On the Most Powerful Chemical Traps for Bis(methoxycarbonyl)carbene (=2‐Methoxy‐1‐(methoxycarbonyl)‐2‐oxoethylidene)

The efficiency and validity of different chemical substrates for trapping bis(methoxycarbonyl)carbene (=2-methoxy-1-(methoxycarbonyl)-2-oxoethylidene; 1) is dependent on the conditions of carbene generation. On conventional photolysis of dimethyldiazomalonate (=2-diazopropanedioic acid dimethyl ester; 2) by long-wave UV light (through a Pyrex filter, λ>290 nm), the most powerful trap for carbene 1 in the series of substrates Me2S, MeOH, cyclohexane, and pyridine is Me2S (with an efficiency ratio of ca. 6 : 4 : 2 : 1, resp.). When short-wave decomposition of diazomalonate 2 is employed (through a quartz filter, λ>210 nm), more reliable and useful chemical traps for bis(methoxycarbonyl)carbene (1) are pyridine and cyclohexane, whose adducts with 1 are rather stable under short-wave-irradiation conditions. Application of alcohols for the trapping of 1 proves to be preferential when simultaneous monitoring of carbene and oxoketene formation during photolysis is necessary.

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