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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 150-161Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo061815e
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[GRAPHICS] Experimental and computational kinetic data for the intramolecular 1,x-hydrogen shift in alkyl radicals are compiled in Arrhenius format for x = 2-5. Significant experimental disparity remains, especially for x = 2 and 3. Experimental data for radicals with tert centers or bearing spectator substituents are lacking for all x, and none exist for x = 6. The common use of the strain energy of the unsubstituted (x+1)-carbocycle to coarsely model the activation energy for the 1,x-shift is extended to explore more subtle differences in progressively methyl-substituted systems by use of molecular mechanics estimates of differences in strain between radicals and carbocycles. For x = 5 and 6, a sterically driven increase in E is predicted for shifts in the tert -> tert class that apparently runs counter to the behavior of bimolecular hydrogen transfers. In contrast, a sterically driven decrease in E is predicted to result from spectator methyl groups for the prim -> prim reaction class for all x. There is no experimental basis to test these predictions; fragmentary computational evidence lends some support to the second but is ambiguous concerning the first. Possible deficiencies in the use of carbocycles as transition state models are discussed.
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