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The problem of the synthesis of highly substituted olefins from ketones according to this principle was solved by D.H.R. Barton. The ketones are first connected to azines by hydrazine and secondly treated with hydrogen sulfide to yield 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines. In this heterocycle the substituents of the prospective olefin are too far from each other to produce problems. Mild oxidation of the hydrazine nitrogens produces d -l,3,4-thiadiazolines. The decisive step of carbon-carbon bond formation is achieved in a thermal reaction a nitrogen molecule is cleaved off and the biradical formed recombines immediately since its two reactive centers are hold together by the sulfur atom. The thiirane (episulfide) can be finally desulfurized by phosphines or phosphites, and the desired olefin is formed. With very large substituents the 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines do not form with hydrazine. In such cases, however, direct thiadiazoline formation from thiones and diazo compounds is often possible, or a thermal reaction between alkylideneazinophosphoranes and thiones may be successful (D.H.R. Barton, 1972, 1974, 1975). 

Condensa.tlon, This term covers all processes, not previously iacluded ia other process definitions, where water or hydrogen chloride is eliminated ia a reaction involving the combination of two or more molecules. The important condensation reactions are nitrogen and sulfur heterocycle formation, amide formation from acid chlorides, formation of substituted diphenyl amines, and misceUaneous cyclizations. 

The subscripts c, r,f, d, and i denote chain, ring, formation, decomposition, and isomerization, respectively. and F, are the amoimts of nitrogen derived from the arenediazoazide and arylpentazole, respectively. 

C. At that temperature some endothermic reactions take place that at lower temperatures are not spontaneous under standard conditions (pure substances, each at I bar). Estimate the temperatures at which the following stratospheric reactions become spontaneous under standard conditions. Which ones could occur during re-entry of the space shuttle (a) The formation of nitrogen monoxide from nitrogen and oxygen ... 

A closely related reaction is formation of nitrogen ylids from quaternary ammonium salts (see 17-7) ... 

In the case of NO reduction by propene, the only detectable reaction products were CO2, N2, N2O and H2O. The overall mass balance was found to close within 5% as observed by a combination of GC and mass spectroscopic analyses. Figure 3 shows the effect of varying the catalyst potential on the rate of production of CO2, N2, N2O and on the selectivity towards nitrogen formation, Sn2- As can be seen from this figure, both the CO2 and N2... 

Until recently, most of the evidence for the rate-determining formation of a nitrene intermediate came from experiments in which the nitrene was trapped or from the temperatures required to effect decomposition and the nature of the products formed. Horner and Christmann 5> observed that the rate of nitrogen evolution from /-toluenesulphonyl... 

Violent explosions which occurred at —100 to —180°C in ammonia synthesis gas units were traced to the formation of explosive addition products of dienes and oxides of nitrogen, produced from interaction of nitrogen oxide and oxygen. Laboratory experiments showed that the addition products from 1,3-butadiene or cyclopentadiene formed rapidly at about — 150°C, and ignited or exploded on warming to —35 to — 15°C. The unconjugated propadiene, and alkenes or acetylene reacted slowly and the products did not ignite until +30 to +50°C [1], This type of derivative ( pseudo-nitrosite ) was formerly used (Wallach) to characterise terpene hydrocarbons. Further comments were made later [2],... 

Formation of ring C of the 2,3,4,4 ,5,6-hexahydro-l-oxo-l//-pyrazino[l,2-tf]quinoxalines 255 from [6+0] atom fragments, by bond formation 7 to the ring junction nitrogen starting from the appropriately substituted quinoxalines 254 is described in a Japanese patent (Scheme 47) <1999WO99/33804>. 

H shift more readily occurs with loss of nitrogen.22 Excited diazirines decay by fluorescence, carbene formation, or 1,2-H(D) migration coupled with N2 loss. C-D bonds are stronger than C-H bonds, so that deuteration retards the latter pathway and therefore RIES, leading to an increase in both fluorescence and carbene formation from 35-d6 22... 

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