Carbonyl compounds deprotonation

These transformations can be achieved by opening of the epoxide— most probably previously activated by protonation—by attack of chromate. The intermediate chromate may evolve by breakage of a carbon-carbon bond, leading to the formation of an aryl-stabilized cation and a carbonyl compound. Deprotonation of the aryl-stabilized cation leads to a ketone. Alternatively, when there is no aryl group that could stabilize an intermediate cation, the chromate evolves in a standard way to generate a a-hydroxyketone. 

Chapters 1 and 2. Most C—H bonds are very weakly acidic and have no tendency to ionize spontaneously to form carbanions. Reactions that involve carbanion intermediates are therefore usually carried out in the presence of a base which can generate the reactive carbanion intermediate. Base-catalyzed condensation reactions of carbonyl compounds provide many examples of this type of reaction. The reaction between acetophenone and benzaldehyde, which was considered in Section 4.2, for example, requires a basic catalyst to proceed, and the kinetics of the reaction show that the rate is proportional to the catalyst concentration. This is because the neutral acetophenone molecule is not nucleophihc and does not react with benzaldehyde. The much more nucleophilic enolate (carbanion) formed by deprotonation is the reactive nucleophile. 

There have been numerous studies of the rates of deprotonation of carbonyl compounds. These data are of interest not only because they define the relationship between thermodynamic and kinetic acidity for these compounds, but also because they are necessary for understanding mechanisms of reactions in which enolates are involved as intermediates. Rates of enolate formation can be measured conveniently by following isotopic exchange using either deuterium or tritium ... 

Another technique is to measure the rate of halogenation of the carbonyl compound. Ketones and aldehydes in their carbonyl forms do not react rapidly with the halogens, but the enolate is rapidly attacked. The rate of halogenation is therefore a measure of the rate of deprotonation. 

Structural effects on the rates of deprotonation of ketones have also been studied using veiy strong bases under conditions where complete conversion to the enolate occurs. In solvents such as THF or DME, bases such as lithium di-/-propylamide (LDA) and potassium hexamethyldisilylamide (KHMDS) give solutions of the enolates in relative proportions that reflect the relative rates of removal of the different protons in the carbonyl compound (kinetic control). The least hindered proton is removed most rapidly under these... 

The study of the chemistry of carbonyl compounds has shown that they can act as carbon nucleophiles in the presence of acid catalysts as well as bases. The nucleophilic reactivity of carbonyl compounds in acidic solution is due to the presence of the enol tautomer. Enolization in acidic solution is catalyzed by O-protonation. Subsequent deprotonation at carbon gives the enol ... 

Upon addition of a base—triethylamine is often used—the sulfonium salt 7 is deprotonated to give a sulfonium ylide 8. The latter decomposes into the carbonyl compound 2 and dimethyl sulfide 9 through /3-elimination via a cyclic transition state. 

The well-known photopolymerization of acrylic monomers usually involves a charge transfer system with carbonyl compound as an acceptor and aliphatic tertiary amine, triethylamine (TEA), as a donor. Instead of tertiary amine such as TEA or DMT, Li et al. [89] investigated the photopolymerization of AN in the presence of benzophenone (BP) and aniline (A) or N-methylaniline (NMA) and found that the BP-A or BP-NMA system will give a higher rate of polymerization than that of the well-known system BP-TEA. Still, we know that secondary aromatic amine would be deprotonated of the H-atom mostly on the N-atom so we proposed the mechanism as follows ... 

The end group of the polymers, photoinitiated with aromatic amine with or without the presence of carbonyl compound BP, has been detected with absorption spectrophotometry and fluororescence spectrophotometry [90]. The spectra showed the presence of tertiary amino end group in the polymers initiated with secondary amine such as NMA and the presence of secondary amino end group in the polymers initiated with primary amine such as aniline. These results show that the amino radicals, formed through the deprotonation of the aminium radical in the active state of the exciplex from the primary or secondary aromatic amine molecule, are responsible for the initiation of the polymerization. 

Because carbonyl compounds are only weakly acidic, a strong base is needed for enolate ion formation. If an alkoxide such as sodium ethoxide is used as base, deprotonation takes place only to the extent of about 0. l% because acetone is a weaker acid than ethanol (pKa - 16). If, however, a more powerful base such as sodium hydride (NaH) or lithium diisopropylamide ILiNO -CjHy ] is used, a carbonyl compound can be completely converted into its enolate ion. Lithium diisopropylamide (LDA), which is easily prepared by reaction of the strong base butyllithium with diisopropylamine, is widely used in the laboratory as a base for preparing enolate ions from carbonyl compounds. 

The lithium-(-)-sparteine complex, generated by deprotonation of 1-methylindene, does not lose its configuration in diethyl ether solution even at room temperature80 presumably, the observed major diastcreonier is the thermodynamically determined product. Substitution with carbonyl compounds leads to 1-substituted (fl)-l-methyl-l//-indenes with >95% ee in high yields81. 

Iron-acyl enolates such as 1, 2, and 3 react readily with electrophiles such as alkyl halides and carbonyl compounds (see Houben-Weyl, Vol. 13/9a p418). The reactions of these enolatc species with alkyl halides and similar electrophiles are discussed in Section D.1.1.1.3.4.1.3. To date, only the simple enolates prepared by a-deprotonation of acetyl and propanoyl complexes have been reacted with ketones or aldehydes. 

Hydroxy-substituted iron-acyl complexes 1, which are derived from aldol reactions of iron-acyl enolates with carbonyl compounds, are readily converted to the corresponding /i-methoxy or /1-acetoxy complexes 2 on deprotonation and reaction of the resulting alkoxide with iodomethane or acetic anhydride (Tabic 1). Further exposure of these materials to base promotes elimination of methoxide or acetate to provide the a,/ -unsaturated complexes (E)-3 and (Z)-3 (Table 2). 

Introduction of the phenylthio group onto the 5-carbon atom of alcohols can have valuable synthetic applications. 5-Phenylthio alcohols can be oxidized to the corresponding 5-sulfoxides and sulfones (with their versatile reactivities) or they can be deprotonated by strong base converting the 5-carbon atom to a nucleophilic species. Conversion of 5-phenylthio alcohols to the corresponding 5-carbonyl compounds can be achieved via halogenation followed by subsequent hydrolysis. In this way an inversion of the reactivity of the 5-carbon atom may be accomplished and it can react as an electron acceptor. 

The slow protonation rate of the conjugated anion of the sulphone (1st step) leads to the obtainment of a pseudo one-electron process. However, no self-protonatiori process exists in the presence of an excess of a proton donor of lower pK than that of the electroactive substrate and Figure 6a, curve 2 shows evidence for a two-electron step. Full substitution on the a carbon, as in the case of phenyl 2-phenylbut-2-yl sulphone, does not allow one to observe any deactivation (Figure 6b, curve 1). It is worth mentioning that cathodic deactivations of acidic substrates in aprotic solvents are rather general in electrochemistry, e.g. aromatic ketones behave rather similarly, showing deprotonation of the substrate by the dianion of the carbonyl compound. ... 

Deprotonation of the corresponding carbonyl compound is a fundamental method for the generation of enolates, and we discuss it here for ketones and esters. An unsymmetrical dialkyl ketone can form two regioisomeric enolates on deprotonation. 

Alkyltriphenylphosphonium halides are only weakly acidic, and a strong base must be used for deprotonation. Possibilities include organolithium reagents, the anion of dimethyl sulfoxide, and amide ion or substituted amide anions, such as LDA or NaHMDS. The ylides are not normally isolated, so the reaction is carried out either with the carbonyl compound present or with it added immediately after ylide formation. Ylides with nonpolar substituents, e.g., R = H, alkyl, aryl, are quite reactive toward both ketones and aldehydes. Ylides having an a-EWG substituent, such as alkoxycarbonyl or acyl, are less reactive and are called stabilized ylides. 

Another application of the hydrazone method is the preparation of achy dr oxy carbonyl compounds (R4 = H in 37). The aldehydes/ketones 36 are first transformed into their corresponding SAMP-hydrazones 38, followed by deprotonation with f-butyllithium or LDA in THF. The resulting anion undergoes facile oxidation by treatment with 2-phenylsulfonyl-3-phenyloxaziridine (39), and the product can be obtained with good to excellent enantioselectivity (Scheme 2-23).39b... 

Allyl chlorides are readily deprotonated a to the halide by strong bases to give allyl carbenoids, which insert into organozirconocene chlorides to afford allyl- or pentadienyl-zirco-nocene chlorides (Scheme 3.23). These allylmetallic species are reactive towards carbonyl compounds, and so an efficient three-component coupling results [50]. 

Regarding the first problem, the most elemental treatment consists of focusing on a few points on the gas-phase potential energy hypersurface, namely, the reactants, transition state structures and products. As an example, we will mention the work [35,36] that was done on the Meyer-Schuster reaction, an acid catalyzed rearrangement of a-acetylenic secondary and tertiary alcohols to a.p-unsaturatcd carbonyl compounds, in which the solvent plays an active role. This reaction comprises four steps. In the first, a rapid protonation takes place at the hydroxyl group. The second, which is the rate limiting step, is an apparent 1, 3-shift of the protonated hydroxyl group from carbon Ci to carbon C3. The third step is presumably a rapid allenol deprotonation, followed by a keto-enol equilibrium that leads to the final product. 

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