Adams reagent

Very selective c/s-hydrogenations are also achieved by reduction with diiminc (N2H2, S. Hiinig, 1965 C.E. Miller, 1965 D.J. Pasto, 1991). The reagent can be used at low temperatures and has been employed in the selective reduction of C C double bonds, e.g. in the presence of a sensitive peroxidic function (W. Adam, 1978). 

Platinum and palladium are the most common catalysts for alkene hydrogenations. Palladium is normally used as a very fine powder supported" on an inert material such as charcoal (Pd/C) to maximize surface area. Platinum is normally used as PtC, a reagent called Adams catalyst after its discoverer, Roger Adams. 

One of the first cross-coupling reactions performed on solid supports was the Stille reaction [250] which is a paUadium-catalyzed reaction of a trialkylaryl or trialkylalkenyl stannane with an aromatic iodide, bromide or triflate. In contrast to the process in liquid-phase, the organotin reagent is easily removed from the solid-phase because of the subsequent washing processes. Immobilized aryl halides have been frequently coupled with aryl and alkenylstannanes, whereas stan-nanes attached to the solid support have been used less frequently for the StiUe reaction. An example is the synthesis of a benzodiazepine library by EUman et al. Recently, a Stille cross-couphng reaction has been employed in the synthesis of al-kenyldiarylmethanes (ADAM) series of non-nucleoside HlV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (Scheme 3.14) [251]. 

Cyclopentadiene adducts (mono-, tetra- and hexa-adducts) of were stabilized against retro-reaction by selective hydrogenation and bromination of the pendant groups [21]. Utilization of Adam s catalyst and dilute bromine solutions exclusively leads to an addition to the cyclopentene double bonds, because itself is inert towards these reagents. The increased stability of the reduced cycloadducts can be demonstrated by mass spectrometry [21]. 

Biotin does not exhibit UV absorbance. It neither shows fluorescence nor electrochemical activity. Therefore, it needs to be derivatized. 4-Bromomethylmethoxiycoumarin (BMMC) [590], 9-anthryldiazomethane (ADAM) [591], and 1-pyrenyldiazomethane (PDAM) [592] have been used as precolumn reagents to convert biotin to fluorescent absorbing derivatives. Instead, to obtain derivatives that are UV detectable, hydrazines are used, such as 2-nitrophenylhydrazine hydrochloride... 

Dimesityldioxirane, a crystalline derivative, has been isolated by Sander and colleagues and subjected to X-ray analysis. The microwave and X-ray data both suggest that dioxiranes have an atypically long 0—0 bond in excess of 1.5 A. Those factors that determine the stability of dioxiranes are not yet completely understood but what is known today will be addressed in this review. A series of achiral, and more recently chiral oxygen atom transfer reagents, have been adapted to very selective applications in the preparation of complex epoxides and related products of oxidation. A detailed history and survey of the rather remarkable evolution of dioxirane chemistry and their numerous synthetic applications is presented in Chapter 14 of this volume by Adam and Cong-Gui Zhao. Our objective in this part of the review is to first provide a detailed theoretical description of the electronic nature of dioxiranes and then to describe the nuances of the mechanism of oxygen atom transfer to a variety of nucleophilic substrates. 

In an extension of the methodology reported by Tamaru and coworkers for allylic benzoates16, Marshall and Adams found that propargylic mesylates could be converted to allenylzinc reagents with Pd(0) catalysts and an equivalent of Et2Zn17,18. When this novel palladiozincation reaction was conducted in the presence of aldehydes, anti homopropar-gylic alcohols were produced as the major adducts (Tables 14 and 15). 

In step b, Mander s reagent was used to recover (R)-47 after treatment of the intermediate with LDA, followed by methyl chloroformate. Reduction of the acetylene functionality to (R)-48 was proceeded with Adam s catalyst in MeOH under hydrogen. Final cyclization could not be achieved with NaH, although more vigorous reaction conditions using -BuLi gave (R)-50 in moderate yield. 

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