Planar transition states

Whereas the barrier for pyramidal inversion is low for second-row elements, the heavier elements have much higher barriers to inversion. The preferred bonding angle at trivalent phosphorus and sulfur is about 100°, and thus a greater distortion is required to reach a planar transition state. Typical barriers for trisubstituted phosphines are BOSS kcal/mol, whereas for sulfoxides the barriers are about 35-45 kcal/mol. Many phosphines and sulfoxides have been isolated in enantiomerically enriched form, and they undergo racemization by pyramidal inversion only at high temperature. ... 

Mixed halide additions are most satisfactorily interpreted as proceeding via a halonium complex (1), in which the less electronegative halogen approaches from the less hindered a-side. The energetic preference for a pm-planar transition state leading to the diaxial product (2) is sufliciently great that the... 

FIGURE 16.7 The proline racemase reaction. Pyrrole-2-carboxylate and A-l-pyrroline-2-carboxylate mimic the planar transition state of the reaction. 

The racemization of the phosphine (118) has been followed by optical rotation. The lack of a solvent effect indicates that there is little change in dipole moment in the formation of the planar transition state. Circular dichroism has been used to study the interactions of nucleotides with proteins and DNA with a histone. Faraday effects have been reviewed. Refraction studies on chloro-amino-phosphines, fluoro-amino-phosphines, and some chalcogenides are reported. 

The transition state TS[7b 8b] that occurs at a distance of 1.9-2.1 A of the emerging C-C a-bond can adopt two different conformations. A square-planar transition state is crossed along the path for formation of all-t-CDT, in which the trans double bond is not coordinated to nickel. On the other hand, the c,c,Z-CDT and e,/,z-CDT generating paths involve a square-pyramidal transition state, in which the coordinated trans double bond is... 

The c,c,t-CDT and c,t,t-CDT production paths are shown to be not assisted by incoming butadiene, while the square-planar transition state involved along the all-t-CDT path is significantly stabilized by an axial coordination of butadiene. Hence, the all-t-CDT route becomes the most facile of the three CDT production paths with a free-energy barrier for reductive elimination of 23 kcal mol-1, that perfectly corresponds with experimental estimates.44 Accordingly, the production of C12-cyclo-oligomers requires moderate reaction conditions,9 although 7b represents a thermodynamic sink within the catalytic cycle. 

On the basis of all the above mentioned results, Russian researchers provided an explanation for the stereodynamics of isoxazolidines shown in Scheme 3.166. There is a so-called combined inversion-buckling process (417), which occurs through a planar transition state A with an unhybridized p electron pair at the nitrogen atom (see Scheme 3.166). 

All the reactions were carried out at 0°C, with the substrate (1 equivalent), ketone (3 equivalents), Oxone (5 equivalents), and NaHCC>3 in CH3CN aqueous EDTA for 2 hours. High enantioselectivity can generally be obtained for trans- and trisubstituted olefins. The favored spiro and planar transition states have been proposed for ketone 130-mediated rrans-stilbene epoxidation (Scheme 4-48). 

The reaction via a planar transition state is n2s + n2s. Here only one of the two new C—C bonds can be formed. This will raise its activation energy impossible to be reached. So there are two (4q + 2) electron suprafacial components and no antarafacial component. Since the total number of counting components is two, an even number, the reaction is thermally disallowed. 

Calculations on two Wittig reactants, alkylidenetriphenylphosphorane (a non-stabilized ylid) and its benzylidene analogue (a semi-stabilized one), have been used to identify the origin of the product selectivities for the two classes. A planar transition state gives a trani-oxaphosphetane intermediate, while a puckered one leads to cis-. These two transition states were favoured by the semi- and un-stabilized reactants, respectively. 

Two extreme epoxidation modes, spiro and planar, are shown in Fig. 9 [33, 34, 53, 54, 76-85]. Baumstark and coworkers had observed that the epoxidation of cis-hexene of dimethyldioxirane was seven to nine times faster than the corresponding epoxidation of tran.y-hexene [79, 80]. The relative rates of the epoxidation of cisitrans olefins suggest that spiro transition state is favored over planar. In spiro transition states, the steric interaction for cw-olefm is smaller than the steric interaction for fran -olefm. In planar transition states, similar steric interactions would be expected for both cis- and trans-olefms. Computational studies also showed that the spiro transition state is the optimal transition state for oxygen atom transfer from dimethyldioxirane to ethylene, presumably due to the stabilizing interactions... 

Fig. 9 The spiro and planar transition states for the dioxirane epoxidation of olefins...

The stereochemistry of the resnlting epoxidation products using chiral ketones, such as ketone 26, could provide new insights about the epoxidation transition states. Studies showed that the epoxidation of trans- and trisubstituted olefins with ketone 26 mainly goes through the spiro transition state (spiro A) (Fig. 10). Planar transition state B competes with spiro A to give the opposite enantiomer [53, 54]. Hence, factors that influence the competition between spiro A and planar B will also affect the enantiomeric excess of the resulting epoxides. Spiro A can be further... 

The barrier to inversion at nitrogen in A-heteroatom-substituted hydroxamic esters should be greater than that found for hydroxamic esters or simple amides. However, it is likely to be substantially reduced in anomeric amides relative to amines since the planar transition state in which nitrogen is sp hybridized, can benefit from jr-overlap with the carbonyl (Figure 3b) and this has been verified experimenfally Rudchenko has measured an inversion barrier for A,A-dialkoxyureas af AG = 9-11 kcalmoH and fhose of acyclic dialkoxyamines fypicaUy af AG = 20-22 kcalmoH ... 

In the course of //-elimination (Figure 1-11) the metal has to have a vacant site cis to the alkyl substituent, where the hydride can coordinate. The reaction goes through a near planar transition state, which means that in substrates, where such a conformation is disfavoured by the organic moiety, the //-hidridc elimination might become far too slow for practical applications. 

The molecule 8 is a particularly graphic example of the need for a planar transition state. In 8 each Cl has an adjacent hydrogen trans to it, and if planarity of leaving groups... 

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