Aldehydes samarium diiodide

Moreover, a dramatic increase of the reaction rate was observed when the coupUng of aromatic imines mediated by samariiun diiodide was carried out in the presence of both water and a tertiary amine or tetramethylethylene-diamine (TMEDA) [29], causing the almost instantaneous formation of the 1,2-diamine, although with undetermined diastereoselectivity. Similarly, the samarium diiodide promoted reductive coupling of iminiiun ions formed in situ by reacting ahphatic aldehydes with secondary amines and benzotriazole occurred at temperatures as low as - 70 °C [30]. Even in this case a mixture of diastereomers with undetermined ratio was obtained nevertheless, the item of diastereoselectivity induced by a chiral amine (auxiliary) is worthy of investigation. 

The asymmetric synthesis of unsymmetrical vicinal diamines by samarium diiodide induced reductive coupling of nitrones derived from aUphatic aldehydes with optically pure N-tert-butanesulfinyl aromatic imines has been recently reported [41]. For example, the reaction between nitrone 55 and... 

Samarium diiodide is another powerful one-electron reducing agent that can effect carbon-carbon bond formation under appropriate conditions.257 Aromatic aldehydes and aliphatic aldehydes and ketones undergo pinacol-type coupling with Sml2 or SmBr2. 

Burk et al. showed the enantioselective hydrogenation of a broad range of N-acylhydrazones 146 to occur readily with [Et-DuPhos Rh(COD)]OTf [14]. The reaction was found to be extremely chemoselective, with little or no reduction of alkenes, alkynes, ketones, aldehydes, esters, nitriles, imines, carbon-halogen, or nitro groups occurring. Excellent enantioselectivities were achieved (88-97% ee) at reasonable rates (TOF up to 500 h ) under very mild conditions (4 bar H2, 20°C). The products from these reactions could be easily converted into chiral amines or a-amino acids by cleavage of the N-N bond with samarium diiodide. 

The samarium diiodide-mediated reductive cyclization of a sugar-derived oxime ether provides a trace amount of an unexpected cyclized product <1997JOC7397>. It is thought that its formation probably arises from an intermediate (methylthio)methyl ether formed with the excess of Swern reagent used to generate the aldehyde in situ after cyclization (Equation 59). 

Samarium diiodide has been used by Enholm and co-workers for the generation and cyclization of ketyl radicals from aldehydic substrates [Eq. (9) and (10) 33], As noted, the... 

A reaction of dibromoacetic acid with different aldehydes promoted by Sml2, followed by an elimination reaction also promoted by samarium diiodide, affords ( > ,/l-unsaturalcd carboxylic acids with total stereoselectivity (Scheme 8).42 A mecha- (g) nism that involves chelation of the Sm(III) centre with the oxygen atom of the alcohol group through a six-membered chair-like transition state has been described. 

N-Acylated indoles 1520 furnished tricyclic compounds 1521 in the presence of samarium diiodide (2.5 equiv) in tetrahydrofuran along with an excess of hexamethylphosphoramide (10 equiv) and phenol (2 equiv) as proton source (Equation 311) <20030L4305>. Whereas methyl ketone 1520 (R = Me) smoothly cyclized to compound 1521 (in 73% yield), the corresponding aldehyde 1520 (R = H) provided compound 1521 only in low yield (28%). 

An approach based on samarium diiodide-promoted reactions of the iminoketone 279 with aldehydes provides access to a series of substituted or fused pyrroles bearing at least two phenyl groups, for instance, the system 280 (Equation 86) <2001T4881>. In an alternative lanthanide-catalyzed route, a series of pyrroles were constructed from imines and nitroalkenes in the presence of Sm(fPrO)3 <1999T13957>. A set of 1-dimethylaminopyrroles have also been obtained by TiCU-induced reactions between 2-acetoxypropanal hydrazones with silyl enol ethers <1995TL8007>. 

A more versatile reducing agent is samarium diiodide, which promotes chemoselective cyclizations of functionalized keto aldehydes in a stereodefined manner to form 2,3-dihydrocyclopentane carboxylate derivatives in good yields and with diastereoselectivities of up to 200 1 (equation 38)7 The reaction proceeds via selective one-electron reduction of the aldehyde component and subsequent nucleophilic attack on the ketone moiety. Stereochemical control is established by chelation of the developing diol (19) with Sm " " which thereby selectively furnishes cis diols (equation 39). The stereoselective M/-cyclization of 1,5-diketones to cis cyclopentane-1,2-diols using TiCU/Zn has been used to prepare stereodefined sterically hindered acyclic 1,2-diols when a removable heteroatom, such as sulfur or selenium, is included in the linking chain (equation 40). 

Samarium diiodide has also been used for the intramolecular coupling of aldehydes and ketones with O-benzyl formaldoxime [83], for the corresponding intermolecular coupling with diphenylhydrazone [84,85] and for the intramolecular coupling of an a,p-unsaturated ester with an oxime ether [86] (Scheme 39). In all these cases the addition of HMPA was found to be essential for a successful reaction. 

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