31067-69-3Relevant articles and documents
Lifetimes and UV-visible absorption spectra of benzyl, phenethyl, and cumyl carbocations and corresponding vinyl cations. A laser flash photolysis study
Cozens, Frances L.,Kanagasabapathy,McClelland, Robert A.,Steenken, Steen
, p. 2069 - 2082 (2007/10/03)
Benzyl (4-MeO, 4-Me, and 4-methoxy-1-naphthylmethyl), phenethyl (4- Me2N, 4-MeO, 3,4-(MeO)2, 4-Me, 3-Me, 4-F, 3-MeO, 2,6-Me2, parent, and 4- methoxy-1-naphthylethyl) and cumyl (4-Me2N, 4-MeO, 4-Me, parent) cations have been studied by laser flash photolysis (LFP) in 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) and 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP). In most cases styrene or α-methylstyrene precursors were employed for the phenethyl and cumyl ions, the intermediate being obtained by solvent protonation of the excited state. Benzyl cations were generated by photoheterolysis of trimethylammonium and chloride precursors. While a 4-MeO substituent provides sufficient stabilization to permit observation of cations in TFE, cations with less stabilizing substituents usually require the less nucleophilic HFIP. Even in this solvent, the parent benzyl cation is too short-lived (lifetime 6H4C+(R)-CH3 (R = Me, Et, i-Pr, t-Bu, cyclopropyl, C6H5, 4-MeOC6H4) were generated in TFE via the photoprotonation route. The alkyl series shows that steric effects are important in the decay reaction. The cation with R = cyclopropyl is a factor of 1.5 less reactive than the cation where R = phenyl. Several vinyl cations have also been generated by photoprotonation of phenylacetylenes. ArC+=CH2 has a reactivity very similar to that of its analog ArC+H-CH3, the vinyl cation being slightly (factors of 2-5) shorter-lived. For the various series of cations, including vinyl, substituents in the aryl ring have a consistent effect on the κ(max), a shift to higher wavelength relative to hydrogen of 15 nm for 4-Me, 30 nm for 4-MeO, and 50 nm for 4-Me2N.
Conformational Dependence of Isotope Effects for Hyperconjugating Methyl Groups. Nonadditivity of NMR Isotope Shifts in Benzylic Ions
Forsyth, David A.,Lucas, Peter,Burk, Robert M.
, p. 240 - 245 (2007/10/02)
Deuterium substitution in the methyl groups induces long-range downfield shifts in 13C NMR signals of the ortho and para positions of the phenyldimethylcarbenium ion.Similar downfield isotope shifts occur in 19F signals of (p-fluorophenyl)carbenium ions upon deuteration of α-methyl groups.These NMR isotope shifts are analogous to secondary β-deuterium isotope effects on rates and equilibria and arise from hyperconjugative interactions.The effects of substituting entire CD3 groups for CH3 groups are additive, but the effects of deuterium substitution within a methyl group are not additive.The nonadditive behavior is attributed to unequal populations of the possible methyl conformation for partially deuterated methyl groups, so that each C-H(D) bond is not equally involved in hyperconjugation.This interpretation is supported by the observation of an isotope effect on the vicinal 1H-19F coupling constant in the phenylmethylfluorocarbenium ion, PhCFCH3+.
