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Published on: May 26, 2019
Synthesis and structure elucidation of bromination products from dibromohomobenzonorbornadienes: high temperature
Cavit Kazaz1, Arif Daştan, Metin Balci
1Atatürk University, Department of Chemistry, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey.
Abstract:
The electrophilic addition of bromine to dibromohomobenzonorbornadiene derivatives at -45 +/- 5 degrees C led to the formation of the rearranged and non-rearranged tetrabromides in a ratio of 6:4. However, high-temperature bromination of the same system in CCl4 at 77 degrees C produced only non-rearranged products. The formation mechanism of the isomers and the role of the substituent on the rearrangement is discussed. The structure elucidation of the isomeric tetrabromides was achieved from NMR spectral data. The agreement between the calculated dihedral angles and the measured coupling constants is especially excellent. The gamma-gauche effect is discussed.
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