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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
卷 15, 期 32, 页码 7949-7957出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900810
关键词
alkylation; C-H activation; photocatalysis; photochemistry; radicals
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- The Ministero dell'Universita, Rome
Tetrabutylammonium decatungstate (WO) photocatalyzes radical alkylation reactions starting directly from alkalies. When using tert-butylcyclohexane and methlcyclohexane as the radical precursors, the addition to electrophilic alkenes (beta,beta-dialkylmethy-lenemalononitriles, acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, methyl vinyl ketone) is regioselective and exclusively gives 3- and 4-substituted cyclohexyl adducts, with no significant functionalization of the other positions. Furthermore, when a beta,beta-disubstituted alkene is used, the reaction is stereoselective (cis stereochemistry for the 1,3-cyclohexane derivatives and trans for the 1,4 isomers). Some of the reactions have also been carried out by using benzophenone as the photocatalyst, giving the same product distribution. However, the decatungstate anion is a superior catalyst from a preparative point of view, because it is efficient at low concentrations (0.002 M 2 mol %) and allows for a simple work up. From a mechanistic point of view, the role of both the alkyl radicals and the radical adducts has been assessed by trapping experiments in the presence of suitable additives (alpha-phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone, PBN, and 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane, MNP) and by EPR spectroscopic detection of the resulting nitroxides ill Solution. Furthermore, trapping by the nitroxide TEMPO (TEMPO = 2,2,6,6-tetrame-thylpiperidine N-oxide) gives O-(tert-butylcyclohexyl)hydroxylamines, again as only the 3- and the 4-substituted isomers. We conclude that the observed regioselective activation originates from the initial hydrogen abstraction step (the statistically corrected ratio for positions 3 and 4 ranges from 1.1 to 1.35 for all of the trapping products). The selectivity is mainly due to steric hinderence.
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