Nucleophilic substitution carbanions

The Peterson reaction has two more advantages over the Wittig reaction 1. it is sometimes less vulnerable to sterical hindrance, and 2. groups, which are susceptible to nucleophilic substitution, are not attacked by silylated carbanions. The introduction of a methylene group into a sterically hindered ketone (R.K. Boeckman, Jr., 1973) and the syntheses of olefins with sulfur, selenium, silicon, or tin substituents (D. Seebach, 1973 B.T. Grdbel, 1974, 1977) illustrate useful applications. The reaction is, however, more limited and time consuming than the Wittig reaction, since metallated silicon derivatives are difficult to synthesize and their reactions are rarely stereoselective (T.H. Chan, 1974 ... 

The reaction of 3-methoxy-1,2,4-triazine 1-oxide 20 with the carbanion generated from chloromethyl phenyl sulfone proceeds as the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of hydrogen (Scheme 1, path B) via addition of the carbanion at position 5 of the heterocycle. Following base-induced elimination of HCl and protonation, 3-methoxy-5-phenylsulfonyl-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 65 result (88LA627). 

An a-halosulfone 1 reacts with a base by deprotonation at the a -position to give a carbanionic species 3. An intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction, with the halogen substituent taking the part of the leaving group, then leads to formation of an intermediate episulfone 4 and the halide anion. This mechanism is supported by the fact that the episulfone 4 could be isolated. Subsequent extrusion of sulfur dioxide from 4 yields the alkene 2 ... 

The nucleophilic substitution of the nitro group in nitro-arene complexes works almost as well as that of Cl" and such substitutions were achieved by Chowdhurry et al. with O, S, and N nucleophiles and with stabilized carbanions [97,98] Eq. (28) and Table 8. 

Since the Ramberg-Backlund reaction proceeds through the initial a-proton removal by base, followed by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution of a-carbanion 358 to form... 

Pathway A shows the most common reaction where the nucleophilic substitution reaction occurs at the electron-deficient carbon atom due to the strong electron-attracting character of the sulfonyl group. Nucleophilic displacements at the allylic position (SN2 reaction) are shown in pathway B. Pathway C is the formation of a-sulfonyl carbanion by nucleophilic attack on the carbon atom p to the sulfone moiety. There are relatively few reports on substitution reactions where nucleophiles attack the sulfone functionality and displace a carbanion as illustrated in pathway D3. 

Whereas the reactions of sulfones with nucleophiles via pathways A and B of equation 1 are most frequently observed, the nucleophilic substitution reaction by pathway D has been observed only in the cases where the leaving carbanion can be stabilized, or in the highly strained molecules. Chou and Chang3 has found recently that an organolithium reagent attacks the sulfur atom of the strained four-membered sulfone in 34. When this sulfone is treated with 1 equivalent methyllithium, followed by workup with water or Mel, 38 or 39 are formed in high yield. 

This mechanism is exactly analogous to the allylic rearrangement mechanism for nucleophilic substitution (p. 421). The UV spectra of allylbenzene and 1-propenylbenzene in solutions containing NH2 are identical, which shows that the same carbanion is present in both cases, as required by this mechanism. The acid BH protonates the position that will give the more stable product, though the ratio of the two possible products can vary with the identity of BH". It has been shown that base-catalyzed double-bond shifts are partially intramolecular, at least in some cases. The intramolecularity has been ascribed to a conducted tour mechanism (p. 766) in which the base leads the proton from one carbanionic site to the other ... 

The carbanion of 2,3-dimethylthiazolidine-4-one reacted with nitroarenes to give either a ting opened product (50) via a VNS (vicarious nucleophilic substitution) reaction or a product resulting from oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen (51). Ring opening VNS reactions with 5-membered 5-heterocycles are limited to those heterocycles which show some conformational flexibility <96TL983>. 

Nucleophilic Substitution of xi-Allyl Palladium Complexes. TT-Allyl palladium species are subject to a number of useful reactions that result in allylation of nucleophiles.114 The reaction can be applied to carbon-carbon bond formation using relatively stable carbanions, such as those derived from malonate esters and (3-sulfonyl esters.115 The TT-allyl complexes are usually generated in situ by reaction of an allylic acetate with a catalytic amount of fefrafcz s-(triphenylphosphine)palladium... 

Organic halides play a fundamental role in organic chemistry. These compounds are important precursors for carbocations, carbanions, radicals, and carbenes and thus serve as an important platform for organic functional group transformations. Many classical reactions involve the reactions of organic halides. Examples of these reactions include the nucleophilic substitution reactions, elimination reactions, Grignard-type reactions, various transition-metal catalyzed coupling reactions, carbene-related cyclopropanations reactions, and radical cyclization reactions. All these reactions can be carried out in aqueous media. 

The domino reaction is initiated by the chemoselective attack of the carbanion 2-458 on the terminal ring carbon atom of epoxyhomoallyl tosylate 2-459 to give the alkoxides 2-460 after a 1,4-carbon-oxygen shift of the silyl group. The final step to give the cyclopentane derivates 2-461 is a nucleophilic substitution. In some cases, using the TBS group and primary tosylates, oxetanes are formed as byproducts. 

The ability of a nitro group in the substrate to bring about electron-transfer free radical chain nucleophilic substitution (SrnI) at a saturated carbon atom is well documented.39 Such electron transfer reactions are one of the characteristic features of nitro compounds. Komblum and Russell have established the SrnI reaction independently the details of the early history have been well reviewed by them.39 The reaction of p-nitrobenzyl chloride with a salt of nitroalkane is in sharp contrast to the general behavior of the alkylation of the carbanions derived from nitroalkanes here, carbon alkylation is predominant. The carbon alkylation process proceeds via a chain reaction involving anion radicals and free radicals, as shown in Eq. 5.24 and Scheme... 

Vicarious nucleophilic substitution of nitroarenesThe carbanion (2, NaOCH,) of 1 reacts with p-chloronitrobenzene to give, after acidic workup, 5-chloro-2-nitrobenzyl p-tolylsulfone (3). The reagent 2 is typical of a number of carbanions which can undergo nucleophilic substitution ortho or para to nitro-... 

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