Carbon Tunneling in the Ring Expansion of Noradamantylchlorocarbene
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- 31 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 126 (33) , 10196-10197
Abstract
Irradiation of 3-(3-noradamantyl)-3-chlorodiazirine produced the corresponding noradamantylchlorocarbene, which could be detected in solution with laser flash photolysis via its pyridinium ylide, and in N2 or Ar matrixes at 9 K with IR and UV/vis spectroscopy. At ambient temperatures, or on irradiation in the cryogenic matrixes, the carbene rearranged to 2-chloro-1-adamantene, which could be trapped in solution and which was characterized by IR and UV/vis at low temperatures. In the dark at 9 K, the carbene also slowly ring-expanded to the chloroadamantene, at a rate ca. 10111 times faster than predicted by its B3LYP-calculated activation barrier. It is proposed that the low-temperature rearrangement occurs through carbon quantum mechanical tunneling.Keywords
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