Allylation under basic conditions

1 Allylation under basic conditions. Allylation can be carried out under basic conditions with allylic acetates and phosphates, and under neutral conditions with carbonates and vinyloxiranes. The allylations under neutral conditions are treated separately in Section 2.2.2.1 from those under basic conditions. However, in some cases, allylations of the same substrates are carried out under both basic and neutral conditions to give similar results. These reactions are treated together in this section for convenience. Allylic acetates are widely used for Pd-catalyzed allylation in the presence of bases tertiary amines or NaH are commonly used[6,7,4l]. As a base, basic alumina or ICF on alumina is conveniently used, because it is easy to remove by filtration after the reaction[42]. Allyl phosphates are more reactive than acetates. The allylation with 40 proceeds stepwise. At first allylic phosphate reacts with malonate and then allylic acetate reacts with amine to give 41(43]. 

The intramolecular allylation of soft carbon nucleophiles with allylic acetates as a good cyclization method has been extensively applied to syntheses of various three, four, five and six-membered rings, and medium and macrocyclic compounds[44]. Only a few typical examples of the cyclizations are treated among numerous applications. 

Examples of four-membered ring formation are rare. The cyclization of the cyclic allylic acetate 42 afforded a 2 1 mixture of the four-membered ring compound 43 and the six-membered ring compound 44[45]. 

The ligand effect seems to depend on the substrates. Treatment of the prostaglandin precursor 73 with Pd(Ph3P)4 produces only the 0-allylated product 74. The use of dppe effects a [1,3] rearrangement to produce the cyclopen ta-none 75(55]. Usually a five-membered ring, rather than seven-membered, is predominantly formed. The exceptionally exclusive formation of seven-membered ring compound 77 from 76 is explained by the inductive effect of an oxygen adjacent to the allyl system in the intermediate complex[56]. 

No 0-allylation is observed in formation of the six-membered ring compound 79 by intramolecular allylation of the /3-keto ester 78(15,57]. Intramolecular allylation is useful for lactone fonnation. On the other hand, exclusive formation of the eight-membered ring lactone 81 from 80 may be in part derived from the preference for the nucleophile to attack the less substituted terminus of the allyl system[58]. 

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An interesting approach to the pyrrolizidine skeleton was devised wherein pyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde (70) underwent A-allylation under basic conditions and subsequent olefmation with ethyl p-tolylsulfinylmethanephosphonate to produce the pyrrolyl alkene 71 <00TL1983>. Intramolecular Heck reaction of the iodo species then produced the 1 -p-tolylsulfinyl-1,3-diene 72. 

Allyl aryl ethers are used for allylation under basic conditions[6], but they can be cleaved under neutral conditions. Formation of the five-membered ring compound 284 based on the cyclization of 283 has been applied to the syntheses of methyl jasmonate (285)[15], and sarkomycin[169]. The trisannulation reagent 286 for steroid synthesis undergoes Pd-catalyzed cyclization and aldol condensation to afford CD rings 287 of steroids with a functionalized 18-methyl group[170]. The 3-vinylcyclopentanonecarboxylate 289, formed from 288, is useful for the synthesis of 18-hydroxyestrone (290)[ 171]-... 

Wylation under neutral conditions. Reactions which proceed under neutral conditions are highly desirable, Allylation with allylic acetates and phosphates is carried out under basic conditions. Almost no reaction of these allylic Compounds takes place in the absence of bases. The useful allylation under neutral conditions is possible with some allylic compounds. Among them, allylic carbonates 218 are the most reactive and their reactions proceed under neutral conditions[13,14,134], In the mechanism shown, the oxidative addition of the allyl carbonates 218 is followed by decarboxylation as an irreversible process to afford the 7r-allylpalladium alkoxide 219. and the generated alkoxide is sufficiently basic to pick up a proton from active methylene compounds, yielding 220. This in situ formation of the alkoxide. which is a... 

Conjugated nitroalkenes are isomerized to allylic nitro compounds under basic conditions. Reactions of a,P-unsaturated nitro compounds with aldehydes under basic conditions lead directly to y,8-unsaturated P-nitro alcohols (Eq. 3.24). 3 This reaction is very useful for preparing allylic nitro compounds. 

A somewhat related microwave-promoted 5 -0-allylation of thymidine has been described by the Zerrouki group (Scheme 6.108) [215], While the classical method for the preparation of 5 -0-allylthymidine required various protection steps (four synthetic steps in total), the authors attempted the direct allylation of thymidine under basic conditions. Employing sodium hydride as a base at room temperature in N,N-dimethylformamide resulted in the formation of per-allylated compounds along with the desired monoallylated product (75% yield). The best result was achieved when both the deprotonation with sodium hydride (1.15 equivalents) and the subsequent allylation (1.2 equivalents of allyl bromide) were conducted under... 

Allyl sulphones can be converted to dienes by alkylation and elimination of sulphinic acid under basic conditions (equation 64)105. Several vitamin A related polyenes have been synthesized following this two-step protocol (Table 10)106. The poor leaving-group ability of the arylsulphonyl group requires treatment with strong base for elimination. However, elimination of the allylsulphonyl group takes place readily under palladium catalysis (equation 65)107. Vinyl sulphones can be converted to dienes via Michael addition, alkylation with allyl halides and elimination of sulphinic acid sequence (equation 66)108. 

Monomer Synthesis. 4-Allyloxystyrene was prepared by the Wittig reaction of 4-allyloxybenzaldehyde and methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide, under basic conditions. The allyloxybenzaldehyde was prepared, in turn, by the alkylation of 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde with allyl bromide. This method, which provides high purity monomer in high overall yield, is outlined in Scheme 1 and has been previously described (2). Alternatively, the monomer may be prepared by the direct alkylation of p-vinylphenol with allyl bromide (8,9), although this method is less convenient due to the difficulties in synthesizing and storing the highly reactive vinyl phenol (10). 

This finding is the consequence of the distribution of various ruthenium(II) hydrides in aqueous solutions as a function of pH [RuHCl(mtppms)3] is stable in acidic solutions, while under basic conditions the dominant species is [RuH2(mtppms)4] [10, 11]. A similar distribution of the Ru(II) hydrido-species as a function of the pH was observed with complexes of the related p-monosulfo-nated triphenylphosphine, ptpprns, too [116]. Nevertheless, the picture is even more complicated, since the unsaturated alcohol saturated aldehyde ratio depends also on the hydrogen pressure, and selective formation of the allylic alcohol product can be observed in acidic solutions (e.g., at pH 3) at elevated pressures of H2 (10-40 bar [117, 120]). (The effects of pH on the reaction rate of C = 0 hydrogenation were also studied in detail with the [IrCp (H20)3]2+ and [RuCpH(pta)2] catalyst precursors [118, 128].)... 

The chiral 1,3-divinylallene (1,3,4,6-heptatetraene) (3) is obtained when the vinylace-tylene Grignard reagent 198 is first coupled to allyl bromide (199) and the resulting skipped enyne is subsequently isomerized under basic conditions (Scheme 5.29) [74]. 

Still, occasionally the other fuctional groups react as well, for example in 38 under basic conditions the propargylic alcohol isomerizes to the a,/3-unsaturated ketone [73] (Scheme 1.15), whereas in a closely related substrate from the synthesis of a subunit of compactin an allylic alcohol remains unchanged [74],... 

Under basic conditions, a-nitroalkenes function as synthetic equivalents of allylic nitro compounds 3-nitro-3-hexene, for instance, reacts with piperidine in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4, to give 2-piperidinyl-3-hexene (equation 139)459. 

The phase-transfer catalysed reaction of nickel tetracarbonyl with sodium hydroxide under carbon monoxide produces the nickel carbonyl dianions, Ni,(CO) 2- and Ni6(CO)162, which convert allyl chloride into a mixture of but-3-enoic and but-2-enoic acids [18]. However, in view of the high toxicity of the volatile nickel tetracarbonyl, the use of the nickel cyanide as a precursor for the carbonyl complexes is preferred. Pretreatment of the cyanide with carbon monoxide under basic conditions is thought to produce the tricarbonylnickel cyanide anion [19], as the active metal catalyst. Reaction with allyl halides, in a manner analogous to that outlined for the preparation of the arylacetic acids, produces the butenoic acids (Table 8.7). 

Employing iminophosphoranes to protect a group labile under alkaline conditions can lead to a dramatic increase in yield. This is exemplified by the transformation of allylic azide 31 into the corresponding iminophos-phorane 32 shown in Scheme 16. Hydrolysis under basic conditions leads finally to 4-amino-3-hydroxycyclohexa-l,5-diene-l-carboxyclic acid (33) in 80% yield. However, when the same azide (31) is converted with a Lindlar catalyst, via allylic amine 34 into carboxylic acid 33, only 0-30% yields are found as a consequence of the low stability of the allylic amine [93JCR(S)148]. 

Very special amphiphilic properties of a divalent sulfur atom is witnessed in the reaction of a-thiomethylenecycloalkanones with acrylic esters under basic conditions [141]. The donor character of the allylic methylene group is enhanced by the sulfur (acting as an acceptor), yet the Michael cyclization that follows would be facilitated by a donor at that position. 

Incorporation of 4-aminobut-2-enoic acids in a peptide relies on the classical procedures for peptide synthesis. A critical point might be their possible racemization under basic conditions, due to the higher acidic character of the allylic a-proton compared with the homologous a-amino acids. Substantial epimerization has been observed when incorporating ( )-but-2-enamide analogues of Met and Gin, but the step responsible for epimerization is not specified.11971... 

Direct N,0-dimethylation of the allylic derivative 27 under basic conditions (Scheme 14) provides efficient access to the (3/ ,4S,5S) dolaisoleuine unit of dolastatin IQ)63,70 ... 

Cyclization of allylic alcohols to form epoxides has been particularly problematical, and the reactions have been more of mechanistic than of synthetic interest. For reactions conducted under basic conditions, it is possible that epoxide formation involves initial halogen addition followed by nucleophilic displacement to form the epoxide. Early examples of direct formation of epoxides from allylic alcohols with sodium hypobromite," bromine and 1.5 M NaOH,12 and r-butyl hypochlorite13 have been reviewed previously.fr Recently it has been shown that allylic alcohols can be cyclized effectively with bis(jym-collidine)iodine(I) perchlorate (equation 3).14 An unusual example of epoxide formation competing with other cyclization types is shown in equation (4).15 In this case, an allylic benzyl ether competes effectively with a -/-hydroxyl group as the nucleophile. 

Olefins are susceptible to isomerization. The API ivermectin undergoes isomerization under basic conditions due to the weak acidity of the allylic proton (which is also alpha to a carbonyl) on C2. The two resulting degradants can be derived from the delocalized carbanion formed from dissociation of the proton at C2. Reprotonation at C2 generates the epimeric product and reprotonation at C4 generates the structural isomer (Fig. 103) (147). 

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