Kinetics of the detritiation of [10,10-3H] mianserin and related compounds in highly basic media
A recently developed procedure (Buist etal., J. Chem. Soc. Perkins II, 169 (1990)) has been used to study the kinetics of detritiation of [10,10-3H] mianserin and two other structurally related compounds in highly basic media. Over the H− range 16–20 the stereoselectivity of the exchange process keq/kax for all three compounds is virtually constant (5 ± 1). The apparent increase at still higher basicities is associated with distinct curvature in the log k vs. H− plots, indicating the onset of another mechanism. Partial detritiation studies at higher levels of radioactivity, when combined with 3H nmr spectroscopic analysis, confirms the greater lability of the C-10 (or C-9) equatorial hydrogen. Keywords: detritiation, high basic media, mianserin.