Alkynes alkynyl anion preparation

The alkyne insertion reaction is terminated by anion capture. As examples of the termination by the anion capture, the alkenylpalladium intermediate 189, formed by the intramolecular insertion of 188, is terminated by hydrogenolysis with formic acid to give the terminal alkene 192. Palladium formate 190 is formed, and decarboxylated to give the hydridopalladium 191, reductive elimination of which gives the alkene 192 [81]. Similarly the intramolecular insertion of 193 is terminated by transmetallation of 194 with the tin acetylide 195 (or alkynyl anion capture) to give the dienyne 196 [82], Various heterocyclic compounds are prepared by heteroannulation using aryl iodides 68 and 69, and internal alkynes. Although the mechanism is not clear, alkenylpalladiums, formed by insertion of alkynes, are trapped by nucleophiles... 

Preparation of Alkynes by Alkylation of Alkynyl Anions The other major alkyne preparation is based on the easy accessibility of nucleophilic carbanions from terminal alkynes (Section 13-2). So, a wide variety of internal alkynes may be made from any terminal alkyne, via the sehenie... 

The two basic methods used to prepare alkynes are double elimination from 1,2-dihaloalkanes and alkylation of alkynyl anions. This section deals with the first method, which provides a synthetic route to alkynes from alkenes Section 13-5 addresses the second, which converts terminal alkynes into more complex, internal ones. 

Preparation of Alkynes from Alkynyl Anions CHAPTER 13... 

Alkynes can also be prepared from other alkynes. The reaction of terminal alkynyl anions with alkylating agents, snch as primary haloalkanes, oxacyclopropanes, aldehydes, or ketones, results in carbon-carbon bond formation. As we know (Section 13-2), such anions are readily prepared from terminal alkynes by deprotonation with strong bases (mostly alkyllithium reagents, sodinm amide in liqnid ammonia, or (jrignard reagents). Alkylation... 

Alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium salts can be used for the preparation of substituted alkynes by the reaction with carbon nucleophiles. The parent ethynyliodonium tetrafluoroborate 124 reacts with various enolates of /J-dicarbonyl compounds 123 to give the respective alkynylated products 125 in a high yield (Scheme 51) [109]. The anion of nitrocyclohexane can also be ethynylated under these conditions. A similar alkynylation of 2-methyl-1,3-cyclopentanedione by ethynyliodonium salt 124 was applied in the key step of the synthesis of chiral methylene lactones [110]. 

As already mentioned in the introduction, anionic early transition metallocene complexes of the type [Cp2Zr(R1)(R2)(R3)] with R, R2, R3 = alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl, are unstable. Most of them exhibit electrostatic anion-cation pairing resulting in dimer, trimer, oligomer, or polymeric structures [21-25]. In marked contrast, stable 18 electron-zirconate complexes were prepared via a formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction between 2-phosphino-zirconaindene 16a and alkyne derivatives (Scheme 5) [26,27]. 

Alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium salts have found synthetic application for the preparation of various substituted alkynes by the reaction with appropriate nucleophiles, such as enolate anions [980,981], selenide and telluride anions [982-984], dialkylphosphonate anions [985], benzotriazolate anion [986], imidazolate anion [987], N-functionalized amide anions [988-990] and transition metal complexes [991-993]. Scheme 3.291 shows several representative reactions the preparation of Ai-alkynyl carbamates 733 by alkynylation of carbamates 732 using alkynyliodonium triflates 731 [989], synthesis of ynamides 735 by the alkyny-lation/desilylation of tosylanilides 734 using trimethylsilylethynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflate [990] and the preparation of Ir(III) a-acetylide complex 737 by the alkynylation of Vaska s complex 736 [991]. 

Alkynyl complexes contain metal-carbon bonds in which the metal is bound to the sp-hybridized carbon at the terminus of a metal-carbon triple bond. The materials properties of these complexes have been investigated extensively. The properties of these complexes include luminescence, optical nonlinearity, electrical conductivity, and liquid crystallinity. These properties derive largely from the extensive overlap of the metal orbitals with the ir-orbitals on the alkynyl ligand. The M-C bonds in alkynyl complexes appear to be considerably stronger than those in methyl, phenyl, or vinyl complexes. Alkynyl complexes are sometimes prepared from acetylide anions generated from terminal alkynes and lithium bases (e.g., method A in Equation 3.42), but the acidity of alkynyl C-H bonds, particularly after coordination of the alkyne to the transition metal, makes it possible to form alkynyl complexes from alkynes and relatively weak bases (e.g., method B in Equation 3.42). Alkynyl copper complexes are easily prepared and often used to make alkynylnickel, -palladium, or -platinum complexes by transmetallation (Equation 3.43). This reaction is a step in the preparation of Ni, Pd, or Pt alkynyl complexes from an alkyne, base, and a catalytic amoimt of Cul (Equation 3.44). This protocol for... 

In the synthesis of propargylic alcohols, we saw the reaction of an alkynyl nucleophile (either the anion RC=CNa or the Grignard RC CMgBr, both prepared from the alkyne RC CH) with a carbonyl electrophile to give an alcohol product. Such acetylide-type nucleophiles will undergo Sn2 reactions with alkyl halides to give more substituted alkyne products. With this two-step sequence (deprotonation followed by alkylation), acetylene can be converted to a terminal alkyne, and a terminal alkyne can be converted to an internal alkyne. Because acetylide anions are strong bases, the alkyl halide used must be methyl or 1° otherwise, the E2 elimination is favored over the Sn2 substitution mechanism. 

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