This thesis describes efforts to develop new methods for the synthesis of bridged azacycles using nitrogen-directed free radical rearrangements. Free radical addition to 7-azanorbornadienes were carried out to give 7-substituted 2- azanorbornenes (Scheme a.l, X-Y = RS-H or PhSe-H). [illustration in text ...] Scheme a. 1 Nitrogen-directed homoallylic radical rearrangement via intermolecular radical addition. A conceptually novel and theoretically interesting nitrogen-directed neophyl rearrangement (Scheme a.2) was developed into a synthesis of 2- azabenzonorbornanes 2. [illustration in text ...] Scheme a.2 Nitrogen-directed neophyl-like rearrangement to 2-azabenzonorbornanes. In this case the radical 1 was generated by Barton deoxygenation of 7- azabenzonorbornanols. The effect on rearrangement of bicyclic core substitution and of aromatic ring electronics was probed in some detail, and the process was synthetically useful for a wide range of substrates. Variation of the protecting group on nitrogen was investigated and the product profiles from neophyl-like rearrangement were consistent with a process driven by the stability of a radical α to nitrogen as a result of SOMO-lone pair orbital interaction. The kinetics and mechanism of these processes are examined where appropriate, leading to estimates of rate constants for the rearrangements.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:270247 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Bebbington, Magnus W. P. |
| Contributors | Hodgson, David M. |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:316d2379-4019-4361-937d-ff1e064f8bb9 |
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