Acylation, of enol esters

Hydrolysis of Enol Esters. Enzyme-mediated enantioface-differentiating hydrolysis of enol esters is an original method for generating optically active a-substituted ketones (84—86). If the protonation of a double bond occurs from one side with the simultaneous elimination of the acyl group (Fig. 3), then the optically active ketone should be produced. Indeed, the incubation of l-acetoxy-2-methylcyclohexene [1196-73-2] (68) with Pichia... 

In lipase-catalyzed transesterifications, frequent use of enol esters as acyl agents has been seen [1, 5], since the leaving unsaturated alcohol irreversibly tautomerizes to an aldehyde or a ketone, leading to the desired product in high yields. The polymerization of divinyl adipate and 1,4-butanediol proceeded in the presence of lipase PF at 45 °C [39]. Under similar reaction conditions, adipic acid and diethyl adipate did not afford the polymeric materials, indicating the high polymerizability of bis(enol ester) toward lipase catalyst. 

Hydrogenation of N-Acyl Enamides, Enol Esters and Enol Carbamates... 

Acylation of enol ethers. Reaction of 1 with ethyl vinyl ether in ether provides an intermediate that undergoes dehydrochlorination when heated to provide the trichloromethyl ketone 2, which is converted by base (haloform reaction) to the ester 3 in high yield. 

The analogue in which carbon replaces oxygen in the enol ring should of course avoid the stability problem. The synthesis of this compound initially follows a scheme similar to that pioneered by the Corey group. Thus, acylation of the ester (7-2) with the anion from trimethyl phosphonate yields the activated phosphonate (7-3). Reaction of the yhde from that intermediate with the lactone (7-4) leads to a compound (7-5) that incorporates the lower side chain of natural prostaglandins. This is then taken on to lactone (7-6) by sequential reduction by means of zinc borohydride, removal of the biphenyl ester by saponification, and protection of the hydroxyl groups as tetrahydropyranyl ethers. 

Hydrolysis of enol esters 0-83 Reduction of acyl halides 0-84 Reduction of carboxylic acids, esters, or anhydrides 0-85 Reduction of amides 0-95 Alkylation and hydrolysis of imines, alkylation of aldehydes 0-97 Alkylation and hydrolysis of dithi-anes... 

Lin, M.-H. RajaBabu, T. V. Metal-catalyzed acyl transfer reactions of enol esters role of Y5(OiPr)i30 and (thd)2Y(OiPr) as transesterification catalysts. Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 997-1000. 

A Claisen condensation is the acylation of an ester enolate by the corresponding ester. By deprotonating an ester with MOR, only a small concentration of the ester enolate is generated and this enolate is in equilibrium with the ester (cf. Table 13.1). The mechanism of the Claisen condensation is illustrated in detail in Figure 13.57 for the example of the condensation of ethyl butyrate. Both the deprotonation of the ester to give enolate A and the subsequent acylation of the latter are reversible. This acylation occurs via a tetrahedral intermediate (B in Figure 13.57) just like the acylations of other nucleophiles (Chapter 6). The equilibrium between two molecules of ethyl butyrate and one molecule each of the condensation product C and ethanol does not lie completely on the side of the products. In fact, Claisen condensations go to completion only... 

We have spent some considerable time and effort in understanding the aldol reaction simply because it is one of the most important reactions in organic chemistry. In the next chapter you will see how these ideas can be extended with almost no addition of principles to the acylation of enolates—the reaction of enols, enolates, and specific enol equivalents with acid chlorides and esters. We hope that you will see that the ideas introduced in this chapter find immediate application in the next. 

A reaction similar to the above involves the acylation of malonic ester through its magnesium enolate. Thus, the reaction of propionyl chloride with the ester enolate leads to diethyl propionylmalonate. Thermal decomposition of this compound with /3-naphthalenesulfonic acid yields ethyl propionylacetate (57%). This modification appears to be general in that it has been extended to the use of aliphatic, aromatic, and car-balkoxy acyl chlorides. ... 

Most of lipase-catalyzed acylations of sugars in organic solvents have been reported as transesterification rather than esterification reactions. The displacement of the equilibrium towards products has been accomplished by using activated acyl donors [58] such as 2,2,2-trichloroethyl esters and, more often, enol esters. The use of enol esters, such as a vinyl or an isopropenyl ester, was, in fact, first reported in lipase-catalyzed reactions with sugars [59]. In the reaction, an unstable enol is liberated which instantaneously tautomerizes to the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, making the reaction irreversible. 

Halocarbene adducts 1 of enol esters rearrange readily to form (a-halo)-a,/8-unsaturated ketones 2 under all reaction conditions that remove the acyl group via intermediate 2-halocyclo-propanols. Contrary to cationic cyclopropyl to allyl rearrangements, fluoride can be extruded in these rearrangements. 

Asymmetric acylation of prochirai ester enolates is performed by using N-acetyl- or A-propionoylthiazolidine thiones 1.123 (X = S, R = i-Pr, R = H or Me), but a,a-disubstituted P-ketoesters are obtained with a high enantiomeric excess only from substituted arylacetic esters [1085] (Figure 5.40). Nonracemic N-acylbenzimidazoles have been preposed for asymmetric acylation of propiona-mides, but the enantiomeric excesses are low [1086],... 

In work [153-155] taken to support the irreversible formation of a perepoxide, the reactivity of 02(1Ag) towards a series of enol esters has been examined. The key finding was that in certain cases, along with allylic hydroperoxide and dioxetane, a product is formed in which the acyl function had undergone migration for instance the enol ester 37 reacts according to Eq. (56). 

Alkylation of enolate anions usually gives C-alkylation and is therefore not suitable for the preparation of enol ethers. The exception is when triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate is used as the alkylating agent in a dipolar aprotic solvent. 0-Alkylation can be regioselectiveiy achieved if the enolate anion is derived from acetoacetate or a similar compound. On the other hand, 0-acylation of enols or enolate anions is quite common. Enol esters can therefore be prepared readily from the parent carbonyl compounds. For... 

Modem synthetic practice frequently requires the use of methods mote specific than those outlined above. Much attention has been focused on the mixed Claisen or Dieckmann reaction, i.e. the acylation of one ester by another, or its intramolecular equivalent, the regioselective cyclization of an unsymmetri-cal diester. A similar problem arises with the acylation of unsymmetrical ketones. This chapter thus describes the inter- and intra-molecular carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in which a delocalized enolate anion (or close equivalent) reacts at an sp carbon atom in an addition-elimination sequence, as well as the acid-catalyzed equivalent employing an enol. In Table 1 we list the potential nucleophiles and the electrophiles that have been employed in these reactions, although not every possible combination has been reduced to synthetic practice. Table 2 gives details of acid-catalyzed acylations (see Section 3.6.4.3). 

Complementary to the acylation of enolate anions is the acid-catalyzed acylation of the corresponding enols, where the regiochemistry of acylation can vary from that observed in base-catalyzed reactions. Although the reaction has been studied extensively in simple systems, it has not been widely used in the synthesis of complex molecules. The catalysts most frequently employed are boron trifluoride, aluminum chloride and some proton acids, and acid anhydrides are the most frequently used acylating agents. Reaction is thought to involve electrophilic attack on the enol of the ketone by a Lewis acid complex of the anhydride (Scheme 58). In the presence of a proton acid, the enol ester is probably the reactive nucleophile. In either case, the first formed 1,3-dicarbonyl compound is converted into its borofluoride complex, which may be decomposed to give the 3-d>ketone, sometimes isolated as its copper complex. 

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