Thermal molecular rearrangements

Trithioisatoic anhydrides were also cyclized to thiazolo-[2,3-bjquinazolines (255) upon reaction with 2-aminoethanol or l-amino-2-dimethoxyethane (80PHA124 83ZC215). Double ring closures occured when jV-(2-methoxycarbonylphenyl)thiocarbamate reacted with 2-aminothioethanol (82JIC1117) to give 256. Thermal molecular rearrange-... 

The most intriguing hydrocarbon of this molecular formula is named buUvalene, which is found in the mixture of products of the reaction given above. G. SchrOder (1963, 1964, 1967) synthesized it by a thermal dimerization presumably via diradicais of cyciooctatetraene and the photolytical cleavage of a benzene molecule from this dimer. The carbon-carbon bonds of buUvalene fluctuate extremely fast by thermal Cope rearrangements. 101/3 = 1,209,6(X) different combinations of the carbon atoms are possible. 

Reaction of 8-aminoquinoline 567 with 3,4-dichlorodithiazolium chloride gave the quinolyl iminodithiazole 568 whose thermal rearrangement gave 569 via a molecular rearrangement process (96MI2775) (Scheme 95). 

In summary, it should be pointed out, however, that the exact mechanism of the thermal rearrangement of sulfur rings and chains is still unknown and that further investigations are necessary in this connection. For any further discussion it may also be interesting to take into account the recent results on the molecular rearrangement reactions of cyclic selenium sulfides and of elemental selenium which take place at considerably lower temperatures compared with elemental sulfur and for which — as far as solid selenium is concerned — interesting ionic mechanisms have been proposed... 

CHAPTER 6 CYCLOADDITIONS, UNI MOLECULAR REARRANGEMENTS, AND THERMAL ELIMINATIONS... 

Toda et al. reported that the topotactic and enantioselective photodimerization of coumarin and thiocoumarin takes place in single crystals without significant molecular rearrangements [49]. Molecular motion needs to be called upon to explain the photochemically activated cycloaddition reaction of 2-benzyl-5-benzylidenecyclopentanone. The dimer molecules, once formed, move smoothly in the reactant crystal to form the product crystal [50]. Harris et al. investigated the reactivity of 10-hydroxy-10,9-boroxophenanthrene in the solid state and the mechanism of the solid-state reaction was characterized by both X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis [51]. It was demonstrated that the solution chemistry of 10-hydroxy-10,9-boroxophenanthrene is different from that in the solid state, where it undergoes dimerization and dehydration to form a monohydride derivative. 

Not only must precursor fibers be self-supporting as extruded, they must also remain intact (e.g. not melt or creep) during pyrolytic transformation to ceramic fibers. Thus, precursor fibers (especially melt spun fibers) must retain some chemical reactivity so that the fibers can be rendered infusible before or during pyrolysis. Infusibility is commonly obtained through reactions that provide extensive crosslinking. These include free radical, condensation, oxidatively or thermally induced molecular rearrangements. 

Photoisomerization of c/.y-stilbene 191 Ionic fragmentation reaction 191 Cyclopropyl radical ring-opening 192 Ionic molecular rearrangement 193 Ene reaction 196 Thermal denitrogenation 198 Unimolecular dissociation 199 Sn2 reaction 200... 

A thermally induced rearrangement of arylhydrazones of furoxan-3-carbonyl compounds into 2-aryl-5-[(hydroximino)arylmethyl]-2//-l,2,3-triazole 1-oxides has been observed for the first time.156 2-(2,2-Dicyano-l-hydroxyethenyl)-l-methylpyrroles (192) are readily rearranged to their 3-isomers (193) in nearly quantitative yield when heated to 75-142 °C. The inter- or intra-molecular auto-protonation of a pyrrole ring... 

Thermal reforming a process using heat (but no catalyst) to effect molecular rearrangement of low-octane naphtha into gasoline of higher antiknock quality. 

Baldwin, J. E. Leber, P. A. Molecular rearrangements through thermal [1,3] carbon shifts, Org. BiomoL Chem. 2008, 6, 36-47. 

Gudzinowicz and Martin emphasize the possibility of thermally induced molecular rearrangements, particularly for vinyl compounds, under otherwise normal gas chromatographic conditions. Such molecular changes impose a definite limitation upon the usefulness of this method, and their absence under actual separation conditions should first be established. 

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