Carbonyl derivatives, release

Also, the platinum (0) carbonyl derivatives, when reacting with acids, release the carbon monoxide and give hydrides 38) ... 

Nucleophilic strength for a given substituent can be measured in terms of the rate of the Sn2 reaction or in reactions with carbonyl derivatives. The relative rates of several nucleophiles were determined by reaction with iodomethane and are shown in Table 2.13. As mentioned previously, several factors contribute to nucleophilic strength. Electronic effects are important, as illustrated by the electron releasing methyl group, which should make methoxide more nucleophilic than hydroxide. The rate of the Sn2 reaction of sodium hydroxide with iodomethane is 1.3 x lO" M s whereas the rate with sodium methoxide with iodomethane is 2.51 x 1Q2 M- s-1.98... 

When peptide 179 reacts with 186, the isothiocyanate reacts with the amide unit (at pH 8-9) of the alanine residue to give 187. This is not isolated, however, because the sulfur atom attracts the amide carbonyl to release the phenyl-thiohydantoin derivative of alanine (188) and the original peptide minus the alanine residue (see 189), which is a new N-terminus. The phenylthiohydantoin is soluble in organic solvents, so it is easily removed from the peptide and can be identified using various techniques. 

The phosphanes useful in this process are built from acyl derivatives of compounds such as those shown in Figure 17.22. During the Staudinger ligation process, once the azide reactant forms the aza-ylide with the phosphine, electrophilic attraction induces the nitrogen to attack the electron deficient carbonyl, which in turn causes release of the phosphonium group and forms the amide bond (Figure 17.23). 

Although the molybdenum and ruthenium complexes 1-3 have gained widespread popularity as initiators of RCM, the cydopentadienyl titanium derivative 93 (Tebbe reagent) [28,29] can also be used to promote olefin metathesis processes (Scheme 13) [28]. In a stoichiometric sense, 93 can be also used to promote the conversion of carbonyls into olefins [28b, 29]. Both transformations are thought to proceed via the reactive titanocene methylidene 94, which is released from the Tebbe reagent 93 on treatment with base. Subsequent reaction of 94 with olefins produces metallacyclobutanes 95 and 97. Isolation of these adducts, and extensive kinetic and labeling studies, have aided in the eluddation of the mechanism of metathesis processes [28]. 

Fig. 9.8 presents another, more complex type of phosphate prodrugs, namely (phosphoryloxy)methyl carbonates and carbamates (9-26, X = O or NH, resp.) [84], Here, the [(phosphoryloxy)methyl]carbonyl carrier appears quite versatile and of potential interest to prepare prodrugs of alcohols, phenols, and amines. The cascade of reactions leading from prodrug to drug as shown in Fig. 9.8 involves three steps, namely ester hydrolysis, release of formaldehyde, and a final step of carbonate hydrolysis (X = O) or A-decar-boxylation (X = NH). Three model compounds, a secondary alcohol, a primary aliphatic amine, and a primary aromatic amine, were derivatized with the carrier moiety and examined for their rates of breakdown [84], The alcohol, indan-2-ol, yielded a carrier-linked derivative that proved relatively... 

The insertion of carbon monoxide into azolylpalladium complexes proceeds readily and in most cases leads to the formation of carboxylic acid derivatives or ketones. In a modified version of the carbonylation 3-bromothiophene was reacted with carbon monoxide in the presence of sodium formate. This reagents converts the intermediate acylpalladium formate complex, through the release of carbon dioxide into the acylpalladium hydride (c.f 7.47.), which in turn releases thiophene carboxaldehyde as the sole product (6.62.),92 If sodium formate was replaced... 

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