The role of substituents in the HERON reaction of anomeric amides

Title
The role of substituents in the HERON reaction of anomeric amides
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Glover, Stephen
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9344-8669
Email: sglover@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sglover
Rosser, Adam A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4123-7704
Email: arosser3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:arosser3
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
NRC Research Press
Place of publication
Canada
DOI
10.1139/cjc-2016-0300
UNE publication id
une:20499
Abstract
Anomeric amides, RCON(X)(Y), have two electronegative atoms at the amide nitrogen, a configuration that results in greatly reduced amide resonance and strongly pyramidal nitrogen atoms. This, combined with facilitation of anomeric interactions, can result in the HERON reaction, an intramolecular migration of the more electronegative atom, X, from nitrogen to the carbonyl with production of a Y-stabilised nitrene. We have modelled, at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level, a variety of anomeric amides that undergo the HERON reaction to determine factors that underpin the process. The overriding driving force is anomeric destabilisation of the bond to the migrating group. Rotated transition states show loss of residual resonance and this is a component of the overall activation energies. However, the reduced resonance in these systems plays only a minor role. We have determined the resonance energies (RE) and HERON activation barriers (EA) of five anomeric systems. REs for the amides have been calculated isodesmically using our calibrated trans amidation method and COSNAR calculations. Reduction of their overall EAs by the corresponding RE gives rearrangement energies (Erearr.), a measure of relative impact on rearrangement of substituents on nitrogen. In CH3CON(OMe)(Y) systems producing (CH₃CO₂Me + NY), a loosely bound electron pair on the donor atom, Y, in nY-σ*NOMe anomeric interactions drives the reaction. Erearr. increases in the sequence Y = N(nitrene) < O-(oxide) << NMe₂ < SMe << OMe. For the same systems, RE increases in the order Y = N < O- << OMe << NMe₂~SMe. Other effects such as molecular conformation, nature of the migrating group, X, and acyl substituents at the carbonyl carbon are discussed.
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Citation
Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 94(12), p. 1169-1180
ISSN
1480-3291
0008-4042
Start page
1169
End page
1180

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