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Abstract
Organosulfur functionalities are ubiquitous in nature, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, materials and flavourants. Historically, these moieties were introduced almost exclusively using ionic chemistry; however, radical-based methods for the installation of sulfur-based functional groups have recently come to the fore. These radical methods have enabled their late-stage introduction into complex molecules, avoiding the need to preserve labile organosulfur moieties through multistep synthetic sequences. Here, we discuss homolytic C-S bond-forming processes, with a particular emphasis on radical substitution approaches to sulfide, disulfide and sulfinyl products, and the use of sulfur dioxide and its surrogates to build sulfonyl products. We also highlight the mechanistic considerations that we hope will guide further development of radical-based strategies compatible with the various organosulfur moieties that feature in modern chemistry.
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- Zijun Wu
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Fang Z, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Song Q, Wu Y, Liu Z, Ning Y. Synthesis of gem-Disulfonyl Enamines via an Iminyl-Radical-Mediated Formal 1,3-HAT/Radical Coupling Cascade. Org Lett 2022; 24:6374-6379. [PMID: 36018352 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We herein report the first example of an iminyl-radical-mediated formal 1,3-HAT/radical coupling cascade of vinyl azides leading to the synthesis of tetrasubstituted gem-disulfonyl enamines. It is possible to employ a variety of vinyl azides and sulfinate salt coupling elements without sacrificing effectiveness and scalability. The combination of experimental studies and DFT calculations showed that this reaction proceeds via a radical addition/formal 1,3-HAT/radical coupling mechanism.
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- Zhongxue Fang
- School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng City 224007, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng City 224007, People's Republic of China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, People's Republic of China
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Hanft A, Rottschäfer D, Müller V, Weinberger P, Radacki K, Xie X, Lichtenberg C. Sulfinyl-aminotroponiminates: alkali- (Li, Na, K) and heavy-metal (Bi) complexes. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:10809-10817. [PMID: 35818977 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt01802k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The installation of electron-withdrawing functional groups at the carbocyclic backbone of aminotroponiminate (ATI) ligands is a versatile method for influencing the electronic properties of the resulting ATI complexes. We report here Li, Na, and K salts of an ATI ligand with a phenylsulfinyl substituent in the backbone. It is demonstrated that the sulfinyl group actively contributes to the coordination chemistry of these complexes, effectively competing with neutral donor ligands such as thf or pyridine in the solid state (XRD), in solution (DOSY NMR spectroscopy), and in the gas phase (DFT). The impact of the phenylsulfinyl group on the redox properties of the complexes have been investigated and access to sodium sodiate species through ligand-induced disproportionation has been studied. Transfer of the ATI ligand to the heavy p-block element bismuth has been demonstrated. Analytical techniques applied in this work include multinuclear and DOSY NMR spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, DFT calculations, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.
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- Anna Hanft
- Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-98074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 4, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-98074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-98074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-98074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 4, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 4, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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Wang X, Tang Y, Ye S, Zhang J, Kuang Y, Wu J. Access to Sulfoxides under NHC/Photocatalysis via a Radical Pathway. Org Lett 2022; 24:2059-2063. [PMID: 35262358 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A photocatalyzed transformation from sulfinic acids to sulfoxides under visible-light irradiation in the presence of N-heterocyclic carbene is established. Various alkyl groups from four-substituted Hantzsch esters or Meyer nitriles are smoothly converted to the corresponding sulfoxides through a radical coupling pathway in the presence of 1,1-carbonyldiimidazole. This method allows sulfoxide synthesis to refrain from relying on the oxidation of sulfides and provides an alternative route for the preparation of sulfoxides.
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- Xuefeng Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China.,State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, 46 East Jianshe Road, Xinxiang 453007, China
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Zhang Z, Wang X, Sivaguru P, Wang Z. Exploring the synthetic application of sulfinyl radicals. Org Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qo01403c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This review summarized the applications of sulfinyl radicals in organic chemistry and thoroughly examined the challenges and future development trends of sulfinyl radicals in modern organic chemistry, as well as their structures and properties.
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- Zixu Zhang
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
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- Department of Research and Innovation, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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Synthetic exploration of sulfinyl radicals using sulfinyl sulfones. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5244. [PMID: 34475405 PMCID: PMC8413321 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25593-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Sulfinyl radicals – one of the fundamental classes of S-centered radicals – have eluded synthetic application in organic chemistry for over 60 years, despite their potential to assemble valuable sulfoxide compounds. Here we report the successful generation and use of sulfinyl radicals in a dual radical addition/radical coupling with unsaturated hydrocarbons, where readily-accessed sulfinyl sulfones serve as the sulfinyl radical precursor. The strategy provides an entry to a variety of previously inaccessible linear and cyclic disulfurized adducts in a single step, and demonstrates tolerance to an extensive range of hydrocarbons and functional groups. Experimental and theoretical mechanistic investigations suggest that these reactions proceed through sequential sulfonyl and sulfinyl radical addition. Sulfinyl radicals are an underexplored synthon in organic chemistry due to the fact that they reversibly add to pi systems and undergo homodimerization. Here the authors synthesize sulfonyl sulfones, previously thought to be unstable, and demonstrate their broad use as sulfinyl radical precursors in disulfurizations of alkenes and alkynes.
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Le MT, Morato NM, Kaerner A, Welch CJ, Cooks RG. Fragmentation of Polyfunctional Compounds Recorded Using Automated High-Throughput Desorption Electrospray Ionization. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:2261-2273. [PMID: 34280312 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) as part of an automated high-throughput system, tandem mass spectra of the compounds in a pharmaceutical library were recorded in the positive mode under standardized conditions. Quality control filtering yielded an MS/MS library of 16 662 spectra. Fragmentation of subsets of the compounds in the library chosen to contain a single instance of a particular functional group (amide, piperazine, sulfonamide) was predicted by experts, and the results were compared with the experimental data. Expert performance was good to excellent for all the cases evaluated. Substituents on the functional groups were found to exert important secondary control over the fragmentation, with the main effect observed being product ion stabilization by aromatic substitution, which was consistent across the different groups evaluated. These substituent effects are generally explicable in terms of standard physical organic chemistry considerations of product ion stability as controlling fragmentation. A somewhat unexpected feature was the incidence of homolytic cleavages, driven by the stability of substituted amine radical cations. The findings of this study are intended to lay the groundwork for machine learning approaches to performing MS/MS spectrum → structure and structure → MS/MS spectrum operations on the same experimental data set. The effort involved and the success achieved in computer-aided interpretation, now underway, will be compared with the expert performance as described here.
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- MyPhuong T Le
- Department of Chemistry and Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Discovery Chemistry Research and Technologies, Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285, United States
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- Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science and Engineering (ICASE), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Sun J, Du K, Diao J, Cai X, Feng F, Wang S. GSH and H
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Co‐Activatable Mitochondria‐Targeted Photodynamic Therapy under Normoxia and Hypoxia. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:12122-12128. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202003895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Jian Sun
- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Cancer Biology University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati OH 45267 USA
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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Sun J, Du K, Diao J, Cai X, Feng F, Wang S. GSH and H
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Co‐Activatable Mitochondria‐Targeted Photodynamic Therapy under Normoxia and Hypoxia. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202003895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jian Sun
- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Cancer Biology University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati OH 45267 USA
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science & Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Jiangsu Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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Freeman F, Adesina IT, La JL, Lee JY, Poplawski AA. Conformers of cysteine and cysteine sulfenic acid and mechanisms of the reaction of cysteine sulfenic acid with 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione (dimedone). J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:16000-12. [PMID: 24274619 DOI: 10.1021/jp409022m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Equilibrium and molecular structures, relative energies of conformers of gaseous cysteine (Cys, C, Cys-SH) and gaseous cysteine sulfenic acid (Cys-SOH), and the mechanisms of the reaction of Cys-SOH with 3-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one, the enol tautomer of 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexadione (dimedone), have been studied using BD(T), CCSD(T), and QCISD(T) with the cc-pVTZ basis set and using MP2 and the density functionals B3LYP, B3PW91, PBE1PBE, PBEh1PBE, M062X, CAM-B3LYP, and WB97XD with the 6-311+G(d,p) basis set. The structures of the six lowest energy conformers of gaseous Cys-SOH are compared with the six lowest energy conformers of gaseous cysteine (Cys-SH). The relative stability of the six lowest energy conformers of Cys-SH and Cys-SOH are influenced by the interplay among many factors including dispersive effects, electronic effects, electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonds, inductive effects, and noncovalent interactions. The mechanism of the addition of the lowest energy conformer of cysteine sulfenic acid (Cys-SOH) to dimedone may proceed through a six-membered ring transition state structure and through cyclic hydrogen-bonded transition state structures with one water molecule (8-membered ring), with two water molecules (10-membered ring), and with three water molecules (12-membered ring). Inclusion of one and two water molecules in the transition state structures lowers the activation barrier, whereas inclusion of a third water molecule raises the activation barrier.
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- Fillmore Freeman
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697, United States
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Zhu H, Li L, Xu G, Gou S. Reaction Diversity of the S–S Bond Promoted by Metal Coordination: From Discovery to Controllable Reactions. Eur J Inorg Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200900913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Hai‐Bin Zhu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, P. R. China
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Marković D, Varela-Alvarez A, Sordo JA, Vogel P. Mechanism of the diphenyldisulfone-catalyzed isomerization of alkenes. Origin of the chemoselectivity: experimental and quantum chemistry studies. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 128:7782-95. [PMID: 16771492 DOI: 10.1021/ja0579210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Polysulfone- and diphenyldisulfone-catalyzed alkene isomerizations are much faster for 2-alkyl-1-alkenes than for linear, terminal alkenes. The mechanism of these reactions has been investigated experimentally for the isomerization of methylidenecyclopentane into 1-methylcyclopentene, and theoretically [CCSD(T)/6-311++G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) calculations] for the reactions of propene and 2-methylpropene with a methanesulfonyl radical, MeSO2*. On heating, polysulfones and (PhSO2)2 equilibrate with sulfonyl radicals, RSO2*. The latter abstract allylic hydrogen atoms in one-step processes giving allylic radical/RSO2H pairs that recombine within the solvent cage producing the corresponding isomerized alkene and RSO2*. The sulfinic acid, RSO2H, can diffuse out from the solvent cage (H/D exchange with MeOD,D2O) and reduce an allyl radical. Calculations did not support other possible mechanisms such as hydrogen exchange between alkenes, electron transfer, or addition/elimination process. Kinetic deuterium isotopic effects measured for the (PhSO2)2-catalyzed isomerization of methylidenecyclopentane and deuterated analogues and calculated for the H abstraction from 2-methylpropene and deuterated analogues by CH3SO2* are consistent also with the one-step hydrogen transfer mechanism. The high chemoselectivity for this reaction is not governed by an exothermicity difference but by a difference in ionization energies of the alkenes. Calculations for CH3SO2* + propene and CH3SO2* + 2-methylpropene show a charge transfer of 0.34 and 0.38 electron, respectively, from the alkenes to the sulfonyl radical in the transition states of these hydrogen abstractions.
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- Dean Marković
- Laboratoire de glycochimie et de synthèse asymétrique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland
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Vacher B, Samat A, Allouche A, Lakniflil A, Baldyl A, Chanon M. 5-(ENDO)-isopropylsulfonyl- 5-(EXO)-phenyl -2-norbornene : X-ray and molecular mechanics assessment of the high efficiency of this new radical clock. Tetrahedron 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(88)90029-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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