A-Acyloxy aldehydes

An elegant ring expansion methodology has been developed by Paquette [699] (Figure 3.41). This synthetic sequence is based on the double methylenation of an a-(acyloxy)aldehyde to give an allyl vinyl ether, which undergoes (reductive) Claisen rearrangement when treated with trialkylalanes. 

OL-Acyloxy aldehydes,2 The N-f-butylnitrones (2) of aldehydes react with acid chlorides in the presence of triethylamine to form a-acyloxy imines (3) via a [3.3] sigmatropic rearrangement. The imines are hydrolyzed by buffered aqueous acetic acid to a-acyloxy aldehydes (4). 

The a-oxyacylation of aldehydes can also be achieved under similar conditions in the presence of a catalytic amount of piperidine [ 103]. Thus, equimolar amounts of aldehydes 122 and acids 123 react upon mild heating in the presence of catalytic amounts of BU4NI and piperidine and TBHP as the terminal oxidant, in ethyl acetate to give a-acyloxy aldehydes 124 in high yields (Scheme 4.64). Several functional groups such as terminal or internal alkenyl, benzyloxy, silyloxy, acetal, halogen and ester are tolerated under these conditions. 

Conseqnently, functionahzed 1 -alkenes such as vinyl esters, vinyl phthalimides, vinyl flnorides and vinyl ethers can lead to a-acyloxy-aldehydes 17 [22], a-phthaUmido-aldehydes 18 [23], a-halo-aldehydes 20 [24], and a-alkoxy-aldehydes 21, [5, 25], respectively, (Figure 8). Chelation usually helps to increase the regioselectivity, although the reactivity decreases significantly, as is the case ofvinyl acetate [26]. 

In 1989 Yamamoto et al. reported that the chiral (acyloxy)borane (CAB) complex 3 is effective in catalyzing the Diels-AIder reaction of a number of a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes [5]. The catalyst was prepared from monoacylated tartaric acid and bo-... 

When an isocyanide is treated with a carboxylic acid and an aldehyde or ketone, an a-acyloxy amide is prepared. This is called the Passerini reaction. The following mechanism has been postulated ... 

The amide carbonyl vibrational frequencies of A-acyloxy-Af-alkoxyamides are similar to that observed for the twisted l-aza-2-adamantanone (98, 1731 cm ) . It is apparent from the extensive data available for both A-chlorohydroxamic esters (Table 2, Section in.B.2) and Af-acyloxy-A-alkoxyamides that when an amide nitrogen lone pair loses conjugation with the carbonyl (either through twisting/pyramidalization or, in the case of anomeric amides, pyramidalization alone), the configuration is analogous to an ester rather than a ketone. As with esters, acid halides and anhydrides or diacyl peroxides , the carbonyl stretch frequency is higher than that of ketones and aldehydes... 

In the classic Passerini reaction (P-3CR), an a-acyloxy carboxamide is formed from the reaction of an isocyanide, an aldehyde (or ketone), and a carboxylic acid. The... 

The first step in this multistage reaction is the nucleophilic addition of sulfone anion 28 to aldehyde 8 (Scheme 14.6). This produces a p-alkoxysulfone intermediate 29 which is trapped with acetic anhydride. The resulting P acetoxysulfone mixture 22 is then subjected to a reductive elimination with Na/Hg amalgam to obtain alkene 23. The tendency of Julia-Lythgoe-Kocienski olefinations to provide ( )-1,2-disubstituted alkenes can be rationalised if one assumes that an a-acyloxy anion is formed in the reduction step, and that this anion is sufficiently long-lived to allow the lowest energy conformation to be adopted. Clearly, this will... 

The Passerini reaction is a useful method for the synthesis of substituted a-acyloxy carbocyclic acids. This is another reaction that one might assume an epoxide would not survive. Reaction of an epoxy aldehyde with benzoic and TosMIC provided the Passerini product in good yield as a mixture of diastereomers <07SL83>. 

A few years later Passerini, developed a new 3CR towards a-acyloxy amides 9 which are formed by reacting an aldehyde or ketone 6, a carboxylic acid 8 and an isocyanide 7 (Scheme 2) ([25] and see for review [26]). Since the first synthesis of isocyanides (formerly known as isonitriles [27]) in 1858, the Passerini 3-component reaction (P-3CR) was the first MCR involving these reactive species. It has become one of the renowned examples of an important subclass of MCRs, the isocyanide-based MCRs (IMCRs). Especially important for the Passerini reaction, but also for a lot of other IMCRs, is the ability of isocyanides to form a-adducts, by reacting with nucleophiles and electrophiles (at the carbon atom). The nucleophilic... 

This reaction was done with a variety of substituted aromatic and aUphalic carboxylic acids and aldehydes. Unlike the aromatic aldehydes that produced the corresponding products in high purity and good yields, reactions with aliphatic aldehydes produced several unidentified substances together with the desired a-(acyloxy)carboxamide products. In the case of ketones, cyclohexanone was successfully included into this 3-CC process and gave the corresponding products in reasonable yield, but attempts to use acetophenone as the carbonyl substrate failed. The inactivity of the acetophenone in this reaction may be due to the steric effect of the relatively bulky phenyl group. 

Propargyl esters are converted to a-acyloxy-a, 8-unsaturated aldehydes by PdBr2 under an oxygen atmosphere (eq 16). ... 

The Pummerer rearrangement of sulfoxides to a-acyloxy sulfides, induced by TFAA, has been used as a means of converting sulfoxides to aldehydes (eq 10). ... 

Reaction 21 is the decarbonylation of the intermediate acyl radical and is especially important at higher temperatures it is the source of much of the carbon monoxide produced in hydrocarbon oxidations. Reaction 22 is a bimolecular radical reaction analogous to reaction 13. In this case, acyloxy radicals are generated they are unstable and decarboxylate readily, providing much of the carbon dioxide produced in hydrocarbon oxidations. An in-depth article on aldehyde oxidation has been pubHshed (43). 

Stable aryl boronates derived from tartaric acid catalyze the reaction of cyclo-pentadiene with vinyl aldehyde with high selectivity. Chiral acyloxy borane (CAB), derived from tartaric acid, has proved to be a very powerful catalyst for the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction and hetero Diels-Alder reaction. Scheme 5 23 presents an example of a CAB 73 (R = H) catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of a-bromo-a,/i-cnal 74 with cyclopentadiene. The reaction product is another important intermediate for prostaglandin synthesis. In the presence of... 

Acyloxy-l-cyanoalkanes [45, 46], which can be used as precursors for ketones [47], a-hydroxy ketones [48] and 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds [47], are prepared in one pot from the appropriate aldehyde, sodium or potassium cyanide, and the acylating agent under phase-transfer catalytic conditions [47-49]. Attempts to synthesize chiral cyanhydrins using chiral phase-transfer catalysts have been unsuccessful (see Section 12.3). 

Rate constants and Arrhenius parameters for the reaction of Et3Si radicals with various carbonyl compounds are available. Some data are collected in Table 5.2 [49]. The ease of addition of EtsSi radicals was found to decrease in the order 1,4-benzoquinone > cyclic diaryl ketones, benzaldehyde, benzil, perfluoro propionic anhydride > benzophenone alkyl aryl ketone, alkyl aldehyde > oxalate > benzoate, trifluoroacetate, anhydride > cyclic dialkyl ketone > acyclic dialkyl ketone > formate > acetate [49,50]. This order of reactivity was rationalized in terms of bond energy differences, stabilization of the radical formed, polar effects, and steric factors. Thus, a phenyl or acyl group adjacent to the carbonyl will stabilize the radical adduct whereas a perfluoroalkyl or acyloxy group next to the carbonyl moiety will enhance the contribution given by the canonical structure with a charge separation to the transition state (Equation 5.24). 

Enantioselective condensation of aldehydes and enol silyl ethers is promoted by addition of chiral Lewis acids. Through coordination of aldehyde oxygen to the Lewis acids containing an Al, Eu, or Rh atom (286), the prochiral substrates are endowed with high electrophilicity and chiral environments. Although the optical yields in the early works remained poor to moderate, the use of a chiral (acyloxy)borane complex as catalyst allowed the erythro-selective condensation with high enan-tioselectivity (Scheme 119) (287). This aldol-type reaction may proceed via an extended acyclic transition state rather than a six-membered pericyclic structure (288). Not only ketone enolates but ester enolates... 

Hydroxythiocoumarins are, of course, enolic and react as acetoacetate analogues. Electrophiles such as Mannich reagents, aromatic aldehydes and enones react readily (Scheme 22), while acylation can be direct, or via a Fries-type rearrangement of 4-acyloxy precursors. 

The characteristic feature of the aforementioned oxazaborolidine catalyst system consists of a-sulfonamide carboxylic acid ligand for boron reagent, where the five-membered ring system seems to be the major structural feature for the active catalyst. Accordingly, tartaric acid-derived chiral (acyloxy)borane (CAB) complexes can also catalyze the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of a,P-unsaturated aldehydes with a high level of asymmetric induction [10] (Eq. 8A.4). Similarly, a chiral tartrate-derived dioxaborolidine has been introduced as a catalyst for enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction of 2-bromoacrolein [11] (Eq. 8A.5). 

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