Organic Chemistry Ans1
Organic Chemistry Ans1
Organic Chemistry Ans1
1. Draw the structure of the carbocation intermediate and the major reaction product for each of the following reactions. Be sure to include and pertinent stereochemistry. Cl H Cl (a) Cl
Br H Br (b) I
Br
H I (c)
Cl (d) H Cl HCl
Cl
Cl
CH 3 (e)
HBr
CH 3 30 carbocation
CH 3 Br
2. Propose a mechanism to account for the following reactions. Show the structure(s) of all intermediates and use curved arrows to indicate the electron flow in each step.
H Cl (a)
1,2-H-shift
Cl
Cl
Carbocations only rearrange to make if they become more stable. There is less ring strain by placing the carbocation center at a carbon outside of the ring.
H Cl (b)
Expanding from a five-membered ring to a six-membered ring reduces overall ring strain.
3. Draw a reaction energy diagram for the addition of HBr to 1-pentene. Let one curve on the diagram show the formation of 1-bromopentane and another curve on the same diagram show the formation of 2bromopentane. Label the positions for all reactants, intermediates and products. State which alkyl bromide would be the major product and why. [Notice! which curve has the higher energy carbocation intermediate and higher energy first transition state. Since these two possible reactions would be competing with each other, think about why there would be a much greater amount of one product relative to the other.] 1 carbocation intermediate Red Line = formation of 1-bromopentane Blue Line = formation of 2-bromopentane Energy Pentene 2 carbocation 1-Bromopentane 2-Bromopentane Reaction Coordinate 2-Bromopentane would be the major product because it has a lower activation energy and would be a faster reaction. There would essentially be no 1-bromopentane formed because once a 0 molecule had enough energy to reach the transition state for the formation of the 2 carbocation, it would follow that path instead of continuing to a higher energy transition state which leads to a 0 1 carbocation. 4. The following reaction takes place in high yield. Even though you have never seen this reaction before, use your general knowledge of alkene chemistry to propose a mechanism for the transformation. The reaction conditions contain no water. CO 2CH 3 Hg(OAc) 2 CO 2CH 3 CO 2CH 3 H3CO 2C H
0 0
AcOHg
AcOHg
AcOHg
CO 2CH 3
AcOHg 5. When 4-penten-1-ol is treated with aqueous bromine, a cyclic bromo ether is formed, rather than the expected bromohydrin (bromine and hydroxy groups on adjacent carbons). Propose a mechanism. Show the intermediate! Br Br Br HO Br H O HO Br O Br + HBr
6. Predict the products of the following reactions (also show the structure of intermediates A and B). Show stereochemistry!
Br2
HO Cholesterol
HO Br Br
dilute Br 2 H2O HO HO Br OH
HBr
HO
HO Br
1. Hg(OAc) 2/H2O 2. NaBH 4 HO HO OH major product but also some product with OH pointed down
HO HO HgOAc
(Intermediate A)
1. BH3 2. H2O2 HO HO H OH major product but also some product with OH and H pointed up
(Intermediate B) HO H BH 2
7. When propene is treated with hydrogen chloride in ethanol, one of the reaction products is ethyl isopropyl ether [CH3CH2-O-CH(CH3)2]. Write a plausible mechanism that accounts for the formation of this product. Cl H Cl HO CH 2CH 3 H O O + HCl 8. You know the mechanism of HBr addition to alkenes. Use this knowledge to predict which of the following two alkenes reacts faster with HBr. Explain your answer by drawing resonance structures of the carbocation intermediates.
CH3O A
O2N B
Alkene A will react faster than B with HBr. Alkene A is able to make a more stable carbocation intermediate because the lone pair of electrons on the oxygen can be pushed through the system to delocalize the positive charge. Alkene B contains an electron withdrawing group which would destabilize the benzylic carbocation.
O N O
N O Unstable
9. Benzyl bromide is converted into benzaldehyde by heating in dimethyl sulfoxide. Propose a structure for the intermediate (A) and show the mechanisms of the two steps in the reaction. (Old reactions will not disappear) O Br SN2 O Br H S H O + HBr + (CH 3)2S
10. Suggest a plausible synthesis for each of the following molecules starting from 1-bromo-1methylcyclohexane. You can use any reagents that we have encountered over the past two terms. Br NaOCH 3 HOCH 3 (E2 Rxn) O NaOCH 3 HOCH 3 Cl O OH O Racemic Mixture 1. BH3 2. H2O2 OH
Br
OCH 3 Br
Br
OH OH
Br
OH H2O/H
+
OH
Br NaOCH 3 HOCH 3
1. O3 2. Zn, HOAc
O H O
11. Briefly explain why oxymercuration of a terminal alkyne followed by treatment with aqueous acid produces a methyl ketone instead of an aldehyde. Once the mercuric diacetate reacts with the -bond to make the bridged mercuronium ion intermediate, the water will attack the carbon with the greatest amount of positive charge. This will be the more substituted carbon of the bridged intermediate. The resulting enol then tautomerizes into the methyl ketone.
HgOAc HO
H+ HO enol
happens to be an enol. The enol tautomerizes to the carbonyl compound. When reacting with alkenes, the mercury has to be displaced in an SN2 type reaction using NaBH4. 13. Give the reaction conditions which will complete the following transformations. CH 3
CH 3
CH 3
Cl 1 eq Cl 2 Cl
H 1. R2BH 2. H2O2/NaOH O H