Borohydride anion, hydrolysis

Phosphorus pentahalide complexes contain phosphonium cations and boron tetrahalide anions, for example, PCI4 BCI4 (Chapter 2.6). Phosphonium borohydrides, R4P BjH., can be prepared from phosphonium halides and sodium borohydride. On hydrolysis they give phosphine boranes. Salts with phosphonium cations and boron-containing anions are formed in other reactions (6.379) and (6.531). 

In most cases, uronic acids are liberated from acidic polysaccharides by hydrolysis leading to irreproducible concomitant formation of lactones. Several methods to circumvent this problem have been published describing conversion of the uronic acid into methyl esters followed by reduction with borohydride or borodeuteride reagents and subsequent hydrolysis and GC-MS detection [129]. Other techniques are based on the liberation and quantification of carbon dioxide. Direct determination of uronic acid residues in hydrolyzates has frequently been performed according to colorimetric assays, which are rather insensitive and have thus mostly been replaced by high-performance anion exchange chromatography (HP-AEC) methods [130-132]. 

Much interest lies in the use of dihydro-1,3-oxazines (190) as enolate equivalents, since, if an alkyl group is carried at C-2, these compounds may be deprotonated and the anions formed reacted with numerous types of electrophiles. Reduction of the imine bond of the products (191), is then conveniently effected by treatment with sodium borohydride. The tetrahydrooxazines (192) which are formed may then be ring opened by hydrolysis with aqueous acid (Scheme 15). This topic and its utility in synthesis has been well reviewed. - ... 

Tetroses and Pentoses - 4-0- -Butyldimethylsilyl-2,3-0-isopropylidene-L-threose (1) has been prepared in seven efficient steps from o-xylose. 3,4-0-Isopropylidene-D-eythrulose (4) has been synthesized from the known tetritol derivative 2 by primary protection as the silyl ether 3, followed by Dess-Martin oxidation and desilylation. Compound 2 was derived from D-isoascorbic acid (see Vol. 22, p. 178, refs. 9,10). In a similar reaction sequence, the enantiomer 5 has been obtained from L-ascorbic acid. The dehomologation of several di-0-isopropylidenehexofuranoses e.g., 6- 7) has been carried out in two steps without intermediate purification, by successive treatment with periodic acid in ethyl acetate, followed by sodium borohydride in ethanol. Selective reduction of 3-deoxy-D-g/jcero-pentos-2-ulose (8) to 3-deoxy-D-g/> cero-pent-2-ose (9) has been achieved enzymically with aldose reductase and NADPH." 4-Isopropyl-2-oxazolin-5-one (10) is a masked formaldehyde equivalent that is easily converted to an anion and demasked by mild acid hydrolysis. One of the three examples of its use in the synthesis of monosaccharides is shown in Scheme 1. ... 

In 2005, we employed acetate stabilized ruthenium(0) nanoparticles as catalyst for the hydrolysis of SB, which is known to be the first example of nanoparticles catalyst used for this reaction [50]. Water dispersible ruthenium(0) nanoparticles are formed from the reduction of ruthenium(III) chloride in the presence of acetate anion as stabilizer. The acetate stabilized ruthenium(O) nanoparticles of 2.8 1.4nm particle size were found to be highly active catalyst in the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride even at room temperature and low catalyst concentration (Figure 7.2). The acetate stabilized ruthenium(O) nanoparticles provide 5170 TTO (total... 

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