Cyclopropylcarbinyl → Homoallyl-Type Ring Opening of Ketyl Radical Anions. Structure/Reactivity Relationships and the Contribution of Solvent/Counterion Reorganization to the Intrinsic Barrier

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-13-2005

Publication Source

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volume Number

70

Issue Number

10

First Page

4170

Last Page

4173

Publisher

American Chemical Society

ISSN

0022-3263

Comments

This article was published while author Jason G. Gillmore was at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Abstract

Following a protocol developed by Mathivanan, Johnston, and Wayner (J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 8190−8195), the radical anions of several cyclopropyl- and oxiranyl-containing carbonyl compounds were generated in an effort to measure the rate constants for their ring opening (ko) by laser flash photolysis. The results of these experiments are compared to those obtained from earlier electrochemical studies, and the combined data set is used to rationalize the kinetics of radical anion ring opening in a general context by using Savéant's theory pertaining to stepwise dissociative electron transfer (Acc. Chem. Res. 1993, 26, 455−461). Compared to cyclopropylcarbinyl → homoallyl rearrangements of neutral free radicals, at comparable driving force, the radical anion ring openings are slightly slower. The small difference in rate is attributed to the contribution of an additional, approximately 2 kcal/mol, solvent reorganization component for the radical anion rearrangements. The solvent reorganization energy for ring opening of these radical anions is believed to be small because the negative charge does not move appreciably in the progression reactant → transition state → product.

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