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Conformation effects in reduction of methyl-substituted cyclopentanones with 2-propanol in presence of RhCl(PPh3)3 or RuCl2(PPh3)3

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Conclusions

  1. 1.

    The insertion into cycloheptanone of a methyl in either the 3 or 4 position, and also of two methyls in the 3 and 6 positions, does not affect the rate of hydrogen transfer from 2-propanol to the cycloheptanones in the presence of the triphenylphosphine complexes of Rh and Ru.

  2. 2.

    The presence of geminal dimethyl groupings in the 3 and 6 positions lowers the reduction rate of the cycloheptanones, which is explained by a shielding of the carbonyl by the axial methyls.

  3. 3.

    Conformational analysis revealed that in principle the cycloheptanone homologs differ from the homologs with smaller rings: transition of the axial substituent to the equatorial can occur without the complete inversion of the seven-membered ring. Both stereoisomers of 3, 6-dimethylcycloheptanone can exist in the equatorial form. This is in good agreement with the experimental data on the reduction rates.

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  1. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    V. N. Krutii, S. A. Chelmakova, A. S. Gurovets, T. V. Vasina, D. B. Furman, V. Z. Sharf & A. L. Liberman

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1111–1115, May, 1975.

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Krutii, V.N., Chelmakova, S.A., Gurovets, A.S. et al. Conformation effects in reduction of methyl-substituted cyclopentanones with 2-propanol in presence of RhCl(PPh3)3 or RuCl2(PPh3)3 . Russ Chem Bull 24, 1019–1022 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922956

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