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some cases the overtone of carbonyl vibration occurring around 3400 cm-l has been mistaken for the absorption of an intramolecular hydrogen bond. The present note shows that some hydroxy ketones associate unExperimental Section usually strongly by intermolecular hydrogen bonding, 1,2,3,4-Tetrachloro-7,7-dimethoxybenzonorbornadiene(l).also giving bands around 3400 em-' which have on Under reflux, a stirred mixture of o-carboxybenzenediazonium chloride6 (25.16g, 0.137 mol), 5,5-dimethoxy-l,2,3,4-tetrachloro- occasion been incorrectly assigned. Such associations are sterically specific, and therefore useful for stereocyclopentadiend (59.57 g, 0.226 mol), propylene oxide (commercial material used as is, 20.6 g, 0.355 mol), and ethylene chemical elucidation. chloride (300ml) was heated for 3 hr. The solvent was removed Type I compounds (R = H, CH3, C~HF,, n-propyl, by rotary evaporation and the residual dark oil was then chrophenyl, and 1-furyl) show strong absorption around matographed on alumina (400g). Benzene (20%) in petroleum 3400 cm-' (5 X M solutions in CC14),which was ether (bp 30-60") eluted a milky oil (64.77 g) which upon reattributed to an intramolecular hydrogen bond2s3and frigeration for 1 day deposited white crystals of 1 (16.43 g). A second crop of 1 (3.00g) was obtained upon further standing. used in the elucidation of the stereochemistry of the The filtrate was distilled to recover excess starting diene (bp system. Later, the discovery of the strong intermolec70-81" a t 0.3 mm, 37.64 g, 63% recovery). The residual oil ular association of some diols by Eglinton, et was taken up in boiling hexane and filtered. Further crystals and our own experience with that phenomenone led of 1 (2.4 g) were obtained upon refrigeration of this hexane solution. The total yield of 1 was 21.83 g (47% based on diazoto reexamination of the assignment, and bands a t nium salt, 76.5% based on consumed diene). Recrystallization 3400 cm-l were tentatively attributed to the interof 1 from hexane afforded white rhombs: mp 121.5-122'; 60D01a molecularly bonded ~pecies.~J Nevertheless, Joris (60 MHz) 7.55 (symmetrical m, AzB2, Ar-H), 3.77 (s), 3.47 (s, and Schleyer' assign these strong bands to the carOCHs's); hKBr 3.4 (w), 6.22 (w), 8.3 (s), 8.65 (s), 8.86 (s), 9.02 bonyl overtones, contradicting their own contention (sh), 9.8 (sh), 9.9 (m), 10.3 (m), 11.05 (m), 11.45 (w), 11.9 (w), 12.4 (w), 13.6 (s), 14.8-15.7 (broad m). that such bands should be relatively weak; they also Anal? Calcd for ClaHloOzC14: C, 45.92; H, 2.96. Found: C, note that the stereochemistry of I has not yet been 46.16; H, 2.91. determined. 1,2,3,4-Tetrachloronaphthalene(2).-A mixture of 1 (5.00 g, The following experiments substantiate our previous 14.7 mmol), concentrated sulfuric acid (125 ml), and methylene chloride (200ml) was stirred at 25" as carbon monoxide evolved. view that the absorption a t 3400 cm-l is due to interA solid deposited during the course of the reaction. After 20 molecular hydrogen bonding. Compound I, with R = min the reaction appeared completed, but further stirring for a CH3, was recrystallized from CHIOD; the deuteration few hours was arbitrarily allowed. Evaporated solvent was thus achieved (OH --t OD) shifted the bands originally replenished by addition of methylene chloride (100 ml), the a t 3604 and 3395 cm-' to 2662 and 2514 cm-' (5 X phases separated, and the acid layer extracted with more solvent. The organic phase and the extracts were combined, washed well M solutions in CCl4). Consequently, these bands with water, dried, and evaporated. The residual solid (3.92g, must be attributed to the stretching vibration of the 100%) was quite pure 2 by spectra. Recrystallization once from hydroxyl group. The dependence of the apparent ligroin (bp 60-90") produced long, colorless needles: mp 200molar absorption coefficients E on the concentration of 201' (lit.6bmp 199-200'); P D C l a AzBt m centered at 8.53 and 7.87; X 7.6 (s), 8.02 (m),11.2 (m), 13.3 (s), 14.3-14.4 (m). I, R = CH3, was measured (ccl4 solutions in thermostated 30" cells, 0.2 and 1 cm; Beckman In-12); the Registry No.-1, 24472-15-9; 2, 20020-02-4. results are in Figure 1. The data can be explained by a monomer-dimer equilibrium; the presence of other (6) F. M. Logullo, Dissertation, Case Institute of Technology, 1965; B. H. Klandorman and T . R. Criswll, J . Org. Chem., 84, 3426 (1969). oligomers at higher concentration cannot be excluded, (7) J . S. Newcomer and E. T. McBee, J . Amer. Chem. Soc., 71, 946 however. A trial and error procedure (final mean (1949). square of the residuals is 3) gave a dimerization con(8) Micro-Tech Laboratories, Skokie, Ill. stant of 58 1. mol-'; emOnomer a t 3604 cm-' is 112; the broad band of dimer (slightly asymmetric, half-width 125 em-') has €dimer 316 a t 3395 cm-I and €dimer 25 Self-Association i n a t 3604 ern-', the last value approximately corresponding to the simple overlap contribution (Cauchy curvea Axial P-Hydroxycyclohexanones shape assumption), Following the argument of Liddel and Becker'O the dimer must have the cyclic structure JOSEF PITHA 11, as proposed previously.'~ This dimer structure Gerontology Research Center, National implies* that compound I has the stereochemistry as Institute of Child Health and Huwian Development, proposed;2 furthermore, comparison of the band posihowever, the convenience, ease, and yield of the present synthesis, pa,rticularly for small scale work (3-5 g).
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Infrared spectra of aliphatic hydroxy ketones in the hydroxyl region (3000-3700 cm-') are sometimes difficult to interpret even at the millimolar concentration level, where intermolecular hydrogen bonding usually does not interfere. Recently, Joris and Schleyer' examined a number of such spectra; they note that in (1) L. Joris and P . von R. Schleyer, J . Amer. Chem. Soc., BO, 4599 (1968).
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(2) J. Pitha, J. Plesek, and M. Horak, Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun., 26, 1209 (1961).
(3) J. Pitha, M. N. Tilichenko, and V. G. Kharchenko, Zh. Obshch. K h i m . , 84, 1936 (1964). (4) A. J. Baker, G. Eglinton, A. G. Gonsales, R. J. Hamilton, and R . A . Raphael, J. Chem. Soc.,4705 (1962). (5) W. S. Bennet, G. Eglinton, and S . Kovac, Nature, 214, 5090 (1967). (6) J. Pitha. J. Joska, and J. Fajkos, Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun., BS, 2611 (1963). (7) J. Pitha, personal communication in M . Tichy, "Advances in Organic Chemistry: Methods and Results," Vol. 5, R . A. Raphael, E. C. Taylor, and H. Wyberg, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N . Y., 1965, p 121. (8) F. Hanousek, COhCt. Czech. Chem. Commun., 29, 1965 (1964). (9) R . N . Jones, K . S. Seshadri, N. B. W. Jonathan, and J. W. Hopkins, Can. J . Chem., 41, 750 (1963). (10) V. Liddel and E. D. Becker, Sp6ctrochim. Acta, 10, 70 (1957).
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Figure 1.-Concentration dependence of the a1)pttrent molal* extinction coefficientsof compound I, R = GI&. Carbon tetrachloride solutions at 30”: values observcd a t 3604 cm-1, .; a t 3395 cm-l, 0. Lines A and B represent the corresponding calculated values for monomer-dimer equilibrium [Z
