Allyl bromides reduction

It is known that tr-allylpalladium acetate is converted into allyl acetate by reductive elimination when it is treated with CO[242,243]. For this reason, the carbonylation of allylic acetates themselves is difficult. The allylic acetate 386 is carbonylated in the presence of NaBr (20-50 mol%) under severe conditions, probably via allylic bromides[244]. However, the carbonylation of 5-phenyl-2,4-pentadienyl acetate (387) was carried out in the presence of EtiN without using NaBr at 100 °C to yield methyl 6-phenyl-3,5-hexadienoate (388)[245J. The dicarbonylation of l,4-diacetoxy-2-butene to form the 3-hexenedioate also proceeds by using tetrabutylphosphonium chloride as a ligand in 49% yield[246]. 

An asymmetric synthesis of estrone begins with an asymmetric Michael addition of lithium enolate (178) to the scalemic sulfoxide (179). Direct treatment of the cmde Michael adduct with y /i7-chloroperbenzoic acid to oxidize the sulfoxide to a sulfone, followed by reductive removal of the bromine affords (180, X = a and PH R = H) in over 90% yield. Similarly to the conversion of (175) to (176), base-catalyzed epimerization of (180) produces an 85% isolated yield of (181, X = /5H R = H). C8 and C14 of (181) have the same relative and absolute stereochemistry as that of the naturally occurring steroids. Methylation of (181) provides (182). A (CH2)2CuLi-induced reductive cleavage of sulfone (182) followed by stereoselective alkylation of the resultant enolate with an allyl bromide yields (183). Ozonolysis of (183) produces (184) (wherein the aldehydric oxygen is by isopropyUdene) in 68% yield. Compound (184) is the optically active form of Ziegler s intermediate (176), and is converted to (+)-estrone in 6.3% overall yield and >95% enantiomeric excess (200). 

Preparation of the aldehyde required for the synthesis of cyclothiazide (182) starts by carbonation of the Grignard reagent obtained from the Diels-Alder adduct (186) from allyl bromide and cyclopentadiene.The resulting acid (187) is then converted to the aldehyde (189) by reduction of the corresponding diethyl amide (188) with a metal hydride. 

Allylic bromides can also serve as progenitors for nucleophilic organochromium reagents. An elegant example is found in Still and Mobilio s synthesis of the 14-membered cembranoid asperdiol (4) (see Scheme 2).7 In the key step, reduction of the carbon-bromine bond in 2 with chromium(n) chloride in THF is attended by intramolecular carbonyl addition, affording a 4 1 mixture of cembranoid diastereoisomers in favor of the desired isomer 3. Reductive cleav-... 

High-boiling products found in this procedure and in similar experiments involving cyclohex-2-enone derivatives5 probably result from bimolecular reduction processes.15 3-Methylcyclohexanone, which arises by protonation rather than alkylation of the enolate (and which made up ca. 12% of the volatile products), is probably the result of reaction of allyl bromide with liquid ammonia to form the acidic species allyl ammonium bromide.5 10... 

The 1,5-diene (19) was obtained from the salt (18) by alkylation of the ylide with allyl bromide and reduction of the resulting salt with lithium in ethylamine. 

There are few reports of oxidative addition to zerovalent transition metals under mild conditions three reports involving group 10 elements have appeared. Fischer and Burger reported the preparation of aTT -allylpalladium complex by the reaction of palladium sponge with allyl bromide(63). The Grignard-type addition of allyl halides to aldehydes has been carried out by reacting allylic halides with cobalt or nickel metal prepared by reduction of cobalt or nickel halides with manganese/iron alloy-thiourea(64). 

The addition of a large excess of bis(cj-alkenyl)zinc compounds to the TiC -catalyzed polymerization of propene resulted in an increased polymer yield, but a reduction in the molecular weights of the polymers.64 This suggests that the diorganozinc compounds are both co-catalysts and chain-transfer agents in this polymerization. The catalyst activity decreased in the order bis(3-butenyl)zinc < bis(7-octenyl)zinc < chlorodiethylaluminum. Bis(7-octenyl)zinc was co-polymerized with propene to afford hexylzinc side chains, whose zinc-carbon moieties were converted to vinyl groups by the addition of allyl bromide. 

Conjugate reductions. This combination (usually 1 3 ratio) effects conjugate reduction of a,p-acetylenic ketones or esters to a, 3-enones or unsaturated esters at -50° with moderate (E)-selectivity. The HMPT is believed to function as a ligand to aluminum and thus to promote hydroalumination to give a vinylaluminum intermediate, which can be trapped by an allylic bromide (equation I).1 The re-... 

H. Tanaka, S. Sumida, K. Sorajo et al., Ni/Pb Bimetal-redox mediated reductive addi-tion/cyclization of allenecarboxylate with allyl bromide in a electrolysis media in Novel Trends in Electroorganic Synthesis (Ed. S. Torii), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1995, pp. 193, 194. 

A more traveled route to the absolute configuration represented by cyclohexa-1,4-diene 8 involves Birch reduction-alkylation of benzoxazepinone 9.2.5 heterocycle is best prepared by the base-induced cyclization of the amide obtained from 2-fiuorobenzoyl chloride and (5)-pyrrolidine-2-metha-nol. o The molecular shape of enolate 10 is such that the hydrogen at the stereogenic center provides some shielding of the a-face of the enolate double bond. Thus, alkylation occurs primarily at the 3-face of 10 to give 11 as the major diastereomer. The diastereoselectivity for alkylation with methyl iodide is only 85 15, but with more sterically demanding alkyl halides such as ethyl iodide, allyl bromide, 4-bromobut-1-ene etc., diastereoselectivities are greater than 98 2. 

A further eight steps were required to convert the cyclopentanone 52 into the sulfone 59 that was deprotonated and treated with an allylic bromide (60) to afford the alkylated sulfone 61 (Scheme 7). The sulfone moiety and the benzyl ether protecting group were reductively removed in a one-pot procedure to afford a mono-protected diol (62). 

Reduction of allyl bromides and iodides at vitreous carbon in an aptotic solvent generally gives good yields of the dimer. This product arises by rapid substitution by the allyl carbanion, formed in an overall two-electron reaction, onto a second molecule of allyl halide [55, 56]. 

Preformed metal complexes are not always essential as catalysts in carboxylation reactions. Reductive carboxylation of the allyl bromide 71 has been demon-... 

Zinc promoted reduction of Baylis-Hillman adduct derived allylic bromides gave access to... 

Aloperine, V-methylaloperine, and A-allylaloperine were isolated from Soph-ora alopecuroides L. (188-191). Later aloperine was also isolated from Lep-torhabdos parviflora Benth. (192). On reductive methylation, aloperine gave A-methylaloperine (167) (190-193), and interaction with allyl bromide gave N-allylaloperine (170) (Scheme 29) (189). Hence, one of the two nitrogen atoms in aloperine was considered to be secondary. 

Retrosynthetic considerations reveal an approach (Scheme 1.2.6) in the first step based on disconnections of the C -Cy and C12-C13 double bonds. Those can be built up using highly B-selective Wittig olefinations between allyltributylphos-phorous ylides derived from the corresponding allylic bromides 29 and 31 [31]. The aldehyde 30 is accessible from the keto ester 33, which can be prepared in high enantiomeric purity by a biocatalytic enantioselective reduction of a... 

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