Carbenes, generation vinyl

In some cases, the insertion of dichlorocarbene into the C-H bond of the cyclic vinyl ether competes with its cycloaddition. Furthermore, the structure of the products formed depends on the mode of carbene generation, e.g. formation of 1-4. ... 

Carbenes. Primary vinyl triflates also serve as precursors to unsaturated carbenes. Thus isopropylidenecarbene (2) has been generated by treatment of the triflate (1) with potassium f-butoxide at -20 . This unsaturated carbene adds stereospecifically to cis- and rrans-2-butene, an indication that the carbene is a singlet. ... 

Conclusive evidence for the cation intermediate was obtained by detection of the absorption spectra of several diarylmethyl cations following nanosecond or picosecond laser flash photolysis of their respective diazo, diphenylazi-ridinylimine, or 3H-indazole precursors in acidic media [107-112], Photochemically generated vinyl carbenes were recently shown to similarly protonate by deuterium labeling experiments to give allylic cations that were detected by transient absorption spectroscopy [113],... 

Recently, (phenylthiomethyl)trimethylsilane (1), or the anion (2) thereof, has been used to synthesize vinylsilanes from a-trimethylsUyloxiranes, in Peterson-type olefination reactions to generate vinyl sulfides, and also as a radical precursor under electrochemical conditions. Addition reactions of (phenylth-iomethyl)trimethylsilyl carbene (10), prepared via two independent methods, to olefins have also heen disclosed. ... 

An interesting class ot covalent Inflates are vin l and ar>/ or heteroaryl Inflates Vinyl inflates are used for the direct solvolytic generation of vinyl cations and for the generation of unsaturated carbenes via the a-elimination process [66] A triflate ester of 2-hydroxypyridine can be used as a catalyst for the acylation of aromatic compounds with carboxylic acids [109] (equation 55)... 

More recently, such vinyl cations generated by the alkaline decomposition of 3-nitroso-2-oxazolidones have been trapped by halogens to give vinyl halides as products (108). It has been suggested that unsaturated carbenes, RjC=C , may be the intermediates in the basic decomposition of 132 (109). Indeed, when 132 (Ri=R2=CH3, R3=H) was treated with lithium ethoxide in the... 

Vinylcarbene is known to close to cyclopropene.59 The reverse reaction is also possible Triplet-propene-l,3-diyl (frans-T-33 ) can be generated from cyclopropene 32 by irradiation in a bromine-doped xenon matrix at 10 K 1-methylcyclopropene (34) yields triplet-2-butene-l,3-diyl (Iruns-T-SS ).60-62 The concentration of 35 under these conditions is high enough to be able to detect this diradical IR spectroscopically. The experiments suggest that even the parent vinyl carbene 33 is detectable.61,62 Calculations ((U)B3LYP/6-31G )61,62 not only allow the comparison of theoretical and experimental IR spectra but also... 

An explanatory mechanism for the formation of vinyl sulfides is shown in Scheme 24. In route a, (phenylthio)carbene 77 generated from chlorosulfide 75 reacts with the nitrile anion to form (phenylthio)carbanion 79, which then undergoes elimination of cyanide ion to produce vinyl sulfide 76. In route b, 75 reacts first with the nitrile anion 74 to produce P-(phenylthio)nitrile 78 followed by base-catalyzed P-elimination. However, route b is unlikely because 79 cannot be generated from 68 due to a larger pKa value of its ot proton than that of the nitrile. In fact, the reaction of chlorosulfide 75a with lithionitrile 80 gave a different product 81 in 63% yield. 

In some cases involving aliphatic thiocarbonyl ylides, a 1,4-H shift occurs to afford vinyl thioethers. As an example, thiocarbonyl ylides (41), generated by the addition of isopropylidene carbene to aliphatic thioketones, are converted to divinylthioethers (42) (84) (Scheme 5.16). 

This reaction apparently proceeds by way of the normal phosphonate condensation product, the diazoalkylidene, which then spontaneously loses nitrogen to form the transient alkylidene car-bene. Careful work showed that, after statistical corrections were applied, the reactivity of a C-H bond toward insertion was approximately 0.003 for primary C-H bonds (methyl), 1.0 for secondary C-H bonds (methylene), 7.5 for benzylic (methylene) C-H bonds and 18.6 for tertiary C-H bonds. These relative reactivities are very similar to those previously observed for intramolecular C-H insertion by an alkylidene carbenoid generated from a vinyl bromide27. It was shown subsequently that the alkylidene carbene insertion reaction proceeds with retention of absolute configuration28. Using this approach, (l )-3-dimethyl-3-phenyl-l-cyclopentene and (i )-4-methyl-4-phenyl-2-cyclohexcnonc were prepared in high enantiomeric purity. 

In contrast to carbenes, nitrene attacks only the carbon and never the sulfur atom of thiophene the only exception to this is discussed in Section 3.14.3.5. Unsubstituted thieno[3,2-/>]pyrrole and thieno[2,3-6]pyrrole have been prepared by thermolysis of the corresponding vinyl azides (Scheme 68) (81IJC(B)27l). A bis-cyclization of this type has also been reported (73CR(C)(277)1149>. Similarly, in the benzo[Z>jthiophene series the nitrene (252), generated either by thermolysis of the azide or by P(OEt)3 induced deoxygenation of the nitro compound, gives only the condensed indole (253) (79AG(E)900). 

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