Alkyne anions systems

CuBr/QUINAP System The CuBr/QUlNAP system was initially used in the enan-tioselective synthesis of proparyl amines via the reaction of alkynes and enamines (Scheme 5.5). It was rationalized that the enamines reacted with protons in terminal alkynes in the presence of copper catalyst to form zwitterionic intermediates in which both the generated iminiums and alkyne anions coordinate to the copper metal center. After an intermolecular transfer of the alkyne moiety to the iminium ion, the desired products were released and the catalyst was regenerated. The combination of CuBr as catalyst and the chiral ligand QUEMAP is crucial for the good reactivities and enantioselectivities seen in the reaction. Another potential... 

KHMDS is a strong enough base to deprotonate terminal alkynes. It has been particularly useful for the intramolecular condensation of alkyne anions with aldehydes. For instance, the final cycliza-tion in the synthesis of a new bicyclic tetrahydropyridine system was carried out in the presence of KHMDS (eq 40). The same reaction failed when using LDA in THE... 

The 1,3-dipolar molecules are isoelectronic with the allyl anion and have four electrons in a n system encompassing the 1,3-dipole. Some typical 1,3-dipolar species are shown in Scheme 11.4. It should be noted that all have one or more resonance structures showing the characteristic 1,3-dipole. The dipolarophiles are typically alkenes or alkynes, but all that is essential is a tc bond. The reactivity of dipolarophiles depends both on the substituents present on the n bond and on the nature of the 1,3-dipole involved in the reaction. Because of the wide range of structures that can serve either as a 1,3-dipole or as a dipolarophile, the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition is a very useful reaction for the construction of five-membered heterocyclic rings. 

Subsequently, cationic rhodium catalysts are also found to be effective for the regio- and stereoselective hydrosilation of alkynes in aqueous media. Recently, Oshima et al. reported a rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of alkynes in an aqueous micellar system. A combination of [RhCl(nbd)]2 and bis-(diphenylphosphi no)propanc (dppp) were shown to be effective for the ( >selective hydrosilation in the presence of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), an anionic surfactant, in water.86 An anionic surfactant is essential for this ( )-selective hydrosilation, possibly because anionic micelles are helpful for the formation of a cationic rhodium species via dissociation of the Rh-Cl bond. For example, Triton X-100, a neutral surfactant, gave nonstereoselective hydrosilation whereas methyltrioctylammonium chloride, a cationic surfactant, resulted in none of the hydrosilation products. It was also found that the selectivity can be switched from E to Z in the presence of sodium iodide (Eq. 4.47). 

Although the acylcobalt tetracarbonyls react with hydroxide ion under phase-transfer conditions, in the presence of alkenes and alkynes they form o-adducts rapidly via an initial interaction with the ir-electron system. Subsequent extrusion of the organometallic group as the cobalt tetracarbonyl anion leads to a,(J-unsaturated ketones (see Section 8.4). In contrast, the cobalt carbonyl catalysed reaction of phenylethyne in the presence of iodomethane forms the hydroxybut-2-enolide (5) in... 

Quaternary ammonium salts aid the transfer of the hypophosphite anion in the palladium-catalysed reduction of, for example, alkynes to alkenes, nitroarenes to aminoarenes, and in the hydrogenolysis of tetrazolyl aryl ethers to phenols [12-14], It has been demonstrated that the hydrogenolysis is ineffective when preformed tetra-n-butylammonium hypophosphite is employed in a dry homogenous organic solvent [13, 14], For optimum hydrogen transfer, the concentration of hypophosphite relative to the substrate must be controlled at a low level and this is most effectively accomplished with a two-phase system. 

It is noteworthy that the indenyl complex RuCl(ri -C9H7)(PPh3)2l4 provides an efficient catalyst precursor for the anti-Markovnikov hydration of terminal alkynes in aqueous media, especially in micellar solutions with either anionic (sodium dode-cylsulfate (SDS)) or cationic (hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)) surfactants [38]. This system can be applied to the hydration of propargylic alcohols to selectively produce P-hydroxyaldehydes, whereas RuCl(Cp)(PMe3)2 gives a,P-unsat-urated aldehydes (the Meyer Schuster rearrangement products)(Scheme 10.8) [39]. 

Sml2-mediated radical cyclisations involving alkyl, alkenyl and aryl radical intermediates can be used to construct efficiently five-membered and, in certain cases, six-membered ring systems. This approach provides a useful alternative to trialkyltin hydride-mediated methods as toxic reagents and problematic tin byproducts are avoided. In addition, the use of Sml2 to induce radical cyclisations has led to the development of a number of powerful, radical/anionic sequential processes for the construction of complex systems. Sequential reactions involving radical-alkene/alkyne cyclisations are discussed in Chapter 6. 

When sodium hydroxide was used as nucleophile, salt 3c was rapidly converted to alkyne 63. This alkyne now features only a single stereocenter, and this is evident from its spectra. Its structure was initially assigned incorrectly, but the alkyne structure (63) has been rigorously established by X-ray crystallography. It is curious that azide and hydroxide should attack on the periphery of the TTF ring system, while the bulkier malonate anion attacks internal carbons. It is also intriguing that none of the observed modes of attack give rise to the sulfur ylid 64, which should be more stable than 61. 

Mechanistically, the one-pot transformation can be rationalized by a sequence of chemoselective coupling of ort/to-halogenated (hetero)aromatic acid chlorides 81 and electron rich terminal alkynes 4, followed by nucleophilic addition of the sulfide ion to the a,p-unsaturated system 86 to furnish the anionic Michael adduct 87, and finally an intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution in the sense of an addition-elimination process concludes the sequence (Scheme 46). 

Unsaturated lactones lacking substitution at C-4 are the simi est ones available via this general type of cycloaddition. Several syntheses of these lactones are of practical value, including two Pd-based meth-ods. However, the considerable utility of metal carbonyl anions in lactone synthesis is illustrated by a rhodium carbonyl anion catalyst system which gives very high yields upon reaction with a variety of internal alkynes under weakly basic aqueous conditions, essentially water-gas shift conditions. These conditions were established to maximize chemoselectivity with respect to other possible alkyne carbonylation products. Regioselectivity is modest in this process, but was not examined systematic ly (equation 13). ... 

Acyl halides and alkynes also give lactones upon reaction with Ni(CO)4 in an aqueous acetone medium. The result in this system is typically a 3,y-unsaturated lactone, formed together with some product derived from condensation with molecules of solvent (equation 18). Lactones are also formed in low yield as byproducts from the reactions of acylnickel carbonyl anions (derived from addition of RLi to Ni(CO)4) with terminal alkynes at -30 A single example of y-aminolactone formation is reported from 2-butyne, CO and diethylamine, catalyzed by (Et2NH)2NiBr2. ... 

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