Carbon dioxide epoxides

The 2-metalated thiazoles react with a variety of electrophilic substrates in a standard way, leading to addition products with aldehydes, ketones, carbon dioxide, epoxides, nitriles, Schiff bases, and to substitution products with alkyl iodides (12, 13, 437, 440). 

This reaction illustrates a stereoselective preparation of (Z)-vinylic cuprates, which are very useful synthetic intermediates. They react with a variety of electrophiles such as carbon dioxide, epoxides, aldehydes, allylic halides, alkyl halides, and acetylenic halides they undergo... 

Quan Z, Min J, Zhou Q, Xie D, Liu J, Wang X, Zhao X, Wang F (2003) Synthesis and properties of carbon dioxide-epoxides coplymers from rare earth metal catalyst. Macromol Symp 195 281-286... 

Inoue S, Tsurata T, Takada T, Miyazaki N, Kambe M, Takaoka T (1975) Synthesis and thermal degradation of carbon dioxide-epoxide copolymer. Appl Pol Symp 26 257-267... 

Bhanage BM, S-i Fujita, Ikushima Y et al (2003) Synthesis of dimethyl carbonate and glycols from carbon dioxide, epoxides and methanol using heterogeneous Mg containing smectite catalysts effect of reaction variables on activity and selectivity performance. Green Chem 5(1) 71—75... 

Switchable polarity solvents have recently been used in two chemical syntheses the polymerization of styrene (Figure 9.7) and carbon dioxide-epoxide copolymerization (Figure 9.8). In the first study,a non-stoichiometric mixture of DBU and 1-propanol was used as this gave a less viscous reaction mixture, which facilitated the filtration step and the isolation of the polystyrene. The recovered ionic liquid was turned back into the less polar mixture using nitrogen and could be reused four times with the addition of some makeup solvent to replace that lost in the filtration step. 

Oxidation. Oxidation 0 supercritical carbon dioxide ] epoxides but vinylnaphthalenes aldehydes. 

Darensbourg DJ, Lewis SJ, Rodgers JL, Yarbrough JC (2003) Carbon dioxide/epoxide coupling reactions utilizing Lewis base adducts of zinc halides as catalysts. Cyclic carbonate versus polycarbonate production. Inorg Chem 42 581-589... 

Bhanage, B. M. Fujita, S. Ikushima, Y Aral, M Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate and Glycols from Carbon Dioxide, Epoxides, and Methanol using Heterogeneous Basic Metal Oxide Catalysts with High Activity and Selectivity. Appl. Catal. A Gen. 2001,219,259-266. 

Tetrafluoroethylene undergoes addition reactions typical of an olefin. It bums in air to form carbon tetrafluoride, carbonyl fluoride, and carbon dioxide (24). Under controlled conditions, oxygenation produces an epoxide (25) or an explosive polymeric peroxide (24). Trifluorovinyl ethers,... 

Aldehydes react with alkenylborates to give 1,3-diols upon oxidation of the intermediate (300). Alkynylborates ate transformed by epoxides into homoallyhc alcohols and alkenylborates into 1,4-diols (300,301). Carbon dioxide reacts with alkenylborates to yield catboxyhc acids (302). The scope of these transformations is further extended by the use of functionalized electrophiles and borates, often reacting with high stereoselectivity. For example, in the... 

Diarylamines do not react with carbon disulfide, whereas dialkylamines readily form dithiocarbamates. However, N,Ar-diaryldithiocarbamates can be prepared from metal salts of diarylamines and carbon disulfide (15). They are more stable than diaLkyldithiocarbarnic acids, eg, N,N -diphenyldithiocarbamic acid [7283-79-6] mp 142°C. Similarly, various metal salts of DPA react with carbon dioxide and an epoxide to give the P-hydroxyalkyldiphenylcarbamates (16). 

Diehlorotriphenylantimony has been suggested as a flame retardant (177,178) and as a catalyst for the polymerization of ethylene carbonate (179). Dihromotriphenylantimony has been used as a catalyst for the reaction between carbon dioxide and epoxides to form cycHc carbonates (180) and for the oxidation of a-keto alcohols to diketones (181). 

Telomerization Reactions. Butadiene can react readily with a number of chain-transfer agents to undergo telomerization reactions. The more often studied reagents are carbon dioxide (167—178), water (179—181), ammonia (182), alcohols (183—185), amines (186), acetic acid (187), water and CO2 (188), ammonia and CO2 (189), epoxide and CO2 (190), mercaptans (191), and other systems (171). These reactions have been widely studied and used in making unsaturated lactones, alcohols, amines, ethers, esters, and many other compounds. 

Azelaic, sebacic, dodecanedioic, and brassyhc acids may be used in copolyetheresteramides (111). Two patents describe additional apphcations for the C-9—C-40 diacids for the preparation of polyester carbonates (112), and the copolymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide by reaction of either glutaric or adipic acids with zinc oxide (113). 

An alternative method for generating enriched 1,2-diols from meso-epoxides consists of asymmetric copolymerization with carbon dioxide. Nozaki demonstrated that a zinc complex formed in situ from diethylzinc and diphenylprolinol catalyzed the copolymerization with cyclohexene oxide in high yield. Alkaline hydrolysis of the isotactic polymer then liberated the trans diol in 94% yield and 70% ee (Scheme 7.20) [40]. Coates later found that other zinc complexes such as 12 are also effective in forming isotactic polymers [41-42]. 

Zinc carbonate reacts with epoxide to form zinc alkoxide, which in turn reacts with carbon dioxide to regenerate zinc carbonate. The most effective catalyst systems were the reaction products between diethylzinc and polyhydroxy compounds such as water or pdyhydric phenols243,244. This copolymer is interesting as a biodegradable elastomer248. ... 

Vitamin K is the cofactor for the carboxylation of glutamate residues in the post-synthetic modification of proteins to form the unusual amino acid y-carboxygluta-mate (Gla), which chelates the calcium ion. Initially, vitamin K hydroquinone is oxidized to the epoxide (Figure 45-8), which activates a glutamate residue in the protein substrate to a carbanion, that reacts non-enzymically with carbon dioxide to form y-carboxyglut-amate. Vitamin K epoxide is reduced to the quinone by a warfarin-sensitive reductase, and the quinone is reduced to the active hydroquinone by either the same warfarin-sensitive reductase or a warfarin-insensitive... 

Carbon dioxide gas is used to make urea (used as a fertiliser and in automobile systems and medicine), methanol, inorganic and organic carbonates, polyurethanes and sodium salicylate. Carbon dioxide is combined with epoxides to create plastics and polymers. 

Ni(cyclam)]2+ was shown to be an efficient electrocatalyst for the intramolecular cyclization-carboxylation of allyl or propargyl-2-haloaryl ethers,200 and for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide.201... 

Beyond these fundamental aspects, the great versatility of organozinc compounds can also be seen in the important roles they play in commercial applications. Organozinc complexes have been shown to be excellent catalysts and precatalysts for the polymerization of esters and the co-polymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide they are also co-catalysts in polyolefin catalysis. 

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