Allylic alcohols Reaction with nucleophiles

The Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation reaction Stereochemically controlled epoxidations Regio- and Stereocontrolled Reactions with Nucleophiles Claisen-Cope rearrangements Stereochemistry in the Claisen-Cope rearrangement The Claisen-Ireland rearrangement Pd-catalysed reactions of allylic alcohols Pd-allyl acetate complexes Stereochemistry of Pd-allyl cation complexes Pd and monoepoxides of dienes The control of remote chirality Recent developments Summary... 

Regioselective opening of Sharpless epoxides, that is those (enantio-enriched) derived from allylic alcohols, has major synthetic significance. The usual outcome is opening at C-3, but the reaction with nucleophiles such as azide, cyanide and thiophenoxide, in the presence of trialkyl borates, can be highly selective for attack at C-2. ... 

Four reviews on allylic substitution reactions have been published. The first deals with the enantioselective allylic substitutions by carbon nucleophiles, in the presence of both palladium and non-palladium catalysts. The second reviews stere- 0 oselective allylic substitution reactions forming asymmetric C-C, C-N, and C-O bonds. The third review covers new developments in metal-catalysed asymmetric 0 allylic substitution reactions with heteroatom-centred nucleophiles. Several applications of this new methodology are included. Finally, the catalytic 5 2 and 5 2 reactions of allylic alcohols, most of which occur with a very high ee, have been reviewed. ... 

A few Pd(0)-catalyzed reactions of aUyUc carbonates cannot be classified under Sects. A-O. Cationic Tj -allylpalladium complexes can be reduced by tin(II) chloride to afford a tin-allyl intermediate provided with nucleophilic reactivity (umpolung), which reacts with carbonyl groups (Scheme 62). Tm(II) chloride has been used by Masuyama and co-workers in Pd(0)-catalyzed reduction of aUylic carbonates,allylic cyclic carbon-ates, and even allylic alcohols,followed by reaction with carbonyl compounds. Related results with cyclic carbonates have been reported by Kang and co-workers Diethylzinc and samarium(II) iodide have been used as the reducing reagent. Protona-tion of the allylsamarium intermediate gives overall reduction of the C—O into C—H bond.f ... 

Surprisingly, even allyl alcohol undergoes the allylation of aldehydes in the presence of 2 mol % of PdCl2(PhCN)2 and 3 equiv of tin(n) dichloride in DMI (Scheme 7)3 ° " The reaction is compatible with aUcyl bromide, aryl bromide, and allyl acetate functionality. The reactivity order of allylic system is allylic carbonate > allylic alcohol > allylic acetate. Un-symmetrical allylic alcohols regioselectively undergo nucleophilic addition at the allylic termini with the highest number of substituent. Generally, anh-isomers are produced preferentially over iyn-isomers. 

Method of synthesis cationic polymerization of high purity Isobutylene and isoprene is used to produce butyl rubber in the presence of complex systems of catalysts polymerization is terminated by irreversible destruction of the propagating carbenium ion by the collapse of the ion pair, by hydrogen abstraction from the comonomer, by formation of stable allylic carbenium ions, or by reaction with nucleophilic species such as alcohols or amines ... 

Ever since the discovery that allylboranes could add in a nucleophilic fashion to aldehydes and ketones in 1964,carbonyl allylboration reactions have been thoroughly utilized in organic chemistry. Modification of allylic boron reagents and the substrates with which they can react has been the focus of many research groups over the past three decades. The application of allylbor-onates in the context of aldehyde allylation, which results in the formation of homoaUylic secondary alcohols via an allyl transfer reaction with aldehydes, has become an invaluable tool to synthetic chemists (Figure 3). ... 

In addition to the success just described with the well-known named processes, a number of other macrocyclization reactions mediated by palladium complexes have been reported. The first of these approaches exploits the established chemistry of palladium Jt-allyl complexes for use in activation towards reaction with nucleophiles. This reaction was employed by Harran et al. as a critical step in the construction of a series of macrocycles such as 116 via 115) designed to significantly reduce the peptidic character of known active peptides (Scheme 11.14). " The approach tolerates a variety of functionality, including alcohols, amides, thioethers and selected heteroaromatics, and was also successfully conducted on solid support. 

Some nucleophiles other than carbon nucleophiles are allylated. Amines are good nucleophiles. Diethylamine is allylated with allyl alcohol[7]. Allylammes are formed by the reaction of allyl alcohol with ammonia by using dppb as a ligand. Di- and triallylamines are produced commercially from allyl alcohol and ammonia[l74]. 

Generally, isolated olefinic bonds will not escape attack by these reagents. However, in certain cases where the rate of hydroxyl oxidation is relatively fast, as with allylic alcohols, an isolated double bond will survive. Thepresence of other nucleophilic centers in the molecule, such as primary and secondary amines, sulfides, enol ethers and activated aromatic systems, will generate undesirable side reactions, but aldehydes, esters, ethers, ketals and acetals are generally stable under neutral or basic conditions. Halogenation of the product ketone can become but is not always a problem when base is not included in the reaction mixture. The generated acid can promote formation of an enol which in turn may compete favorably with the alcohol for the oxidant. 

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