Allyl halides, electrophilic

Both resonance forms of the allylic carbocation from 1 3 cyclopentadiene are equivalent and so attack at either of the carbons that share the positive charge gives the same product 3 chlorocyclopentene This is not the case with 1 3 butadiene and so hydrogen halides add to 1 3 butadiene to give a mixture of two regioisomeric allylic halides For the case of electrophilic addition of hydrogen bromide at -80°C... 

This reaction illustrates a stereoselective preparation of (Z)-vinylic cuprates, which are very useful synthetic intermediates. They react with a variety of electrophiles such as carbon dioxide, epoxides, aldehydes, allylic halides, alkyl halides, and acetylenic halides they undergo... 

A two-step cyclization of an enamine with an electrophilic olefin has been reported in which the first step is alkylation by an allyl halide and the second step is alkylation by the electrophilic olefin (50). The reaction... 

A mechanistic picture which reconciles the experimental results is given in Scheme 24. It is assumed that both the heteroatom and the double bond of the allyl halide compete for an electrophilic metal carbene. Heteroatom attack yields a metalated ylide 129, which may go on to ylide 131 by demetalation and/or to allylmetal complex 130. Symmetry-allowed [2,3] rearrangement of 131 accounts for product 132, and metal elimination from 130 gives rise to products 132 and 133, corresponding to [2,3] and [1,2] rearrangement, respectively, as well as haloacetate (if R3 = CHc ). 

The prime functional group for constructing C-C bonds may be the carbonyl group, functioning as either an electrophile (Eq. 1) or via its enolate derivative as a nucleophile (Eqs. 2 and 3). The objective of this chapter is to survey the issue of asymmetric inductions involving the reaction between enolates derived from carbonyl compounds and alkyl halide electrophiles. The addition of a nucleophile toward a carbonyl group, especially in the catalytic manner, is presented as well. Asymmetric aldol reactions and the related allylation reactions (Eq. 3) are the topics of Chapter 3. Reduction of carbonyl groups is discussed in Chapter 4. 

When the electrophile contains two allyl halide moieties, two carbon—carbon bonds are formed, resulting in cyclized compounds 47 and 48, as shown in Eq. 2.34 [7f]. 

Extension of this reaction to electrophiles other than aldehydes was unsuccessful [22, 23], However, propargylic boronates were found to react with allylic halides and various carbonyl compounds [23], The boronates were prepared by lithiation of a methyl-substituted alkyne with t-butyllithium followed by treatment with a trialkylborane. The propargylic boronate preferentially reacts with the electrophile at the y-position to yield propargylic products (Eq. 9.20). The methodology has also been applied to alanates with comparable results. 

The ortholithiated products 19 and 22 will then react with a wide range of electrophiles the only reported important exceptions are enolisable aldehydes and allylic halides. Products requiring these electrophiles are best made by first transmetallating the organolithium to a Grignard reagent with MgCl2 or copper salts . 

Electrophiles also react at C-5 of 1,3-dioxin-4-ones. Two ways of activation have been reported (1) magnesiation of 5-iodo-l,3-dioxin-4-ones afforded the Grignard reagents which can be cross-coupled with allyl halides in the presence of copper cyanide <2001TL6847> or with iodoalkenes under Pd(0) catalysis <2002T4787> and (2) Sc(OTf)3-catalyzed reaction of a side-chain-hydroxylated l,3-dioxin-4-one with aldehydes provided the bicyclic dioxinone in 60-85% yield (Scheme 27) <20050L1113>. 

A drawback with these auxiliaries is that they require rather reactive electrophiles such as benzyl, allylic halides or iodomethane. Less reactive halides such as 1-alkyl iodides or 2-methyl-1-alkyl iodides give low yields2,43. 

Instead of quenching with deuterium chloride, the intermediary organomonozinc compound can be used as a new nucleophile. Not only allylic halide but also alkenyl or aryl halide can be used as the first electrophile with bis(iodozincio)methane (3). In Scheme 23, examples for sequential coupling are summarized. In the case of coupling with bromoalkene, a nickel catalyst is more effective than a palladium catalyst. 

Pentafluorophenylcopper exhibits high reactivity towards a variety of organic substrates such as aryl, vinyl, alkynyl, allyl halides etc. [226,227,229,235-238] (Scheme 77). Similar to trifluorovinylcopper, pentafluorophenylcopper readily adds to hexafluoro-2-butyne to form the syn addition product, which can be quenched with electrophiles [230] (Scheme 78). 

More reactive electrophiles, such as benzyl and allyl halides, as well as a- or 3-halo-carbonyl compounds, react smoothly with amines, often even at room temperature. Support-bound chloro- and bromoacetamides, for instance, react cleanly with a wide range of aliphatic and aromatic amines to yield glycine derivatives (Entries 1-4, Table 10.2 [22-32]). This reaction is usually conducted in DMSO at room temperature (2-12 h), but for sensitive amines DMF or NMP might offer milder reaction conditions (Entry 3, Table 10.2). Higher yields can often be obtained by increasing the reaction temperature and the concentration of the amine. 

Propargyl dianion (QF I ). This anion can be prepared by dilithiation of allene with BuLi in 1 1 ether/hexane. Use of THF (- 50°) or BuLi/TMEDA results in a mixture of propargylide and allenyl anions. The anion couples readily with alkyl and allyl halides to give terminal alkynes. The intermediate lithium acetylide can also react with various electrophiles.3 Example ... 

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