The atmospheric pressure Meerwein reaction

We have already shown that the in-vacuum gas-phase Meerwein reaction of (thio)acylium ions is general in nature and useful for class-selective screening of cyclic (thio)epoxides. Herein we report that this gas-phase reaction can also be performed efficiently at atmospheric pressure under both electrospray ionization (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) conditions. This alternative expands the range of molecules that can be reacted by gas-phase Meerwein reaction. Phenyl epoxide, thiirane, 3-methoxy-2,2-dimethyloxirane, propylene oxide, 2,2'-bioxirane, trans-1,3-diphenyl-2,3-epoxypropan-1-one, epichloridrine and propylene oxide are shown to react efficiently in both ESI and APCI conditions. Tetramethylurea (TMU) and (thio)TMU were both used as dopants, being co-injected with either toluene, acetonitrile or methanol solutions of the (thio)epoxides, with similar results. In both ESI and APCI, (thio)TMU is protonated preferentially, and these labile species dissociate promptly to yield (CH3)2N-C+=O and (CH3)2NCS+, which are the least acidic and most reactive (thio)acylium ions so far tested in the gas-phase Meerwein reaction. Under the low-energy ESI conditions set to favor both the formation of the (thio)acylium ion and ion/molecule reactions, (CH3)2NCO(S)+ react competitively with (thio)TMU to form acylated (thio)TMU and with the (thio)epoxide to form the characteristic Meerwein products. Enhanced selectivity in structural characterization or for the screening of (thio)epoxides is achieved by performing on-line collision-induced dissociation of Meerwein products, particularly for the more structurally complex (thio)epoxides.     

Kinetic regularities of the reaction of dimethyldioxirane with cyclic acetals

Kinetic regularities of the reactions of dimethyldioxirane (1) with 1,3-dioxolane, 2-propyl-1,3-dioxolane, 2-i-propyl-1,3-dioxolane, 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane, and 2,2-pentame-thylene-1,3-dioxolane (RH) in acetone have been studied spectrophotometrically in the temperature range from 15 to 48°C. The reaction rate d[1] /dt=k[1]·[RH] does not depend on the oxygen concentration in the reaction mixture. The activation parameters in the reaction with 1,3-dioxolane have been determined: lgk=(5.13±0.6)−(10.07±0.82)/Q, where Q=2,303 RT kcal/mol.     

Preparation and radical ring-opening polymerization of 2-substituted-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolanes

2-Methyl-2-phenyl-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIa ), 2-ethyl-2-phenyl-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIb ), 2-phenyl-2-(n-propyl)-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIc ), 2-phenyl-2-(i-propyl)-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IId ), 2-(n-heptyl)-2-phenyl-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIe ), 2-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl)-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIf ), and 2,2-diphenyl-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane ( IIg ) were prepared and polymerized in the presence of a radical initiator. IIa–IIf were found to undergo vinyl polymerization with ring-opening reaction accompanying the elimination of ketone groups in bulk. IIg was found to undergo the quantitative ring-opening reaction accompanying the elimination of benzophenone in solution to obtain polyketone without any side reaction.     

Antiradical activity of dioxolane derivatives

1,3-Benzodioxoles synthesized by condensation of 3,6-di-tert-butylbenzene-1,2-diol with carbonyl compounds showed antiradical activity due to their ability to undergo one-electron oxidation with formation of stable radical cations. On this basis, the antiknock effect of their structural analogs, 1,3-dioxolanes derived from vicinal diols, was interpreted in terms of oxidation of these compounds with active radicals generated from fuel hydrocarbons to produce more stable radical or radical ion species, depending on the fuel composition. The formation of radical species was detected in model oxidation reactions of 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane and 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-ylmethanol with radicals generated by photolysis of iron(III) chloride and benzoyl peroxide.     

Acyclic distonic acylium ions: Dual free radical and acylium ion reactivity in a single molecule

Three gaseous acyclic distonic acylium ions: *CH2-CH2-C+=O, *CH2-CH2-CH2-C+=O, and *CH2=C(CH2)-C+=O, are found to display dual free radical and acylium ion reactivity; with appropriate neutrals, they react selectively either as free radicals with inert charge sites, or (and more pronouncedly) as acylium ions with inert radical sites. The free radical reactivity of the ions is demonstrated via the Kenttamaa reaction: CH3S* abstraction with the spin trap dimethyl disulfide; their ion reactivity by two reactions most characteristic of acylium ions: transacetalization with 2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane and the gas-phase Meerwein reaction, that is, expansion of the three-membered epoxide ring of epichlorohydrin to the five-membered 1,3-dioxolanylium ion ring. In "one-pot" reactions with gaseous mixtures of epichlorohydrin and dimethyl disulfide, the ions react selectively at either site, but more readily at the acylium charge site, to form the two mono-derivatized ions. Further reaction at either the remaining free radical or acylium charge site forms a single bi-derivatized ion as the final product. Becke3LYP/6-31G(d) calculations predict the reactions at the acylium charge sites of the three distonic ions to be highly exothermic, and both the "hot" transacetalization and epoxide ring expansion products of *CH2-CH2-CH2-C+=O to dissociate rapidly by H2C=CH2 loss in overall exothermic processes. The calculations also predict highly spatially separate odd spin and charge sites for the novel cyclic distonic ketal ions formed by the reactions at the acylium charge sites.     

磷钨酸铜绿色催化合成缩醛(酮)及其催化活性测定

合成了绿色杂多酸盐催化剂磷钨酸铜;将环己酮、苯甲醛同乙二醇、1,2-丙二醇的缩合反应作为探针反应,测定了催化剂的催化活性,比较系统地考察了催化剂用量、物料配比、反应时间、带水剂用量等因素对反应产率的影响.结果表明:在底物醛(酮)用量0.2 mol、醛(酮)/乙二醇(1,2-丙二醇)摩尔比1.0/1.5、催化剂用量0.5 g、带水剂环己烷用量18 mL、一定温度下回流反应2.0 h,1,4-二氧螺[4,5]癸烷产率为83.3%,3-甲基-1,4-二氧螺[4,5]癸烷产率为89.7%,2-苯基-1,3-二氧环戊烷产率为66.7%,4-甲基-2-苯基-1,3-二氧环戊烷产率为78.5%.     

Ion/molecule reactions in a miniature RIT mass spectrometer

Ion/molecule reactions were explored in a newly developed miniature mass spectrometer fitted with a rectilinear ion trap (RIT) mass analyzer. The tandem mass spectrometry performance of this instrument is demonstrated using collision induced dissociation (CID) and ion/molecule reactions. The latter includes Eberlin transacetalization reactions and electrophilic additions. Selective detection of the chemical warfare simulant dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP) was achieved through selective Eberlin reactions of its characteristic phosphonium fragment ion CH3OP(+)(O)CH3 (m/z 93), with 1,4-dioxane or 1,3-dioxolane. Efficient adduct formation as a result of electrophilic attack by the phosphonium ion on various nucleophilic reagents, including 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl urea, methanesulfonic acid methyl ester, dimethyl sulfoxide and methyl salicylate, was also observed using the RIT device. The product ions of these reactions were analyzed using CID and the characteristic fragmentation patterns of the ionic addition products were recorded using multiple-stage experiments in the miniature RIT instrument. This study clearly demonstrates that a small, home-built, miniature RIT mass spectrometer can be used to perform analytically useful ion/molecule reactions and also that instruments like this have the potential to provide a portable platform for in situ detection of organophosphorus esters and related compounds with high specificity using tandem mass spectrometry.     

Meerwein reaction of phosphonium ions with epoxides and thioepoxides in the gas phase

Phosphonium ions are shown to undergo a gas-phase Meerwein reaction in which epoxides (or thioepoxides) undergo three-to-five-membered ring expansion to yield dioxaphospholanium (or oxathiophospholanium) ion products. When the association reaction is followed by collision-induced dissociation (CID), the oxirane (or thiirane) is eliminated, making this ion molecule reaction/CID sequence a good method of net oxygen-by-sulfur replacement in the phosphonium ions. This replacement results in a characteristic mass shift of 16 units and provides evidence for the cyclic nature of the gas-phase Meerwein product ions, while improving selectivity for phosphonium ion detection. This reaction sequence also constitutes a gas-phase route to convert phosphonium ions into their sulfur analogs. Phosphonium and related ions are important targets since they are commonly and readily formed in mass spectrometric analysis upon dissociative electron ionization of organophosphorous esters. The Meerwein reaction should provide a new and very useful method of recognizing compounds that yield these ions, which includes a number of chemical warfare agents. The Meerwein reaction proceeds by phosphonium ion addition to the sulfur or oxygen center, followed by intramolecular nucleophilic attack with ring expansion to yield the 1,3,2-dioxaphospholanium or 1,3,2-oxathiophospholanium ion. Product ion structures were investigated by CID tandem mass spectrometry (MS(2)) experiments and corroborated by DFT/HF calculations.     

The gas-phase Meerwein reaction

A systematic investigation of a novel epoxide and thioepoxide ring expansion reaction promoted by gaseous acylium and thioacylium ions is reported. As ab initio calculations predict, and 18O-labeling and MS3 pentaquadrupole experiments demonstrate, the reaction proceeds by initial O(S)-acylation of the (thio)epoxides followed by rapid intramolecular nucleophilic attack that results in three-to-five-membered ring expansion, and forms cyclic 1,3-dioxolanylium, 1,3-oxathiolanylium, or 1,3-dithiolanylium ions. This gas-phase reaction is analogous to a condensed-phase reaction long since described by H. Meerwein (Chem. Ber. 1955, 67, 374), and is termed as "the gas-phase Meerwein reaction"; it occurs often to great extents or even exclusively, but in some cases, particularly for the most basic (thio)epoxides and the most acidic (thio)acylium ions, proton transfer (eventually hydride abstraction) competes efficiently, or even dominates. When (thio)epoxides react with (thio)-acylium ions, the reaction promotes O(S)-scrambling; when epoxides react with thioacylium ions and the adducts are dissociated, it promotes S/O replacement. An analogous four-to-six-membered ring expansion also occurs predominantly in reactions of trimethylene oxide with acylium and thioacylium ions.     

Photochemical transformations of cyclic acetal radical cations in Freon matrices at 77 K

The efficiency of photochemical reactions of radical cations of cyclic acetals (1,3-dioxolane, 1,3-dioxane) is measured in different Freon matrices at 77 K and the influence of the latter on the reaction path is discovered. The possible nature of the paramagnetic complexes that form in photochemical reactions of cyclic acetal radical cations in Freon-11 is suggested.     

Oxidation of 1,3-Dioxacycloalkanes with Complexes of Potassium Chlorochromate and Chlorodiperoxochromate with 15-Crown-5, Catalyzed with 2,2,5,5-Tetramethyl- 4-phenyl-3-oxo-3λ5-imidazolin-1-yloxyl

2,2,5,5-Tetramethyl-4-phenyl-3-oxo-3⁵-imidazolin-1-yloxyl catalyzes oxidation of 2-isopropyl-1,3-dioxolane, 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane, 2-phenyl-4-chloromethyl-1,3-dioxolane, and 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxane with 15-crown-5 complexes of potassium chlorodiperoxochromate (KCrO₅Cl·2C₁₀H₂₀O₅) and potassium chlorochromate (KCrO₃Cl·2C₁₀H₂₀O₅). 2-Isopropyl-1,3-dioxolane is oxidized to the corresponding monoester in quantitative yield, and the 2-phenyl derivatives yield benzaldehyde. The spiro ketal, 2,2-pentamethylene-4-methyl-1,3-dioxane, is decomposed to cyclohexanone.     

Oxidation of 1,3-Dioxacycloalkanes with Dimethyldioxirane

The kinetic regularities of the reactions of dimethyldioxirane with 1,3-dioxane, 2-propyl-, 2-isopropyl-, 2-phenyl-, 2,2-pentamethylene-, 2,2-dimethyl-, and 4-(hydroxymethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolanes, as well as with 2-isopropyl-, 2-phenyl-, 2,2,4-trimethyl-, 2-isopropyl-4-methyl-, 4-methyl-, 4-methyl-2-phenyl-, and 5,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxanes in acetone were studied by spectrophotometry. The reaction kinetics are described by a second-order equation (first order in dioxirane and first order in dioxacycloalkane). The reaction rate is independent of the concentration of oxygen in the reaction mixture. The activation parameters of the reactions were determined.     

Mononuclear, five-coordinate lanthanide amido and aryloxide complexes bearing tetradentate (N2O2) Schiff bases

Two monomeric, five-coordinate lanthanide complexes, [bis-5,5'-(1,3-propanediyldiimino)-2,2-dimethyl-4-hexene-3-onato]samarium[2,6-bis(tert-butyl)-4-methylphenoxide] and [bis-5,5'-(1,3-propanediyldiimino)-2,2-dimethyl-4-hexene-3-onato]erbium[2,6-bis(tert-butyl)-4-methylphenoxide], were isolated from the reactions of 2,6-bis(tert-butyl)-4-methylphenol with [bis-5,5'-(1,3-propanediyldiimino)-2,2-dimethyl-4-hexene-3-onato]lanthanide[bis(trimethylsilyl)amido] (lanthanide = Er(3+) and Sm(3+)). The purified phenoxides were recovered in excellent yields and analytical purity, and the reactions proceeded cleanly without Schiff-base degradation or cluster formation. Analogously, [bis-3,3'-(1,3-propanediyldiimino)-1-phenyl-2-butene-1-onato]erbium[bis(trimethylsilyl)amido] was also directly converted to [bis-3,3'-(1,3-propanediyldiimino)-1-phenyl-2-butene-1-onato]erbium[2,6-bis(tert-butyl)-4-methylphenoxide]; however, a less sterically demanding alcohol (i.e., ethanol) yielded a neutral trinuclear oxo alkoxide species with each dianionic Schiff base asymmetrically bridging through micro-oxo interactions. In this polynuclear cluster, each symmetry-related, seven-coordinate erbium(III) ion exhibits monocapped trigonal prismatic geometry, which assembles by sharing triangular capped faces. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed square-pyramidal metal coordination in each five-coordinate lanthanide ion with varied S(4) ruffling of the "square base" donor atoms and the six-membered propylene diamine chelate ring adopting the boat conformation. To contrast the effect of subtle ligand changes, we also report the synthesis and characterization of [bis-5,5'-(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediyldiimino)-2,2-dimethyl-4-hexene-3-onato]samarium[bis(trimethylsilyl)amido], having gem-dimethyl substituents appended to the propylene bridge central carbon. The six-membered diamine chelate ring in this compound adopts the chair conformation without metal-hydrocarbon interaction. Also presented are qualitative activity observations and polymerization data for the polymerization of rac-lactide and epsilon-caprolactone using the five-coordinate lanthanide amidos and phenoxides.     

Investigation on radical polymerization of 2-methylene-1,3-dioxolanes and 2-methylene-1,3-oxazolidines

The reaction of 2-methylene-1,3-dioxolanes and 2-methylene-1,3-oxazolidines with benzoyl peroxide (acceptor radical) and with N-ethylmaleimide (acceptor) was investigated. It was shown that benzoyl peroxide adds to monomers 1a and 1b , giving the corresponding linear diester amides 1a and 1b respectively. The oxazolidine 1c adds benzoyl peroxide, without ring opening, by addition to the exomethylene group. Together with N-ethylmaleimide the oxazolidines 1a or 1b produce deep-colored charge transfer complexes, resulting in high molecular poly-N-ethylmaleimides probably via a radical mechanism. The 1,3-dioxolanes 2a and 2b were radically polymerized to produce polyacetals by vinyl polymerization. 2c was polymerized to produce randomly containing acetal units and ester units. The mechanism of polymerization of 2e is complex, affording polymers of nonuniform character. 2-Methylene-4-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane polymerization leads to polyester as the main structure, and to a lesser degree polyacetal structures. The chemical structures of the polymers were confirmed by NMR spectra and elemental analysis. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

New Chiral Diamines of the Dioxolane Series: (+)-(4S,5S)-2,2-Dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylaminomethyl)- 1,3-dioxolane and (+)-(4S,5S)-2,2-Dimethyl-4,5-bis(methyl- aminomethyl)-1,3-dioxolane

The reaction of sodium diphenylamide with 2,2-dimethyl-4,5-bis(tosyloxymethyl)-1,3-dioxolane gave (+)-(4S,5S)-2,2-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylaminomethyl)-1,3-dioxolane, which was brought into complex formation with cobalt chloride. Treatment of 2,2-dimethyl-4,5-bis(tosyloxymethyl)-1,3-dioxolane with sodium N-methylanilide resulted in cleavage of the SÄO bond in the p-toluenesulfonate moiety with formation of N-methyl-N-phenyl-p-toluenesulfonamide and 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane disodium salt. Diethyl (4R,5R)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-dicarboxylate reacted with methylamine to give the corresponding dicarboxamide which was reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to (4S,5S)-2,2-dimethyl-4,5-bis(methylaminomethyl)-1,3-dioxolane having chiral carbon and nitrogen atoms.     

Ring-opening polymerization. V. Hydroxyl-initiated polymerization of phenyl-substituted 1,3-dioxolan -2,4-diones: A model study

The reaction of C(5) phenyl-substituted 1,3-dioxolan-2,4-diones with a series of alcohols has been studied in order to obtain quantitative information relating to the role of hydroxyl initiation in the polymerization of these compounds. Results relating to both the effect of C(5) substitution and the structure of the attacking alcohol are presented. The reactions are secondorder (first-order with respect to each component) and show some of the kinetic features associated with monosubstituted 1,3,2-dioxathiolan-4-one-2-oxides. Structural effects are adequately represented in terms of Taft σ^* and E_s substituent constants. Of the parameters describing the properties of the reaction medium, the donicity concept was found to give the best correlation with rate data. It is considered that hydroxyl initiation will contribute to a relatively small extent in the polymerization of 5,5-diphenyl-1,3-dioxolan-2,4-dione and 5-methyl, 5-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-2,4-dione but will form the basis for the major chain-growth process in 5-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-2,4-dione.     

One-step synthesis of some polyfluoroalkylated 1,3-benzodioxoles, 4H-1,3-benzodioxins and dibenzo[d,f] [1,3]dioxepins

Several polyfluoroalkylated heterocyclic compounds containing methylenedioxy group such as 2-(F-alkyl) substituted 1,3-benzodioxole, piperonal, 4H-1,3-benzodioxin, 1,3-dioxolane and 6-(F-alkyl) substituted dibenzo[d, f][1,3]dioxepin have been prepared through double Michael-addition reactions of 2,2-dihydropolyfluoroalkanoates with the corresponding diphenols or diols in high yields.     

Gas-phase oxirane addition to acylium ions on reaction with 1,3-dioxolanes elucidated by tandem and triple stage mass spectrometric experiments

Acylium ions containing a variety of substituents all undergo an unprecedented reaction with 1,3-dioxolanes which gives rise to a cyclic, resonance-stabilized oxonium ion, formally the product of oxirane (C₂H₄O) addition to the reagent ion. The structure for the ion–molecule product is supported by multiple-stage mass spectrometric experiments, performed in a pentaquadrupole mass spectrometer, which show the expected fragmentation by C₂H₄O loss to yield the original reactant acylium ions. The oxonium ions are formed in relatively high abundance in many cases and are observed even when proton-transfer reactions would be expected to occur competitively owing to the acidity of some of the acylium ions studied. This ion–molecule reaction is proposed to serve as a general method for identification and/or trapping of ions of the whole acylium ion class and also for the gas-phase generation of the oxonium ions. The reaction with 1,3-dioxolane is also useful in distinguishing the most stable C₂H₃O⁺ ion, the acetyl cation, from its two stable isomers, O-protonated ketene and the oxiranyl cation. The thioacetyl cation, the only sulfur analog investigated, also reacts with dioxolane to form the corresponding oxirane addition product, indicating that the C₂H₄O addition reaction occurs and that it may be useful for identification of the thioacylium class and for the gas-phase generation of sulfur analogs of oxonium ions.     

Reactions of 2-(5-methyl-2-phenyl-2H-1,2,3-diazaphosphol-4-yl)- 4H-1,3,2-benzodioxaphosphinin-4-one with chloral and hexafluoroacetone

Reaction of 2-(5-methyl-2-phenyl-2H-1,2,3-diazaphosphol-4-yl)-4H-1,3,2-benzodioxaphosphinin-4-one with chloral occurs at Piii atom of the 1,3,2-dioxaphosphinine cycle giving mostly 2-chlorocarbonylphenyl 2,2-dichlorovinyl (5-methyl-2-phenyl-2H-1,2,3-diazaphosphol-4-yl)phosphonate, whereas hexafluoroacetone incorporates into the 1,3,2-dioxaphosphorine cycle affording the corresponding 1,3,2-benzodioxaphosphepine.     

A comparative study on the behaviour of 1,3-diheterocyclopentanes (X = O,O; S,S; O,S) under electron impact. The formation of thioacetyl and thiiranyl cations

The electron-impact-induced mass spectra of 1,3-dioxolane (la), 1,3-dithiolane (2a) and 1,3-oxatbiolane (3a) and their 2-methyl (1b–3b) and 2,2-dimethyl [(CH₃)₂: 1c–3c or (CD₃)₂: 1d–3d] derivatives have been studied in detail to gain further insight into their ion structures and competing reaction pathways with low-resolution, high-resolution, metastable and collision-induced dissociation (CID) techniques. For compounds 1a–1d the most significant reaction is loss of H^˙ and CH₃^˙ by α-cleavage and a subsequent formation of CHO⁺ and C₂H₃O⁺ ions. The [M ? H]⁺ ions from 1a and 1b give a C₂H₃O⁺ ion which does not have the acyl cation structure as shown by their CID spectra. In compounds 3a–3d the sulphur-containing ions predominate, the C₂H₃O⁺ now having the acyl cation structure. 1,3-Dithiolanes (2a–2d) exhibit the most complicated fragmentation patterns. Furthermore the [M ? H]⁺ ion from 2a and [M ? CH₃]⁺ ion from 2b have different structures as well as the [M ? H]⁺ ion from 2b and [M ? CH₃]⁺ ion from 2c, as shown by their CID spectra. This can be utilized to explain why 3a–3c and 2a give principally a thiiranyl cation, whereas 2b gives a mixture of this and the thioacyl cation and 2c practically only the open-chain thioacetyl cation.