Borohydride reduction of ketone

Optically active /3-ketoiminato cobalt(III) compounds based on chiral substituted ethylenedi-amine find use as efficient catalysts for the enatioselective hetero Diels Alder reaction of both aryl and alkyl aldehydes with l-methoxy-(3-(t-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy)-1,3-butadiene.1381 Cobalt(II) compounds of the same class of ligands promote enantioselective borohydride reduction of ketones, imines, and a,/3-unsaturated carboxylates.1382... 

Reduction by LiAlH4 of 2,3-dihydrothieno[3,2-6]thiophen-3-one (22) and its 2-methyl- and 2-ethyl-derivatives afforded the appropriate thienothiophene 2.21,25,28,29 Similarly, Gronowitz and co-workers48 used borohydride reduction of ketones 33 and 34 to prepare 2-methyl-thieno[3,2-6]thiophene (35). Attempts to reduce 2,3-dihydrothieno[3,2-6]thiophen-3-one (22)28 and 2,3-dihydro-4,6-dimethylthieno[3,4-6]-thiophen-3-one (87)T with zinc powder in acetic acid were unsuccessful. 

In other reports, /i-cyclodcxtrins have been used to induce asymmetry in borohydride reduction of ketones,166 a diastereoselective reduction has been controlled167 by a real lyltricarbonyl iron lactone tether , a phosphinamide has been combined with a dioxaborolidine unit as an activated, directed catalyst for ketone reduction,168 reductive amination using benzylamine-cyanoborohydride converts 3-hydroxy ketones into syn-1,3-amino alcohols,169 l-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)propan-l-one has been reduced diastereoselectively,170 and production of chiral alcohols via (i) Itsuno-Corey and Brown procedures171 and (ii) lithium aluminium hydride modified by chiral nucleophiles172 has been reviewed. 

The rates of nucleophilic additions to adamantanone have been studied in an attempt to determine the structure of the transition states of nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds in general. The kinetic analysis suggests that the transition states of borohydride reductions of ketones are product-like while for bisulfite additions the transition states are reactant-like 367). A similar analysis 36 ) of data obtained for photo-initiated oxetane formation (trans-dicyanoethylene + carbonyl compound) 3681 indicates a reactant-like transition state. 

A Special Case Enantioselective Borohydride Reduction of Ketones... 

Borohydride reduction of ketones to carbinols, and their (normal) Clemmensen reduction, has also been carried out. ... 

Precursor of Useful Chiral Ligands. OPEN is widely used for the preparation of chiral ligands. Organometallic compounds with these ligands act as useful reagents or catalysts in asymmetric induction reactions such as dihydroxylation of olefins, transfer hydrogenation of ketones and imines, Diels-Alder and aldol reactions, desymmetrization of meso-diols to produce chiral oxazolidinones, epoxidation of simple olefins, benzylic hydroxylation, and borohydride reduction of ketones, imines, and a,p-unsaturated carboxylates. ... 

Efficient asymmetric borohydride reduction of ketones catalyzed by a chiral aldiminatocobalt(II) complex has recently been developed by Mukaiyama s... 

Borohydride reduction of ketones. The reduction of ketones to alcohols by sodium borohydride in benzene-water has been reported to be catalyzed by this salt (6, 249). However, no asymmetric induction was noted in the case of 2-octanone, 1-phenyl-1-propanone, or acetophenone. More recently, asymmetric induction has been observed with more hindered ketones. The maximum was observed with r-butyl phenyl ketone when an enantiomeric excess of 14% of the (R)-alcohol could be obtained. The enantiomeric excess is only 3.6% in the reduction of isopropyl phenyl ketone. No asymmetric induction was observed when ( —)(R)-N,N-dimethyl-N-dodecylamphetaminium bromide was used as catalyst. The structure of the chiral catalyst is evidently important. ... 

Cerium(III)/sodium borohydride reduction of ketones in the presence... 

It has been claimed that the previously proposed four-centre mechanism plays no part in the reduction of ketones with borohydride whether this mechanism is involved in the photochemically accelerated borohydride reduction of ketones has yet to be clarified. ... 

Very low asymmetric inductions have also been observed in the phase transfer borohydride reduction of ketones catalysed by quaternary ammonium derivatives (21) of ephedrine. 

Table 3. Sodium Borohydride Reductions of Ketones in 1,2-dichloroethane (Note 1)...

Sodium borohydride and lithium aluminum hydride react with carbonyl compounds in much the same way that Grignard reagents do except that they function as hydride donors rather than as carbanion sources Figure 15 2 outlines the general mechanism for the sodium borohydride reduction of an aldehyde or ketone (R2C=0) Two points are especially important about this process... 

A McMurry coupling of (176, X = O Y = /5H) provides ( )-9,ll-dehydroesterone methyl ether [1670-49-1] (177) in 56% yield. 9,11-Dehydroestrone methyl ether (177) can be converted to estrone methyl ether by stereoselective reduction of the C —double bond with triethyi silane in triduoroacetic acid. In turn, estrone methyl ether can be converted to estradiol methyl ether by sodium borohydride reduction of the C17 ketone (199,200). 

A novel reaction of perchloryl fluoride with aromatic substrates was discovered by Neeman and Osawa, the oxofluorination reaction. These authors found that reaction of indene with perchloryl fluoride in dioxane-water yields five products, the major product being, 2-fluoroindanone. When applied to 6-dehydroestradiol diacetate (24) there is obtained as the major product the 7a-fluoro-6-ketone (25). Borohydride reduction of the... 

FIGURE 15.2 Mechanism of sodium borohydride reduction of an aldehyde or ketone. 

The final stages of the successful drive towards amphotericin B (1) are presented in Scheme 19. Thus, compound 9 is obtained stereoselectively by sodium borohydride reduction of heptaenone 6a as previously described. The formation of the desired glycosida-tion product 81 could be achieved in dilute hexane solution in the presence of a catalytic amount PPTS. The by-product ortho ester 85 was also obtained in approximately an equimolar amount. Deacetylation of 81 at C-2, followed sequentially by oxidation and reduction leads, stereoselectively, to the desired hydroxy compound 83 via ketone 82. The configuration of each of the two hydroxylbearing stereocenters generated by reduction of carbonyls as shown in Scheme 19 (6—>9 and 82->83) were confirmed by conversion of 83 to amphotericin B derivative 5 and comparison with an... 

Reduction of ketones to triphenylsilyl ethers is effected by the unique Lewis acid perfluorotriphenylborane. Mechanistic and kinetic studies have provided considerable insight into the mechanism of this reaction.186 The salient conclusion is that the hydride is delivered from a borohydride ion, not directly from the silane. Although the borane forms a Lewis acid-base complex with the ketone, its key function is in delivery of the hydride. 

Borohydride reduction of NiCl2 in dimethylformamide or dimethyl-acetamide leads to very active catalysts, thought to be homogeneous, for hydrogenation of monoolefins, unsaturated fats, cyclic dienes to monoenes, and saturated aldehydes and ketones (165, 538, 539). Cobaltous chloride systems have also been used (540). 

Microemulsions are potentially useful reaction media because of their solubilizing ability (Mackay, 1981). Reductions of ketones and enones by borohydride go readily in microemulsions of CTABr, hexane and 1-butanol, and there is more 1,4-reduction than in 2-propanol (Jaeger et ah, 1984). 

Although similar efforts have been devoted to related polymer systems (Overberger and Cho, 1968 Overberger and Dixon, 1977 Okamoto, 1978), large enantioselectivity has not been observed. Goldberg et al. (1978) conducted borohydride reduction of phenyl ketones in micelles of the chiral surfactant [44]. The result was disappointing, since the maximal enantioselectivity was only 1.66% for phenyl propyl ketone. A much better optical yield was reported when this reaction was carried out under phase-transfer conditions (Masse and Parayre, 1976). The cholic acid micelle and bovine serum albumin exhibited the relatively high enantioselectivity in the reduction of trifluoroacetophenone (Baba ef al., 1978). 

It was initially proposed that reduction of ketones by quaternary ammonium borohydrides in dichloromethane (see Section 11.3) might be accounted for by the initial slow formation of diborane. However, the generation of diborane under such conditions is too slow to have any influence on the reduction. 

The applications of sodium acyloxyborohydrides, formed from sodium borohydrides in carboxylic acid media, are reviewed. ° Useful reviews of the stereoselective reduction of endocyclic C=N compounds and of the enantioselective reduction of ketones have appeared. ... 

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