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.     

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

.     

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.     

ESR spectra and electronic structure: some recent examples.

Results of ESR studies are presented for a number of radical ions selected from several classes of compounds of current interest. The strikingly different hyperfine data for the radical cations of 1,6:8,13-propane-1,3-

and 1,6:8,13-ethane-diylidene-[14]annulene

demonstrate the effect of an interplay of homoconjugative, inductive and hyperconjugative perturbations. The unusually stable radical cations of N,N′-dimethyl-

and N,N′-trimethylene-1,6:8,13-bisimino[14]annulene

should be regarded as N-centered radicals with an N-N 3-electron σ-bond. Despite similar geometries of [2.2]paracyclophane

, its 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-octa-fluoro-derivative

and its 1,9,-diene

, the corresponding radical anions strongly differ in their electronic structure. An unexpected conformatinal interconversion is observed for the radical anion of

. Electron acceptors, such as tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ;

) and its areno analogues, and electron donors, represented by tetrathiafulvalene (TTF;

) and compounds containing the TTF system, form salts exhibiting high electronic conductivity (“organic metals”). ESR spectra of the radical anions and trianions of these acceptors and the radical cations of these donors provide detailed information about the spin distribution in the respective species.     

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.     

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

     

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

$\text{s}$.     

Synthesis and intramolecular charge-transfer interaction of o-tropyliobiphenyl tetrafluoroborates

A series of o-tropyliobiphenyl tetradfluoroborates

has been synthesized. Evidences are presented to show that

exhibit strong intramolecular charge-transfer interaction between tropylium ion and remote aryl ring. The structure of

was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction study.     

Sussex-N.P.L. computer analysed thermochemical data: Organic and organometallic compounds : J.B. Pedley and J. Rylance,University of Sussex, 1977 £10.00

The formation of new

intermediates and especially germaimines R₂GeNR′ has been observed in the reaction of germylenes with phenyl azide (precursor of phenylnitrene). These transient derivatives lead, by polycondensation reactions, to the corresponding cyclic or linear germazanes

, and are characterized by insertion reactions into the germanium—nitrogen bond, cleavage and addition reaction with tetrahydrofuran, and pseudo-Wittig reactions with benzaldehyde. The latter produces the corresponding germoxanes via new

intermediates and phenyl benzaldimine.     

Gas phase electron diffraction study of tetraphenyltin,Sn(C6H5)4

The geometrical parameters of the tetraphenyltin molecule have been determined by gas phase electron diffraction at about 310°. The S₄ and “open” D_2d molecular models with the tetrahedral bond configuration at tin were chosen for the structure analysis. The former gave the better fit. The thermal average bond lengths (r_g, in Å) are as follows:

The benzene ring geometry appears to be almost unaffected by bonding to tin. However, tin causes an increase in the endocyclic valence angle at the ipso-carbon atom to 121.0(0.9)° rather than a decrease of that angle as might be expected, tin being a σ-electron donor. The ring plane and the plane containing the

bond and S₄ axis make an angle, ?, of 34.1(2.1)°. The

bond length in tetraphenyltin is longer than not only the

bond in tetravinyltin (r_g = 2.117(4) Å) but also the

bond in tetramethyltin (r_g = 2.144(7) A).     

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

.     

Electrokinetic phenomena in porous membranes: Determination of phenomenological coefficients and transport numbers

Electrokinetic phenomena in porous membranes were studied in the framework of the linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Phenomenological coefficients of two commercial porous membranes were determined. The variation of these coefficients with the different concentrations of NaCl used was also studied. Onsager's reciprocal relationship between cross-coefficients holds within the limits of experimental error.Membrane potentials were measured at concentrations ranging from 10^?3M to 75 X 10^?3M. The apparent transport number of the cation,

, was calculated from the diffusion potential expression. An electrometric method was used to obtain the true cation transport number,

, and the water transport number,

, for different solution concentrations, ranging from 15 x 10^?3M to 75 x 10^?3M. The true transport number of the cation,

, was also determined, taking into account water transport across the membrane. A good agreement was found between

and

values.     

Estimating electron spectrial densities for NMR relaxation calculations

Electron spectral densities J_S+S?(ω) have an incorrect temperature dependence when estimated by Fourier transforming an assumed relationship

, where the electron Zeeman energy is

is a transverse decay rate. Improved answers follow from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem.     

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.     

Formation of methylpropargyl radicals from tetramethylcyclobutadiene radical cations: an esr study

Exposure of dilute solutions of CH₃CCCH₃ in CC1₂FCC1F₂ and related solvents to ionizing radiation at 77 K produced the radical cation (CH₃CCCH₃)⁺. On annealing, these were initiallycpnverted into the corresponding dimer cation, c-C₄(CH₃)₄⁺, which subsequently decomposed to give the propargyl radical

. This novel result is supported by studies using CH₃CCCD₃ which gave, finally, the radicals

and

in a ratio of approximately 9:1. The absence of the radicals

and

indicates that the cyclobutadiene ring is strongly distorted (D_2h) and that the initial dimers do not undergo equilibration via symmetrical dimers under our experimental conditions. These results are compared to liquid-phase data for c-C₄(CH₃)₄⁺ radicals and explanations for the differences in behaviour are proposed.     

Monofluoration stereoselective par le phenyltetrafluorophosphorane (PhPF4) Part. II. Application a la synthese des isomeres thréo et érythro des alkyl-2 fluoro-3 phenylpropanoates de methyle. Analyse conformationnelle par R.M.N. de 19F et 1H.

The stereoselective fluorination of four couples of diastereoisomeric 2-alkyl 3-hydroxy 3-phenylpropanoic methyl esters

by the reaction of the phenyltetrafluorophosphorane with the corresponding trimethylsilylethers derivatives

is described. The structure of the 2-alkyl 3-fluoro 3-phenyl propanoic methyl esters

obtained quantitativly has been determined unambiguously by NMR analysis. ¹⁹F NMR results permit us to determine the relative populations of the rotamers for each of the isomers threo and erythro.     

Solvolysis of bridgehead chlorides with strained bridgehead double bond.

Product study and kinetic data of the solvolysis of the bridgehead chlorides (

) and (

indicate the neighboring group participation of the strained bridgehead double bonds.     

Aromatic fluoro derivatives XLIX. Synthesis of carbocyclic compounds by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions

Interaction of a compound of the type

with sodium hydride results in the formation of the Na salt of the carbanion

(where Ar_F represents a polyfluorinated group), which can enter into an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction with the formation of the corresponding polyfluorinated carbocyclic compound. This reaction may serve as a general method for producing such compounds.