Pyrolytic elimination reactions of sulfinate and sulfonate esters

Autor: Jerry W. Cubbage, Ryan D. McCulla, William S. Jenks
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 15:71-77
ISSN: 1099-1395
0894-3230
Popis: The barriers to pyrolytic unimolecular elimination by ethyl methanesulfonate and ethyl methanesulfinate were calculated for both five-membered ring eliminations that yield acetaldehyde and six-membered ring eliminations that yield ethylene. The experimental observation that related sulfinates undergo the five-centered elimination and sulfonates the six-centered elimination is reproduced by the calculations and rationalized in terms of a nucleophilicity/electrophilicity matching issue in the former and a charge-separated transition state in the latter. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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