Alkyne-ketones cleavage

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. 

With most metals, the reaction would proceed in the reverse direction (e.g. cleavage of organozinc derivatives by acid, HX). Carbon compounds which react in this way include alkynes, ketones and cyclopentadiene. 

In 1998, Wakatsuki et al. reported the first anti-Markonikov hydration of 1-alkynes to aldehydes by an Ru(II)/phosphine catalyst. Heating 1-alkynes in the presence of a catalytic amount of [RuCljlCgHs) (phosphine)] phosphine = PPh2(QF5) or P(3-C6H4S03Na)3 in 2-propanol at 60-100°C leads to predominantly anti-Markovnikov addition of water and yields aldehydes with only a small amount of methyl ketones (Eq. 6.47) [95]. They proposed the attack of water on an intermediate ruthenium vinylidene complex. The C-C bond cleavage or decarbonylation is expected to occur as a side reaction together with the main reaction leading to aldehyde formation. Indeed, olefins with one carbon atom less were always detected in the reaction mixtures (Scheme 6-21). 

This is one of the most important applications for RuO. Oxidative cleavage of alkenes and alkynes by a variety of reagents has been reviewed [30, 35, 50, 60, 68-71]. The gentler cleavage reactions of alkenes to aldehydes or ketones are considered first (Table 3.3), then the commoner cases of cleavage to carboxylic acids (Table 3.6). 

Table 3.6 Oxidative cleavage of alkenes to acids and alkynes to ketones or acids...

Problem 16.7 Account for the fact that on oxidative cleavage all substituted alkynes give carboxylic acids, whereas some alkenes give ketones. ... 

Reaction of an alkene with hot basic potassium permanganate (KMn04) results in cleavage of the double bond, and formation of highly oxidized carbons. Therefore, unsubstituted carbon atoms become CO2, mono-substituted carbon atoms become carboxylates, and di-substituted carbon atoms become ketones. This can be used as a chemical test (known as the Baeyer test) for alkenes and alkynes, in which the purple colour of the KMn04 disappears, and a brown Mn02 residue is formed. 

Hydrozirconation of alkyne 14, followed by cuprate addition, was then used to install the Cl3 20 side chain of 15. Reduction of the ketone (L-selectride) followed by hydrogen fluoride cleavage provides the F-series derivatives 16, while direct cleavage of 15 gave the E-series compounds 17. 

Novel practical methods using various reagents, such as [Co(OAc)Br],1355 sulfur trioxide,1356 or ds-dioxoruthenium complexes,1357 were developed to transform alkynes to 1,2-diketones. Radical-catalyzed aerobic oxidation using A-hydro-xyphthalimide combined with a transition metal (Co, Cu, or Mn) affords a,P-acetylenic ketones in good yields.1358 Oxidation by the HOF. acetonitrile complex yields diketones, ketoepoxides, or cleavage products.1359 Ozonolysis of acetylenes combined with trapping techniques affords to isolate various derivatives.1360,1361 New information for the ozonolysis of acetylene was acquired by quantum-chemical investigatons.1362... 

A new approach to a variety of a-branched alkynes 70 was achieved by a Knoevenagel type condensation of 4-unsubstituted isoxazolin-5-ones 66 with aldehydes or ketones 67, followed by conjugate addition of an organometallic species and nitrosative cleavage of the heterocyclic ring <02SL1257>. 

The p,Y-acetyIenic ketone 6 undergoes photochemical C—C cleavage at a position which is propargylic to the triple bond (equation 11) , but this is more likely to be an a-cleavage reaction of the excited state of the ketone group rather than a reaction of the alkyne excited state. 

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