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Abstract
A range of photochemically-generated tri- and tetracyclic vinyl aziridines have been found to undergo a general and surprisingly low temperature ring opening via a [1,5]-hydrogen shift reaction. The rate of the process was found to be highly dependent on structure and substitution around the azirdine ring and the alkene terminus, with some substrates being observed to undergo ring opening at temperatures as low as 25˚C. The rigid nature of these polycyclic systems precludes a conformational explanation these rate differences and an Eyring study confirmed a negligible entropic barrier to the reaction. However, the Eyring plots for two different aziridines systems showed a significant difference in their enthalpies of activation. It is therefore believed that the levels of aziridine ring strain, as well as electronic effects, are the dominant factors in this sequence.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 11429-11434 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Chemistry - A European Journal |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 32 |
Early online date | 6 Jul 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2016 |
Keywords
- aziridine
- photochemistry
- reaction kinetics
- rearrangement
- sigmatropic
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An Extraordinary Photochemical Reaction of Pyrrole - A New Tool for Molecular Complexity
Booker-Milburn, K. I.
7/01/13 → 7/01/16
Project: Research
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