Iodine reaction with alkene-acids

The same result can be achieved in one step with m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid and water. Overall anti addition can also be achieved by the method of Prevost (the Prevost reaction). In this method, the alkene is treated with iodine and silver benzoate in a 1 2 molar ratio. The initial addition is anti and results in a (3-halo benzoate (172). These can be isolated, and this represents a method of addition of lOCOPh. However, under the normal reaction conditions, the iodine is replaced by a second PhCOO group. This is a nucleophilic substitution reaction, and it operates by the neighboring-group mechanism (p. 446), so the groups are still anti ... 

Hydrolysis of the ester does not change the configuration. The Woodward modification of the Prevost reaction is similar, but results in overall syn hydroxylation. The alkene is treated with iodine and silver acetate in a 1 1 molar ratio in acetic acid containing water. Here again, the initial product is a (3-halo ester the addition is anti and a nucleophilic replacement of the iodine occurs. However, in the presence of water, neighboring-group participation is prevented or greatly decreased by solvation of the ester function, and the mechanism is the normal Sn2 process, ... 

The iodination reaction can also be conducted with iodine monochloride in the presence of sodium acetate (240) or iodine in the presence of water or methanolic sodium acetate (241). Under these mild conditions functionalized alkenes can be transformed into the corresponding iodides. AppHcation of B-alkyl-9-BBN derivatives in the chlorination and dark bromination reactions allows better utilization of alkyl groups (235,242). An indirect stereoselective procedure for the conversion of alkynes into (H)-1-ha1o-1-alkenes is based on the mercuration reaction of boronic acids followed by in situ bromination or iodination of the intermediate mercuric salts (243). 

Iodine is a very good electrophile for effecting intramolecular nucleophilic addition to alkenes, as exemplified by the iodolactonization reaction71 Reaction of iodine with carboxylic acids having carbon-carbon double bonds placed to permit intramolecular reaction results in formation of iodolactones. The reaction shows a preference for formation of five- over six-membered72 rings and is a stereospecific anti addition when carried out under basic conditions. 

It is not normally possible to add fluorine directly to alkenes as the reaction is so exothermic that bond fission occurs. Many alkenes will not add iodine directly either, and when the reaction does occur it is usually readily reversible. Alkynes are also found to undergo preferential, though not exclusive, ANTI addition of halogens, e.g. with butyne-l,2-dioic acid (17) ... 

Negishi previously reported that a wide variety of Lewis-acidic compounds catalyzed hydrozirconation of alkenes such as 1-decene 108 with /-BuZrCp2Cl.126 It was found that the reaction of 1-decene with 1.1 molar equiv. of TIB A, in the presence of 2-5 mol% of chlorine-containing late transition metals, led to the formation of 1-iododecane 110 after treatment of the product with iodine (Table 9). 

Treatment of aryl-substituted alkenes with hypervalent iodine compounds can lead to the formation of phenyliodinated intermediates, which can be stabilized by the aryl substituent via the formation of phenonium ions. Subsequent nucleophilic attack might then lead to rearranged products. This behavior can be nicely seen by comparing the unsaturated carboxylic acids 78 in their reaction with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene 3. The substrate 78a without the phenyl substituent is cyclized to the phenyliodinated intermediate 79, which is then attacked by the acetate under the formation of lactone 81 [142]. Substrate 78b is, however, then stabilized by the formation of an intermediate phenonium ion 80 and attack by the acetate is accompanied by a 1,2-phenyl migration and 82 is generated, Scheme 35 [143]. 

Alkenes from diols. Reaction of v/c-diols with two secondary hydroxyls or one primary and one secondary alcohol with chlorodiphenylphosphine (2 equiv.), imidazole (4 equiv.), and iodine (2 equiv.) results in alkenes. The reaction presumably involves a vic-iododiphenylphosphinate, which can be isolated in some cases and converted to an alkene with zinc in acetic acid. 

Formation of a highly electrophilic iodonium species, transiently formed by treatment of an alkene with iodine, followed by intramolecular quenching with a nucleophile leads to iodocyclization. The use of iodine to form lactones has been elegantly developed. Bartlett and co-workers216 reported on what they described as thermodynamic versus kinetic control in the formation of lactones. Treatment of the alkenoic acid 158 (Scheme 46) with iodine in the presence of base afforded a preponderance of the kinetic product 159, whereas the same reaction in the absence of base afforded the thermodynamic product 160. This approach was used in the synthesis of serricorin. The idea of kinetic versus thermodynamic control of the reaction was first discussed in a paper by Bartlett and Myerson217 from 1978. It was reasoned that in the absence of base, thermodynamic control could be achieved in that a proton was available to allow equilibration to the most stable ester. In the absence of such a proton, for example by addition of base, this equilibration is not possible, and the kinetic product is favored. 

Decarboxylation of acids is of special interest, since the free radicals produced may combine with iodine, heteroaromatic bases or electron-deficient alkenes affording useful products in clean reactions. 

A solution or suspension of the acid (1 mmol) in carbon tetrachloride (75 ml) containing DIB (0.55 mmol) and iodine (0.5 mmol) was irradiated with two 100 W tungsten-filament lamps for 45 min at reflux temperature. Another portion of DIB (0.55 mmol) was then added and irradiation was continued for 45 min at reflux. The reaction mixture was washed with dilute sodium thiosulphate and water, concentrated and chromatographed (silica gel column, 9 1 hexanes-ethyl acetate) to afford the alkyl iodide. Several steroidal acids with the carboxyl group attached at a 1° or 2° carbon atom gave the corresponding iodides in good yields. Acids with a 3° a-C instead of the iodide afforded alkenes similarly, alkenes were formed with a fivefold excess of DIB in the presence of cupric acetate. Aromatic acids also underwent iododecarboxylation, in moderate yields very effective was the otherwise difficult transformation of 1,8-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid to 1,8-diiodonaphthalene (80%) [68]. Cubyl and homocubyl iodides were also prepared in excellent yield [69]. 

Several related procedures for syn hydroxylation of alkenes involve a halohydrin ester (32) as the key intermediate. In Woodward s procedure an alkene in glacial acetic acid is treated with iodine and silver acetate. Acetyl hypoiodite, MeCOjI, formed by reaction of the latter two reagents attacks the alkene, R R 0=CR R in an electrophilic manner, from the less hindered side to give, by overall anti addition. 

Epoxides may be prepared from alkenes by the action of a peroxy acid such as m-chloroperbenzoic acid (Scheme 2.20a) or via the formation of a bromohydrin or iodohydrin and the treatment of this with base (Scheme 2.20b). Since the initial electrophile, the bromine or the iodine, is displaced in the second step when the epoxide is formed, the stereochemistry of this epoxidation is likely to differ from that of the reaction with peroxy acid. 

In the first redox process (Equation 1), instead of focusing on the iodine itself, the formation of the by-product, that is, HI, is scrutinized because an efficient thiol oxidation depends on HI removal by a base, or its dissolution in a biphasic reaction mixture. Thus, in a reaction monitored by H NMR, 1,3-propanethiol (1 mmol) was quantitatively oxidized to dithiolane 2 with iodine (0.5 mmol) in the presence of 2-methy 1-2-butene (1 mmol), which was completely converted into 2-iodo-2-methylbutane by HI formed in situ. In this case, as well as with thioacetic acid, the same alkene was completely converted by HI to 2-iodo-2-methylbutane, while in an absence of the butene derivative the corresponding disulfides were not detected. 

Acetyl hypoiodite (iodine acetate), CH3COOI, is prepared by treatment of silver acetate in acetic acid with iodine at room temperature [779, 780], The reagent cleaves vicinal diols to dicarbonyl compounds [779] and degrades tertiary alcohols to ketones [780], Acetyl hypoiodite is also an intermediate in the reaction of alkenes with the so-called Simonini complex, an addition product of iodine with 2 mol of silver acetate [781, 782, 783],... 

Mixed bimetallic reagents possess two carbon-metal bonds of different reactivity, and a selective and sequential reaction with two different electrophiles should be possible. Thus, the treatment of the l,l-bimetailic compound 15 with iodine, at — 78"C, affords an intermediate zinc carbenoid 16 that, after hydrolysis, furnishes an unsaturated alkyl iodide in 61% yield [Eq. (15) 8]. The reverse addition sequence [AcOH (1 equiv), —80 to — 40 C iodine (1 equiv)] leads to the desired product, with equally high yield [8]. A range of electrophile couples can be added, and the stannylation of 15 is an especially efficient process [Eq. (16) 8]. A smooth oxidation of the bimetallic functionality by using methyl disulfide, followed by an acidic hydrolysis, produces the aldehyde 17 (53%), whereas the treatment with methyl disulfide, followed by the addition of allyl bromide, furnishes a dienic thioether in 76% yield [Eq. (17) 8]. The addition of allylzinc bromide to 1-octenyllithium produces the lithium-zinc bimetallic reagent 18, which can be treated with an excess of methyl iodide, leading to only the monomethylated product 19. The carbon zinc bond is unreactive toward methyl iodide and, after hydrolysis, the alkene 19... 

Pans-2-Iodocyclohexyl acetate can be isolated in essentially quantitative yield from the reaction of thallium(I) acetate, iodine, and cyclohexene in a 1 1 1 molar ratio in refluxing chloroform. lodo acetates from a representative series of alkenes including cyclohexene have been similarly prepared in 80-98% yield in glacial acetic acid which was not dried as described in this procedure. The corresponding iodo benzoates are obtained in comparable yields from reaction with thallium(I) benzoate and iodine in benzene. The deactivated olefin methyl cinnamate did not react under these conditions, and o-allylphenol underwent ring iodination to... 

Woodward method The syn-hydroxylation of an alkene the first step involves treating the alkene with iodine and silver acetate in a 1 1 molar ratio in wet acetic acid. The hydrolysis of the intermediate c/////-P-halogenoester is via a normal SN2 reaction in which there is no neighbouring group effect because the ester function is solvated by the water. Overall //-addition may be achieved by the method of Prevost. 

A methodically related transformation, the copper(Il)-mediated transfer of a cyano(ethoxycar-bonyl)methylene unit from ethyl cyanoacetate to alkenes, is presented in Section I.2.I.2.4.2.9. The copper-mediated synthesis of cyclopropyl ketones from a,a-dibromo ketones and alkenes seems to be of very limited scope and even less efficient than the corresponding synthesis of cyclopropanecarboxylic acids from o ,a-dibromoacetates (vide supra). The reaction (toluene, 100°C, 93 h) of cyclooctene (4.0 mmol), dibromomethyl phenyl ketone (8.0mmol), and commercial grade copper powder (18 mmol) activated with iodine (0.2 mmol) gave exy-9-benzoyl-bicyclo[6.1.0]nonane (7, 12%) and (2-oxo-2-phenylethyl)cyclooct-l-ene (8, 3%). ° A similar treatment of styrene gave l-benzoyl-2-phenylcyclopropane in only 2% yield [ratio (cisjtrans) 1 l.b]. " ... 

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