Proton elimination

The resulting macrocyclic ligand was then metallated with nickel(II) acetate. Hydride abstraction by the strongly electrophilic trityl cation and proton elimination resulted in the formation of carbon-carbon double bonds (T.J. Truex, 1972). 

The submitters have shown that these reactions proceed by dehydro-chlorination of the acid chloride to the ketene, which is then trapped by reaction with the phosphorane. The resulting betaine decomposes to the allenic ester via an oxaphosphetane. In contrast, the reaction of acid chlorides with 2 equivalents of phosphoranes involves initial acylation of the phosphorane followed by proton elimination from the phosphonium salt. ... 

The acetoxy dienone (218) gives phenol (220). Here, an alternative primary photoreaction competes effectively with the dienone 1,5-bonding expulsion of the lOjS-acetoxy substituent and hydrogen uptake from the solvent (dioxane). In the case of the hydroxy analog (219) the two paths are balanced and products from both processes, phenol (220) and diketone (222), are isolated. In the formation of the spiro compound (222) rupture of the 1,10-bond in the dipolar intermediate (221) predominates over the normal electron transmission in aprotic solvents from the enolate moiety via the three-membered ring to the electron-deficient carbon. While in protic solvents and in 10-methyl compounds this process is inhibited by the protonation of the enolate system in the dipolar intermediate [cf. (202), (203)], proton elimination from the tertiary hydroxy group in (221) could reverse the efficiencies of the two oxygens as electron sources. 

The next step is the ahstraction of a hydride ion hy a Lewis acid site from the zeolite surface to form the more stable allylic carhocation. This is again followed hy a proton elimination to form a cyclohexadiene intermediate. The same sequence is followed until the ring is completely aromatized. 

Model experiments with 2,4,4-trimethyl-l-pentene (C8H16, TMP) and H20 / AlBr3/MeBr at —80 °C, ia, with a conventional Lewis acid system which would give AEjjv = —6.6 kcal/mole in isobutylene polymerization, gave exclusively a dimer (C16H32) by proton elimination, ia, by a mechanism which mimics transfer in polymerization ... 

Chromanoxylium cation 4 preferably adds nucleophiles in 8a-position producing 8a-substituted tocopherones 6, similar in structure to those obtained by radical recombination between C-8a of chromanoxyl 2 and coreacting radicals (Fig. 6.4). Addition of a hydroxyl ion to 4, for instance, results in a 8a-hydroxy-tocopherone, which in a subsequent step gives the /zara-tocopherylquinone (7), the main (and in most cases, the only) product of two-electron oxidation of tocopherol in aqueous media. A second interesting reaction of chromanoxylium cation 4 is the loss of aproton at C-5a, producing the o-QM 3. This reaction is mostly carried out starting from tocopherones 6 or /zora-tocopherylquinone (7) under acidic catalysis, so that chromanoxylium 4 is produced in the first step, followed by proton elimination from C-5a. In the overall reaction of a tocopherone 6, a [ 1,4] -elimination has occurred. The central species in the oxidation chemistry of a-tocopherol is the o-QM 3, which is discussed in detail subsequently. 

There are only a few studies of the bromination products of congested alkenes. Such products generally consist of the corresponding allylic bromo-derivatives, which are consistent with /5-proton elimination by the counter-ion from the bromonium ion. For example, the ionic bromination of octamethyl-cyclopentene in CC14 leads exclusively to l,2-di(bromomethyl)hexamethyl-cyclopentene as in Scheme 12 (Mayr et al, 1986). Bromine addition (30) to... 

The transformation (223—>-224) involves elimination of silanol under acid catalysis followed by stabilization of the cation A by proton elimination from the C-3 atom (Scheme 3.155). In this process, the configurations of the stereocenters at the C-4 and C-5 atoms are retained. It should be noted that the siloxy fragment is eliminated from the most favorable axial position. 

Since similar compounds are found in the reaction of the same diene with hydroiodic acid, it has been assumed that the monoiodides were formed by electrophilic addition of HI, which may be due to proton elimination from the first formed ion pair intermediate (equation 80). 

Steric factors during the nucleophilic attack have been invoked to explain the absence of addition products and the high tendency to undergo proton elimination. 

Although HCo(CO)4 is a strong acid in aqueous solution and is capable of protonating even weak bases like dimethylformamide, there is no evidence that it protonates olefins in hydrocarbon solvents to form carbonium ion intermediates which might then rearrange by conventional 1,2-hydride shifts followed by proton elimination ... 

Gao et al. (2006) considered the data on an electron double resonance spectra of the cation-radical in conjunction with the results of calculation within the DFT. The authors established that the methyl group at the double bond of the cyclohexene ring is responsible for deprotonation of the P-carotene cation-radical. This route of proton elimination produces the most stable radical leaving the Jt-conjugation system to be intact. Deprotonation at the polyene methyl groups would... 

For aminophenols, one-electron oxidation and the proton elimination can run together in one stage. This leads to a cation-radical containing O and +NH3 fragments within one and the same molecular carcass (Rhile et al. 2006). Such concerted reactions are classified as proton-coupled electron transfer (Mayer 2004). Proton-coupled electron transfer differs from conventional one-electron redox reaction in the sense that proton motion affects electron transfer. Because the transfers of a proton and an electron proceed in a single step, we can say about the hydrogen-atom transference, (H+ -I- e)=H. It is the fundamental feature of proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions that the proton and electron are transferred simultaneously, but from different places (see Tanko 2006). 

Nentral perylene reacts with N02, giving the cation-radical. Flowever, its formation is, in principle, a result of a-complex splitting. Another possible route of a-complex splitting consists of proton elimination and nitro perylene formation. As experiments show, the nitration of perylene is accompanied with collateral reactions of PerH, such as recombination and interaction with solvent molecules (Eberson and Radner 1985). This testifies to the release of cation-radical. 

Such isomerizations are sometimes desired and sometimes are the cause of or explanation for unwanted structures. In the cationic polymerization forming poly(l-butene), nine different structural units have been found. Classical 1,2-hydride and 1,2-methide shifts, hydride transfer, and proton elimination account for these structures. 

Interestingly, Arduengo observed that Villa was stable with respect to dimerization in the absence of a Brpnsted or Lewis acid catalyst." Similarly, in the absence of an acid catalyst, dimerization of IXb is extremely slow and is first order in carbene. Therefore, the observed formal dimerization of Villa and IXb,c does not involve the coupling of two carbenes, but the nucleophilic attack of one carbene upon its conjugate acid, followed by proton elimination, as already suggested by Chen and Jordan (Scheme 8.13). It is important to keep in mind that even A,A-dialkylimidazolium ions have pXa values of 24 in DMSO, and based on the calculated proton acidity, Alder estimated the pXa values for acyclic diamino-carbenes to be from 2 to 6 pXa units higher than for imidazol-2-ylidenes. " ... 

The formation of anionic -adducts resulting from the primary attachment of neutral nucleophiles followed by proton elimination has been described only occasionally. A definite example is the reaction of methyl-amine with 2-nitrophenazine 10-oxide in DMF, leading to adduct 118.161 This structure is well supported by spectral evidence. It is characterized by two... 

In comparison to carbanions, which maintain a full octet of valence electrons, carbenium ions are deficient by two electrons and are much less stable. Therefore, the controlled cationic polymerization requires specialized systems. The instability or high reactivity of the carbenium ions facilitates undesirable side reactions such as bimolecular chain transfer to monomer, /1-proton elimination, and carbenium ion rearrangement. All of that limits the control over the cationic polymerization. 

The involvement of carbocations accounts for the side reactions that accompany isomerization. Carbocations are known to undergo p scission to yield low-molecular-weight cracking products. They can also undergo proton elimination to form alkenes that, in turn, participate in condensation (oligomerization), cycli-zation, and disproportionation reactions. 

Dehydrogenation of alkylbenzene over the platinum component yields phenylalkenes. Protonation of the phenylalkene over the acid component forms a carbonium ion. (A phenylallyl cation may be produced by proton addition to phenylbutadiene or by hydride ion removal from a phenylalkene.) Attack of this carbonium ion on the aromatic ring closes either a five- or six-membered ring. Stabilization of the product occurs by proton elimination or hydride abstraction. This step may be followed by dehydrogenation to the thermodynamically most-stable species (e.g., to an alkylnaphthalene in the case of six-membered ring closure). (See p. 308.)... 

The enzyme-catalysed cyclization of (A)-[9-2 H i. H i ]gcranyl diphosphate to (45)-limonene has been found to terminate predominately by re-facial, anti proton elimination at tire cis methyl group of the intermediate (35)-l inalyl diphosphate.80... 

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