Carbonyl groups organometallic reactions

The reduction of unsaturated carbonyl compounds by metal hydrides, and the reaction of organometallic nucleophiles with them, is a complicated story.87 It is more common than not, in each case, to get direct attack at the carbonyl group, but reaction in the conjugate position is well known. Conjugate reduction of a/i-unsaturated ketones by metal hydrides increases88 in the sequences Bu2iAlH < LiAlH4 < LiAlH(OMe)3 < LiAlH(OBu )3 and... 

Scheme 7.1 Carbonyl group arylation reactions catalyzed by organometallic reagents.

The addition of carbon nucleophile, including organometallic compounds, enolates, or enols, and ylides to carbonyl gro is an important method of formation of carbon-carbon bonds. Such reactions are- ctremely important in synthesis and will be discussed extensively in Part B. Here, we will examine some of the fundamental mechanistic aspects of addition of carbon nucleophiles to carbonyl groups. 

For reviews of the addition of organometallic compounds to carbonyl groups, see Eicher, T. in Patai, Ref. 2, p. 621 Kharasch, M.S. Reinmuth, O. Grignard Reactions of Nonmetallic Substances, Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1954, p. 138. For a review of reagents that extend carbon chains by three carbons, with some functionality at the new terminus, see Stowell, J.C. Chem. Rev., 1984, 84, 409. 

Organopalladium intermediates are also involved in the synthesis of ketones and other carbonyl compounds. These reactions involve acylpalladium intermediates, which can be made from acyl halides or by reaction of an organopalladium species with carbon monoxide. A second organic group, usually arising from any organometallic reagent, can then form a ketone. Alternatively, the acylpalladium intermediate may react with nucleophilic solvents such as alcohols to form esters. 

The attack on coordinated carbon monoxide by nucleophiles was first extensively developed in synthetic organometallic chemistry by E. 0. Fischer and his students (6) as discussed by others in this volume, this reaction provides one route to the reduction of coordinated CO and to catalysis of the water gas shift reaction. Those carbonyl groups which are susceptible to attack by nucleophiles are electron deficient, as judged by their high CO stretcing frequencies (7). 

The balance between biocatalytic and other, organometallic-based, methodology is heavily biased in favour of the latter section when considering reduction reactions of importance in synthetic organic chemistry. Two areas will be described to illustrate the point, namely the reduction of carbonyl groups and the reduction of alkenes, not least since these points of focus complement experimental work featured later in the book. 

Organometallic compounds, 14 550-551 25 71. See also Organometallics carbides contrasted, 4 648 as initiators, 14 256-257 iridium, 19 649-650 molybdenum(III), 17 27 osmium, 19 642-643 palladium, 19 652 platinum, 19 656-657 reaction with carbonyl groups, 10 505-506 rhodium, 19 645-646 ruthenium, 19 639 sodium in manufacture of, 22 777 titanium(IV), 25 105-120 Organometallic fullerene derivatives,... 

The addition of organometallic reagents to the carbonyl group of conveniently substituted aldonolactones constitutes a viable chain-extension method. The reaction leads to the formation of hemiacetals of glyculoses, 1-methylene sugars, and C-glycosyl compounds, which are precursors of, or occur as subunits of, a variety of natural products. 

Many catalysts do not use metals in their pure reduced metallic forms. Anchored organometallic complexes are often analogs of homogenous catalysts fixed on a solid support. In particular, titanate complexes both in solution and in supported form have been found to be especially active in transesterifications of simple esters.It was proposed that titanates catalyze the transesterification reaction through a Lewis acid mechanism where the reactant ester and metal form a Lewis complex activating the carbonyl groups for a nucleophilic attack by the reactant alcohol. The tetrahedral intermediate that is formed breaks down into the product alcohol and an ester-metal Lewis... 

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