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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages 1551-1559Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b921957a
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- National Science Foundation
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S62659/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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The 2-oxa-5-adamantyl carbocation 4 is shown to be a viable intermediate in several S(N)1 substitution reactions. However, attempts to observe the formation of 4 from various precursors by NMR methods (which succeed for the 1-adamantyl cation 5) failed, suggesting that 4 does not survive on longer timescales. DFT calculations suggest that the retro-Prins process (beta-cleavage, Grob fragmentation) to give enantiomeric (1R,5R)- and (1S,5S)-7-methylene-2-oxoniabicyclo[3.3.1]non-2-enecations 22 is the only realistic unimolecular escape route for 4. With the 6-31G(d) basis set, B3LYP calculation predicts that 4 is only 11 kJ mol(-1) more stable than 22, and the barrier separating 4 and 22 is calculated to be only 15 kJ mol(-1), so rapid equilibration of these species is likely on the laboratory time scale. The implications of this study for the mechanism of the Prins cyclisation are discussed.
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