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Radical Reactions
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 2
Alkanes: Fuels from
Petroleum
◼ Branched-chain hydrocarbons tend to
perform better in internal combustion
engines
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Reactivity of Alkanes
◼ Alkanes have only strong, nonpolar
bonds
◼ No reaction with nucleophiles or
electrophiles
◼ Not much reactivity - paraffins (little
affinity)
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Free Radicals
◼ Free radicals can be thought of as sp2
hybridized or quickly interconverting sp3
hybridized
sp2 hybridized
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◼ Free radicals form when bonds break
homolytically
◼ Note the single-barbed or fishhook arrow used
to show the electron movement
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 6
Chlorination and Bromination
of Alkanes
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 7
Chlorination and Bromination
of Alkanes
◼ Initiation: Homolytic cleavage
Cl Cl
400o C
or h
2 Cl
Br Br
400o C
or h
2 Br
radicals
Note that when an
arrowhead with a single
barb is used, it denotes
movement of a single
electron
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 8
Chlorination and Bromination
of Alkanes
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 9
Product Distribution
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 10
Relative Stabilities of Alkyl
Radicals
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Reactivity–Selectivity Principle
◼ The very reactive chlorine atom will have
lower selectivity and attack pretty much
any hydrogen available on an alkane
◼ The less reactive bromine atom will be
more selective and tends to react
preferentially with the easy targets, i.e.
tertiary hydrogens
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 12
Radical Substitution of Benzylic
and Allylic Hydrogens
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Radical Substitution of Benzylic
and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ Benzylic and allylic radicals are even more stable than tertiary alkyl radicals
◼ It should be easy for a halogen radical to abstract a benzylic or allylic hydrogen
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Radical Substitution of Benzylic
and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ Problem is that for the allyl radical there is a greater likelihood that the halogen will add electrophilically to the adjacent double bond
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Radical Substitution of Benzylic
and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ Electrophilic addition can be minimized
by maintaining the halogen at a very low
concentration
◼ Under these conditions, halogens can
substitute for allylic and benzylic
hydrogens
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Radical Substitution of
Benzylic and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ N-Bromosuccinimide (NBS) is a
good reagent for supplying low
concentrations of bromine radical
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Radical Substitution of
Benzylic and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ Bromine radical comes from the homolytic cleavage of the N–Br Bond
◼ Low concentration of Br2 is generated by the reaction of NBS with HBr
◼ Neither HBr nor Br2accumulate, so electrophilic addition is slow
+ Br + HBr
N
O
O
Br + HBr N
O
O
H + Br2
+ Br2
Br
+ Br
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Radical Substitution of
Benzylic and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ When a radical abstracts an allylic or
benzylic hydrogen, a radical that is
stabilized by resonance is obtained
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Radical Substitution of Benzylic
and Allylic Hydrogens
◼ If the resonance hybrid is not symmetrical,
more than one product is obtained
CH3CHCH CH3CH CHCH2CH3CH2CH CH2Br CH2
Br2
CH3CHCH
Br
CH3CH CHCH2BrCH2
+
3-bromo-1-butene 1-bromo-2-butene
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© Prentice Hall 2001 Chapter 8 20
Stereochemistry of Radical
Substitution
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Stereochemistry of Radical
Substitution
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Stereochemistry of Radical
Substitution
◼ If a chirality center already exists, it may affect the distribution of products
◼ A pair of diastereomers will be formed, but in unequal proportions
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Stereochemistry of Radical
Substitution
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Reactions of Cyclic
Compounds
◼ Cyclic alkanes react with halogens in much the same way as acyclic compounds
+ Cl2
Cl
+ HCl
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Reactions of Cyclic
Compounds
◼ Cyclopropane undergoes electrophilic
addition much like an alkene
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Reactions of Cyclic
Compounds
◼ The bond angles in cyclopropane are 60o, which is considerably smaller than the ideal of 109o
◼ The sp3 hybrid orbital cannot overlap head-to-head - the bonds are weaker than normal
◼ Consequently three-membered rings undergo ring opening with electrophilic reagents
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Radical Reactions in
Biological Systems
◼ Alkanes (toxic) are converted to
alcohols (nontoxic) in the liver via a
radical mechanism
◼ An iron-containing enzyme,
cytochrome P450, catalyzes the reaction
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Radical Reactions in
Biological Systems
◼ A radical reaction also is involved in the
reduction of a ribonucleotide to a
deoxyribonucleotide
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Radical Reactions in
Biological Systems
◼ Protection from radical reaction is possible if a compound is present that reacts with the radical and forms a less reactive radical
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Radical Reactions in
Biological Systems
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Autooxidation
◼ Autooxidation is the process by which compounds
react with molecular oxygen
◼ The process is generally very slow
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◼ Some compounds such as ethers are
particularly susceptible to autooxidation
◼ Because hydroperoxides can be explosive,
ethers like diethyl ether must not be stored for
long periods of time
◼ They should be dated and used in a timely
fashion
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Autooxidation
◼ Light accelerates the autooxidation process
◼ Dark containers are often used to store many chemicals such as vitamins
◼ In the absence of light, autooxidation is usually a slow process
◼ Compounds that can form a relatively stable C• radical upon H abstraction are especially susceptible to autooxidation. WHY?
◼ Consider the autooxidation of compounds with allylic or benzylic hydrogen atoms
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Antioxidants
◼ Triglycerides are important to a healthy diet
◼ Autooxidation can occur at the allylic positions
causing the food to become rancid and toxic
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Antioxidants
◼ Foods with unsaturated fatty acids have a short
shelf life unless preservatives are used
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Antioxidants
◼ Preservatives can undergo H abstraction to quench the C•
radicals that form in the first step of autooxidation
◼ One molecule of BHT can prevent thousands of
autooxidation reactions by stopping the chain reaction
◼ How does BHT’s structure make it good at taking on a free
radical? Consider resonance and sterics
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Natural Antioxidants
◼ Vitamins C is hydrophilic
◼ Vitamin E is hydrophobic
◼ What parts of the body do these
vitamins protect?
◼ For each vitamin, show its oxidation mechanism, and
explain how that protects the body from autooxidation