Allen’s reagent

AUantoin, uric acid oxidation, 625 AUene hydroperoxides, regioselectivity with twisted 1,3-dienes, 856-7, 858 Allen s reagent... 

Selective oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones is usually performed with CrOj/HjSO, I I in acetone (Jones reagent) or with CrOjPyj (Collin s reagent) in the presence of acid-sensitive groups (H.G. Bosche, 1975 C. Djerassi, 1956 W.S. Allen, 1954). As mentioned above, a,)S-unsaturated secondary alcohols are selectively oxidized by MnOj (D.G. Lee, 1969 D. Arndt, 1975) or by DDQ (D. Walker, 1967 H.H. Stechl, 1975). 

Scheme 2.15 Reduction of propargyl acetates to terminal allenes with Stryker s reagent.

Deprotonation of 3-methoxy-3-methylallene with BuLi followed by metal exchange with Ti(OiPr)4 affords a chiral allenyltitanium reagent [31], Addition of this reagent to enantioenriched (S)-2-benzyloxypropanal afforded a mixture of four diastereomeric products in which the anti,syn and anti,anti adducts predominated (Eq. 9.26) [31], The former was shown to derive from the matched pairing of the (S)-aldehyde with the (P)-enantiomer of the allenic titanium reagent. The latter is the major diastereomer of the mismatched (S)/(M) pairing. 

A 1,3-substituted allene, which has axial chirality instead of carbon central chirality, has been prepared by a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of 4,4-dimethylpenta-l,2-dienylzinc chloride (83) with phenyl iodide (5c) or by that of l-bromo-4,4-dimethylpenta- 1,2-diene (84) with phenylzinc chloride [60] (Scheme 8F.20). The highest enantiomeric purity (25% ee) of the allene (S)-85 was obtained in the former combination with (f ,/ )-diop (1) as chiral ligand. It is interesting that the enantiomeric purity was independent of the ratio of the reagents though the reaction seems to involve a kinetic resolution of the racemic 83. 

Another, albeit less-frequently employed option for a copper-mediated reduction of propargylic electrophiles to allenes relies upon the use of a copper hydride, for example, Stryker s reagent [(Ph3P)CuH]6. This reagent was applied by Brummond and Lu147 to the synthesis of the structurally complex precursor 197 for a potent antitumor agent, ( )-hydroxymethylacylfulvalene, from propargyl acetate 196 (Equation (11)). 

Cycloalkanones. M6rour etaO have reported that Collman s reagent converts a y-ethylenic bromide or tosylate into a cyclohexanone and a -allenic bromide into a cyclopentenone in moderate yield. This carbonylation reaction represents a special O... 

Reactions n>itb alknes. Caserio et at. have reported that partial hydroboration of racemic 1,3-dimethylallene and 1,3-diphenylallene with ( + )-Pn4B2H2 [from (-)- -pincnc] gave recovered (—)-allcne of moderate activity. The method has been studied in greater detail by Moore et al. and they report that in every case examined the recovered alicne is enriched in the R enantiomer. Brown s reagent is thus useful for preparation of optically active allenes however, only moderate activities result and. of course, some of the alIcne is irrevocably lost in the process. 

Oxidation of 3-allenic alcohols of the type (1) with Payne s reagent results in formation of 7-lactones (2) probably via an allenic oxide (a). ... 

A closely related reaction of (—)-(S)-276 with the Grignard reagents obtained from a-acetylenic halides leads to the formation of mixtures of acetylenic sulphoxides 290 and allenic sulphoxides 291363 (equation 161). The latter compounds are most probably formed via transition state 292, which is analogous to 289. On the other hand, hex-l-ynyl p-tolyl sulphoxide 293 is smoothly prepared from hex-1 -ynylmagnesium bromide and (— )-(S)-276363 (equation 162). 

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