Reaction with acyclic hydrocarbons

Reactions of acyclic hydrocarbons of various skeletal structures with CO in superacid media were recently studied by Yoneda and coworkers " as discussed in the previous section. Products obtained were only isomeric carboxylic acids with lower number of carbon atoms than the starting alkanes. Formation of the carboxylic acids were accounted by the reactions of parent, isomerized and fragmented alkyl cations with CO to form the oxocarbenium ion intermediates (Koch-Haaf reaction) followed by their quenching with water. No formylated products in these reactions have been identified. 

Figure 4a Summary of the reactions of rhenium atoms with acyclic saturated hydrocarbons. Rhenium atoms were co-condensed with the indicated substrates at -196 °C. (i) Ethane (ii) Propane (iii) n-Butane (iv) Neopentane (v) 2-Methylpropane and (vi) Tetramethylsilane.

The literature in this area up until 1975 has been reviewed by Kieslich. In common with acyclic hy drocarbons, simple unsubstituted cyclic hydrocarbons give poor yields of hydroxylated products with most microorganisms, either due to cascade degradation or volatilization of the p uct during the reaction. 

The issue of stereoselectivity of alkene formation from acyclic tosyl- or trisyl-hydrazones has been addressed in only a few cases. For straight chain ketones, there is a preference for m-alkene formation (see Scheme 67). A few other examples appear to give lower ratios, which is surprising in view of several reports of highly cis selective reactions in which the vinyllithium intermediate was trapped with electrophiles.Hydrocarbon branching in the a -position degrades the stereoselectivity considerably (Scheme 67). 

The reaction of phenol with natural C q (and C.,5) acyclic hydrocarbons such as the readily available myrcene, ocimene or alloocimene from the replenishable source pine oil, does not seem to have been examined in detail although the semi-synthetic 4- and 2-alkenylphenolic products obtained from it could be... 

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Milligan, D. B., Wilson, P. F., Freeman, C. G. et al. (2002) Dissociative proton transfer reactions of H3 +, N2H+, and H3O + with acyclic, cyclic, and aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrogen compounds, and astrochemical implications. J. Phys. Chem. A106, 9745. Spanel, R, Pavlik, M., Smith, D. (1995) Reactions of H3O+ and OH ions with some organic molecules applications to trace gas analysis in air. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes 145, 177. 

An alternative method to make PAEs is the acyclic diyne metathesis (ADIMET) shown in Scheme 2. It is the reaction of a dipropynylarene with Mo(CO)6 and 4-chlorophenol or a similarly acidic phenol. The reaction is performed at elevated temperatures (130-150 °C) and works well for almost any hydrocarbon monomer. The reaction mixture probably forms a Schrock-type molybdenum carbyne intermediate as the active catalyst. Table 5 shows PAEs that have been prepared utilizing ADIMET with these in situ catalysts . Functional groups (with the exception of double bonds) are not well tolerated, but dialkyl PPEs are obtained with a high degree of polymerization. The progress in this field has been documented in several reviews (Table 1, entries 2-4). Recently, a second generation of ADIMET catalyst has been developed that allows... 

The usefulness of such a series is twofold (I) If two different unsaturated ligands are found in the same complex, one can predict which ligand will react, and (2) it is possible to eslimaie how activating a metal fragment must be in order to cause a reaction to occur. Notice that hydrocarbons of even hapticity are more reactive than those with odd hapticity. In addition, acyclic ligands are more reactive than cyclic ones. 

Ion radicals of conjugated acyclic or aromatic hydrocarbons (butadiene or naphthalene) are typical examples of the species with a released unpaired electron. They are named ir-elec-tron ion radicals and have a spin distribution along the whole molecular contour. An important feature of such species is that all the structural components are coplanar or almost coplanar. In this case, spin density appears to be uniformly or symmetrically distributed over the molecular framework. Spin-density distribution has a decisive effect on the thermodynamic stability of ion radicals. In general, the stability of ion radicals increases with an enhancement in delocalization and steric shielding of the reaction centers bearing the maximal spin density. 

Upon UV irradiation in hydrocarbon solution, the hexacarbonyls of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten react differently with conjugated dienes like 1,3-butadiene (la), ( )-l,3-pentadiene (lb), 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (lc), ( , )-2,4-hexadiene (Id), ( )-2-methyl-l,3-pentadiene (le), 2-ethyl-1,3-butadiene (If), or 1,3-cyclohexadiene (Ig). Chromium hexacarbonyl (2) yields, with the acyclic dienes la-lf, tetracarbonyl-r/2-dienechromium(0) complexes (3a-3f) in a smooth reaction (8-10). With 1,3-cyclohexadiene, in addition to 3g, dicarbonylbis(>/4-l,3-cyclohexadiene)chromium(0) (4g) is obtained [Eqs. (7) and (8)j. During chromatography on silica gel, the 1,3-cyclohexadiene complex 3g dismutates readily to [Cr(CO)6] and 4g [Eq. (9)]. Under the same conditions with 2 1,3-cyclopentadiene (lh) yields, in a hydrogen-transfer reaction, the stable dicarbonyl- / 5-cyclopentadienyl-r/ 3-cyclopent-enylchromium (5) (11-13) [Eq. (10)]. 

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