Alkenes hydroxyl-directed

Diols are oxidatively cleaved by reaction with periodic acid (HIO4) to yield carbonyl compounds, a reaction similar to the KMnO cleavage of aJkenes just discussed. The sequence of (1) alkene hydroxylation with OsO< j followed by (2) diol cleavage with HIO4 is often an excellent alternative to direct alkene cleavage with ozone or potassium permanganate. 

The hydroxyl-directed epoxidation of alkenes using peroxy acids is sensitive to the nature of the solvent. In the example below, alkene epoxidation occurs on the more accessible a-face when Et20 is used as solvent, whereas the use of CH2CI2 promotes hydroxyl-directed epoxidation on the p-face of the alkene. 

In ketone-directed peroxy acid epoxidations of cyclic alkenes the actual epoxidizing agent has been shown by 180-labeling not to involve a dioxirane <94TL6155>. Instead, an a-hydroxy-benzoylperoxide or a carbonyl oxide is believed to be responsible for observed stereoselectivities in the intramolecular epoxidations. The extent of syn-selectivity is greater for ketones than with esters the syn/anti ratios increase when ether is used as solvent rather than CH2C12, the reverse situation for hydroxyl-directed epoxidations. Fused-ring oxiranes can also be prepared from acyclic precursors. Four different approaches are discussed below. 

Complexes of the type [Ir(bzn)(cod)(L)](C104) (bzn = benzonitrile L = tricyclohexylphosphine, neomenthyldiphenylphosphine) catalyze the homogeneous hydrogenation of tetrasubstituted prochiral amido alkenes R R C=CR N. Under very mild conditions, the catalysis occurs for N = NHCOR, R = COjMe R = R = Me, R" = Me, Ph R = Me, R- = Ph, R = Me, Ph R = Ph, R = Me, R = Ph. [Ir(cod)(PCy3)(py)](PFg) serves as a catalyst in the hydroxyl-directed hydrogenation of cyclic and acyclic alkenic alcohols, wherein the reaction shows diastereoselectivity dependent on catalyst substrate stoichiometry. Park el have noted that the iridium(I)... 

The hydroxyl group is lost from a carbon that bears three equivalent ethyl sub stituents Beta elimination can occur in any one of three equivalent directions to l give the same alkene 3 ethyl 2 pentene ... 

Alkenes are reduced by addition of H2 in the presence of a catalyst such as platinum or palladium to yield alkanes, a process called catalytic hydrogenation. Alkenes are also oxidized by reaction with a peroxyacid to give epoxides, which can be converted into lTans-l,2-diols by acid-catalyzed epoxide hydrolysis. The corresponding cis-l,2-diols can be made directly from alkenes by hydroxylation with 0s04. Alkenes can also be cleaved to produce carbonyl compounds by reaction with ozone, followed by reduction with zinc metal. 

Diols can be prepared either by direct hydroxylation of an alkene with 0s04 followed by reduction with NaHSOj or by acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of an epoxide (Section 7.8). The 0s04 reaction occurs with syn stereochemistry to give a cis diol, and epoxide opening occurs with anti stereochemistry to give a trans diol. 

When a terminal alkene protonates by using its tt electrons to bond a proton at the terminal carbon, a carbocation forms at the second carbon of the chain (The carbocation could also form directly from the 1° alcohol by a hydride shift from its P-carbon to the terminal carbon as the protonated hydroxyl group departs). 

An interesting variant involves the use of an allylic alcohol as the alkene component. In this process, re-oxidation of the catalyst is unnecessary since the cyclization occurs with /Uoxygen elimination of the incipient cr-Pd species to effect an SN2 type of ring closure. Both five- and six-membered oxacycles have been prepared in this fashion using enol, hemiacetal, and aliphatic alcohol nucleophiles.439,440 With a chiral allylic alcohol substrate, the initial 7r-complexation may be directed by the hydroxyl group,441 as demonstrated by the diastereoselective cyclization used in the synthesis of (—)-laulimalide (Equation (120)).442 Note that the oxypalladation takes place with syn-selectivity, in analogy with the cyclization of phenol nucleophiles (1vide supra). 

The oxidative cyclization of vinylallenes need not be directed by a pendant hydroxyl group in order to succeed. The higher reactivity of the allene compared with the exocyclic methylene group in 73 (Eq. 13.23) with monoperphthalic acid leads primarily to the allene oxide which rearranges to cydopentenone 74 [27]. Inevitably some epoxidation of the alkene also takes place during the reaction. When m-CPBA is used as the oxidant, another side reaction is associated with m-chlorobenzoic add-mediated decomposition of the intermediate epoxide. It is possible to overcome this problem by performing the epoxidation in dichloromethane in a two-phase system with aqueous bicarbonate so as to buffer the add [28]. 

On the other hand, H.B. Henbest realised that adjacent polar functional groups have a directing effect on the epoxidation of alkenes as well as on other related reactions [2]. A very well known example is the 5yn-directing effect of an ally lie hydroxyl group in epoxidations of cyclic alkenes (Scheme 10.1) ... 

Co(ni) alkyl peroxides have been prepared and used by Mimoun and coworkers in the hydroxylation of hydrocarbons with this metal a Haber-Weiss type of reactivity is suggested. Square-planar Pt(II) complexes, of the type [(dppe)Pt(CF3)(solv)], used by Strukul in the epoxidation of alkenes and in Baeyer-Villiger oxidations of ketones (Schemes 8 and 9), are effective catalysts also in the direct hydroxylation of aromatics with hydrogen peroxide. The reactivity increases in the presence of electron releasing substituents in the aromatic ring. Ortho and para derivatives are practically the only products observed and interesting selectivity toward the ortho products has been detected (equation 85). 

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