Low-temperature ozonation of cumene (1a) in acetone, methyl acetate, and tert-butyl methyl ether at -70 degrees C produced the corresponding hydrotrioxide, C(6)H(5)C(CH(3))(2)OOOH (2a), along with hydrogen trioxide, HOOOH. Ozonation of triphenylmethane (1b), however, produced only triphenylmethyl hydrotrioxide, (C(6)H(5))(3)COOOH (2b). These observations, together with the previously reported experimental evidence, seem to support the "radical" mechanism for the first step of the ozonation of the C-H bonds in hydrocarbons, i.e., the formation of the caged radical pair (R(**)OOOH), which allows both (a) collapse of the radical pair to ROOOH and (b) the abstraction of the hydrogen atom from alkyl radical R(*) by HOOO(*) to form HOOOH. The B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) (ZPE) calculations revealed that HOOO radicals are considerably stabilized by forming intermolecularly hydrogen-bonded complexes with acetone (BE = 8.55 kcal/mol) and dimethyl ether (7.04 kcal/mol). This type of interaction appears to be crucial for the relatively fast reactions (and the formation of the polyoxides in relatively high yields) in these solvents, as compared to the ozonations run in nonbasic solvents. However, HOOO radicals appear to be not stable enough to abstract hydrogen atoms outside the solvent cage, as indicated by the absence of HOOOH among the products in the ozonolysis of triphenylmethane. The decomposition of alkyl hydrotrioxides 2a and 2b involves a homolytic cleavage of the RO-OOH bond with subsequent "in cage" reactions of the corresponding radicals, while the decomposition of HOOOH is most likely predominantly a "pericyclic" process involving one or more molecules of water acting as a bifunctional catalyst to produce water and singlet oxygen (Delta(1)O(2)).
The oxidation of thianthrene 5-oxide, i.e., a mechanistic probe for the assessment of the electronic character of various oxidants, with peroxybenzoic acids in various oxygen bases as solvents was investigated. The nucleophilicity (X(SO)) of peroxy acids was increasing with increasing basicity of the oxygen base. A good linear correlation was observed by plotting X(SO) values vs either the Kamlet-Taft beta values or the OOH (1)H NMR chemical shifts of m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (m-CPBA) in solvents of various basicity. These observations, together with the results of IR and (1)H NMR spectroscopic studies of peroxybenzoic acids, and DFT (B3LYP/6-311++G) studies of the intramolecular hydrogen bonding in peroxyformic, peroxyacetic, and m-CPBA, as well as the intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the complexes of the these peroxy acids with dimethyl ether as a model oxygen base, support the involvement of the peroxy acid-oxygen base complexes in the transition states of these reactions. The increased nucleophilicity (X(SO)) of peroxy acids in basic solvents is most likely due to the increased negative charge on the terminal "electrophilic" peroxycarboxylic oxygen atom (OH), and/or the increased LUMO and HOMO energies of the peroxy acid in the complexes, as compared to those parameters in the intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded form of peroxy acids, believed to be operative in inert solvents.
Ozonation of norcarane (1) yielded endo and exo norcarane hydrotrioxides (2a, 2b), as characterized by (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy. Further ozonation of the primary decomposition products of these hydrotrioxides, i.e., 2-norcaranols (3), produced the corresponding isomeric 2-norcaranol hydrotrioxides (4a, 4b), and hydrogen trioxide (HOOOH).
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