Doping-addition of arylsulfenyl chlorides to the tricyclo[4,2,2,02,5]deca-3,7,9-triene system: skeletal rearrangements and serendipitious products

“doping-addition” of 2-NO₂C₆H₄SCl to the tricyclo[4,2,2,0^2,5]deca-3,7,9-triene system

occurs to give unusual products: (i) rearranged caged cyclopropane

and (ii) the stable cross-perchlorate

.     

The preparation of fluxional tetrahydrides, (R  H or Me) and their reactions with CO,ButNC or HBr

The cyclometallated monohydrides

(R  H or Me) react with NaOPrⁱ/PrⁱOH/H₂ to give fluxional tetrahydrides, probably

. These are highly fluxional having magnetically equivalent hydridic hydrogens, even at ---100°C. When treated with HBr,

, gives

and with CO it gives a mixture of complexes which are probably

(2 isomers) and

. When treated with Bu^tNC this tetrahydride undergoes similar reactions but another (major) product is formed which appears to be binuclear and fluxional and is probably of type

, with four bridging hydrogens.     

A direct synthesis of 1,3-bis(bromomagnesio)propane

Careful addition of 1,3-dibromopropane

to magnesium in Et₂O yields 1,3-bis(bromomagnesio)propane

which is purified via “magnesacyclobutane”

. Reactions of

with H₂O, CO₂, HgBr₂ and Me₃SnCl are reported. MgBr₂ catalyses the decomposition of

to allylmagnesium bromide

.     

Laser flash photolysis of iodine-iodide mixture in hydroxylic solvent. Evidence for the existence of the radical anion I

The laser flash photolysis of iodine-iodide mixtures in alcoholic solvents produces transient species absorbing in the red and near infrared region with maxima at 740 and 590 nm. The 740 nm absorption band has already been attributed to the well known I

ion. In this work the 590 nm absorption band is assigned to the I

radical anion which presumably could be formed by the equilibrium reaction: I

+ I₃^- ? I

. The variations of the intensities of the 590 and 740 nm transient absorption bands as a function of I₃^? concentration, temperature and solvent, support this assignment. The kinetics of formation of I

and I

has been studied in solutions of tertiary butanol. An analysis of the experimental results shows that the I

ion could be formed via a mechanism involving an I

intermediate.     

η2-acylcarbonylvanadium-verbindungen

Substituted vanadium carbonyl compounds with η²-bonded acyl ligands (η²-RCO)V(CO)₃

(

= ditertiary phosphines or arsines: dppe, dppp, dppm, diars, arphos, dpase) have been prepared by photochemical reaction of [V(CO)₄

] with various substituted benzoyl chlorides and cyclopropanylcarbonyl chloride.Effects of aromatic substituents and

upon the thermal stability of the η²-acylcarbonylvanadium compounds are discussed. IR ν(CO) force constants and ⁵¹V NMR signals are linearly correlated with Hammett's σ constants of the aromatic substituents.The preparation of V(CO)₂Cl(diars)₂ is described.     

Electrogeneration of triplet states of intramolecular anthracene-amine systems

In the electron transfer between the cation radicals

of the amine moiety of four intramolecular anthra cene-amine systems and the anion radicals B^XXX of some heterocyclic and carbonyl compounds in acetonitrile/toluene, the triplet state of the anthracene moiety

is formed. As intermediates in this process, intramolecular and intermolecular triplet exciplexcs

or

and

or

are discussed.     

The composition of the evolved gases from the thermal decomposition of certain metal sulfates

By the use of TG—MS, the thermal dissociation of anhydrous CuSO₄ and Al₂(S0₄)₃ was found to proceed according to the reactions:

followed by the reactions:

No SO₃ was indicated in the dissociation of alunite. The sulfate ion appears to dissociate by at least two different mechanisms although the parameter which controls the mechanisms has not been elucidated.     

The preparation of perfluorinated esters of fluorine containing tertiary alcohols

The reaction of an aromatic lithium reagent, LiR, with a perfluoroacid anhydride (RfCO)₂O, in ether solution at low temperatures, produces esters of composition

in addition to the expected ketone

. Mixed esters of composition

may be prepared by starting with a ketone

and reacting with a lithium reagent LiR followed by perfluoroacid anhyride (RfCO₂O. Hydrolysis of the esters provide a convenient route to trertiary alcohols of composition Rf(R) ₂COH.     

Especes multiliees dans la chimisorption de co (Ni/Si O2, Ni/Al2O3, Co/Al2O3, Co,Pd/SiO2)

The application of chemical trapping to chemisorbed CO has led to the characterization of multibonded species

on Ni/SiO₂, Ni/Al₂ O₃ , Co, Co/Al₂O₃ and of a bridged form

on Pd/SiO₂. A structure like

[proposed by Muetterties) is in good agreement with infrared and magnetic studies of CO chemisorption on Ni/SiO₂.     

Some chlorine fluorosulfonate and peroxydisulfuryl-difluoride reactions

Chlorine fluorosulfonate adds exceptionally easy not only to various alkenes, perfluorobenzene, but to alkynes too

The addition of peroxydisulfuryldifluoride to alkyl- and perfluoroalkyliodides leads to unstable adducts, which decompose with the formation of alkylfluorosulfonates and iodine fluorosulfonate; the latter was trapped with fluoroalkenes

The use of ClOSO₂F allows to substitute selectively for the fluorosulfonate group the chlorine atom in monochloroacetic acid esters as well as the fluorine atom in hexafluoroacetone N-fluoroimine

ClOSO₂F serves as an exceptionally active chlorinating reagent for fluorinated alcohols, nitrosocompounds, perfluoroacid amides and particularly for benzene

The reaction of (OSO₂F)₂ with perfluoroacid amides leads to the corresponding N,N-bis(fluorosulfonate)amides, which easily rearrange into alkylfluorosulfonates

The hypochlorites of fluorinated alcohols are stable enough and they, similarly to ClOSO₂F, are able to add to alkenes, fluoroalkenes (but not to perfluoroisobutylene), bis(trifluoromethyl)ketene, trifluoromethylisocyanate and perfluoronitriles

The fluorosulfonatoacetic acid esters are unstable at the ambient temperature, but they can be widely used in situ as a very effective alkylating reagents

     

Preparation and reactions of trifluoromethyl-sulfur oxide nitride

In the reaction of CF₃SOCl with NaN₃ or (CH₃)₃SiN₃, azide, CF₃SON₃ (I) is formed:

Upon gentle warming to room temperature, (I) decomposes under evolution of N₂ to give CF₃SON (II),

which however oligomerizes instantaneously, The monomeric nitride(II) can be captured in the presence of reactive halogene compounds to yield N-substituted trifluoromethan-imino sulfonyl chlorides. With CH₃CN, a six-membered ring compound is obtained:

     

Synthese de la phenyl-2-dimethyl-4,5-phosphorine a partir du benzyl-1-dimethyl-3,4-phosphole

1-Benzyl-3,4-dimethylphosphate

-$\text{1}$ is converted into 2-phenyl-4,5-dimethyl-λ₃-phosphorin

-$\text{2}$ through 1,2-dihydro-λ₅-phosphorines

$\text{3}$ and

$\text{s}$.     

Etude calorimetrique et analytique de l'adsorption du cyanogene sur la silice

The adsoprtion of C₂N₂ on well outgassed specimens of SiO₂ at temperatures from 35 to 913°C has been studied by heat flow calorimetry, volumetry, and mass spectrometry.Small amounts of cyanogen are adsorbed at low temperature: reversibly by hydrogen bonding with the silanol groups, and irreversibly on strained siloxane bridges or Lewis acid sites. Above 200°C cyanogen reacts, with silanol groups, leading to the formation of HCN (partly reversibly adsorbed on non-reacted silanol groups) and silyl isocyanate:

. The process is complete at 418°C and the measured enthalpy for the reaction

is ΔH = ?12.2 ± 0.3 kcal mole^?.Above 500°C, HCN and C₂N₂ react with ordinary siloxane bridges. At higher temperature, the pyrolysis of

produces CO₂ with CO and N₂ (in smaller quantities), showing that a large proportion of N-atoms are bonded on the surface.     

Excited-neutral-metastable SO2 formation in the , O3-olefin-SO2, and active nitrogen-SO2 systems

Long-liied (τ > 10^?3 s), electronically-excited (E * > 4 eV) neutral metastables, whose formation was attributed to the presence of SO₂, were observed in the three titled systems. Their possible identity as collisionally-accessed metastable states of the normal

, cyclic

, or superoxide

isomers of SO₂ is discussed.     

Experimental and ab initio evidence for preferred syn-conformation of thionyl amines, , X = H,CH3, and C6H5

The conformational syn—anti problem with respect to the

bond in thionylamines,

, has only partially been solved for X = H and CH₃ [1, 2]. By providing new experimental material for C₆H₅NSO and p-FC₆H₄NSO (vibrational spectra, low-resolution microwave spectra, dipole moment determinations) and by performing ab initio calculations for HNSO and CH₃NSO it is shown that these two molecules are exclusively syn conformers The experimental data here presented strongly suggest the same conclusion for C₆H₅NSO. The result is consistent with a previous investigation by van Woerden and Bijl-Vlieger [3] comprising 13 mono- and polysubstituted sulfinylanilines.     

Étude de la conformation des tripeptides en solution dans l'eau lourde par spectrométrie infrarouge

An IR spectroscopic study of dipeptides

and tripeptides

(where R₁ R₂ R₃ can be H or CH₃) in their zwitterion, chlorohydrate or alkaline forms in heavy-water solution, has shown that the first two forms of the tripeptides exist in the C⁵ conformation; in alkaline solution the hydrogen bond responsible for this conformation is broken. It is shown that the end groups, CO₂^? or CO₂D, possess stretching vibration frequencies which characterize the terminal ammo-acid. Similarly, bending vibration frequencies of CH₂ or CH₃ groups depend on the CH₂ or CH₃ position in the peptide chain.     

Gas phase electron diffraction study of tetravinyltin Sn(CHCH2)4

The tetravinyltin molecule has been studied by gas phase electron diffraction. The r_a structure analysis is based on the assumptions that a single conformer occurs in Sn(CHCH₂)₄ and that tin has a tetrahedral bond configuration. The preferred model (S₄ symmetry) predicts all four vinyl groups to be intermediate between staggered and eclipsed conformations. The structure refinement gives the following parameters (bond lengths, r_a, in nm, valence angles in degrees):

, SnCC = 121.9(0.6), CC = 0.1349(8), SnCH = 116.8(4.5),<C—H?_av. = 0.1098(14). The uncertainties given in parentheses represent three times the standard deviation values.The observed shortening of the

bond in Sn(CHCH₂)₄ from

in SnMe₄ (by 0.0027 nm) is equal to the shortening that occurs on going from

in ethane to

in propylene. With the corresponding Si and Ge derivatives, this effect is less pronounced.     

Radiation-induced radical formation in polyethylacrylate (PEA) and poly-ß-chloroethylacrylate (PCIEA) studied by ESR—II

Radical formation during the radiolysis of polyethylacrylate (PEA) at ?196°C has been investigated by ESR. Partially deuterated samples of PEA were used to improve the identification of radicals. It is found that ethyl radicals are formed. They originate from ion-electron recombination since they are not observed in the presence of pyrene as electron scavenger. They add to the C = O double bond leading to the formation of the radical

which is found after γ-irradiation. This radical decomposes under the action of visible light to give C₂H₅· and PEA. This reaction is reversible. Furthermore, the radicals

and

are formed during the radiolysis.Chlorine substitution in the ethyl-ester group (PCIEA) enhances radical formation by a factor of 3–4. The only radical observed at low temperature is

It is formed by dissociative electron capture resulting in the cleavage of the whole side chain. After heating to –10°C, in PEA and PCIEA only the radical

is observed which results from main chain scission. The results of ESR are correlated with investigations on product formation, crosslinking and main chain scission given in a previous paper.     

Photoexcitation and photodissociation lasers. III. mechanisms of CO laser emission from the vacuum UV photodissociation of CH2COO2 and CH2COSO2 mixtures

CO laser emission was detected in the vacuum UV flash photolysis of CH₂CO. The emission is attributed to the initial photodissociation reaction

Addition of O₂ to the CH₂CO system caused a pronounced enhancement in the laser intensity. This effect is believed to be due to the removal of the CH₂ + CH₂CO reaction, which produces uninverted CO molecules. A greater laser output was obtained when SO₂ was used instead of O₂. In the O₂-added system, a total of 16 transitions ranging from Δv(8→7) to (4→3) were identified. Addition of SO₂ increased the total number of lines to 34, lasing in the range between (11→10) and (4→3). This enhancement is ascribed to the occurrence of the reaction

In addition to these chemical effects, the effects of flash energy, inert gases and total pressures have been investigated.