Alkynes reaction with carboxylic acids

Triple bonds can be monohydroborated to give vinylic boranes, which can be reduced with carboxylic acids to cis alkenes or oxidized and hydrolyzed to aldehydes or ketones. Terminal alkynes give aldehydes by this method, in contrast to the mercuric or acid-catalyzed addition of water discussed at 15-4. However, terminal alkynes give vinylic boranes (and hence aldehydes) only when treated with a hindered borane such as 47, 48, or catecholborane (p. 798)," or with BHBr2—SMe2. The reaction between terminal alkynes and BH3 produces 1,1-... 

As with carboxylic acids obtained by palladium hydroxycarbonylation, their derivatives esters, amides, anhydrides and acyl halides are synthesized from alkenes, CO and HX (X = OR, NR2 etc.). The Pd-catalyzed methoxycarbonylation is one of the most studied reactions among this type of catalyzed carbonylations and has been reviewed and included in reports of homogeneous catalysis.625, 26 The methoxycarbonylation has been applied to many different substrates to obtain intermediates in organic syntheses as well as specific products. For instance, the reaction has been applied for methoxycarbonylation of alkynes666 Highly efficient homogeneous Pd cationic catalysts have been reported and the methoxycarbonylation of alkynes has been used to develop economically attractive and environmentally benign process for the production of methyl... 

The following discussion deals not only with this reaction, but related reactions in which a transition metal complex achieves the addition of carbon monoxide to an alkene or alkyne to yield carboxylic acids and their derivatives. These reactions take place either by the insertion of an alkene (or alkyne) into a metal-hydride bond (equation 1) or into a metal-carboxylate bond (equation 2) as the initial key step. Subsequent steps include carbonyl insertion reactions, metal-acyl hydrogenolysis or solvolysis and metal-carbon bond protonolysis. 

The following compounds with H—C and II—M bonds undergo oxidative addition to form metal hydrides. This is examplified by the reaction of 6, which is often called ortho-metallation, and occurs on the aromatic C—H bond at the ortho position of such donar atoms as N, S, 0 and P. Reactions of terminal alkynes and aldehydes are known to start by the oxidative addition of their C—H bonds. Some reactions of carboxylic acids and active methylene compounds are explained as starting with oxidative addition of their O—H and C—H bonds. 

Hydroxy radical initiated oxidation of alkynes is important from the point of view of both atmospheric and combustion chemistry. Hatakeyama and coworkers have measured rate constants for the reaction of HO with acetylene, propyne and 2-butyne under atmospheric conditions. It has been suggested, based on product studies, that the jS-hydroxyvinyl radicals further react with molecular oxygen to form the corresponding peroxyl radicals and their subsequent reactions give carboxylic acid, a-dicarbonyl compounds and acyl radicals. 

Aldehydes and ketones have a central role in organic synthesis, and efficient procedures for their preparation are of great importance. Such compounds are synthesized in a number of ways, including hydration or hydroboration-oxidation of alkynes (Eqs. 16.10 and 16.11, respectively, and Chap. 11) and reaction of carboxylic acids or their derivatives with organometallic reagents or reducing agents... 

Intramolecular Reactions of Alkynes with Carboxylic Acids, Alcohols, and Amines. Addition of carboxylic acids, alcohols, and amines to alkynes via oxypaUadation and aminopallada-tion proceeds with catalysis by Pd salts. Intramolecular additions are particularly facile. Unsaturated y-lactones are obtained by the treatment of 3-alkynoic acid and 4-alkynoic acid with Pd(PhCN)2Cl2 in THF in the presence of Et3N (eq 54), and -lactones are obtained from5-alkynoic acids. 5-Hydroxyalkynes are converted to the cyclic enol ethers (eq 55). The oxypalla-dation is a irons addition. Thus stereoselective enol ether formation by reaction of the alkynoic alcohol with Pd(PhCN)2Cl2, followed by reduction with ammonium formate, has been applied to the synthesis of prostacyclin (eq 56). Intramolecular addition of amines affords cyclic imines. 3-Alkynylamines are cyclized to 1-pyrrolines while 5-alkynylamines are converted to 2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyridines (eq 57). ... 

On the other hand, the reaction of carboxylic acids with propargyl alcohols in place of terminal alkynes led to the catalytic head-to-head cyclodimerization of propargyl alcohols and addition of carboxylic acids. Alkylidenecyclobutene derivatives were obtained via cyclobutadieneruthenium and cyclobutenylmthenium intermediates [6] [Eq. (4)]. 

When compound (443), which contains alkene and alkyne moieties, was reacted with benzonitrile oxide, both an isoxazoline (444) and isoxazole (445) were produced, with the former predominating. Oxidation of (444) with permanganate produced 3-phenyl-2-isoxazoline-5-carboxylic acid (446) (67ZOR82i). The reaction of 1-trimethylsilylbut-l-yne-3-ene produced only a compound which reacted at the alkenic unit. Oxidation of the adduct also produced (446) (68ZOB1820). These reactions are shown in Scheme 102. 

Alkynes, like alkenes, can be cleaved by reaction with powerful oxidizing agents such as ozone or KMnC, although the reaction is of little value and we mention it only for completeness. A triple bond is generally less reactive than a double bond and yields of cleavage products are sometimes low. The products obtained from cleavage of an internal alkyne are carboxylic acids from a terminal alkyne, CO2 is formed as one product. 

A synthetically useful virtue of enol triflates is that they are amenable to palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions under mild conditions. When a solution of enol triflate 21 and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(o) in benzene is treated with a mixture of terminal alkyne 17, n-propylamine, and cuprous iodide,17 intermediate 22 is formed in 76-84% yield. Although a partial hydrogenation of the alkyne in 22 could conceivably secure the formation of the cis C1-C2 olefin, a chemoselective hydrobora-tion/protonation sequence was found to be a much more reliable and suitable alternative. Thus, sequential hydroboration of the alkyne 22 with dicyclohexylborane, protonolysis, oxidative workup, and hydrolysis of the oxabicyclo[2.2.2]octyl ester protecting group gives dienic carboxylic acid 15 in a yield of 86% from 22. 

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