Solvent cage effects in organocobalt corrinoid chemistry: Thermal homolysis of alpha- and beta-(cyanomethyl)cobinamides

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Brown, KL
Zhon, LX
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[1] Department of Chemistry, Box 9573, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
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10.1021/ic9603666
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O61 [无机化学];
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070301 ; 081704 ;
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The equilibrium constant for the thermal isomerization of the diastereomeric alpha- and beta-(cyanomethyl)cobinamides (NCCH(2)Cbi(+)'s) has been measured over the temperature range 70-95 degrees C. Although the beta diastereomer is the thermodynamically more stable isomer, it is favored by the entropy change, but disfavored by the enthalpy change. In the presence of greater than or equal to 5 x 10(-3) M concentration of the radical trap 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6,-tetramethylpiperidinyloxy (4-HTEMPO), thermolysis of either isomer leads to cob(II)inamide and the trapped NCCH2. radical (NCCH2-4-HTEMPO) in high yield and no isomerization can be detected. The kinetics of the 4-HTEMPO-trapped thermal homolysis of alpha- and beta-NCCH(2)Cbi(+) have been studied in anaerobic glycerol/water mixtures of varying viscosity. The observed first-order rate constants for thermolysis show the expected inverse dependence on viscosity indicating that the process is at least partially diffusion controlled. From these data, the primary rate constant, k(l), for carbon-cobalt bond homolysis and the ratio of the rate constants for in-cage recombination and diffusional separation (k(c)/k(d)) can be extracted. The enthalpies of activation for Co-C bond homolysis are identical (29.0 +/- 0.3 kcal mol(-1)) while the entropy of activation is 2-fold higher for the alpha diastereomer. In water, the fractional cage efficiencies, F-c, are quite small (0.12 +/- 0.01, alpha; 0.049 +/- 0.008, beta) and invariant for each complex in the temperature range 75-95 degrees C. Assuming that the rate constant for diffusional separation of the caged radical pairs is the same for both isomers, the ratio of the in-cage recombination rate constants, k(c)(alpha)/k(c)(beta), can be calculated to be 2.6 +/- 0.6. This surprising kinetic preference for the alpha diastereomer results from enthalpic stabilization of the recombination transition state for the alpha diastereomer, since the beta diastereomer is entropically favored.
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