Transmission of inductive effect and polar resonance effect through the benzene and the furan ring in PMR spectra

Assuming the independence and additivity of the inductive and polar resonance effects, experimental data for chemical shifts in proton magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra of mono and disubstituted benzene and furan derivatives are used to calculate transmission coefficients for the inductive and polar resonance effects due to any substituent for a proton in the 2, 3, or 4 position in the ring. Values of ^* and ^c are tabulated. With benzene compounds transmission of the polar resonance effect decreases on passing from the p and o to the m position. The coefficient of transmission of the inductive effect to a proton in the m or p position is negligible.With furan compounds the values of the coefficient ^c for 2, 5 and 2,4 ring positions are close to the corresponding values for benzene compounds. In the furan ring a considerable part of the polar resonance is transmitted through the heteroatom. The ^* coefficients are appreciably greater with furan than with benzene compounds, because the ring carbon atoms screen the proton less from the substituent. Most of the inductive effect from the 2 to the 5 position in the furan ring is direct (transmitted through space).     

Photosensitized intramolecular cyclization of furan and non-activated alkene: pathway switching by the substituent on the furan ring

A photosensitized reaction of furan with a non-activated simple alkene was investigated. Intramolecular Diels-Alder-type cycloaddition reactions between furan and a trisubstituted alkene were found to proceed in high yield in the presence of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene under UV irradiation to afford oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane derivatives in high stereoselectivity when the furan was alkyl substituted. On the other hand, the aryl-substituted furan cyclized via a completely different pathway to give spirocyclic and tricyclic products.     

Application of the Seth-Paul-Van Duyse equation—III : Transmission of polar effects by the furan ring

The improved Seth-Paul-Van Duyse equation (SPVDE) has been used to determine transmissive factors of polar effects for the furan ring. The SPVDE was applied to the CO stretching frequencies of OO-trans and OO-cis conformers of a series of substituted 5-phenyl-2-furancarbonyl compounds measured in carbon tetrachloride. The transmissive factors for furan ring in both conformation OO-trans and OO-cis have been calculated with a higher accuracy than found by using the methods described earlier. The applicability of the improved SPVDE to the 96 CO stretching frequencies of various 5-phenyl-2-furancarbonyl compounds has been proved.     

Synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted 3-chlorofurans and the effect of the chlorine substituent in furan Diels-Alder reactions

2,4-Disubstituted 3-chlorofurans were synthesized in 42-69% overall yields by CuCl/bpy-catalyzed halogen atom transfer radical cyclization of 1-substituted 2,2,2-trichloroethyl allyl ethers to 2-substituted 3,3-dichloro-4-(1-chloroalkyl)tetrahydrofurans followed by base promoted dehydrochlorination. Diels-Alder reactions of 4-substituted 2-(2-furyl)-, 2-styryl-, and 2-crotyl-3-chlorofurans with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate occurred exclusively on the chlorofurano diene moieties and not on the non-chlorinated furano diene or the chlorinated exocyclic diene alternatives, demonstrating the predominance of the halogen effect in the furan Diels-Alder reaction.     

Theoretical study on the substituent effect of a Wittig reaction

The substituent effects of F, H and methyl (Me) in replacement of phenyl (Ph) groups bonding with the ylide phosphorus in Wittig reactions have been examined theoretically by performing ab intio calculations. It is shown that the energy barrier for the Wittig reaction with F as the substituent is much higher than that with H, Me and Ph. The Wittig reaction is found to be more favorable with the substituent in the order F<H<Ph<Me. The reactions are found to proceed through two transition states: the formation and the decomposition of oxaphosphetane. We conclude that only the model of the Wittig reaction in which Ph is simplified to Me can reasonably describe the real Wittig reaction. Received: 7 August 2001 / Accepted: 25 October 2001 / Published online: 22 March 2002     

Polymeric siloxanes with a substituent and the spirobenzopyran moiety: Effect of polar substituent on the photochromic properties

Oligomeric polysiloxanes having the spirobenzopyran moiety and various substituents were prepared. The polymers were photochromic; the color changed from colorless to red on UV irradiation and the color faded on visible irradiation or on standing in the dark. The thermal decoloration was depressed by the polar substituents. However, the effect of the bulky substituent, which had been observed in the rigid siloxane resins, was not detected. In the inorganic/organic hybrid siloxane gels, the silica/(spirobenzopyran-bonding polysiloxane) system and the (spirobenzopyran-bonding silica)/polysiloxane system, the thermal decoloration was also affected by the polar substituent introduced into the polysiloxane portion. The effect was larger in the first case than in the second. The result can be interpreted by the term of the preferential diffusion of polar spirobenzopyran to the vicinity of the polar substituents during the gelation.     

Synthesis of indolizidinediones annelated to a furan ring

The furo[2,3(or 3,2)-f]indolizidinediones 4a,b were synthesized in five steps from glutamic acid in good yield. The ketones were converted into trans alcohols 5a,b or oximes 6a,b (either as syn-anti mixture or as single isomer). The selectivity of these reactions is discussed.     

Intramolecular diels-alder reactions of the furan diene: substituent and solvent effects

An internal Diels-Alder reaction, using furan as the diene component, formed a highly functionalized 5-membered carbocyclic ring in excellent yield. Solvent and substituent effects of this reaction were examined.     

The effect of the nature of the substituent on the structure of a 1,3,4-oxathiazol-2-one ring

A series of 5-aryl(thienyl) substituted 1,3,4-oxathiazol-2-ones has been synthesized. The molecular structures of 5-(4-nitrophenyl)-, 5-(5-ethylthieno[2,3-b]thiophen-2-yl)-, 5-(5-ethyl-2-ethylsulfanylthiophen-3-yl)-, and 5-(5-methylsulfonylthiophen-2-yl)-1,3,4-oxathiazol-2-ones have been investigated by X-ray analysis. The thiophene and oxathiazolone fragments are coplanar. The geometric parameters of the oxathiazolone ring are discussed. Electron acceptor substituents in the para position of the benzene ring and in the 5 position of the thiophene ring have the greatest effect on the system conjugation in the oxathiazolone ring.     

Ab initio quantum dynamical study of photoinduced ring opening in furan

The nonadiabatic photoinduced ring opening occurring in the two lowest excited singlet states of furan is investigated theoretically, using wave-packet propagation techniques. The underlying multidimensional potential energy surfaces (PESs) are obtained from ab initio computations, using the equation-of-motion coupled cluster method restricted to single and double excitations (EOM-CCSD), reported in earlier recent work [E. V. Gromov, A. B. Trofimov, F. Gatti, and H. Ko?ppel, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 164309 (2010)]. Up to five nuclear degrees of freedom are considered in the quantum dynamical treatment. Four of them represent in-plane motion for which the electronic states in question (correlating with the valence (1)B(2)(V) and Rydberg (1)A(2)(3s) states at the C(2v) ground-state molecular configuration) have different symmetries, A(') and A('), respectively. The fifth mode, representing out-of-plane bending of the oxygen atom against the carbon-atom plane, leads to an interaction of these states, as is crucial for the photoreaction. The nonadiabatic coupling and conical intersection cause an electronic population transfer on the order of ～10 fs. Its main features, and that of the wave-packet motion, are interpreted in terms of properties of the PES. The lifetime due to the ring-opening process has been estimated to be around 2 ps. The dependence of this estimate on the nuclear degrees of freedom retained in the computations is discussed.     

Catalytic osmylation and oxypalladation of khellin. Two useful methods for furan ring degradation. Replacement of the furan ring by an isoxazole ring.

Two oxidation reactions are described which result in the selective degradation of the furan ring in khellin. Conversion of these products to previously inaccessible analogues is described.     

Polarographic studies on the quantitative treatments of substituent effects of some aromatic isothiocyanates

The polarographic reduction of aromatic isothiocyanates takes place in a single 4e reduction wave in the B.R. buffers of pH 4·6-10·0. Thelimiting current is diffusion controlled and the waves are irreversible in nature. The half wave potential and limiting current are independent of pH. The reduction in these compounds occurs at -N = C = S group and the effect of substituents has been interpreted in the terms of Hammett equation. The value of specific reaction constant (ρ) is found to be 0·12 V and the positive sign of ρ indicates the nucleophilic nature of the reduction.