Aromatic compounds carbon monoxide addition

Sodium or potassium phenoxide can be carboxylated regioselectively in the para position in high yield by treatment with sodium or potassium carbonate and carbon monoxide.316 14C labeling showed that it is the carbonate carbon that appears in the p-hydroxybenzoic acid product.317 The CO is converted to sodium or potassium formate. Carbon monoxide has also been used to carboxylate aromatic rings with palladium compounds as catalysts.318 In addition, a palladium-catalyzed reaction has been used directly to prepare acyl fluorides ArH — ArCOF.31 ... 

Notable new general syntheses of butenolides include the addition of the three-carbon synthon Li(PhS)C=CMeC02Me to aldehydes R CHO (R = alkyl or aryl) to yield the thioethers (19), the related reaction of lithio-j8-lithio-acrylates R CLi=CR C02Li with benzaldehyde to give compounds (20 R = H or Me), and the formation of (21) from the iodinated allyl alcohol ICMe=CHCH20H and carbon monoxide in the presence of bis(triphenylphos-phine)palladium(ii) chloride. Chloral reacts with dimethyl (benzylamino)fu-marate to yield the butenolide (22), whereas aromatic aldehydes give hydroxy-pyrrolinones (23). The total synthesis of piperolide (24) has been reported. 

Addition of an T -allyl-Fp complex to this compound affords an T -aIlyl-Fp-substituted cycloheptatriene system. Two double bonds are involved in an (T -diene)iron complex. The remaining free double bond of the silyl enol ether attacks as a nucleophile at the cationic r -alkene-Fp moiety to form an (Tj -diene)iron complexed cyclopentane annulated cycloheptadienone. Treatment with CAN in methanol under carbon monoxide atmosphere releases the methoxycarbonyl-substituted free ligand (Scheme 4-25). Reaction of the Ti -dienyliumiron intermediate of Scheme 4-25 with an ( , Z)-isomeric mixture of ri -crotyl-Fp proceeds with high diastereoselectivity. Four new stereogenic centers are formed in the course of this formal [3+2] cycloaddition. A hetero [3+2] cycloaddition is also feasible between T -ailyl-Fp complexes and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of zinc chloride or titanium(IV) chloride to provide tetrahydrofuran derivatives (Scheme 4-26). A 1,2-shift of the iron complex fragment occurs in the course of this reaction. Employment of imines affords the corresponding pyrrolidines. ... 

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