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Photorearrangement of 2-cyanobicyclohept-2-ene. Observation of 1,2- and 1,3-sigmatropic shifts
Akhtar, Ikbal A.,McCullough, John J.,Vaitekunas, Susan,Faggiani, Romolo,Lock, Colin J. L.
, p. 1657 - 1663 (1982)
Irradiation of 2-cyanobicyclohept-2-ene (2-cyanonorbornene, 4) in hexane, with the full arc of a mercury vapour lamp, gives the rearrangement products 1-cyanobicyclohept-2-ene 5 and 7-cyanotricyclo3,7>heptane 6 in the ratio 20:1.These products were separated by preparative vpc.The structure of the major product 5 was determined by single crystal X-ray analysis.Reduction of 5 with lithium aluminum hydride gave the corresponding primary amine, which was converted to the p-bomobenzenesulfonamide 9, mp 150-151 deg C, which gave single crystals from ethanol-water.The crystal and molecular structures are described.The minor product 6 was hydrogenated to give 7-cyanobicycloheptane.Formation of 5 and 6 may involve concerted ?2s + ?2s and ?2a + ?2a processes respectively, which are photochemically allowed.