{"id":12895,"date":"2014-09-06T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2014-09-16T05:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T04:46:38","slug":"computationally-directed-synthesis-23-dimethyl-2-butene-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12895","title":{"rendered":"Computationally directed synthesis:  2,3-dimethyl-2-butene + NO(+)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"12895\">\n<p>In the <a title=\"Using a polar bond to flip: on the knife-edge!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12825\" target=\"_blank\">previous posts<\/a>, I explored reactions which can be flipped between two potential (stereochemical) outcomes. This triggered a memory from Alex, who pointed out this article from 1999<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> in which the nitrosonium cation as an electrophile can have two outcomes <strong>A<\/strong> or <strong>B<\/strong> when interacting with the electron-rich 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NO.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NO.svg\" alt=\"NO\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a> NMR evidence clearly pointed to the \u03c0-complex <strong>A<\/strong> as being formed, and not the cyclic nitrosonium species <strong>B<\/strong> (X=Al<sub>4<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>). If you are wondering where you have seen an analogy for the latter, it would be the species formed when bromine reacts with an alkene (\u2261 Br<sup>+<\/sup>, X=Br<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> or Br<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>). The two structures are shown below<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tetramethyletylene-NO+.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tetramethyletylene-NO+.png\" alt=\"tetramethyletylene-NO+\" width=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tetramethyletylene-NO+.png 647w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tetramethyletylene-NO+-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a> Since the topic that sparked this concerned pericyclic reactions, it seemed possible that if it had been formed, species<strong> B<\/strong> would immediately undergo a pericyclic electrocyclic reaction to form the rather odd-looking cation C, which might\u00a0then be trapped by eg X(-) to form the nitrone D. So this post is an exploration of what happens when X-NO (X= CF<sub>3<\/sub>COO, trifluoracetate) interacts with\u00a02,3-dimethyl-2-butene, as an illustration of what can be achieved nowadays from about 2 days worth of dry-lab computation as a prelude to <em>e.g.<\/em> an experiment in the wet-lab (it would take a little more than two days to achieve the latter I suspect). Hence <em>computationally directed synthesis<\/em>. The model is set up as \u03c9B97XD\/6-311G(d,p)\/SCRF=chloroform. A transition state is located<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span> and the resulting IRC (below)\u00a0<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span> does not quite have the outcome the above scheme would suggest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOa.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOa.gif\" alt=\"NOa\" width=\"411\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOe.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOe.svg\" alt=\"NOe\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOg.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOg.svg\" alt=\"NOg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> Neither <strong>A<\/strong> nor <strong>B<\/strong> is formed; instead it is the tetrahedral species <strong>E<\/strong>, which is ~15 kcal\/mol endothermic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOaa.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOaa.svg\" alt=\"NOaa\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a> I should immediately point out that this is not inconsistent with the formation of <strong>A<\/strong> as previously characterised<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span>. That is because this experiment was conducted with a non-nucleophilic counter-anion (X=Al<sub>4<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>), whereas in the computational simulation above, we\u00a0have a <em>nucleophilic<\/em> anion (X= CF<sub>3<\/sub>CO<sub>2<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>). What a difference the <a title=\"The mechanism of the Birch reduction. Part 3: reduction of benzene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=8540\">inclusion of a counter-ion<\/a> in the calculation can have! The barrier however (~35 kcal\/mol) is a little too high for a facile thermal reaction. In the second of this two-stage reaction, E now ring-opens to form the anticipated D<span id=\"cite_ITEM-12895-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-12895-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span> with quite a small barrier of ~6 kcal\/mol, but a highly exothermic outcome. I ask this question about it; can this still be described as a pericyclic process? (there is some analogy to the <a title=\"Mechanistic morphemes. Perisolvolysis of a cyclopropyl chloride.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=5888\" target=\"_blank\">electrocyclic ring opening of a cyclopropyl tosylate<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOb.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NOb.gif\" alt=\"NOb\" width=\"411\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NObe.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NObe.svg\" alt=\"NObe\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> So what are the conclusions? Well, because of the rather high initial barrier, the alkene will need activation (by electron donating substituents, perhaps OMe) for the reaction to become more viable. But if it works, it could be an interesting synthesis of nitrones (I have not yet searched to find out if the reaction is actually known).<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-12895-0\">G.I. Borodkin, I.R. Elanov, A.M. Genaev, M.M. Shakirov, and V.G. Shubin, \"Interaction in olefin\u2013NO+ complexes: structure and dynamics of the NO+\u20132,3-dimethyl-2-butene complex\", <i>Mendeleev Communications<\/i>, vol. 9, pp. 83-84, 1999. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1070\/mc1999v009n02abeh000995\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1070\/mc1999v009n02abeh000995<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-12895-1\">H.S. Rzepa, \"C8H12F3NO3\", 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/24979\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/24979<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-12895-2\">H.S. Rzepa, \"Gaussian Job Archive for C8H12F3NO3\", 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1162797\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1162797<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-12895-3\">H.S. Rzepa, \"Gaussian Job Archive for C8H12F3NO3\", 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1162676\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.1162676<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 12895 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous posts, I explored reactions which can be flipped between two potential (stereochemical) outcomes. This triggered a memory from Alex, who pointed out this article from 1999 in which the nitrosonium cation as an electrophile can have two outcomes A or B when interacting with the electron-rich 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene. 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