Carbonyl compounds oxygenation

Hydroalumination. CpaTiClj is a particularly efficient catalyst for hydro-alumination of alkenes with these alanes (equation II). The intermediate adducts can also be trapped with carbonyl compounds, oxygen, or carbon dioxide, but yields are not impressive. cp,na,... 

It was found empirically that well-pronounced catalytic effects can be observed in the presence of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds (e.g. pyridine or quinoline derivatives, a number of alkaloids, cobalamin etc.). However, aliphatic nitrogen compounds (e.g. aminoacids), carbonyl compounds, oxygen-containing heterocyclic substances, unsaturated molecules or even hydrocarbons, e.g. azulenes also give catalytic waves. 

In Summary a,jS-Unsaturated aldehydes and ketones are synthetically useful building blocks in organic synthesis because of their ability to undergo 1,4-additions. Hydrogen cyanide addition leads to j8-cyano carbonyl compounds oxygen and nitrogen nncleophiles also can add to the j8-carbon. 

Supplement 1952 2666-3031 Carbonyl compounds Ethylene carbonate, 100. Piperonal, 116. Thioindigo, 177. Fluorescein, 222. Carboxylic acids Piperonylic acid, 269. Amines, 328. Three Cyclic Oxygens, 381. Four Cyclic Oxygens, 433. Fiite Cyclic Oxygens, 459.. . . ... 

This has the oxygenation pattern of a Diels-Adder adduct if we convert it to a carbonyl compound. 

Reductive coupling of carbonyl compounds to yield olefins is achieved with titanium (0), which is freshly prepared by reduction of titanium(III) salts with LiAIH4 or with potassium. The removal of two carbonyl oxygen atoms is driven by T1O2 formation- Yields are often excellent even with sensitive or highly hindered olefins. (J.E. McMurry, 1974, 1976A,B). 

The ff-oxidation of carbonyl compounds may be performed by addition of molecular oxygen to enolate anions and subsequent reduction of the hydroperoxy group, e.g. with triethyl phosphite (E.J. Bailey, 1962 J.N. Gardner, 1968 A,B). If the initially formed a-hydroperoxide possesses another enolizable a-proton, dehydration to the 1,2-dione occurs spontaneously, and further oxidation to complex product mitctures is usually observed. 

The proton transfer equilibrium that interconverts a carbonyl compound and its enol can be catalyzed by bases as well as by acids Figure 18 3 illustrates the roles of hydroxide ion and water m a base catalyzed enolization As m acid catalyzed enolization protons are transferred sequentially rather than m a single step First (step 1) the base abstracts a proton from the a carbon atom to yield an anion This anion is a resonance stabilized species Its negative charge is shared by the a carbon atom and the carbonyl oxygen... 

Such copolymers of oxygen have been prepared from styrene, a-methylstyrene, indene, ketenes, butadiene, isoprene, l,l-diphen5iethylene, methyl methacrjiate, methyl acrylate, acrylonitrile, and vinyl chloride (44,66,109). 1,3-Dienes, such as butadiene, yield randomly distributed 1,2- and 1,4-copolymers. Oxygen pressure and olefin stmcture are important factors in these reactions for example, other products, eg, carbonyl compounds, epoxides, etc, can form at low oxygen pressures. Polymers possessing dialkyl peroxide moieties in the polymer backbone have also been prepared by base-catalyzed condensations of di(hydroxy-/ f2 -alkyl) peroxides with dibasic acid chlorides or bis(chloroformates) (110). 

Thermal decomposition of dihydroperoxides results in initial homolysis of an oxygen—oxygen bond foUowed by carbon—oxygen and carbon—carbon bond cleavages to yield mixtures of carbonyl compounds (ketones, aldehydes), esters, carboxyHc acids, hydrocarbons, and hydrogen peroxide. 

Hydroxyall l Hydroperoxyall l Peroxides. There is evidence that hydroxyalkyl hydroperoxyalkyl peroxides (2, X = OH, Y = OOH) exist in equihbrium with their corresponding carbonyl compounds and other a-oxygen-substituted peroxides. For example, reaction with acyl haUdes yields diperoxyesters. Dilute acid hydrolysis yields the corresponding ketone (44). Reduction with phosphines yields di(hydroxyalkyl) peroxides and dehydration results in formation of cycHc diperoxides (4). 

Methoxydimethylsulfonium and Trimethylsulfoxonium Salts. Alkylating agents react with DMSO at the oxygen. For example, methyl iodide gives methoxydimethylsulfonium iodide (10) as the initial product. The alkoxysulfonium salts are quite reactive and, upon continued heating, either decompose to give carbonyl compounds or rearrange to the more stable trimethylsulfoxonium salts, eg, (11) (eq. 21) (52) ... 

The initial bond formation between the -> ir excited carbonyl compound and an alkene can occur by interaction of the half-filled n -orbital of the [I CO] with the ir-system of the alkene, in a sense transferring a tt-electron to the -orbital and making a bond between an alkene carbon and the carbonyl oxygen. In this process (common for electron rich olefins) the plane formed by the alkene carbons and their four substituents is perpendicular to the plane of the carbonyl groups and its two substituents (Figure 1). In the... 

In the oxaziridines (1) ring positions 1, 2 and 3 are attributed to oxygen, nitrogen and carbon respectively. The latter almost always is in the oxidation state of a carbonyl compound and only in rare cases that of a carboxylic acid. Oxaziridinones are not known. The nitrogen can be substituted by aryl, alkyl, H or acyl the substituent causes large differences in chemical behavior. Fused derivatives (4), accessible from cyclic starting materials (Section 5.08.4.1), do not differ from monocyclic oxaziridines. 

Oxaziridines are generally formed by the action of a peracid on a combination of a carbonyl compound and an amine, either as a Schiff base (243) or a simple mixture. Yields are between 65 and 90%. Although oxygenation of Schiff bases is formally analogous to epoxidation of alkenes, the true mechanism is still under discussion. More favored than an epoxidation-type mechanism is formation of a condensation product (244), from which an acyloxy group is displaced with formation of an O—N bond. 

The relative basicity of carbonyl oxygen atoms can be measured by studying strength of hydrogen bonding between the carbonyl compound and a hydrogen donor such as phenol. In carbon tetrachloride, values of for 1 1 complex formation for the compounds shown have been measured. Rationalize the observed order of basicity. 

Two classes of charged radicals derived from ketones have been well studied. Ketyls are radical anions formed by one-electron reduction of carbonyl compounds. The formation of the benzophenone radical anion by reduction with sodium metal is an example. This radical anion is deep blue in color and is veiy reactive toward both oxygen and protons. Many detailed studies on the structure and spectral properties of this and related radical anions have been carried out. A common chemical reaction of the ketyl radicals is coupling to form a diamagnetic dianion. This occurs reversibly for simple aromatic ketyls. The dimerization is promoted by protonation of one or both of the ketyls because the electrostatic repulsion is then removed. The coupling process leads to reductive dimerization of carbonyl compounds, a reaction that will be discussed in detail in Section 5.5.3 of Part B. 

For conjugated carbonyl compounds, such as a,) -enones, the orbital diagram would be similar, except for the recognition that the HOMO of the ground state is ij/2 of the enone system, rather than the oxygen lone-pair orbital. The excited states can sometimes be usefully represented as dipolar or diradical intermediates ... 

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