Abstract
AbstractSubstituents capable of stabilizing negative charge endow ethylene oxides with the ability to undergo electrocyclic ring opening at the CC bond; heating or irradiation generates small equilibrium concentrations of carbonyl ylides which can engage in 1,3‐dipolar cycloadditions. Apart from the normal conrotatory mode of ring opening, predicted by the Woodward‐Hoffmann rules, the disrotatory process, forbidden by orbital symmetry, also appears to occur in the case of α‐cyano‐cis‐stilbene oxide. Kinetic studies on α‐cyano‐trans ‐and ‐cis‐stilbene oxide permit construction of the energy profile for electrocyclic ring opening to give the stereoisomeric carbonyl ylides and for their recyclization and rotation.
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