Homoanomeric effect in the 1,2-dimethoxyethyl radical

A homoanomeric effect is found to stabilize the 1,2-dimethoxyethyl radical (CH3O-C•H-CH2OCH3) in a conformation in which the singly-occupied orbital at the radical centre is approximately coplanar with the p-type lone pair on the α-oxygen and with the β-C-O bond. The magnitude of this stabilization is predicted to be ∼ 10-12 kJ mol-1 at the G3(MP2)-RAD and DBS-RAD levels of theory

Kinetics of nitroxide radical trapping. 1. Solvent effects

Solvent effects on the kinetics of the nitroxide radical trapping (NRT) of various carbon-centered radicals have been probed both by using the radical "clock" method and by the laser flash photolysis (LFP) technique. Although the rate constants for NRT, kT, are lower than the diffusion-controlled limit they are, nevertheless, influenced by solvent viscosity. Rate constants arc even more strongly influenced by the ability of the solvent to solvate the nitroxide. Thus, using the 2,2-dimethyl-to 1,1-dimethyl-3-butenyl radical clock rearrangement, 1* \u2192 kC 2*, at 80 \ub0C (kc = 2.4 7 107 s-1) with 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-isoindole-2-oxyl (TMIO) as the trap, in 32 solvents ranging from to aqueous methanol, it found that log (KT/kT)/M-1) was strongly correlated with the nitroxide's solvation, as gauged by the solvent's effect on the nitrogen hyperfine splitting of a structurally analogous nitroxide ((r) = 0.961 for 26 nonhydroxylic solvents, the hydroxylic solvents forming a separate group). Similar results were obtained at 80 \ub0C with five other radical clocks using smaller solvent sets. Comparison of these radical clock data with the kinetic results obtained by LFP at 18 \ub0 for the NRT of benzyl (22 solvents), n-nonyl (4), and neopentyl (6) by Tempo provides the first unequivocal proof that the kinetics of commonly used alkyl radical clock rearrangements are essentially uninfluenced by solvent properties. Although NRT is primarily an activation-controlled reaction, the magnitude of kT is decreased by an increase in solvent viscosity as is clearly indicated by LFP data for the trapping of benzyl radicals by the sterically unencumbered, Bredt's rule protected nitroxide, 9-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-N-oxyl (ABNO) in saturated hydrocarbons (\u3b7 = 0.3-16 cP). Using a model for a partially diffusion-controlled reaction, we obtained a theoretical diffusion-controlled limiting rate constant, ks 48 3.5 7 109 M-1 s-1, for ABNO/benzyl coupling in a solvent of viscosity \u3b7 = 1 versus an extrapolated zero viscosity or "activation" limit, k 1e = 1.4 7 109 M-1 s-1. The Tempo/benzyl coupling in saturated hydrocarbons is less curtailed by diffusion since the diffusion/activation ratio is higher, viz., ks/k 1e 48 3.0 7 109/0.48 7 1091 (for \u3b7 = 1).Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

Carbon-13 and proton hyperfine splittings and their variation with temperature for some alkoxyalkyl radicals [12]

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Allylcarbinyl-cyclopropylcarbinyl rearrangement [10]

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Absolute rate constant for the reaction of aryl radicals with tri-n-butyltin hydride1

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