Carbonyl-forming cleavages

A. Carbonyl-Forming Cleavages. These reactions follow the pattern... 

In late 1975, Enders et al.156) started a research project directed towards the development of a new synthetic method for asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation. A new chiral auxiliary, namely the (S)-proline derivative SAMP (137), was allowed to react with aldehydes and ketones to give the hydrazones (138), which can be alkylated in the a-position in an diastereoselective manner 157,158). Lithiation 159) of the SAMP hydrazones (138), which are formed in excellent yields, leads to chelate complexes of known configuration 160). Upon treatment of the chelate complexes with alkyl halogenides the new hydrazones (139) are formed. Cleavage of the product hydrazones (139) leads to 2-alkylated carbonyl compounds (140). 

Figure 8 outlines possible routes leading to cysteine specific products via 1-deoxypentosone. Under the chosen reaction conditions, (180 °C H-O) norfuraneol is further transformed via 4-hydroxy-5-metnyl-3-(2H)-thiophenone and 2-methyl-3-(2H)-thiophenone, into 2-methyl-3-mercapto-thiophene and 2-methylthiophene, respectively. Norfuraneol is a methylene active compound, which undergoes aldolcondensation with carbonyls forming colored nonvolatile products. 2-Mercaptopropionic acid may be formed from the mercaptoketone by oxidative cleavage. By this route 2-methyl-3-thiolanone and 2-methyl-4,5-dihydro-thiophene may result. 

Table 1.7. shows that the proportion of the carbonyl form, in this case ketonic, is much greater with D-fructose and its diphosphate 1.21. In the acyclic form both have a characteristic difunctional group, the hydroxy carbonyl (aldol or ketol). One of the features of this group is its cleavage by a reversible reaction in the presence of purely chemical catalysts. The reaction of the diphosphate 1.21, written according to equation (1.8), is catalysed by the enzyme aldolase, and this is a major pathway to creating carbon-carbon bonds in cells. 

The hydrogen atom of the 0-H group in enol 39 (also acidic) is attacked by the 7i-bond of the C=C unit the hydrogen atom is transferred to the carbon with cleavage of the 0-H bond, as shown in 39, to form the ketone (6). This reaction interconverts an enol and a ketone (the keto form in the equihbrium) however, the equilibrium strongly favors the keto form, and this process is called keto-enol tautomerism. The enol is said to tautomerize to the ketone. The carbonyl form is favored over the enol unless there is some special structural feature such as the presence of a second electron-withdrawing group on an a-carbon. Therefore, if an enol is formed in a chemical reaction, assume that it will tautomerize to the carbonyl form, which is the isolated product. 

The transition state involves the carbonyl oxygen of one carboxyl group—the one that stays behind—acting as a proton acceptor toward the hydroxyl group of the carboxyl that IS lost Carbon-carbon bond cleavage leads to the enol form of acetic acid along with a molecule of carbon dioxide... 

Ozonation ofAlkenes. The most common ozone reaction involves the cleavage of olefinic carbon—carbon double bonds. Electrophilic attack by ozone on carbon—carbon double bonds is concerted and stereospecific (54). The modified three-step Criegee mechanism involves a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of ozone to an olefinic double bond via a transitory TT-complex (3) to form an initial unstable ozonide, a 1,2,3-trioxolane or molozonide (4), where R is hydrogen or alkyl. The molozonide rearranges via a 1,3-cycloreversion to a carbonyl fragment (5) and a peroxidic dipolar ion or zwitterion (6). 

Practically all diaziridines (151) can be hydrolyzed by acids to a carbonyl compound and a hydrazine derivative. The only exceptions are diaziridines derived from formaldehyde, in which acid catalyzed N—N cleavage successfully competes with slow hydrolysis. Monoalkylhydrazines are formed in 80-95% yield, A/,A/ -dialkylhydrazines in 65-85% yield (B-67MI50800). 

Complexes (191) and (192) are formed from dimethyldiazirine with carbonyls of chromium, molybdenum and tungsten. They show no tendency towards N—N cleavage (80JOM(193)57). Complex (193) is made from a mixed complex by displacement of norbor-nadiene. 

A carbonyl group can be protected as a sulfur derivative—for example, a dithio acetal or ketal, 1,3-dithiane, or 1,3-dithiolane—by reaction of the carbonyl compound in the presence of an acid catalyst with a thiol or dithiol. The derivatives are in general cleaved by reaction with Hg(II) salts or oxidation acidic hydrolysis is unsatisfactory. The acyclic derivatives are formed and hydrolyzed much more readily than their cyclic counterparts. Representative examples of formation and cleavage are shown below. 

Ozone cracking is a physicochemical phenomenon. Ozone attack on olefinic double bonds causes chain scission and the formation of decomposition products. The first step in the reaction is the formation of a relatively unstable primary ozonide, which cleaves to an aldehyde or ketone and a carbonyl. Subsequent recombination of the aldehyde and the carbonyl groups produces a second ozonide [58]. Cross-linking products may also be formed, especially with rubbers containing disubstituted carbon-carbon double bonds (e.g. butyl rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber), due to the attack of the carbonyl groups (produced by cleavage of primary ozonides) on the rubber carbon-carbon double bonds. 

FIGURE 19.13 (a) A mechanism for the fructose-l,6-bisphosphate aldolase reaction. The Schlff base formed between the substrate carbonyl and an active-site lysine acts as an electron sink, Increasing the acidity of the /3-hydroxyl group and facilitating cleavage as shown. (B) In class II aldolases, an active-site Zn stabilizes the enolate Intermediate, leading to polarization of the substrate carbonyl group. 

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