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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 78, Issue 13, Pages 6677-6687Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo400927y
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- Australian National University
- CSIRO
- University of Queensland
- ARC
- National Science Foundation of the U.S.A.
- Australian Research Council (ARC) under its Centres of Excellence Scheme
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The utility of chloroform as both a solvent and a hydrogen atom donor in Barton reductive decarboxylation of a range of carboxylic acids was recently demonstrated (Ko, E. J. et al. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1944). In the present work, a combination of electronic structure calculations, direct dynamics calculations, and experimental studies was carried out to investigate how chloroform acts as a hydrogen atom donor in Barton reductive decarboxylations and to determine the scope of this process. The results from this study show that hydrogen atom transfer from chloroform occurs directly under kinetic control and is aided by a combination of polar effects and quantum mechanical tunneling. Chloroform acts as an effective hydrogen atom donor for primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl radicals, although significant chlorination was also observed with unstrained tertiary carboxylic acids.
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