NMR Studies of Hindered Rotation. The Diels-Alder Adduct of 4-Methyl-1, 2, 4-triazoline-3, 5-dione with Phencyclone: Restricted Motion of Unsubstituted Bridgehead Phenyls.

Abstract 4-Methyl-1, 2, 4-triazoline-3, 5-dione was produced by lead tetraacetate oxidation of 4-methylurazole and allowed to react with phencyclone, 1-The resulting Diels-Alder adduct, 2, has been characterized by one-and two-dimensional 1H and 13C NMR at 300 and 75 MHz, respectively, at ambient temperatures in different solvents. The NMR data are consistent with hindered rotation of the bridgehead unsubstituted phenyl groups about the C(sp2)-C(sp3) bonds, based on numbers of absorption signals in the 1H and 13C NMR aryl region, together with magnetic anisotropic effects in the 1H spectrum. The spectral simplicity suggests further that stereochemistry at the ring junction nitrogens involves only a single isomer or very rapidly interconverting “exo”/“endo” isomers (if the ring junction nitrogens are pyramidalized).