Acetylene monosubstitution

Acetylene, monosubstituted acetylenes Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous... 

Monosubstitution of acetylene itself is not easy. Therefore, trimethylsilyl-acetylene (297)[ 202-206] is used as a protected acetylene. The coupling reaction of trimethylsilylacetylene (297) proceeds most efficiently in piperidine as a solvent[207]. After the coupling, the silyl group is removed by treatment with fluoride anion. Hexabromobenzene undergoes complete hexasubstitution with trimethylsilylacetylene to form hexaethynylbenzene (298) after desilylation in total yield of 28% for the six reactions[208,209]. The product was converted into tris(benzocyclobutadieno)benzene (299). Similarly, hexabutadiynylben-zene was prepared[210j. 

Hydrocarbons that contain a carbon-carbon triple bond are called alkynes Non cyclic alkynes have the molecular formula C H2 -2 Acetylene (HC=CH) is the simplest alkyne We call compounds that have their triple bond at the end of a carbon chain (RC=CH) monosubstituted or terminal alkynes Disubstituted alkynes (RC=CR ) have internal triple bonds You will see m this chapter that a carbon-carbon triple bond is a functional group reacting with many of the same reagents that react with the double bonds of alkenes... 

Monosubstituted acetylenes add formaldehyde in the presence of copper, silver, and mercury acetyUde catalysts to give acetylenic alcohols (58) (Reppe reaction). Acetylene itself adds two molecules (see Acetylene-DERIVED chemicals). 

The discovery of junipal focused the attention of Sorensen, who had been investigating the occurrence of polyacetylenes in Com-positae, on the possibility that these acetylenes were accompanied by thiophenes. From Coreopsis grandiflora Hogg ex sweet, 2-phenyl 5-(1-propynyl) thiophene (240) was isolated and its structure confirmed by synthesis of the tetrahydro compound, 2-phenyl-5-n-propyl-thiophene. From the root of tansy, the cis and trans isomers of methyl 5-(l-propynyl)-2-thienylacrylate (241) have been isolated. The total synthesis of trans (241) was achieved by reacting junipal with methylcarbethoxy triphenylphosphonium bromide (Wittig reaction) Several monosubstituted thiophenes, (242), (243), and... 

Dipolar additions of diazomethane to acetylenes under mild conditions are restricted to monosubstituted acetylenes thus the formation of pyrazole derivatives 1 (1,3-dipolar addition, C=C isomerization, then methylation) confirms the existence of a terminal acetylene in caryoynencins (87TL3981) (Scheme 5). 

Diazopropyne reacts similarly with a monosubstituted acetylene to form 3(5)-alkynylpyrazoles (68LA113). Thus, the reaction of diazopropyne with acetylene-carboxylic acid methyl ether results in 5-ethynyl-l//-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid methyl ether in 48 h in 62% yield. 5-Ethynyl-l//-pyrazole-3,4-dicarboxylic acid dimethyl ester was prepared by reaction of diazopropyne with acetylenedicar-boxylic acid methyl ether (Scheme 10). 

Trimethylsilylethynylpyrazole was deprotected by treatment with tetrabutyl-ammonium fluoride (TBAF) to give monosubstituted acetylene in 90% yield. (96ADD193). The same conditions were used to cleave the trimethylsilyl group in l-tetrahydropyranyl-3-carboxyethyl-4-[2-(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]pyrazole (96INP 9640704). 

The high reactivity of monosubstituted acetylenes in many reactions (acetylenic condensation, Favorsky reaction, Mannich reaction, oxidative coupling, etc.) is determined by their acidity (7IMI1 83MI1). The literature data on the thermodynamic CH acidity of these compounds are rather scarce. 

The addition of benzyl azide to monosubstituted diacetylenes initially proceeds at the terminal acetylene bond to form two regioisomeric 4- and 5-ethynyl-1,2,3-triazoles 98 and 99 along with minor amounts of the corresponding diadducts (81ZOR741 82ZOR1619). 

The addition of (TMS)3SiH to a number of monosubstituted acetylenes has also been studied in some detail. These reactions are highly regioselective (anti-Markovnikov) and give terminal (TMSlsSi-substituted alkenes in good yields. High cis or trans stereoselectivity is also observed, depending on the nature of the substituents at the acetylenic moiety. For example, the reaction of the alkynes 23 and 24 with (TMSlsSiH, initiated either by EtsB at room temperature (method or by thermal decomposition of di-ferf-butyl peroxide at 160 °C... 

The reactions of alkyl nitronates (164) or (165) derived from a-functionalized primary AN with monosubstituted acetylenes produce mixtures of diastereomeric aziridines (166) in moderate to high yields. Most probably, the first step of this process involves normal concerted cycloaddition to give the corresponding intermediates A, which were not detected due to their fast rearrangement to give acyl-substituted aziridines (166). The reaction is regioselective and stereospecific. The latter fact was demonstrated by French researchers (95). 

Interestingly, the character of the reaction with cyclic six-membered nitronates is similar. For example, A-oxide (167) reacts with monosubstituted acetylenes... 

Reaction of acetylenic complexes with triosmium dodecacarbonyl leads to a variety of products involving one, two, or three acetylenic units. As with ruthenium, for the monosubstituted alkynes, hydrogen transfer can occur to the metal cluster. Thus, Os3(CO)12 and phenyl-acetylene (L) yield, in refluxing benzene, the derivatives Os3(CO)10L, Os3(CO)10L2, Os3(CO)9L, and HOs3(CO)9(L-H). The general chemistry is summarized in Scheme 2 (131). 

Supermesitylgermanium trichloride was prepared in modest yield from GeCl4 (Equation (59)), and a dichlorogermole can be prepared from diphenylacetylene and GeCU (Equation (60)).19 The germylated cyano compounds 24 can be prepared via monosubstitution of Mes2GeX2 (Equation (61)).86 The bulky germylated acetylene compound 25 was also prepared by a monosubstitution reaction (Equation (62)). 

The cobalt mediated homo Diels-Alder reaction of norbomadiene (560) with phenyl acetylene (568a), affording a phenyl substituted deltacyclene, demonstrated the potential of low-valent cobalt complexes as catalysts332. Lautens and coworkers327 extended the scope of this reaction and were able to synthesize a wide range of substituted deltacyclenes from alkynes 568 (equation 164, Table 33). The low-valent cobalt or cobalt(O) species to be used was prepared in situ by reduction of Co(acac)3 with Et2AlCl. Monosubstituted... 

Theory and Spectra of Monosubstituted Benzenes. VI. Styrene, Phenyl-acetylene and Phenylcycloalkanes, J. Amer. chem. Soc. 72, 5260 (1950). 

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