Journal of Organic Chemistry p. 1603 - 1607 (1984)
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Kurz, Michael E.
Baru, Vijayalakshmi
Nguyen, P-Nhi
Treatment of aromatic hydrocarbons with acetone and manganese(III) acetate gave rise to arylacetones in yields ranging from 25 percent with chlorobenzene to 74 percent with anisole.Cerium(IV) salts were also successfully used as promoters but gave lower yields.The reactions were relatively free of side products except with toluene.Isomer distributions, relative rates, and partial rate factors were determined for acetonylation of anisole, toluene, chlorobenzene, and fluorobenzene.A Hammett plot of the log of the partial rate factors for the manganese(III) system vs. ?-constants gave a slope, ρ, of -2.4 +/- 0.3.An isotope effect kH/kD = 3.8 was observed for the manganese(III)-promoted reaction with acetone-d6, indicating rate-determining proton loss from acetone.The overall mechanism involves formation and attack of acetonyl radicals onto the aromatic hydrocarbon followed by subsequent oxidative deprotonation of the resulting ?-radical complex.The acetonyl radical exhibits appreciable electron-deficient character in its substitution behavior with aromatic hydrocarbons.
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