Acylation direct nucleophilic

The thiazolium-catalyzed addition of an aldehyde-derived acyl anion with a Michael acceptor (Stetter reaction) is a well-known synthetic tool leading to the synthesis of highly funtionalized products. Recent developments in this area include the direct nucleophilic addition of acyl anions to nitroalkenes using silyl-protected thiazolium carbinols <06JA4932>. In the presence of a fluoride anion, carbinol 186 is not cleaved to an aldehyde... 

In addition to the direct nucleophilic alkylation of carbonyl complexes, the acylation of metallates with, e.g., carboxylic acid chlorides [73,100,102] or anhydrides [79] is a practical way of generating acyl complexes (Figure 2.4). Illustrative examples are given in Table 2.3. 

The reaction of [Rh(C(0)Me)(C0)2l3] with various nucleophiles has been studied by IR [17]. Acetate ion gave immediate formation of AC2O. Amines gave amides, the more nucleophilic dialkylamines reacting more rapidly than methyl anilines. The kinetics of these reactions were interpreted as consistent with two pathways, one being elimination of Acl from [Rh(C(0)Me)(CO)l3] and the other direct nucleophilic attack at the acyl (Eq. (22)). 

The broad outline of the mechanism of catalysis of ester hydrolysis by hydroxide ion is not in doubt. The reaction is well known to involve acyl-oxygen cleavage, and seems invariably to be of the second order, being first order in both ester and hydroxide anion. General base catalysis in the usual sense is not a possibility, the partial removal of a proton from water cannot generate a species more reactive than hydroxide ion, so direct nucleophilic attack must be involved. (However, if it is accepted that the high ionic nobility of the hydroxide ion in water is explained by a Grotthus-type mechanism... 

The use of masked acyl anion equivalents in a synthetic protocol requires additional steps to unmask the carbonyl unit. Sometimes the deprotection procedures are incompatible with sensitive compounds thus, a direct nucleophilic acylation protocol is desirable. While C-nucleophilic carbonyl groups do not... 

The direct nucleophilic acylation of enals by organocuprates is also successful.37-38 With either the lower order RCuCNLi/CO or higher order R2CuCNLi2/CO reagents, high yields of the 3-acylated pro duct were observed (equation 37). A wide variation in R was also reported to be tolerated. Unfortunately, only (3-monosubstituted enals were examined, so the extent to which substitution in the enal can be tolerated has yet to be determined. 

In situ generated acyllithium reagents not only can acylate ketones, but also can acylate aldehydes,3 esters,4 lactones,5 isocyanates and isothiocyanates,6 carbodiimides,7 carbon disulfide and carbonyl sulfide,8 organic disulfides,9 and trialkylchlorosilanes.10 For reviews, see references 11 and 12. This direct, nucleophilic acylation procedure, when applicable, makes unnecessary the usually... 

Low Temperature, in situ. Direct Nucleophilic Acylation with the RLi/CO Reagent... 

Direct Nucleophilic Acylation by the Low Temperature, in situ Generation of Acyllithium Reagents a-Hydroxyketones from Ketones Synthesis of 3-Hydroxy-2,2, 3-trimethyloctan-4-one from Pinacolone R. Hui and D. Seyferth, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139... 

Direct nucleophilic acylation of nitroalkenes (164), promoted by a combination of (g) fluoride anion and thiourea catalyst (165), has been developed, using the thiazolium derivative (163) as the umpolung reagent (<20 1 dr, 74% ee).214 ... 

Hui, R. Seyferth, D. Direct nucleophilic acylation by the low-temperature, in situ generation of acyllithium reagents a-hydroxy ketones from ketones 3-hydroxy-2,2,3-trimethyloctan-4-one from pinacolone. Org. Synth. 1993, Coll. Vol. VIII, 343-346. 

Intermediate 23b can be obtained by a direct nucleophilic attack of the uncharged amino group (present at low equilibrium concentration at pH 7) but the mechanism of this step may be more complex as shown by the observation of a catalytic effect of CO2 in amidations using CDI [191]. Moreover, the reaction of the carboxylate group followed by an intramolecular acyl transfer is also a possibility. CDI-promoted peptide formation was shown to display... 

DIRECT NUCLEOPHILIC ACYLATION BY THE LOW TEMPERATURE, IN SITU GENERATION OF ACYLLITHIUM REAGENTS a-HYDROXY KETONES FROM KETONES 3-HYDROXY-2,2,3-TRIMETHYLOCTAN-4-ONE FROM PINACOLONE (4-Octanone, 3-hydroxy-2,2,3-trimethyl-)... 

Mattson AE, Zuhl AM, Reynolds TE, Scheldt KA (2006b) Direct nucleophilic acylation of nitroalkenes promoted by a fluoride anion/thiourea combination. J Am Chem Soc 128 4932-4933... 

The reaction occurs well below the temperature at which most of the parent metal carbonyls exchange with free CO and so is a direct nucleophilic attack on coordinated CO, although it may alternatively proceed via a prior electron path. The resulting acyl anions can be isolated as their [R4N] " or [ (C6H5)3P 2N] salts but are reactive and are used directly in subsequent alkylations with organic halides, acetylenes, a-/i-unsaturated carbonyls and alkyloxonium salts to form organic condensation products or metal-carbene complexes. 

Carbonylation of the cuprate reagent, R (CN)CuLi2, prepared from copper(I) cyanide and an alkyl-lithium, gives a product which can be used for the direct nucleophilic 1,4-acylation of a,3-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones (equation 16). The reaction works particularly well with cyclic a,p-unsaturated ketones to give high yields of the expected 1,4-diketone. 

In 2006, Scheidt and coworkers [44] reported the first enantioselective direct nucleophilic addition ofthe silylated thiazolium salt 148, a precursor of the equivalent acyl anion, to nitroalkene 149 in the presence of tetramethylammonium fluoride (TMAF) and stoichiometric amounts of quinine-based thiourea 81b, producing the chiral [3-nitroketone 150 in 67% yield and with 74% ee (Scheme 9.51). The acyl anion equivalent 152 can be generated by the desilylation of 148 with TMAF, followed by the 1,2-H shift of the resulting alkoxide 151. The observed asymmetric induction indicates that there is a strong interaction between the thiourea and the nitroalkene during the carbonyl anion addition step. 

Alfhough direct nucleophilic addition is limited because of the low nucleophilicity of fhe fluoride ion, a palladium-catalyzed reaction enables the weak nucleophile to participate fhe addition reaction. In the presence of cesium fluoride, palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of an aryl halide gives fhe acyl fluoride in good yield (Scheme 2.5) [8]. 

Direct nucleophilic acylation of electrophiles (ketones, esters) by acyllithium reagents. 

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