Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2011-05-07

Translocation versus cyclisation in radicals derived from N-3-alkenyl trichloroacetamides.

M Luisa Marin, Ramon J Zaragoza, Miguel A Miranda, Faïza Diaba, Josep Bonjoch

Index: Org. Biomol. Chem. 9(9) , 3180-7, (2011)

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Abstract

Under radical reaction conditions, two different and competitive reaction pathways were observed for N-(α-methylbenzyl)trichloroacetamides with a N-3-cyclohexenyl substituent: 1,4-hydrogen translocation and radical addition to a double bond. However, for radicals with an acyclic alkenyl side chain, the direct cyclisation process was exclusively observed. The dichotomy between translocation and direct radical cyclisation in these substrates has been theoretically studied using density functional theory (DFT) methods at the B3LYP/6-31G** computational level.