The reported instances of inversion of configuration in the acid-catalyzed opening of cyclopropane rings are rare.2 The recent report' of exclusive inversion in the hydrogen chloride promoted opening of a fused cyclopropane ring prompts us to amplify our previous observations4 of a similarly strikin
Diradical Wells, IX. Stereochemistry of Cyclopropane Ring Opening: The Case of 1,1-Difluoro-2,3-diphenylcyclopropane
✍ Scribed by Roth, Wolfgang R. ;Wasser, Thorsten ;Boenke, Martin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Volume
- 1997
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0947-3440
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
From the O~2~‐dependence of the trapping rate of 1,1‐difluoro‐2,3‐diphenylcyclopropane in supercritical CO~2~ in the temperature range 110–180°C and the rates of its geometrical isomerization and racemization of the trans‐isomer, the energy profile for the geometrical isomerization is derived. Assuming that 7 is a common intermediate, the temperature dependence of the ratio of the rates of isomerization/racemization leads to a lowering of 1.2 kcal · mol^−1^ for the activation energy for the disrotatory cyclization of the intermediate diradical compared to the conrotatory mode. The energy barriers associated with cyclization of the diradical amount to 2.1 and 0.9 kcal · mol^−1^, respectively.
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In our search for appropriate substrates which might be employed in a study of the mode of electrophilic attack of strained carbon-carbon bonds, we have iuvestigated the acid promoted cleavage of the three-membered ring in em-tricyclo~.2.1.02~~octaue, I. I In this cmmuuication we report and discuss