Aldehydes and ketones, condensation with

Aldehydes and ketones condense with a-halo esters in the presence of bases to give ot,p-epoxy esters, called glycidic esters. This is called the Darzens condensation. The reaction consists of an initial Knoevenagel-type reaction (16-41), followed by an internal Sn2 reaction (10-13) ° ... 

Many aldehydes and ketones condense with acetonitrile in the presence of solid potassium hydroxide using 18-crown-6 as a catalyst (Scheme 40). ... 

Aldehydes and ketones condense with the phosphonate (24) and with the phosphine oxide (25) to form %S-unsaturated-/3-keto-esters, compounds of considerable potential for the formation of cyclohexenones. 

Aldehydes and ketones condense with ketene in the presence of 1 equiv of boron trichloride to give a,p-unsaturated acyl chlorides. Aryl isocyanates are converted into allophanyl chlorides, which are precursors for industrially important 1,3-diazetidinediones (eq 7). ... 

By-Products. Almost all commercial manufacture of pyridine compounds involves the concomitant manufacture of various side products. Liquid- and vapor-phase synthesis of pyridines from ammonia and aldehydes or ketones produces pyridine or an alkylated pyridine as a primary product, as well as isomeric aLkylpyridines and higher substituted aLkylpyridines, along with their isomers. Furthermore, self-condensation of aldehydes and ketones can produce substituted ben2enes. Condensation of ammonia with the aldehydes can produce certain alkyl or unsaturated nitrile side products. Lasdy, self-condensation of the aldehydes and ketones, perhaps with reduction, can lead to alkanes and alkenes. 

Aldehydes and ketones react with azolinones. The reaction between aldehydes and 2-phenyl-5-oxazolinone (131 Y = H), formed in situ from PhC0NHCH2C02H and AC2O, gives azlactones (131 Y = RCH). Similar reactions are given by 4-thiazolidinones, e.g. (132) gives (133) (79AHC(25)83), and 4-imidazolinones. In pyrazolin-5-ones the 4-position is sufficiently activated for condensation to occur with ketones in acidic media (Scheme 8) (66AH06)347). 

Problem 17.35 In the Knoevenagel reaction, aldehydes or ketones condense with compounds having a reactive CHj between two C=0 groups. The cocatalysts are both a weak base (RCOO ) and a weak acid (R,NH,). Outline the reaction between C<,H,CH==0 and H2C(COOEt)2. d... 

In the case of the reaction of the nitriles with aldehydes and ketones, condensation products corresponding to a Knoevenagel reaction are obtained in high yields. 

The reactions undergone by 5-imino-3-pyrazolidinones are in general very similar to those of 2-pyrazolin-5-ones. The hydrogen atoms at C-4 are active and this position is the reactive center in the nucleus of these molecules. Condensation with aldehydes and ketones occurs with formation of benzylidene644,1083 or 4,4 -benzylidenebis... 

A suitable solid base must have the appropriate base strength for the reaction under investigation. If the initial reaction step is the removal of a proton from a reactant of the form R1-CH2-R2 then the acidity of the proton to be removed depends on the identity of the R) and R2 groups (Table 1). The solid base selected should have sufficient base strength to carry out the reaction but should not have excessive base strength as this may lead to rapid catalyst deactivation or to side-product formation. For aldehyde and ketone condensation reactions therefore with a p.Ka of 19.7 - 20 a strong base is required but not a superbase material. Caustic can be used to carry out reactions with reactants with the removable proton having a pA a of up to around 20. 

Here is an example, which picks up where we left off a catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition. As you know from Chapter 11, aldehydes and ketones react with secondary amines to form enamines, via iminium ions. But this unsaturated aldehyde can t form an enamine because the iminium ion that is generated by condensation with the cyclic secondary amine... 

Aldehydes and ketones react with primary amines to form azomethines which are usually known as Schiff bases, or sometimes, if the amine is aromatic, as anils. Stable Schiff bases are formed with aromatic aldehydes and with aliphatic and aromatic ketones, those formed from ahphatic aldehydes are often subject to aldol-type polymerization and are not suitable for group protection. The Schiff bases formed from aliphatic ketones are potentially tautomeric with the corresponding enamines, but they exist as azomethines unless there is some other structural feature present to stabilize the enamine form (section 2.1.3.2). The condensation reaction by which these derivatives are formed is acid-catalyzed and easily reversible, thus this method of oup protection is only applicable under neutral or alkaline conditions. The condensation using aromatic aldehydes or aliphatic ketones take place readily without solvent or in refluxing ethanol, those with aryl-alkyl or diaryl ketones may require catalysis or azeotropic removal of the water formed in the reaction. 

We have seen that the products of aldol condensation are a,)8-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones. How do the properties of a,j8-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones compare with the individual characteristics of their two types of double bonds We shall find that their chemistry in some situations is a simple composite of the two and under other circumstances involves the a,j8-unsaturated carbonyl, or enone, functional group as a whole. As later chapters will indicate, this complex reactivity is quite typical of molecules with two functional groups, or difunctional compounds. 

Both aldehydes and ketones usually condense readily with free hydroxyl-amine, HONHj, to give crystalline oximes ... 

Phenyl hydrazine condenses readily with aldehydes and ketones to give phenylhydrazonesy which, being usually crystalline compounds of sharp... 

Aldehydes and ketones may frequently be identified by their semicarbazones, obtained by direct condensation with semicarbazide (or amino-urea), NH,NHCONH a compound which is a monacidic base and usually available as its monohydrochloride, NHjCONHNH, HCl. Semicarbazones are particularly useful for identification of con jounds (such as acetophenone) of which the oxime is too soluble to be readily isolated and the phenylhydrazone is unstable moreover, the high nitrogen content of semicarbazones enables very small quantities to be accurately analysed and so identified. The general conditions for the formation of semicarbazones are very similar to those for oximes and phenylhydrazones (pp. 93, 229) the free base must of course be liberated from its salts by the addition of sodium acetate. 

The term Knoevenagel Condensation was originally applied to the base-catalysed condensation of the carbonyl ( CO) group of aldehydes and ketones with the reactive methylene group of malonic acid, with loss of w ater ... 

This is a test for the >C = 0 group. Most aldehydes and ketones readily condense with this reagent giving yello v- or orange-coloured precipitates. 

The condensation of aldehydes and ketones with succinic esters in the presence of sodium ethoxide is known as the Stobbe condensation. The reaction with sodium ethoxide is comparatively slow and a httlo reduction of the ketonic compound to the carbinol usually occurs a shorter reaction time and a better yield is generally obtained with the more powerful condensing agent potassium ieri.-butoxide or with sodium hydride. Thus benzophenone condenses with diethyl succinate in the presence of potassium [Pg.919]

Aldol condensation offers an effective route to a p unsaturated aldehydes and ketones These compounds have some interesting properties that result from conjugation of the carbon-carbon double bond with the carbonyl group As shown m Figure 18 6 the rr systems of the carbon-carbon and carbon-oxygen double bonds overlap to form an extended rr system that permits increased electron delocalization... 

In practice this reaction is difficult to carry out with simple aldehydes and ketones because aldol condensation competes with alkylation Furthermore it is not always possi ble to limit the reaction to the introduction of a single alkyl group The most successful alkylation procedures use p diketones as starting materials Because they are relatively acidic p diketones can be converted quantitatively to their enolate ions by weak bases and do not self condense Ideally the alkyl halide should be a methyl or primary alkyl halide... 

Just as most other aldehydes do, furfural condenses with compounds possessing active methylene groups such as aUphatic carboxyUc esters and anhydrides, ketones, aldehydes, nitriles, and nitroparaffins. 

Reactions with Aldehydes and Ketones. The base-catalyzed self-addition of acetaldehyde leads to formation of the dimer, acetaldol [107-89-1/, which can be hydrogenated to form 1,3-butanediol [107-88-0] or dehydrated to form crotonaldehyde [4170-30-3]. Crotonaldehyde can also be made directiy by the vapor-phase condensation of acetaldehyde over a catalyst (53). 

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