Dehydration of alcohols catalyzed by copper(II) sulfate: type II dyotropic reactions and stepwise mechanisms
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY(2024)
摘要
Dehydration of alcohols in the presence of copper(ii) sulfate has been analyzed computationally. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations on selected alcohols indicate that this reaction can take place via two possible mechanisms: (a) concerted - although asynchronous - type II dyotropic reactions, or (b) stepwise E1-like processes, in which cleavage of the C-O bond occurs in the first step, followed by syn proton elimination. Our calculations show the relationship between the initial alcohol structure and the preferred mechanism, which is a type II dyotropic reaction for primary alcohols, whereas a stepwise process is the favored one when stable carbocation intermediates are energetically accessible. The dehydration of dehydrolinalool (2,7-dimethyl-6-en-1-yn-3-ol, DHL) to yield different alkenes of interest in the fragrance industry is discussed as a case study of its regiochemistry.
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