Grignard reagents alcohols

All that has been said in this section applies with equal force to the use of organo-lithium reagents in the synthesis of alcohols. Grignard reagents are one source of nucleophilic carbon organolithium reagents are another. Both have substantial carbanionic char acter in their- car bon-metal bonds and undergo the same kind of reaction with aldehydes and ketones. 

Cyclohexyltrichlorosilane reacts with water, alcohols, Grignard reagents, and amines to give siloxanes, ethers, cyclohexyl-substituted organosilanes, and silylamines, respectively. 

Carbodiitnides (332 Scheme 55) form amidines on treatment with NaBH4 in alcohols, Grignard reagents, sodium phenylacetylide, carbon monoxide in the presence of s-butyl- or t-butyl-lithium and nitrones catalyzed by HBF4. In the reaction of stannylated or silylated ynamines with carbodiimides... 

ALLENES Carbon dioxide. Cuprous bromide. Trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride. a-ALLENIC ALCOHOLS Grignard reagents. 

Water, alcohols and hydroxy compounds generally, and also primary and secondary amines, give the hydrocarbon corresponding to the Grignard reagent,... 

Esters (a) and acid chlorides (6) readily react with Grignard reagents to give ketones, which immediately react with a second equivalent of the reagent as in (5) to give tertiary alcohols as before. 

Prepare a Grignard reagent from 24 -5 g. of magnesium turnings, 179 g. (157 ml.) of n-heptyl bromide (Section 111,37), and 300 ml. of di-n-butyl ether (1). Cool the solution to 0° and, with vigorous stirring, add an excess of ethylene oxide. Maintain the temperature at 0° for 1 hour after the ethylene oxide has been introduced, then allow the temperature to rise to 40° and maintain the mixture at this temperature for 1 hour. Finally heat the mixture on a water bath for 2 hours. Decompose the addition product and isolate the alcohol according to the procedure for n-hexyl alcohol (Section 111,18) the addition of benzene is unnecessary. Collect the n-nonyl alcohol at 95-100°/12 mm. The yield is 95 g. 

The following tertiary alcohols may be prepared from the appropriate Grignard reagent and diethyl carbonate in yields of 75-80 per cent. 

An alternative approach to this problem, providing two of the groups on the tertiaiy alcohol are the same, is to remove both in a single disconnection going back to an ester and two mols of the Grignard reagent ... 

The alcohol intermediate happens to be the exact kind of intermediate that was produced by the Grignard reagent reaction with propanal to produce isosafrole back-a-ways in the big chapter. So what the chemist does is apply the 1g of KHSO4 to that crude alcohol intermediate and process it just as was done before to give isosafrole, or propenylbenzene or 3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl -1-butene or phenylbutene (yield=91% ). This is a great little procedure. 

Conjugate addition of vinyllithium or a vinyl Grignard reagent to enones and subsequent oxidation afford the 1.4-diketone 16[25]. 4-Oxopentanals are synthesized from allylic alcohols by [3,3]sigmatropic rearrangement of their vinyl ethers and subsequent oxidation of the terminal double bond. Dihydrojasmone (18) was synthesized from allyl 2-octenyl ether (17) based on Claisen rearrangement and oxidation[25] (page 26). 

The mam synthetic application of Grignard reagents is their reaction with certain carbonyl containing compounds to produce alcohols Carbon-carbon bond formation is rapid and exothermic when a Grignard reagent reacts with an aldehyde or ketone... 

The type of alcohol produced depends on the carbonyl compound Substituents present on the carbonyl group of an aldehyde or ketone stay there—they become sub stituents on the carbon that bears the hydroxyl group m the product Thus as shown m Table 14 3 (following page) formaldehyde reacts with Grignard reagents to yield pri mary alcohols aldehydes yield secondary alcohols and ketones yield tertiary alcohols... 

An ability to form carbon-carbon bonds is fundamental to organic synthesis The addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes and ketones is one of the most frequently used reactions m synthetic organic chemistry Not only does it permit the extension of carbon chains but because the product is an alcohol a wide variety of subsequent func tional group transformations is possible... 

FIGURE 14 2 Aretrosyn thetic analysis of alcohol preparation by way of the addition of a Grignard reagent to an aldehyde or ketone... 

Secondary alcohols may be prepared by two different combinations of Grignard reagent and aldehyde... 

Three combinations of Grignard reagent and ketone give rise to tertiary alcohols... 

Preparation of Tertiary Alcohols from Esters and Grignard Reagents... 

PREPARATION OF TERTIARY ALCOHOLS FROM ESTERS AND GRIGNARD REAGENTS... 

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