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Title: Stereochemistry of the palladium catalyzed exchange of deuterium with allylic hydrogens. [Cholest-8(14)-en-3. beta. -ol]

Journal Article · · J. Catal.; (United States)
OSTI ID:7248986

The stereochemistry of the palladium catalyzed exchange of deuterium with the allylic hydrogens of cholest-8(14)-en-3..beta..-ol,2, has been examined in a test of the Rooney, Gault, and Kemball hypothesis that a ..pi..-allylic surface intermediate is able to react directly with molecular hydrogen. The test compound was selected from evidence that only one face of the double bond is accessible to a catalytic surface. The correlation of mass, /sup 13/C nuclear magnetic resonance, and infrared spectral data shows that no more than one hydrogen atom in each allylic methylene group is replaced (C-7 and C-15). Because the RGK mechanism would require that both hydrogens should be replaced, it cannot be operating in this system. The isomerization of cholest-7-en-3..beta..-ol to 2 is catalyzed in benzene solutions by PdCl/sub 2/(C/sub 6/H/sub 5/CN)/sub 2/ but not by HRh(PPh/sub 3/)/sub 4/, which lends support to the hypothesis that ..pi..-allylic but not ''half-hydrogenated'' intermediates are involved in the related palladium-catalyzed isomerization and exchange reactions of these steroids.

OSTI ID:
7248986
Journal Information:
J. Catal.; (United States), Vol. 44:3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English