The mechanism of the reaction between an aziridine and carbon dioxide with no added catalyst
Autor: | Allan R. Pinhas, Jason E. Hein, Dean J. Tantillo, Chau Phung |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
chemistry.chemical_classification
010405 organic chemistry Organic Chemistry Kinetics Salt (chemistry) Aziridine 010402 general chemistry Photochemistry 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Catalysis chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Carbon dioxide Ammonium Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
Zdroj: | Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 31:e3735 |
ISSN: | 0894-3230 |
DOI: | 10.1002/poc.3735 |
Popis: | The mechanism of the reaction at room temperature between an unactivated 2-alkyl aziridine and carbon dioxide to generate the corresponding oxazolidinone in glass has been studied. Theoretical calculations suggest that this reaction should not proceed at room temperature in the absence of a catalyst. In cases where a reaction was observed, kinetic studies show that the reaction displays a zero-order dependence with respect to aziridine, indicating that free aziridine is not involved in the rate-determining step. An ammonium salt generated in situ acts as a catalyst. The amount of this catalyst is diminutive, which prevented spectroscopic identification, and it is not readily removed from the starting material using chromatography. |
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