Radicals character

This behavior stems from the greater stability of secondary compared with primary free radicals The transition state for the step m which a chlorine atom abstracts a hydro gen from carbon has free radical character at carbon... 

The excited carbonyl groups have radical character at both carbon and oxygen, and the oxygen is rather similar in its reactivity to alkoxyl radicals. The MO diagrams for the n-n and 7t-7t states can be readily depicted ... 

With 4,4-diarylcyclohexenones, the di-Tc-methane rearrangement occcurs. In compounds in which the two aryl groups are substituted differently, it is found that substituents which stabilize radical character favor migration. Thus, the p-cyanophenyl substituent migrates in preference to the phenyl substituent in 4 ... 

The groups at the termini of the 1,4-pentadiene system also affect the efficiency and direction of the the di-7c-methane reaction. The general trend is that cyclization oceurs at the diene terminus that best stabilizes radical character. Thus, a terminus substituted with aryl groups will cyclize in preference to an unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted terminus ... 

The ESR spectrum of the furan radical anion indicates that the Cem-0 bond is ruptured in the electron transfer process whereby the oxygen atom acquires the negative charge and the C-2 end of the open ring possesses a free radical character ... 

The reaction occurs at room temperature, does not require even lighting, and gives the adduct in a high yield. A radical character of the process is confirmed by the presence of the appropriate signals in ESR spectrum, and it is in a good agreement with the products of the reaction formed. 

The structure of the adducts obtained (addition resulted from homolysis of C-Br bond) is an indirect evidence for radical character of the process. Ionic addition of haloforms is known to occur at C-H bond (ref. 11), this leads to adducts with CX3 group. The highest yield of the adduct with bromoform was obtained for... 

However, it was pointed out that two other observations are out of line with the iron(I) formulation and more consistent with an iron(II)-porphyrin radical anion [290] (1) the low-intensity red-shifted Soret band in the UV-VIS spectrum with broad maxima in the a,(3-region compared to, for instance, Fe(TPP) in THF, is typical of a porphyrin radical, and (2) the bond lengths of the porphyrin core indicate population of the (antibonding) LUMO of the ligand (i.e., the presence of an extra electron in the re-system). The presence of porphyrin radical character in the electronic ground state was also inferred from the paramagnetic NMR-shifts of the pyrrole protons at the meso and p-carbon atoms [291]. 

Schuster and Brizzolara<61> have provided a very nice study of the photochemistry of 10-hydroxymethyl-A1 9-2-octalone (87). Schuster and Patel<13) previously used radical fragmentation reactions as probes for the nature of the intermediates in the cyclohexadienone rearrangement. This compound (87) was designed so that it could undergo a radical fragmentation reaction in competition with the usual type A rearrangement if the intermediate involved has radical character (n -> n triplet). Photolysis produced (88)—(92) ... 

The structure ofthe Ali2[N(SiMe3)2]8 anion is similar to that of a neutral In Rg cluster compound (R = Si Bu3), as published recently by Wiberg et al.41 The EPR spectra of a solid sample of 2 confirmed the radical character of the anion. Like the In12 cluster, the anion of 2 can be regarded as a section of the metallic lattice (Fig. 7). 

Owing to their cationic and radical character, organic cation radicals also participate in a variety of bimolecular reactions with nucleophiles, bases, radicals, etc., as illustrated by the following examples. 

EPR-IR. The neutral sandwich complexes of Lu and the one-electron oxidized sandwich complexes of Zr have a jr-radical anion that can be observed by EPR spectroscopy. The EPR spectra for compounds 21, 23, 25, 27 and Collman s mixed porphyrin-pz system (30) give a signal for an S = j system with a g value of 2.0037, which is typical for an organic n radical (35). Further evidence for the Jt-radical character in sandwich compounds of phthalocyanines, porphyrins, and porphyrazines may be obtained from infrared (IR) spectroscopy by the presence of diagnostic marker bands (81). These intense bands are found in the IR spectra of Lu(III) compounds (21) (1150 cm-1) (35), 23 (1140 cm-1) (78), and 25 (1261 cm4) (34) and are absent in the Zr(IV) and Ce(IV) compounds 27,29, and 31. 

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