Acyl photolysis

Isoxazolin-5-imine, 2,3,4-triphenyl-photolysis, 6, 43 Isoxazolin-5-imines synthesis, 6, 105 2-Isoxazolin-5-ol synthesis, 6, 100 Isoxazolinols synthesis, 6, 100-102 Isoxazolin-3-one, 5-methyl-2-phenyl-rearrangement, 6, 43 Isoxazolin-5-one, 4-acyl-reactions... 

Pyrroline, l-acyl-2-hydroxy-from pyridine photolysis, 2, 313... 

Aryl esters, prepared from the phenol and an acid chloride or anhydride in the presence of base, are readily cleaved by saponification. In general, they are more readily cleaved than the related esters of alcohols, thus allowing selective removal of phenolic esters. 9-Fluorenecarboxylates and 9-xanthenecarboxylates are also cleaved by photolysis. To permit selective removal, a number of carbonate esters have been investigated aryl benzyl carbonates can be cleaved by hydrogenolysis aryl 2,2,2-trichloroethyl carbonates by Zn/THF-H20. Esters of electron-deficient phenols are good acylating agents for alcohols and amines. 

Azaquadricyclanes2,formed by photolysis of the Diels-Alder [4 + 2]cycloadductsl of 1-acyl-or 1-sulfonylpyrroles with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate at room temperature, undergo isomerization in high yield to l//-azepine-4,5-dicarboxylates 3 (cf. Houben-Weyl, Vol.4/5b, p 1094).122,128 129 However, the azepines are difficult to purify since they dimerize, even at low temperatures (20-40°C). 

Thermolysis of the 3-acyl-3/f-azepine 32 in Decalin at 250°C also gives the phenacylpyridine but in much reduced yield (6%). In a similar manner, 4-chloro-yV,/V-diethyl-3-phenacylpyridin-2-amine (53 % bp 160 C/0.18 Torr) is produced by the photolysis or thermolysis of 3-benzoyl-5-chloro-Ar,Ar-diethyl-3/f-azepin-2-amine.246 However, if the 3ff-azepine bears a secondary amine residue at the 2-position, e.g. 36, then photolysis or thermolysis yields a pyrrolo[2,3-/>]pyridine by intramolecular cyclization of the 3-phenacylpyridin-2-amine intermediate. 

Another route to enantiomcrically pure iron-acyl complexes depends on a resolution of diastereomeric substituted iron-alkyl complexes16,17. Reaction of enantiomerically pure chloromethyl menthyl ether (6) with the anion of 5 provides the menthyloxymethyl complex 7. Photolysis of 7 in the presence of triphenylphosphane induces migratory insertion of carbon monoxide to provide a racemic mixture of the diastereomeric phosphane-substituted menthyloxymethyl complexes (-)-(/ )-8 and ( + )-( )-8 which are resolved by fractional crystallization. Treatment of either diastereomer (—)-(/J)-8 or ( I )-(.V)-8 with gaseous hydrogen chloride (see also Houben-Weyl, Vol 13/9a, p437) affords the enantiomeric chloromethyl complexes (-)-(R)-9 or (+ )-(S)-9 without epimerization of the iron center. 

Ketenes react with tertiary allylic amines in the presence of Lewis acids to give zwitterionic intermediates which undergo [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement [119]. Photolysis of chromium carbene complexes in the presence of tertiary amines results in similar chemistry [120]. Cyclic (Table 21) and strained allylic amines (Eq. 34) work best, while acylic amines are less reactive (Eq. 35). 

When applied to ketones, this is called Norrish Type / cleavage or often just Type I cleavage. In a secondary process, the acyl radical R —CO can then lose CO to give R radicals. Another example of a category 1 process is cleavage of CI2 to give two Cl atoms. Other bonds that are easily cleaved by photolysis are the 0—0 bonds of peroxy compounds and the C—N bonds of aliphatic azo compounds R—N=N—R. The latter is an important source of radicals R , since the other product is the very stable N2. 

The base-catalysed reaction of a-bromo-a,P-unsaturated ketones with aliphatic nitro compounds leads to 2-isoxazoline A-oxides by tandem conjugate addition-ring closure (Scheme 5) <95JOC6624>. A -Acyl-3-isoxazolin-5-ones are transformed into oxazoles by photolysis or by flash vacuum pyrolysis (Scheme 6) <96TL675>. 

One of the properties of transition metal acyl complexes is their ability to lose CO, usually on heating or photolysis. This so-called decarbonylation often represents a special case of the reverse of the CO insertion in Eq. (8), where L = CO. 

The intermediate M(COR) is the same as that for carbon monoxide insertion. It may be a coordinatively unsaturated solvated or unsolvated a-acyl or, alternatively, a 7r-acyl. It is of interest that photolysis of MeCOMn(CO)j in an Ar matrix at 15°K produces what appears to be a trigonal bipyramidal (Cj ) MeCOMn(CO)4 209). 

Also in the case of a polymer therefore, provided the acyl peroxy radicals are formed by ketone photolysis in the presence of oxygen, the oxidation of amines by these radicals would make a significantly greater contribution to stabilization than the nit-roxide. The latter is in any case present in only very small amount as secondary producti - -. 

Photolysis of the methylidyne cluster HRu3(CO)] (/1, 71"COCH3) (A) (14) in cyclohexane solution leads to an unprecedented oxygen-to-carbon alkyl migration to form the bridging acyl complex HRu3(CO)10( i-> 2-C(O)CH3) (B) ... 

The acyl radicals formed in ketone photolysis are excited and, therefore, rapidly splits into CO and alkyl radical (in the gas phase). Since aldehydes and ketones are products of oxidation, continuous hydrocarbon photooxidation is an autoaccelerated process. 

Acyl nitroso compounds react with 1, 3-dienes as N-O heterodienophiles to produce cycloadducts, which have found use in the total synthesis of a number of nitrogen-containing natural products [21]. The cycloadducts of acyl nitroso compounds and 9,10-dimethylanthracene (4, Scheme 7.3) undergo thermal decomposition through retro-Diels-Alder reactions to produce acyl nitroso compounds under non-oxidative conditions and at relatively mild temperatures (40-100°C) [11-14]. Decomposition of these compounds provides a particularly clean method for the formation of acyl nitroso compounds. Photolysis or thermolysis of 3, 5-diphenyl-l, 2, 4-oxadiazole-4-oxide (5) generates the aromatic acyl nitroso compound (6) and ben-zonitrile (Scheme 7.3) [22, 23]. Other reactions that generate acyl nitroso compounds include the treatment of 5 with a nitrile oxide [24], the addition of N-methyl morpholine N-oxide to nitrile oxides and the decomposition of N, O-diacylated or alkylated N-hydroxyarylsulfonamides [25-29]. 

In complexes where the carbomethoxy or acyl group is adjacent to the metal-complexed acyl group (e.g., 145.a), photolysis affords a 1 1 mixture of isoprenic diene complexes (E-152 and Z-152) directly. The formation of an intermediate allylketene complex (153) may be demonstrated by methanol trapping, followed by aerial oxidation to quantitatively yield the diester 154. 

Possible intermediates that fulfill the requirements of the laboratory experiments are alkyl and acyl nitrites and pemitrites. The second photolysis effect eliminates the possibility that aldehydes serve as the intermediate. 

Intramolecular acylation reactions with ketene complexes, generated, for instance, by thermolysis or photolysis of carbene complexes, can also be used for the preparation of six-membered rings. Illustrative examples are shown in Table 2.23. 

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