Issue 11, 1996

Electroactive protecting groups and reaction units. Part 4. Mesolytic O–CO bond cleavage versus intramolecular cyclization reaction in enol trifluoroacetate cation radicals. A kinetic and mechanistic investigation

Abstract

The one-electron oxidation of two β,β-dimesityl enol trifluoroacetates with different substituents R at Cα was investigated. For the first time enol trifluoroacetate cation radicals could be reversibly monitored in cyclic voltammetry experiments allowing the determination of the rate constants of their follow-up reactions. While mesolytic cleavage of the O–CO bond (kf= 1.4 s–1) with direct formation of an α-carbonyl cation constitutes the primary reaction of the enol trifluoroacetate cation radical with R = But, the one with R = Ph exclusively cyclizes (kf= 75 s–1) to a phenanthrene derivative. This change in reactivity can be rationalized by the different nature of the electrophoric system as a function of the substituent R.

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1996, 2401-2406

Electroactive protecting groups and reaction units. Part 4. Mesolytic O–CO bond cleavage versus intramolecular cyclization reaction in enol trifluoroacetate cation radicals. A kinetic and mechanistic investigation

M. Schmittel and H. Trenkle, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1996, 2401 DOI: 10.1039/P29960002401

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