Trifluoromethylphenylcarbenes. Carbene-Carbene Interconversion on the Singlet Energy Surface and Rearrangement to Trifluorobenzocyclobutene, Trifluorostyrene, and Trifluoromethylfulvenallenes

Rodney J. Blanch; Curt Wentrup

doi:10.1071/CH14097

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Trifluoromethylphenylcarbenes. Carbene-Carbene Interconversion on the Singlet Energy Surface and Rearrangement to Trifluorobenzocyclobutene, Trifluorostyrene, and Trifluoromethylfulvenallenes

Rodney J. Blanch ^A and Curt Wentrup ^A ^B

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^A School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.

^B Corresponding author. Email: wentrup@uq.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(1) 36-43 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH14097
Submitted: 25 February 2014 Accepted: 9 April 2014 Published: 15 May 2014

Abstract

The four isomeric α-, ortho-, meta-, and para-trifluoromethylphenylcarbenes were generated by photolysis of the corresponding 3-phenyl-3-trifluoromethyldiazirene 1 or the four isomeric trifluoromethylphenyldiazomethanes 2 and 4–6. The four corresponding triplet trifluoromethylphenylcarbenes 3 and 7–9 were observed by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy in Ar matrices at 14 K. The α- and ortho-carbenes 3 and 7 and the ortho- and para-carbenes 7 and 9 interconvert partially when generated by short-wavelength photolysis (350 nm) before intersystem crossing to the triplet states. The triplet states do not undergo further Carbene-Carbene interconversion. The interconversions are assumed to take place via the meta-trifluoromethylphenylcarbene 8. When the ortho- and para-carbenes are generated by long-wavelength photolysis (>450 nm), the discrete, non-interconverting triplet carbenes are observed in the ESR spectra. Flash vacuum thermolysis of the diazirene 1 at 500°C afforded a mixture of bis(trifluoromethyl)heptafulvalenes 11, bis(trifluoromethyl)stilbenes 12, and bis(trifluoromethyl)anthracenes 13, and the presence of their likely precursor(s), trifluoromethylcycloheptatetraene(s), was confirmed by a peak at 1830 cm^–1 in the Ar matrix IR spectrum. In addition, at 700°C, four monomeric carbene rearrangement products were isolated and characterised, viz. 1,1,2-trifluorobenzocyclobutene 14, 1′,2′,2′-trifluorostyrene 15, and 1- and 2-trifluoromethylfulvenallenes 16 and 17.

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Trifluoromethylphenylcarbenes. Carbene-Carbene Interconversion on the Singlet Energy Surface and Rearrangement to Trifluorobenzocyclobutene, Trifluorostyrene, and Trifluoromethylfulvenallenes

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