- Molybdenum-catalyzed epoxidations of oct-1-ene and cyclohexene with organic hydroperoxides: Steric effects of the alkyl substituents of the hydroperoxide on the reaction rate
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A kinetic study of the epoxidation of oct-1-ene and cyclohexene with alkyl hydroperoxides is reported. The alkyl hydroperoxides were obtained in a moderate to high purity from the corresponding alcohols by acid-catalyzed exchange with hydrogen peroxide. The reaction rates in pseudo first-order experiments of these olefins with various alkyl hydroperoxides strongly depend on the structure of the alkyl group of the alkyl hydroperoxide. When one of the methyl groups in tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP, 4a) is substituted by an alkyl group, R, the reaction rate decreases in the order Et > Pr > Bu > t BuCH2 > tBu. Substitution of two methyl groups of TBHP as in 1-ethyl-1-methylpropyl hydroperoxide (5a) and 1-ethyl-1-methylbutyl hydroperoxide (5b) showed a further decrease in reaction rate of epoxidation. When all three methyl groups are substituted by, for example, three ethyl groups as in 1,1-diethylpropyl hydroperoxide (6a) a decrease of approximately 99% in reaction rate is observed. Introduction of a ring system in the hydroperoxide such as in cyclohexyl hydroperoxide (3), 1-methyl-cyclohexyl hydroperoxide (2) and pinane hydroperoxide (1) also showed a dramatic decrease in reaction rate of epoxidation. An investigation of relative rates of epoxidation in competition experiments of cyclohexene and hex-1-ene with 1-tert-butylcyclohexene with different alkyl hydroperoxides also showed them to depend on the structure of the alkyl group of the alkyl hydroperoxide. These results are rationalized on the basis of a mechanism involving nucleophilic attack of the olefin on an alkylperoxomolybdenum(VI) intermediate. Bulky substituents at the α-position in the alkyl hydroperoxide can seriously impede the approach of the olefin to the O-O bond.
- Lempers,Van Crey,Sheldon
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p. 542 - 546
(2007/10/03)
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- Organomolybdenum and Organotungsten Reagents, V. - On the Additive, Reductive Carbonyl Dimerization (ARCD Reaction)
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Reagents of the type R4(PrO)4(μ-PrO)2W2 (3; R = Me, Et, Pr, Bu, sBu, iBu, Hex, Me3SiCH2, Ph) prepared in situ by the action of organolithium or Grignard compounds on (PrO)4(μ-PrO)2W2Cl4 (2), react with aromatic aldehydes or ketones and with the α,β-unsaturated ketone benzylidene acetone in a novel reaction, called the ARCD reaction, to give products 4 of the type RR'R''C-CRR'R'' with mostly good yields.In the case of benzylidene acetone and furfural besides the ARCD products the rearranged products 27 and 29 are formed.With the reagent Ph4(PrO)4(μ-PrO)2W2 (3b) ARCD reactions are also possible in moderate yields with aliphatic aldehydes and ketones.The more closely investigated reagent Me4(PrO)4(μ-PrO)2W2 (3a; decomposition at about -45 deg C) tolerates the aromatic bound functional groups Cl, F, OH, OMe, and NMe2 in the substrates, but not the NO2 and CO2Et substituents.It reacts with PhCOX (X = OEt, Cl, OCOPh) via acetophenone to give PhCMe2-CMe2Ph. - For the ARCD reactions a radical mechanism (Scheme 7) is postulated. - Key Words: Tungsten complexes/ Carbonyl dimerization
- Kauffmann, Thomas,Jordan, Jan,Voss, Karl-Uwe,Wilde, Heinz-Wilhelm
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p. 2083 - 2092
(2007/10/02)
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