Alcohols with thioesters

Polyhydric alcohol mercaptoalkanoate esters are prepared by reaction of the appropriate alcohols and thioester using -toluenesulfonic acid catalyst under nitrogen and subsequent heating (16,17). Organotin mercapto esters are similarly produced by reaction of the esters with dibutyltin oxide (18). Pentaerythritol can be oxidized to 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)hydracryhc acid [2831-90-5] C H qO, ... 

Amides and esters (Eq. (232)) afford amines and alcohols in a clean reaction on electrolysis at the mercury cathode in tetramethylammonium sait/methanol as SSE 51 1. The tetraalkylammonium radical is believed to be the electron transfer reagent. With thioesters mercaptans are obtained in high yield s 13 ... 

Keto derivatives (esters, thioesters, amides) are hydrogenated to the secondary alcohol with 93% to 99% e.e. Ketones having a heteroatom a to the carbonyl (—OH, —NRj, —halide) also undergo clean, stereochemically directed reduction. Coordination of the carbonyl oxygen and the heteroatom of the other functional group to the metal forms a chelate ring responsible for the enantiomeric differentiation. This clean process favorably competes with the use of bakers yeast, and is applied to the synthesis of natural products like carnitine and compactine" ... 

Thioesters.—Mixed anhydrides prepared from 2,4,6-trichlorobenzyl chloride and a carboxylic acid react with various thiols in the presence of 4-dimethyl-aminopyridine to give thioesters in 78—86% isolated yield.Somewhat less impressive yields were obtained in a few of the cases studied when l-fluoro-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene was used to couple the acid and the thiol.Treatment of 1-acylimidazoles with thiols in the presence of a catalytic amount of Mg(OEt)2 furnishes thioesters in good yields. Diphenyl-2-oxo-3-oxazolinylphosphonate brings about effective reaction between acids and thiols. Thiolacetates are efficiently prepared using the reaction of an alcohol with triphenylphosphine and di-isopropyl azodicarboxylate in the presence of thiolacetic acid/ A synthesis of some amino-acid derivatives containing the thioester functional group is achieved by the reaction of a vinyloxyborane with a Schiffs base (Scheme 56). ... 

Synthesis.—The so-called push-pull acetylenes [e.g. (157)], already mentioned in connection with thioester synthesis, can also be utilized as acyl transfer reagents in a general method for the formation of amide bonds between carboxylic acids and amines (Scheme 49). The overall, one-pot sequence gives excellent yields and appears to be very simple to perform. The isolable intermediates are usually clean and crystalline, and when it is used in dipeptide syntheses little racemization occurs. As mentioned earlier, the carboxylic acid component may contain unprotected alcohol, amino-, and mercapto-groups. 

Other catalytic applications of HBF4 include alkene isomerizations, alkylation of alcohols with diazoalkanes, preparations of substituted pyridines, hydrolysis of a-hydroxyketene or a-(methylthio)ketene thioacetals to a,p-unsaturated thioesters, and terpene formation from isoprenic precursors. ... 

Conversion of Free or Silylated Carboxylic Acids into Esters, Thioesters, Lactones, or Ketenes. Transesterification of Esters with Alcohols... 

Carboxylic acids such as acetic acid react with alcohols such as methanol or with methoxytrimethylsilane 13 a in the presence of trimethylchlorosilane (TCS) 14 in THF or 2-methyl-THF to give esters such as methyl acetate in 97% yield and hex-amethyldisiloxane 7. Even methyl pivalate can be readily prepared in 91% yield [111]. Reaction of a variety of carboxylic acids, for example N-benzoylglycine 329, with two equivalents of yS-trimethylsilylethanol 330 and with 14 has been shown to afford esters such as 331 in 98% yield [112, 112 a]. Likewise, silylated carboxylic acids react with silylated alcohols or thiophenols in the presence of 4-trifluoro-methylbenzoic anhydride and TiCl4/AgCl04 to furnish esters or thioesters in high yields [113, 114] (Scheme 4.43). 

Unlike the case of the Ni-catalyzed reaction, which afforded the branched thioester (Eq. 7.1), the PdCl2(PPh3)3/SnCl2-catalyzed reaction with 1-alkyne and 1-alkene predominantly provided terminal thioester 6 in up to 61% yield in preference to 7. In 1983, a similar hydrothiocarboxylation of an alkene was also documented by using a Pd(OAc)2/P( -Pr)3 catalyst system with t-BuSH to form 8 in up to 79% yield (Eq. 7.6) [16]. It was mentioned in the patent that the Pt-complex also possessed catalyhc activity for the transformation, although the yield of product was unsatisfactory. In 1984, the hydrothiocarboxylation of a 1,3-diene catalyzed by Co2(CO)g in pyridine was also reported in a patent [17]. In 1986, Alper et al. reported that a similar transformation to the one shown in Eq. (7.3) can be realized under much milder reaction conditions in the presence of a 1,3-diene [18], and the carboxylic ester 10 was produced using an aqueous alcohol as solvent (Eq. 7.7) [19]. 

SEC-RI/UV has also been used to analyse some 26 thioorganotin compounds, organotin carboxylates and chlorides, essentially PVC stabilisers, and some of their main by-products and related compounds (thioesters and dithioesters, n-alkanes) [803]. Not all organotin chlorides were stable in the adopted analysis conditions. N, Ai -ethylene-bis-stearamide and -oleamide in common plastics (ABS, SAN, PUR, LDPE, PA6.6) can be analysed by SEC after derivatisation with trifluo-roacetic anhydride. SEC analysis of fatty alcohol ethoxy-lates (FAE), used as nonionic surfactants, has also been described [759]. 

Tri-/ -butyltin hydride also serves as a hydrogen-atom donor in radical-mediated methods for reductive deoxygenation of alcohols.131 The alcohol is converted to a thiocarbonyl derivative. These thioesters undergo a radical reaction with tri-w-butyltin... 

The Pd-catalyzed allylic alkylation of sulfinate ions, thiols, and thiocarboxylate ions with racemic cyclic and acyclic allylic esters in the presence of bisphosphane BPA generally provides for an efficient asymmetric synthesis of allylic sulfones, sulfides, and thioesters. The Pd-catalyzed rearrangements of allylic sulfinates and allylic O-thiocarbamates, both of which proceed very efficiently in the presence of BPA, are attractive alternative ways to the asymmetric synthesis of allylic sulfones and allyUc thioesters also starting from the corresponding racemic alcohols. 

The more favourable equilibrium constants for the addition of thiols to the carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones compared to those for the addition of alcohols are well documented (Jencks, 1964 Lienhard and Jencks, 1966 Kanchuger and Byers, 1979), if not fully understood. There appears to be a similar tendency for thiols to add to the carbonyl (or thiocarbonyl) group of esters (or thioesters) and several tetrahedral intermediates with one or more... 

Many such activated acyl derivatives have been developed, and the field has been reviewed [7-9]. The most commonly used irreversible acyl donors are various types of vinyl esters. During the acylation of the enzyme, vinyl alcohols are liberated, which rapidly tautomerize to non-nucleophilic carbonyl compounds (Scheme 4.5). The acyl-enzyme then reacts with the racemic nucleophile (e.g., an alcohol or amine). Many vinyl esters and isopropenyl acetate are commercially available, and others can be made from vinyl and isopropenyl acetate by Lewis acid- or palladium-catalyzed reactions with acids [10-12] or from transition metal-catalyzed additions to acetylenes [13-15]. If ethoxyacetylene is used in such reactions, R1 in the resulting acyl donor will be OEt (Scheme 4.5), and hence the end product from the acyl donor leaving group will be the innocuous ethyl acetate [16]. Other frequently used acylation agents that act as more or less irreversible acyl donors are the easily prepared 2,2,2-trifluoro- and 2,2,2-trichloro-ethyl esters [17-23]. Less frequently used are oxime esters and cyanomethyl ester [7]. S-ethyl thioesters such as the thiooctanoate has also been used, and here the ethanethiol formed is allowed to evaporate to displace the equilibrium [24, 25]. Some anhydrides can also serve as irreversible acyl donors. 

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