Year 2007, Month 6 (Section Full Articles, Page 1110)
Reductive activation of arenes 22. Reactions of the terephthalonitrile radical anion and dianion with α,ω-dibromoalkanes. New evidence for the charge transfer complex as a key intermediate in the reactions of the dianion
E. V. Panteleeva, M. Yu. Lukyanova, L. M. Pokrovsky, and V. D. Shteingarts
The major products of reactions of the terephthalonitrile radical anion with α,ω-dibromoalkanes Br(CH2)nBr (n = 3—5) were 4-(ω-bromoalkyl)benzonitriles. Analogous reactions of the terephthalonitrile dianion mainly yielded α,ω-bis(4-cyanophenyl)alkanes. Both transformations are convenient one-step routes to otherwise not easily accessible compounds that are valuable as versatile building blocks. The results of alkylation allow one to suggest that reactions of the dianion with intermediate 4-(ω-bromoalkyl)benzonitriles proceed more rapidly than those with the starting α,ω-dibromoalkanes. This was confirmed by competitive reactions of the dianion with 4-(ω-bromoalkyl)benzonitriles and the corresponding alkyl bromides. To explain such a ratio of the reaction rates, a mechanism was proposed for the reaction of the dianion with 4-(ω-bromoalkyl)benzonitriles. According to this mechanism, a charge transfer complex is a key reaction intermediate.
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