catalysis takes place. 

The water-soluble palladium complex prepared from [Pd(MeCN)4](Bp4)2 and tetrasulfonated DPPP (34, n=3, m=0) catalyzed the copolymerization of CO and ethene in neutral aqueous solutions with much lower activity [21 g copolymer (g Pd) h ] [53] than the organosoluble analogue in methanol. Addition of strong Brpnsted acids with weakly coordinating anions substantially accelerated the reaction, and with a catalyst obtained from the same ligand and from [Pd(OTs)2(MeCN)2] but in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH) 4 kg copolymer was produced per g Pd in one hour [54-56] (Scheme 7.16). Other tetrasulfonated diphosphines (34, n=2, 4 or 5, m=0) were also tried in place of the DPPP derivative, but only the sulfonated DPPB (n=4) gave a catalyst with considerably higher activity [56], Albeit with lower productivity, these Pd-complexes also catalyze the CO/ethene/propene terpolymerization. 

A recent extension of this methodology includes condensation of 44 with a variety of substituted benzaldehydes, furfurals, and thiophene carboxaldehydes afforded analogues of 48 in good to excellent yield as shown in Table 6.2 (Fig. 6.6). These products were completely characterized spectroscopically with an excellent discussion of the effects of substituents on the corresponding UV, IR, MS, and NMR spectra. Neutralization of 48 with sodium bicarbonate in aqueous ethanol produced the corresponding free bases uneventfully. These compounds were evaluated both as cyanine dyes and for biological activity. Condensation of 44 with ( )-3-(5-methylfuran-2-yl)-2-propenal affords the expected E, )-dienes 49a and 49b in 50 and 90% yield, respectively (Fig. 6.7). 

A stirred solution of 7.2 gm (86 mmole) of 2-(methylazo)propene in 100 ml of anhydrous diethyl ether is gradually treated with 22 gm (110 mmole) of 40% peracetic acid. The addition rate is controlled so that gentle refluxing takes place until the color of the azo compound has faded. After completion of the addition, the reaction mixture is allowed to stand for several hours. The reaction mixture is neutralized by the cautious addition of powdered sodium carbonate, and then filtered. Ultimately traces of residual acid are removed by treatment of the filtered reaction mixture with 10 % sodium carbonate solution. The ether layer is separated and dried with anhydrous magnesium sulfate. 

Research Focus Epoxidation of propylene using palladium/titanium zeolite-1 as catalyst Originality This propene epoxidation method occurs in a neutral medium and is... 

To a solution containing BF3 OEt2 (1 mL) in Et20 (10 mL) was added dropwise 3,3-dimethyIcyclo-propene (8 g, 0.12 mol) over a period of 1 h. The temperature was controlled so as not to exceed 42 °C. After the addition was complete the mixture was heated to reflux for 1 h. To the solution was added 2 M NaOH (10 mL). The organic phase was washed neutral with F120, dried (Na2S04) and distilled at reduced pressure to give 3 yield 6.6 g (83%) bp 40-41 =C/12 Torr. 

Reaction D in Figure 22-11 shows a common rearrangement that leads to loss of a neutral molecule with even mass. In ketones with a H atom on the y carbon atom, the H atom can be transferred to 0+. Concomitantly, the Cu—C(1 bond cleaves and a neutral molecule of propene (CH3CH=CH2, 42 Da) is lost. The resulting ion has a mass of 58 Da. 

Vinylpyrroles and vinylindoles are extremely sensitive to acid-catalyzed dimerization and polymerization and it is significant that much of the early research was conducted on systems which were produced in situ. Even by this approach, the dimerization of, for example, 2-(3-indolyl)propene and l-(3-indolyl)-l-phenylethylene was difficult to prevent (see the formation of 110 and 120, Section 3.05.1.2.8). Similarly, although it is possible to isolate ethyl 2-(2- and 3-indolyl)propenoates, they appear to be extremely unstable at room temperature even in the absence of acid (81UP30500) to give [ 4 + 2] cycloadducts of the type (348) (cf. 77JCS(P1)1204>. For many years simple vinylpyrroles also eluded isolation, on account of their facile acid-catalyzed polymerization. Application of the Wittig reaction, however, permits the synthesis of vinyl-pyrroles and -indoles under relatively mild and neutral conditions (see Section 3.05.2.5). In contrast, heteroarylvinyl ketones, esters, nitriles and nitro compounds, obtained by condensation of the appropriate activated methylene compound with the heteroaryl aldehydes (see Section 3.05.2.5), are thermally stable and... 

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