Reactivity of Iso-Diiodomethane and Iso-Iodoform, Isomers of Ch2i2 and Chi3, Toward the Double Bond of a Variety of Cycloalkenes
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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU Chemistry Faculty Publications Chemistry 11-2007 Reactivity Of Iso-diiodomethane And Iso-iodoform, Isomers Of Ch2i2 And Chi3, Toward The Double Bond Of A Variety Of Cycloalkenes Alexander N. Tarnovsky Bowling Green State University, [email protected] Irmin Pascher Torbjorn Pascher Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub Part of the Chemistry Commons Repository Citation Tarnovsky, Alexander N.; Pascher, Irmin; and Pascher, Torbjorn, "Reactivity Of Iso-diiodomethane And Iso- iodoform, Isomers Of Ch2i2 And Chi3, Toward The Double Bond Of A Variety Of Cycloalkenes" (2007). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 99. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/99 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Chemistry at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chemistry Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. 11814 J. Phys. Chem. A 2007, 111, 11814-11817 Reactivity of Iso-diiodomethane and Iso-iodoform, Isomers of CH2I2 and CHI3, toward the Double Bond of a Variety of Cycloalkenes Alexander N. Tarnovsky,*,† Irmin Pascher,‡ and Torbjo1rn Pascher*,§ Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State UniVersity, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, Department of Medical Chemistry, UniVersity of Gothenburg, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden, and Department of Chemical Physics, Chemical Center, Lund UniVersity, GetingeVa¨gen 60, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden ReceiVed: May 21, 2007; In Final Form: August 29, 2007 The metastable CH2I-I and CHI2-I isomers formed by UV photolysis of CH2I2 and CHI3 transfer methylene and iodomethylene groups, respectively, to a variety of cycloalkenes, leading to their cyclopropanation. More than a 100-fold increase of the reaction rate with increasing solvent polarity suggests a dipolar transition state. The fastest second-order rates observed were in CH3CN. However, CH2Cl2 will be the more appropriate reaction medium because the isomer thermal stability is greater in CH2Cl2 than in the more polar CH3CN. Introduction SCHEME 1 Photocyclopropanation via ultraviolet irradiation of di- iodomethane (CH2I2) and iodoform (CHI3) in the presence of olefins at room temperature in solution is a reaction of synthetic value,1-4 and it has recently received renewed attention.5 The reaction mechanism and criteria for selection of an optimal set of conditions remain little understood. UV photolysis of CH2I2 in solution has been recently shown to lead to the cleavage of one of the two C-I bonds followed by the efficient primary ‚ ‚ geminate combination of CH2I and I to form the CH2I-I 6-9 isomer (iso-diiodomethane). The decay of CH2I-I follows a mixture of first-order (dissociation back to the radicals, and, in very polar solvent, to ions) and second-order (trapping by ‚ ‚ 7 CH2I and I ) processes, Scheme 1. Upon UV photolysis of CH2I2 in the presence of cyclohexene TABLE 1: Rate Constants (k0) of the First-Order Process - f - f (c6) in solution, CH2I-I was found to react with c6 with CH2I I Products and CHI2 I Products in the 7,10 Alkene-Free Solvents expulsion of I2. This behavior is consistent with the isomer 1-4 -1 serving as the methylene transfer agent. According to IR k0 (s ) - absorption spectra of the CH2I I molecules trapped in frozen solvent CH2I-I CHI2-I matrices, one of the possible resonance forms for this isomer 5 a n-C6H14 (1.8 ( 0.4) × 10 5 c 5 b species is the contact ion pair structure with an electrophilic c-C6H12 (4.1 ( 0.5) × 10 (5.5 ( 0.5) × 10 +- ‚‚‚ - 11,12 5 c 5 c C-atom (H2C I I ). Ab initio MP2 calculations suggest CH2Cl2 (2.2 ( 1.1) × 10 (5.7 ( 0.7) × 10 13 6 a 6 b a noticeable bonding interaction between the two iodine atoms. CH3CN (4.3 ( 0.3) × 10 (4.4 ( 0.7) × 10 Density functional theory (DFT) calculations on isolated (4.2 ( 0.2) × 106 c molecules indicate that the CH2I part of the CH2I-I isomer has a Obtained in ref 7 by extrapolating the measured photolysis energy cationic character and that CH2I-I can react with an olefin dependence of the kobs rate from low to infinitely low energies. See 14 b c (ethylene) in one step to yield cyclopropane and I2. UV also ref 24. Obtained as above, ref 16. The kobs rates and their standard deviations based on repeated measurements at very low photolysis of iodoform (CHI3) in solution leads to similar -1 steps: cleavage of the C-I bond, recombination into the CHI -I photolysis energies (µJ pulse ): 15 (CH2Cl2), 35 (CH3CN) for CHI3, 2 and 3.5 (CH Cl ), 35 (c-C H ) for CH I , this work. isomer (iso-iodoform), and cage escape of the geminate radical 2 2 6 12 2 2 17 pair.15,16 Also, there is evidence for considerable radical trapping amounts of iodocyclopropanated products, in addition to I2. 16 - ‚ of the CHI2-I intermediate. Previous photochemical synthetic Both CHI2 I and the CHI2 radical were proposed to be 5,18 studies reported that UV irradiation of CHI3 in the presence of iodomethylene transfer agents. c6 and several linear alkenes produces synthetically useful In the present work, we wish to report transient spectroscopic studies of the photocyclopropanation reaction between the * Corresponding authors. A.N.T.: Phone, (419) 374-3865; fax, (419) CH2I-I isomer of CH2I2 and several cycloalkenes, specifically 372-9809; e-mail, [email protected]. T.P.: Phone, 46-46-222-4739; fax, cyclopentene (c5), cycloheptene (c7), 1-methylcyclohexene (Me- 46-46-222-4119; e-mail, [email protected]. c6), and 1,2-dimethylcyclohexene (diMe-c6). A similar study † Bowling Green State University. ‡ University of Gothenburg. was conducted of the photocyclopropanation reaction between § Lund University. the CHI2-I isomer of CHI3 and c6. 10.1021/jp073917u CCC: $37.00 © 2007 American Chemical Society Published on Web 10/27/2007 Reactivity of Iso-diiodomethane and Iso-iodoform J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 111, No. 46, 2007 11815 order photocyclopropanation rate constant. The kobs rates are approximated as kobs ) k0 + kt × [radicals, isomer], where kt is the total trapping rate constant. Results and Discussion The CH2I-I isomer intermediate is produced by means of 310 nm nanosecond photolysis of CH2I2 in deoxygenated cyclohexane, dichloromethane, and acetonitrile. The CHI2-I isomer is formed from CHI3 in the same way. Under low excitation conditions, the decay rate constant (kobs) of both the 6 CH2I-I and the CHI2-I isomers is observed to be in the 10 - 7 -1 10 s range, with little I2 formed directly. The true first-order rate constants (k0) of the decay of CH2I-I and CHI2-I in neat solvents can be obtained by extrapolating the isomer decay rates measured under low excitation conditions to infinitely low power Figure 1. The pseudo first-order k - decay rates (symbols) of obs olefin that corresponds to the rate in the absence of trapping, Table 1. the CH2I-I isomer plotted against cycloheptene (c7) content for the -1 photolyzed (0.04 mJ pulse ) samples of CH2I2 (1 mM) in the The k0 rates are 10 times faster in CH3CN than in the less polar deoxygenated solvents cyclohexane (9), dichloromethane (O), and c-C6H12 and CH2Cl2, because of the opening of the ionic decay acetonitrile (3). The slope of the linear fit (lines) gives the second- channel.7 order kq rate constants summarized in Table 2. As seen in the inset, - - The decay of the CH2I I isomer is accelerated by the addition the 390 nm absorption band of the CH2I I isomer in CH2Cl2 solution of increasing concentrations of cycloalkenes in all three solvents, decays as a single exponential with the corresponding decay rate Figure 1. The absorption rise of I2 at low alkene concentrations constant kobs-olefin in the presence of excess c7. The cycloalkene 20 concentration (M) in the photolyzed solution is shown beside each decay and alkene:I2 charge-transfer complexes (probe wavelength, curve. 320 nm) at high alkene concentrations occurs with rate constants similar to those of the CH2I-I isomer decay. This behavior is consistent with cyclopropanation of the alkene CdC bond by SCHEME 2 CH2I-I, Scheme 1. Generally, as the polarity of the solvent increases on going from c-C6H12 to CH2Cl2, the cyclopropa- nation rate (kq) increases by a factor of 100, and going from CH2Cl2 to CH3CN increases the kq by a factor of ∼1.5, Table 2. This is consistent with a photocyclopropanation mechanism involving a highly dipolar activated complex, as shown sche- Experimental Section matically in Scheme 2. This transition complex can be drawn either as the open carbocationic structure with a single bond In our setup,19 the 310 nm photolysis pulse (∼8 ns fwhm) between the carbenic carbon and one alkene carbon or as the was produced by frequency doubling the 620 nm output from closed carbocation with partial bonding between the carbenic an OPO pumped by the 355 nm output from the Nd:YAG laser. carbon and both alkene carbon atoms. The latter probably occurs The photolysis pulse typically delivered 3.5-70 µJintoa2mm based on the observed stereospecificity for the photocyclopro- 3,17 diameter spot at the sample. The CH2I2 (1 mM) and CHI3 (1 panation reactions involving simple alkenes. mM) samples (20 ( 1 °C) were deoxygenated and sealed in a The effect of the ring size is modest, Table 2. The reaction 1 cm cuvette equipped with a magnetic stirrer. CH2I2 and CHI3 rate for c5 is about one-half of the rate for c6 and c7, with the (both from Fluka, >98%), solvents (Merck, p.a.), c6 (Aldrich, corresponding relative rates averaged over the solvents being 99+%), c5 (Fluka, g98.5%), c7 (Aldrich, 97%), Me-c6 (Fluka, 0.51, 1.0, and 0.94.