Acid Ester from alcohol, homologation

A large variety of propionic acid esters and higher homologs having a chiral alcohol moiety have been used in additions to aldehydes [56, 57]. It turned out, however, that the lithium enolates result in only moderate simple diastereoselectivity and induced stereoselectivity, in contrast with the corresponding boron, titanium, tin, or zirconium enolates and silyl ketene acetals, with which stereoselectivity is excellent. The same feature has been observed in enolates derived from chiral amides and oxazolidinones, as... 

Sodium a-sulfonated fatty acid esters of long-chain alcohols have a structural effect on the Krafft point different from that of amphiphiles with short alkyl chains [60]. In a series of homologs with the same total carbon number the Krafft points are highest when the hydrophilic alkyl chain lengths in the a-sulfonated fatty acid and the alcohol are fairly long and equal. In this case the packing of the molecules becomes close and tight. 

The main synthetic application of the Wolff rearrangement is for the one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids.242 In this procedure, a diazomethyl ketone is synthesized from an acyl chloride. The rearrangement is then carried out in a nucleophilic solvent that traps the ketene to form a carboxylic acid (in water) or an ester (in alcohols). Silver oxide is often used as a catalyst, since it seems to promote the rearrangement over carbene formation.243... 

Singular characteristics of the ruthenium catalysts are the capability of direct activation of different substrates (alcohols, ethers, formic,orthoformic and other carboxylic acid esters) at a low iodine concentration, and a high flexibility toward carbonylation and/or homologation processes for the substrates used. The catalytic activity of the ruthenium catalysts moreover do not strongly decrease, as occurs with Co or Rh systems, by passing from methyl to higher oxygenated alkyl derivatives. 

Esters and acids from simple carbonylation reactions Alcohols, ethers and esters with higher homologous alkyl groups. Hydrocarbons from hydrogenolysis of the alcohol and its homologs. Ethers from dehydration of the substrate. Esters of the reagent alcohol. s)oiefins from dehydration of the alcohols. Isomeric alcohols. Isomer products (linear/branched 50/50 - 60/40). Only 2-methyl butanol Dimers and trimers of i-butene. 

Ethylenimine is conveniently prepared from ethanolamine by heating the inner salt of the sulfate ester with aqueous alkali (37%). The method has been applied to other /3-amino alcohols to form the C-alkyl homologs of ethylenimine in which one to three of the four hydrogens may be substituted. The general procedure is illustrated by the synthesis of 2,2-dim ethyl ethylenimine (51%). The N-alkyl analogs can be made by treating the N-alkylethanolamine hydrochlorides with chlorosulfonic acid followed by the action of base on the intermediate sulfuric acid esters, as in the preparation of N-ethylethylenimine (70%). ... 

Suitable catalysts for this type of process must be capable of hydrogenating both carboxylic acids and their esters to alcohols, but also of carbonylating these compounds to their homologous acids. The best catalytic systems known contain either Rh or Ru in the presence of iodide. Ruthenium iodide systems are the most active ones in the hydrogenation reaction, but suffer from low activity in the carbonylation step, whereas rhodium iodide systems are very active when carbonylating alcohols to their acids (cf. Section 2.1.2.1). 

There is a considerable interest in building up basic organic substrates such as alcohols, carboxylic acids, and esters from their lower-molecular-weight homologs using synthesis gas... 

The treatment of arylboronic acids and esters with alkaline hydrogen peroxide to produce the corresponding phenols was first reported more than 75 years ago [324]. The oxidation of alkyl- and alkenyl- boronic acid derivatives leads to alkanols [40] and alde-hydes/ketones, respectively [85, 257, 279, 316]. With a-chiral alkylboronates, the re-action proceeds by retention of configuration (Equation 53, Figure 1.32) [359, 121]. In fact, the oxidation of boronic acids and esters is a synthetically useful process, mainly in the preparation of chiral aliphatic alcohols via asymmetric hydroboration reactions [300, 302], or from Matteson homologation chemistry [322]. Paradoxically, the... 

Air-stable palladium(O) catalyst, [(Cy3P)2Pd(H)(H20)]BF4, catalyses carbonylation of propargylic alcohols to generate dienoic acids and esters (equation 167)286. Since propar-gyl alcohols are obtained from carbonyl compounds by acetyhde addition reactions, this sequence constitutes a three-carbon homologation. a-Allenic alcohols are converted to tt-vinylacrylic acids under similar conditions (equation 168)287. 

In a mure specific definition, the carbon atom introduced originates from synthesis gas (CO/Hj) in a homogeneously-catalyzed liquid phase reaction. Substrates accessible for homologation are, in particular, alcohols but can also be ethers, esters.acids, aldehydes, and ketones [1"6]. 

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