Journal of Organic Chemistry p. 4531 - 4537 (1983)
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Cohen, Theodore
Onopchenko, Anatoli
A literature report that N,N-dimethylmethyleniminium ion (2) reacts with propylene and styrene to form unsaturated tertiary amines is shown to be incorrect.The major products are the secondary amines 1-(methylamino)butane and 1-(methylamino)-3-phenylpropane in which N-demethylation has occurred along with the saturation of the alkene.Analogous major products are formed with 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene, 1-dodecene, 1-tetradecene, p-methylstyrene, and m-nitrostyrene as substrates.When the substrates are isobutylene, 2-ethyl-1-hexene, α-methylstyrene, and p-methoxystyrene, the major products are tertiary amines, but the secondary amines are also formed in smaller yields.The small yields of tertiary amines obtained in the cases of styrene and p-methylstyrene were increased by going from solvent acetic acid to acetonitrile and by increasing the branching of the alkyl groups on nitrogen.The internal olefins 5-decene and cyclohexene were far less reactive, giving only 3-4percent of amine products that were mainly tertiary in the former case and secondary in the latter.It is concluded that tertiary amine products are favored by an alkene structure and a solvent that favors the formation of a stable carbenium ion intermediate or a transition state with substantial carbenium ion character upon electrophilic attack of the iminium ion on the alkene.The secondary amine products are favored when a carbenium ion is of low stability and when the β-carbon atom of the olefin and/or the alkyl group attached to nitrogen is sterically unhindered; such hindrance decreases the rate of hydride ion transfer that is believed to occur in the production of secondary amines.
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