Showing papers by "Ffrancon Williams published in 2012"
TL;DR: It is the endo β-hydrogen on the single methylene bridge of the housanes 1a, 1b, and 1d that has the largest hyperconjugative interaction, and this is also the migrating hydrogen in the 1,2-shift reaction leading to the rearrangement of these housanes to cyclopentene radical cations.
Abstract: Hyperconjugation and its relationship with the 1,2-shift rearrangement reactivity in bicyclo[2.1.0]pentane and cyclopropane radical cations have been studied with density functional theory (PBE0/6-311G**). Hyperconjugation has been evaluated by calculating the 1H hyperfine coupling constants, atomic spin densities, and dihedral angles of β hydrogens with respect to the axes of the nearest p-orbitals bearing the main part of the localized spin density. The calculated hyperfine couplings are in good agreement with the experimental values, and the calculated couplings and angles satisfy the Heller–McConnell relationship, which validates our approach to measure hyperconjugation. Significantly, it is the endo β-hydrogen on the single methylene bridge of the housanes 1a, 1b, and 1d that has the largest hyperconjugative interaction, and this is also the migrating hydrogen in the 1,2-shift reaction leading to the rearrangement of these housanes to cyclopentene radical cations. As a result of this stereoelectronic...
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