Reactivity Of Iso-diiodomethane And Iso-iodoform, Isomers Of Ch2i2 And Chi3, Toward The Double Bond Of A Variety Of Cycloalkenes

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Alexander N. Tarnovsky, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow
Irmin Pascher
Torbjorn Pascher

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Article

Abstract

The metastable CH2I-I and CHI2-I isomers formed by UV photolysis of CH2I2, and CHI3 transfer methylene and iodomethylene groups, respectively, to a variety of cycloalkenes, leading to their cyclopropanation. More than a 100-fold increase of the reaction rate with increasing solvent polarity suggests a dipolar transition state. The fastest second-order rates observed were in CH3CN. However, CH2Cl2 will be the more appropriate reaction medium because the isomer thermal stability is greater in CH2Cl2 than in the more polar CH3CN.

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Tarnovsky, Alexander N.; Pascher, Irmin; and Pascher, Torbjorn, "Reactivity Of Iso-diiodomethane And Iso-iodoform, Isomers Of Ch2i2 And Chi3, Toward The Double Bond Of A Variety Of Cycloalkenes" (2007). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 99.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/99

Publication Date

11-2007

Publication Title

Journal Of Physical Chemistry A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp073917u

Start Page No.

11814

End Page No.

11817