Acetoacetic acid enol silyl ethers

Transsilylation. Several reagents have been recommended for preparation of /-butyldimethylsilyl ethers by transsilylation. These include allyl-r-butyldimethyl-silane and /-butyldimethylsilyl enol ethers of pentane-2,4-dione and methyl aceto-ucelate,2 both prepared with r-butyldimethylchlorosilane and imidazole. Unlike the reaction of r-butyldimethylchlorosilane with alcohols, which requires a base catalyst, these new reagents convert alcohols to silyl ethers under slightly acidic conditions (TsOH) in good yield. The trimethylsilyl ethers of pentane-2,4-dione and methyl acetoacetate convert alcohols to trimethylsilyl ethers at room temperature even with no catalyst. The former reagent is also useful for silylation of nucleotides.3... 

Among common carbon-carbon bond formation reactions involving carbanionic species, the nucleophilic substitution of alkyl halides with active methylene compounds in the presence of a base, e. g., malonic and acetoacetic ester syntheses, is one of the most well documented important methods in organic synthesis. Ketone enolates and protected ones such as vinyl silyl ethers are also versatile nucleophiles for the reaction with various electrophiles including alkyl halides. On the other hand, for the reaction of aryl halides with such nucleophiles to proceed, photostimulation or addition of transition metal catalysts or promoters is usually required, unless the halides are activated by strong electron-withdrawing substituents [7]. Of the metal species, palladium has proved to be especially useful, while copper may also be used in some reactions [81. Thus, aryl halides can react with a variety of substrates having acidic C-H bonds under palladium catalysis. 

We referred above to a synthesis of bryostatin that contained a reduction controlled by a 1,3-relationship. Evans synthesis34 contains a 1,3-selective aldol as well as a 1,3-controlled reduction The aldehyde 202, made by an asymmetric aldol reaction, was combined with the double silyl enol ether of methyl acetoacetate to give, as expected, the anti-aldol 203. However, the only Lewis acid that gave this good result was (<-PrO)2TiCl2 and not BF3 thus emphasising the rather empirical aspect of this type of control. Evans s own 1,3-controlled reduction gave the anti,anti-triol 204 that was incorporated into bryostatin. 

Full details have appeared of application of the C-silylated ester Me3 iCH2C02Et to silylations of alcohols mediated by fluoride ion (cf. 1,170)." In an extension of earlier work with the TMS enol ethers of esters (4,154), ketene methyl TBDMS acetal (50) has been advocated as a stable readily available reagent for conversion of alcohols to TBDMS ethers under mild conditions." In a related approach the O-silylated derivatives (51) and (52), readily formed from acetylacetone (R = Me) or methyl acetoacetate (R = OMe), have been found to be effective reagents for the transformation of alcohols to their TBDMSand TMS ethers," respectively reagents (51) require acid catalysis whereas (52) react without catalyst. Some further details have appeared... 

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