Observations of the photochemical polar addition of methanol to olefins have hereto-Pore been restricted to cases where the double bond is contained within a ring' or (in a few examples) where an acyclic double bond is conjugated to a highly polar carbonyl grou~.~ We wish to report the anti-Markovni
Photoinduced anti-markovnikov addition of methanol to alkylindenes
โ Scribed by Harry Morrison; David Giacherio; Ganesh Pandey
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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โฆ Synopsis
Irradiation of acidic methanol solutions of several alkylindenes leads to anti-Markovnikov addition of the solvent to the double bond with previously reported pbotoisomerizationa virtually eliminated.
We have recently reported on two photoisomerixation reactions of alkylindenee, i.e. phototransposition (interchange of Cl and C2; cf. eq. 1) 1,2 and acid-catalyzed pbotoisomerization (of 2-alkylindenes to 2-alkylideneindanes; cf. eq. 2). 133 The tvo reactions are comhv/254 nm R2 '6"12 > (2) petitive, so that the presence of acid quenches transposition while catalyzing the double-bond migration. We now present our observations on a third mode of reaction: acid-catalyzed anti-Markovnikov addition of methanol. Several examples are presented in equations 3-5 (yields are by vpc and are based on reacted starting material; the ethers were identified by analysis of their nmr spectra and, for equations 3 and 5, by spectral comparison with independently synthesized samples).
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