Addition reactions, halides used

The formation of halides by the nucleophilic substitution of leaving groups is commonly used in the synthesis of more elaborate structures. The synthesis of inexpensive bulk chemicals like solvents, however, is mostly done by oxidation or addition reactions. Halides are either used as intermediates or are valuable end products. Authors of publications, especially patent literature, often claim one reaction for three or even four halogens. In practice, this rarely holds true and each of the halogens quite often requires different conditions. The usual order of halide nucleophilicity is I" > Br > Cl > F". In dimethyl-formamide the reverse order Cl > Br > I is observed. This order goes along with the order of the basic... 

Alkyl radical addition reactions to styrene chromium tricarbonyl can be accomplished using alkyl halides (10 equiv) and (TMSlsSiH (5 equiv) in the presence of AIBN in refluxing benzene, for 18 h (Reaction 66). " These reactions are believed to proceed through intermediates in which the unpaired electron is interacting with the adjacent arene chromium tricarbonyl moiety since the analogous reaction with styrene affords only traces of addition products. 

These compounds are not isolated, but used directly in situ for conjugate addition reactions (15-24). Another method for the preparation of such reagents (but with Zn instead of Li) allows them to be made from a-acetoxy halides ... 

We have shown that the direct arylation of acrolein toward the synthesis of cinnamaldehyde derivatives was an efficient procedure. Using the palladacycle 1 as catalyst, substituted aldehydes 3 were prepared with up to 87% isolated yield from condensed aiyl bromides (Scheme 21.1, Route 1) that was extended successfully to heteroaiyl bromides, like bromoquinolines (6). Alternatively, the acrolein diethyl acetal was used as olefin and a selective formation of the saturated ester 4 was attained under the same reaction conditions (Scheme 21.1, Route 2). The expected aldehydes 3 were, however, obtained from most of the aiyl halides used under modified conditions. It was shown that the addition of n-Bu4NOAc in the medium... 

An important synthetic application of this reaction is in dehalogenation of dichloro- and dibromocyclopropanes. The dihalocyclopropanes are accessible via carbene addition reactions (see Section 10.2.3). Reductive dehalogenation can also be used to introduce deuterium at a specific site. The mechanism of the reaction involves electron transfer to form a radical anion, which then fragments with loss of a halide ion. The resulting radical is reduced to a carbanion by a second electron transfer and subsequently protonated. 

Another general process involves the reaction of Pd(0) species with halides or sulfonates by oxidative addition, generating reactive intermediates having the organic group attached to Pd(II) by a ct bond. The oxidative addition reaction is very useful for aryl and alkenyl halides, but the products from saturated alkyl halides often decompose by (3-elimination. The a-bonded species formed by oxidative addition can react with alkenes and other unsaturated compounds to form new carbon-carbon bonds. The... 

Aryl Halides from Diazonium Ion Intermediates. Replacement of diazonium groups by halides is a valuable alternative to direct halogenation for the preparation of aryl halides. Aryl bromides and chlorides are usually prepared by a reaction using the appropriate Cu(I) salt, which is known as the Sandmeyer reaction. Under the classic conditions, the diazonium salt is added to a hot acidic solution of the cuprous halide.99 The Sandmeyer reaction occurs by an oxidative addition reaction of the diazonium ion with Cu(I) and halide transfer from a Cu(III) intermediate. 

This work was initiated in 1988 when Villacorta et al.71a reported the asymmetric conjugate addition of a Grignard reagent to 2-cyclohexenone. This study showed that 1,4-adducts with 4-14% ee were obtained in the presence of aminotroponeimine copper complex.713 Enhanced results (74% ee) were obtained by adding HMPA or silyl halides.71b Several other copper complexes were also used for inducing asymmetric conjugate addition reactions. Moderate results were obtained in most cases when THF was used as the solvent and HMPA as the additive. 

As a result, therefore, acetaldehyde is converted into isopropyl alcohol. Quite generally it may be said that the Grignard reaction consists in the addition to the unsaturated linkage—as H and R—of the hydrocarbon corresponding to the halide used. In effect a synthesising hydrogenation occurs. 

The mechanism for the hydrogen halide-alkene addition reaction is again a two-step process and is Illustrated below using hydrogen bromide and propene. 

We can also rationalize why some addition reactions simply do not occur, e.g. halide ions do not add to carbonyl groups. Although we know that a halide such as bromide can act as an effective nucleophile in Sn 1 and Sn2 reactions (see Section 6.1.2), it is also a very good leaving group (pATa value for HBr —9). This means that the reverse reaction becomes very much more favourable than the forward reaction. In cases where both forward and reverse reactions are feasible, we can often usefully disturb the equilibrium by using an excess of one reagent (see below). 

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