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In the synthesis of molecules without functional groups the application of the usual polar synthetic reactions may be cumbersome, since the final elimination of hetero atoms can be difficult. Two solutions for this problem have been given in the previous sections, namely alkylation with nucleophilic carbanions and alkenylation with ylides. Another direct approach is to combine radical synthons in a non-polar reaction. Carbon radicals are. however, inherently short-lived and tend to undergo complex secondary reactions. Escheirmoser s principle (p. 34f) again provides a way out. If one connects both carbon atoms via a metal atom which (i) forms and stabilizes the carbon radicals and (ii) can be easily eliminated, the intermolecular reaction is made intramolecular, and good yields may be obtained. 

Dialkyl peroxides have the stmctural formula R—OO—R/ where R and R are the same or different primary, secondary, or tertiary alkyl, cycloalkyl, and aralkyl hydrocarbon or hetero-substituted hydrocarbon radicals. Organomineral peroxides have the formulas R Q(OOR) and R QOOQR, where at least one of the peroxygens is bonded directly to the organo-substituted metal or metalloid, Q. Dialkyl peroxides include cyclic and bicycflc peroxides where the R and R groups are linked, eg, endoperoxides and derivatives of 1,2-dioxane. Also included are polymeric peroxides, which usually are called poly(alkylene peroxides) or alkylene—oxygen copolymers, and poly(organomineral peroxides) (44), where Q = As or Sb. 

Favorskii rearrangement, 159, 176 Formation of hetero-radicals, 238 2-Formyl-A-nor-5a-androstan-l 7 -oI, 415 2-Formyl-A-nor-5 a-androst-1 -en-17 S-ol, 416 6/3-Formyl-B-nor-5 -cholestane-3, 5 -dioI 3-acetate, 432... 

Thus the activity of the methyl groups in this reaction decreases in the series C-4 > C-5 > C-3. This may be considered as evidence of the inhibiting effect of the nitrogen hetero atom on the radical substitution in methyl groups at C-3 and, to a lesser extent, at C-5 (compare the effect of the heterocyclic nitrogen in the pyridine and azole series ) and of a similar effect of the electron-accepting substituents in the 4-position on the methyl group at C-5. 

Higher homologs tend to hydrolyze to original aldehyde redn to carbonyl and hydroxy compds ferrous salts catalyze decompn to free radicals thermal decompn involves homolytic and hetero-... 

Peroxyesters (1), R(C03 R )n Peroxycarbonicesters (2), ROC(O)—0—0—R Diperoxyesters (3), C(0)(-0-0—R)a Peroxycarbamates (4), >NC(0)-0-0-R Areneperoxysulfonates (5), rso2-o-o-r Difficult to prepare because of ready rearrangement or decompn in polar solvents peroxy sulfonates decomp hetero lyrically (no free radicals) Peroxycarbamates are stable, distillable liqs or cryst solids rapid decompn at 80—140° and violent decompn at 140— 180°. Alkylareneperoxysulfon-ates have low stability and decomp violently at RT within 10 mins... 

By the radical pathway l, -diesters, -diketones, -dienes or -dihalides, chiral intermediates for synthesis, pheromones and unusual hydrocarbons or fatty acids are accessible in one to few steps. The addition of the intermediate radicals to double bonds affords additive dimers, whereby four units can be coupled in one step. By way of intramolecular addition unsaturated carboxyhc acids can be converted into five raembered hetero- or carbocyclic compounds. These radical reactions are attractive for synthesis because they can tolerate polar functional groups without protection. 

The mechanistic picture is further simplified by the fact that free-radical additions to carbon-hetero double bonds are rare. The principal question remaining is which attacks first, the nucleophile or electrophile. In most cases it is the nucleophile that forms the first new bond to carbon, and these reactions are regarded as nucleophilic additions, which can be represented thus (for the C=0 bond, analogously for the others) ... 

There is a degree in the continuity and discontinuity of the orbital phase [20]. 2-Oxopropane-l,3-diyl (Scheme 10) is a hetero analog of trimethylenemethane (TMM) where the orbital phase is continuous in the triplet diradical (Sect. 2.1.5) and discontinuous in the singlet diradical (Sect. 2.1.6). The n and orbitals of carbonyl bonds are lower in energy than those of C=C bonds. The lowering strengthens the interaction of the radical orbitals (a, b) with and weakens that... 

To conclusively disprove the involvement of the chromanol methide radical, the reaction of a-tocopherol with dibenzoyl peroxide was conducted in the presence of a large excess of ethyl vinyl ether used as a solvent component. If 5a-a-tocopheryl benzoate (11) was formed homolytically according to Fig. 6.6, the presence of ethyl vinyl ether should have no large influence on the product distribution. However, if (11) was formed heterolytically according to Fig. 6.9, the intermediate o-QM 3 would be readily trapped by ethyl vinyl ether in a hetero-Diels-Alder process with inverse electron demand,27 thus drastically reducing the amount of 11 formed. Exactly the latter outcome was observed experimentally. In fact, using a 10-fold excess of ethyl vinyl ether relative to a-tocopherol and azobis(isobutyronitrile) (AIBN) as radical... 

The last reaction commonly evoked to support the involvement of radical species 10 in tocopherol chemistry is the disproportionation of two molecules into the phenol a-tocopherol and the ort/zo-quinone methide 3 (Fig. 6.8), the latter immediately dimerizing into spiro dimer 9. This dimerization is actually a hetero-Diels-Alder process with inverse electron demand. It is largely favored, which is also reflected by the fact that spiro dimer 9 is an almost ubiquitous product and byproduct in vitamin E chemistry.28,29 The disproportionation mechanism was proposed to account for the fact that in reactions of tocopheroxyl radical 2 generated without chemical coreactants, that is, by irradiation, the spiro dimer 9 was the only major product found. 

The hetero radicals that have already been referred to—(9, p. 301), (10, p. 302), (14, p. 302) and (15, p. 302)—owe their relative stability [with respect to their dimers—apart from l,l-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (10)] to a variety of factors (a) the relative weakness of N—N, S—S and 0—0 bonds, (b) the delocalisation through the agency of aromatic nuclei, and (c) steric inhibition of access to the atom with the unpaired electron, or to an aryl p-position, cf. (50). The latter factor bulks large (in addition to the weakness of O—O bonds) in the great stability of (15, cf. p. 302) and all three factors operate to stabilise (51), which is wholly dissociated in solution ... 

In recent years, many novel MCRs - including Michael addition-initiated three-component domino sequences [10], Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder-based MCRs [11], radical chain MCRs [12], transition metal-catalyzed Pauson-Khand MCRs [13], as well as Petasis MCRs [14], have been added to the chemisf s armamentarium and successfully applied to all fields of organic synthesis. 

The chemistry and utility of zinc-based Lewis acids are similar to those of their magnesium analogs. Their mild Lewis acidity promotes several synthetic reactions, such as Diels-Alder reactions, hetero Diels-Alder reactions,229 radical-mediated reactions,230 ene-type cyclization, and Simmons-Smith reactions. 

A. Weller and K. Zachariasse 157-160) thoroughly investigated this radical-ion reaction, starting from the observation that the fluorescence of aromatic hydrocarbons is quenched very efficiently by electron donors such as N,N diethylaniline which results in a new, red-shifted emission in nonpolar solvents This emission was ascribed to an excited charge-transfer complex 1(ArDD(H )), designated heteroexcimer, with a dipole moment of 10D. In polar solvents, however, quenching of aromatic hydrocarbon fluorescence by diethylaniline is not accompanied by hetero-excimer emission in this case the free radical anions Ar<7> and cations D were formed. 

Hetero-excimer chemiluminescence yields were measured by A. Weller and K. Zachariasse 214) the system dimethylanthracene anion radical/tri-p-tolylaminium perchlorate in tetrahydrofurane exhibits particularly strong chemiluminescence with quantum yields of about 7.5 x 10-2 215>. A. J. Bard and coworkers 216> very thoroughly investigated the influence of several parameters, e.g. supporting electrolyte concentration, on the efficiency of electrogenerated chemiluminescence. 

Multiple classifications can be thought of when attempting to put an order to the vast family of radicals formed by the chalcogen radicals. They can be divided into naturally occurring and synthetic ones, homo-nuclear and hetero-nuclear systems, etc. In this chapter, we will focus on the five-membered rings of group 15/16 elements since a substantial body of work in recent years has been devoted to them. However, some other radicals have been isolated and their chemistry and properties reviewed recently.2,3... 

The formation of free radicals and alcohol (in addition to the products of hydroperoxide heterolysis) implies that the catalytic decomposition of hydroperoxide occurs both hetero-lytically and homolytically. The mechanism of homolytic hydroperoxide decomposition was proposed by Van Tilborg and Smael [48]. 

The above three examples involved reactions where the electron transfer takes place from the metal to the organic substrate. The reverse scenario can also be used in radical reactions via oxidative generation of cationic radical species, which can undergo coupling reactions. Kurihara et al. have used chiral ox-ovanadium species as a one-electron transfer oxidant to silylenol ethers in a hetero-coupling process [165]. Treatment of 246 with a catalyst prepared in situ from VOCI3/chiral alcohol/MS 4 A followed by addition of 247 provided the coupling product 248 (Scheme 63). 8-Phenyl menthol 251 was found to be... 

Perhaps the best-known and most widely appreciated electrochemical transformation is the Kolbe oxidation (see also Chapter 6) [1, 2, 31]. The process involves the one electron oxidation of the salt of a carboxylic acid, and the loss of carbon dioxide to afford a radical, R, that subsequently engages in coupling reactions. Both symmetrical (R + R ) and nonsym-metrical (R + R ) radical couplings are known and are illustrated in the following discussion. The nonsymmetrical variety (often referred to as a mixed or hetero coupling) is remarkable given that it requires the cogeneration and reaction of more than one reactive intermediate. 

In aqueous solution the electron transfer between (reducing) carbon-centered radicals or (oxidizing) hetero-atom-centered inorganic radicals and organic molecules often proceeds by covalent bond... 

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