Sp2-hybridized carbon atoms

Intramolecular Arylation of Aromatic and Alkene sp2-Hybridized Carbon Atoms 261... 

C-coupling is of outstanding importance in the azo coupling reaction for the synthesis of azo dyes and pigments. An aromatic or heteroaromatic diazonium ion reacts with the so-called coupling component, which can be an aromatic primary, secondary, or tertiary amine, a phenol, an enol of an open-chain, aromatic, or heteroaromatic carbonyl compound, or an activated methylene compound. These reactions at an sp2-hybridized carbon atom will be discussed in Chapter 12. In the... 

Graphite, the most important component of the lead of pencils, is a black, lustrous, electrically conducting solid that vaporizes at 1700°C. It consists of flat sheets of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms bonded covalently into hexagons like chicken wire (Fig. 5.22). There are also weak bonds between the sheets. In the commercially available forms of graphite, there are many impurity atoms trapped between the sheets these atoms weaken the already weak intersheet bonds and let... 

FIGURE 5.22 Graphite consists of layers of hexagonal rings of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms. The slipperiness of graphite results from the ease with which the layers can slide over one another when there are impurity atoms Iving between the planes. 

We can understand the differences in properties between the carbon allotropes by comparing their structures. Graphite consists of planar sheets of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms in a hexagonal network (Fig. 14.29). Electrons are free to move from one carbon atom to another through a delocalized Tr-network formed by the overlap of unhybridized p-orbitals on each carbon atom. This network spreads across the entire plane. Because of the electron delocalization, graphite is a black, lustrous, electrically conducting solid indeed, graphite is used as an electrical conductor in industry and as electrodes in electrochemical cells and batteries. Its... 

All conducting polymers have a common feature a long chain of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms, often with nitrogen or sulfur atoms included in the chains. Polyacetylene, the first conducting polymer, is also the simplest, consisting of thousands of —CH=CH -units ... 

Reactions favoring [2 + 2] cycloaddition tended to be those that had strongly electronegative groups on the sp2-hybridized silicon but only H and the neopentyl group on the sp2-hybridized carbon atom. Butadiene and cyclohexadiene generally favored [2 + 2] cycloaddition with these silenes. The [2 + 2] adducts with cyclohexadiene appear to be kinetic products, since they cleanly isomerized to the Diels-Alder adducts over time.182... 

Ene reactions tended to occur as alternative reaction pathways to [2 + 4] cycloaddition, especially when sterically bulky silenes had substituents on the sp2-hybridized carbon atom and dimethylbutadiene served as the diene component. In the ene reactions studied the silene acted as the enophile as often as it acted as the ene. 

Although no 73Ge NMR spectra of stable doubly bonded germanium compounds have been recorded, NMR chemical shift data for the heteroatom of the double bond are available these are listed in Table II. The chemical shift of the, sp2-hybridized carbon atom of dimesitylneopentylger-mene (entry 1, Table II), without any polar substituents, falls at 8 124.2.26 The chemical shifts of the boron-substituted sp2-hybridized carbon atoms of two stable germenes (entry 2, Table II) fall in the upfield region of the... 

It is not clear why the sp2-hybridized carbon atom of a fluorenylidene germene (entry 3, Table II) is so shielded (8 79.8), unless this chemical shift is from the spectrum of the THF adduct.28 The chemical shift of the silicon atom in the germasilene (entry 4, Table II) and the phosphorus atom in germaphosphenes (entries 6-10, Table II) is deshielded compared to the corresponding silicon analogs. For example, for Mes2M=SiMes2... 

The Os—CcarbPh angle of 139(1)° in 59 is substantially increased from the angle of 120° expected for an sp2 hybridized carbon atom. This distortion is probably a consequence of both steric interactions between the phenyl ring and other equatorial ligands and the minimal steric demands of the proton (the other carbene substituent). 

The structures of aromatic hydrocarbons, like benzene (C6H6), involve sp2 hybridized carbon atoms with pi bonds whose electrons are delocalized over the entire benzene ring. 

Taft and his coworkers14-16 developed a diparametric model which separated the electrical effect into contributions from the inductive (actually the field) and resonance effects. This separation depends on the difference in the extent of electron delocalization when a substituent is bonded to an sp3 -hybridized carbon atom in one reference system and to an sp2-hybridized carbon atom in another. As the first case represents minimal delocalization and the second extensive delocalization, we have referred to the two effects as the localized and delocalized electrical effects. This diparametric electrical effect model can be written in the form ... 

These interactions (dd, di, ii) are a function of dipole moment and polarizability. It has been shown that the dipole moment cannot be replaced entirely by the use of electrical effect substituent constants as parameters52. This is because the dipole moment has no sign. Either an overall electron donor group or an overall electron acceptor group may have the same value of /x. It has also been shown that the bond moment rather than the molecular dipole moment is the parameter of choice. The dipole moments of MeX and PhX were taken as measures of the bond moments of substituents bonded to sp3- and sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, respectively, of a skeletal group. Application to substituents bonded to sp-hybridized carbon atoms should require a set of dipole moments for substituted ethynes. 

If the substituent is attached to an sp2-hybridized carbon atom that is not directly conjugated with the reaction site, then it is correlated with the Hammett equation using the am constants. 

It is obvious that these compounds have in common an uninterrupted cyclic arrangement of cross-conjugated jr-systems. Compound 5 likewise contains the maximum number of exocyclic double bonds at a perimeter consisting only of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. Thus, our definition allows one to call it a radialene, i.e. naphtharadialene on the other hand, it excludes hydrocarbons such as 6 [3,4,5,6-tetrakis(methylene)cyclohexene]. Although in the latter molecule all carbon atoms are indeed sp2-hybridized, the number of exocyclic double bonds has not reached its maximum. In 5, however, the number of double bonds cannot be increased further. 

On the other hand, radialenes whose methylene groups have been replaced partially or totally by heteroatoms or heteroorganic groups—as examples, the (unknown) oxocar-bons 16 and 17 may be quoted as well as the tetraaza[4]radialene 18 and mixed systems such as 19-21 — are clearly covered by the above definition if sp2-hybridized carbon atom is replaced by the appropriate isovalent group. Such heteroradialenes, however, will... 

Unsaturated derivatives of saccharides in which fluorine is attached to sp2-hybridized carbon atoms have been synthesized by application of the Wittig reaction to sugars bearing a carbonyl group. For example,... 

Figure 15 Sketch of the local environment along a polybutadiene chain of cis-and trans-conformers. For sp3-hybridized carbon atoms (indicated by the gray spheres), the chemical shift is different when they belong to a cis-monomer than when they belong to a trans-monomer. For sp2-hybridized carbon atoms (shown by black spheres) in a cis-monomer, NMR shows a different chemical shift whether they have another cis-monomer as a neighbor or a trans-monomer as a neighbor, and it is similar for the sp2-hybridized carbon atoms in the trans monomer.

The reaction enthalpy and thus the RSE will be negative for all radicals, which are more stable than the methyl radical. Equation 1 describes nothing else but the difference in the bond dissociation energies (BDE) of CH3 - H and R - H, but avoids most of the technical complications involved in the determination of absolute BDEs. It can thus be expected that even moderately accurate theoretical methods give reasonable RSE values, while this is not so for the prediction of absolute BDEs. In principle, the isodesmic reaction described in Eq. 1 lends itself to all types of carbon-centered radicals. However, the error compensation responsible for the success of isodesmic equations becomes less effective with increasingly different electronic characteristics of the C - H bond in methane and the R - H bond. As a consequence the stability of a-radicals located at sp2 hybridized carbon atoms may best be described relative to the vinyl radical 3 and ethylene 4 ... 

FIGURE 31. Typical data set for measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation times of the sp2-hybridized carbon atoms of, 6-carotene at 11.7 T. The chemical shift values are shown across the bottom of the figure. The t-value for each spectrum is the delay time in the inversion-recovery pulse sequence. Reprinted with permission from Reference 49. Copyright (1995) American Chemical Society... 

In fact, the tabulated hybridized carbon atom is 70 J1/2 cm3/2 moT1, while the hexagonal ring is 190 J1/2 cm3/2 moT1. Thus, for C70, which has 25 hexagonal rings the calculation is ... 

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) constitute a nanostructured carbon material that consists of rolled up layers of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms forming a honeycomb lattice. After diamond, graphite and fullerenes, the one-dimensional tubular structure of CNTs is considered the 4th allotrope of carbon (graphene is the 5th). 

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