{"id":14161,"date":"2015-06-12T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14161"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:51:32","slug":"the-formation-of-tetrahedral-intermediates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14161","title":{"rendered":"The formation of tetrahedral intermediates."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"14161\">\n<p>In the preceding post,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14112\" target=\"_blank\"> I discussed<\/a>\u00a0the reaction between mCPBA (meta-chloroperbenzoic acid) and cyclohexanone, resulting in Baeyer-Villiger oxidation <em>via<\/em> a tetrahedral intermediate (TI). Dan Singleton, in whose group the original KIE (kinetic isotope measurements) were made, has kindly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14112&amp;cpage=1#comment-164911\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0on this blog that his was a mixed-phase reaction, and that mechanistic comparison with homogenous solutions\u00a0may not be justified. An intriguing aspect of\u00a0the (solution) mechanism would be whether the TI forms quickly and\/or reversibly and what the position of any equilibrium between it and the starting ketone is. This reminded me of work we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=6044\">did some years ago<\/a>,<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14161-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14161-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> and here I discuss that.<\/p>\n<p>It involved the addition of phenyl hydroxylamine, PhNHOH to acetyl cyanide at 215K. Because the CN group is poor at leaving, the tetrahedral intermediates do not collapse and instead accumulate in seconds to the point of becoming detectable by NMR (both N-C and O-C isomers). The position of the equilibrium clearly favours the TI rather than the starting materials. In another context, both the rate of reaction and the equilibrium can be driven towards the TI by the application of pressure.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14161-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14161-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span> Hydroxylamines are known to be super nucleophiles, enhanced by the so-called \u03b1-effect from buttressing of adjacent lone pairs on the N and O. This reminds that a peracid also should exhibit a related \u03b1-effect; it should be a better nucleophile than a normal carboxylic acid. So I decided to take the TI formed from cyclohexanone and mcPBA and look at the NBO orbitals, which should tell us about the anomeric effects present in this TI, and in particular if they might be larger than normal (which could be equated with greater stability for the TI). Here are the relevant NBO energies.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14161-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14161-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO.jpg\" alt=\"TI-NBO\" width=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-900x606.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The conventional anomeric effect in O-C-O manifests as a E(2) perturbation energy of ~16-18 kcal\/mol between one oxygen lone pair and the antibonding C-O orbital. There are two combinations, and these are normally similar in energy.<\/li>\n<li>For the system above,\u00a0the O1-C2-O6 interaction is 25.6 kcal\/mol, much\u00a0larger than normal, but partially counterbalanced by:<\/li>\n<li>O6-C1-O2 =13.0 kcal\/mol which is a little lower than normal. This is overall an unusually strong anomeric effect for the O-C-O motif!<\/li>\n<li>The energetic asymmetry is matched by the two computed bond lengths, 1.381\u00c5 for the larger interaction and 1.455\u00c5 for the smaller. The pseudo-\u03b1-effect has desymmetrized the anomeric effect, but nevertheless\u00a0strengthened it overall.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_14167\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-103.jpg\" alt=\"NBO 103\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-103.jpg 1591w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-103-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-103-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-103-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBO 103 for O1(Lp)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14168\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-97.jpg\" alt=\"NBO 97\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-97.jpg 1582w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-97-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-97-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-97-900x618.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBO 97 for O6(Lp)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14169\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14169\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-123.jpg\" alt=\"NBO 123\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-123.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-123-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-123-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TI-NBO-123-900x580.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBO 123 for C2-O6 antibonding \u03c3<sup>*<\/sup>orbital<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One concludes that the asymmetric anomeric effect makes the TI resemble the reactants. The transition state leading to the TI must be even earlier. In this context, I note that the (mixed phase) <sup>13<\/sup>C effect reported for the carbonyl by Singleton and Szymanski<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14161-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14161-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span> was quite a large one for carbon (1.045-1.051), a magnitude which argues against a very early transition state under these conditions. But the calculated value for a homogenous solution state model of ~1.023 is certainly more in accord with an early transition state.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a search of the CSD reveals 12 molecules containing either a O-O-C-O-O or a O-C-O-O sub unit This one<span id=\"cite_ITEM-14161-4\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-14161-4\">[5]<\/a><\/span> shows a bis HO-C-O-O-C-OH structure at room temperature; these species need not be unstable! There are none however with Ac-O-O-C-O. And of course the potent antimalarial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12276\" target=\"_blank\">artemisinin<\/a> contains a O-O-C-O-C-O-Ac unit, for which stereoelectronic effects may also be important.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-14161-0\">A.M. Lobo, M.M. Marques, S. Prabhakar, and H.S. Rzepa, \"Tetrahedral intermediates formed by nitrogen and oxygen attack of aromatic hydroxylamines on acetyl cyanide\", <i>The Journal of Organic Chemistry<\/i>, vol. 52, pp. 2925-2927, 1987. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jo00389a050\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jo00389a050<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-14161-1\">N.S. Isaacs, H.S. Rzepa, R.N. Sheppard, A.M. Lobo, S. Prabhakar, and A.E. Merbach, \"Volumes of reaction for the formation of some analogues of tetrahedral intermediates\", <i>Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2<\/i>, pp. 1477, 1987. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/p29870001477\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/p29870001477<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-14161-2\">H.S. Rzepa, \"C 20 H 20 Cl 2 O 6\", 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/191327\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/191327<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-14161-3\">D.A. Singleton, and M.J. Szymanski, \"Simultaneous Determination of Intermolecular and Intramolecular &lt;sup&gt;13&lt;\/sup&gt;C and &lt;sup&gt;2&lt;\/sup&gt;H Kinetic Isotope Effects at Natural Abundance\", <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, vol. 121, pp. 9455-9456, 1999. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/ja992016z\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/ja992016z<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-14161-4\">A. Kobayashi, Y. Ikeda, K. Kubota, and Y. Ohashi, \"Syntheses and crystalline structures of several aldehyde peroxides as new flavor compounds\", <i>Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry<\/i>, vol. 41, pp. 1297-1299, 1993. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jf00032a025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jf00032a025<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 14161 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the preceding post, I discussed\u00a0the reaction between mCPBA (meta-chloroperbenzoic acid) and cyclohexanone, resulting in Baeyer-Villiger oxidation via a tetrahedral intermediate (TI). 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