Carboxylic acids compounds, Unsaturated carbonyl

Tributyltin hydride, 316 Tributyltinlithium, 319 Trichloroacetonitrile, 321 Other carbohydrates (Diethylamino)sulfur trifluoride, 110 Triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate, 44 Carbonates (see also Enol carbonates) Carbon dioxide, 65 Di-/-butyl dicarbonate, 94 Carboxylic acids (see also Dicarbonyl compounds, Unsaturated carbonyl compounds)... 

Reduction of multiple bonds with samarium diiodide has been reviewed. Chemo-and stereo-selective reduction of various compounds such as conjugated alkenes, c/,/3-unsaturated carboxylic acids, activated alkynes, carbonyl, azides, nitriles, and nitro compounds, under mild conditions, has been discussed. Recent developments in the use of samarium metal in this field have also been discussed.381... 

Formation of carboxylic acids ami their derivatives. Aryl and alkenyl halides undergo Pd-catalyzed carbonylation under mild conditions, offering useful synthetic methods for carbonyl compounds. The facile CO insertion into aryl- or alkenylpalladium complexes, followed by the nucleophilic attack of alcohol or water affords esters or carboxylic acids. Aromatic and a,/ -unsaturated carboxylic acids or esters are prepared by the carbonylation of aryl and alkenyl halides in water or alcohols[30l-305]. 

The benzotriazolyl derivative of acrolein acetal, compound 882, is lithiated, treated with chlorodiphenylphosphine, and the obtained intermediate is oxidized with hydrogen peroxide to phosphine oxide 883 (Scheme 145). The relatively acidic proton in derivative 883 is easily removed by a base, and the obtained anion adds to a carbonyl group of aldehyde or ketone. Subsequent rearrangement and elimination of the phosphorane group generates diene 884. For the derivatives of aldehydes (884, R2 = H), (E)-(E) stereoselectivity of the elimination is observed. Acidic alcoholysis of dienes 884 affords esters of P,y-unsaturated carboxylic acids 885 < 1997JOC4131>. 

Reduction of a., -unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Hydrosilanes, particularly (QH,)2SiH2, in the presence of Pd(0), and a Lewis acid, particularly ZnCl2, can effect selective conjugate reduction of unsaturated ketones, aldehydes, and carboxylic acid derivatives. Chloroform is the solvent of choice. In addition, 1 equiv. of water is required. Experiments with D,0 and (C6H,),SiD2 indicate that... 

Catalysts suitable specifically for reduction of carbon-oxygen bonds are based on oxides of copper, zinc and chromium Adkins catalysts). The so-called copper chromite (which is not necessarily a stoichiometric compound) is prepared by thermal decomposition of ammonium chromate and copper nitrate [50]. Its activity and stability is improved if barium nitrate is added before the thermal decomposition [57]. Similarly prepared zinc chromite is suitable for reductions of unsaturated acids and esters to unsaturated alcohols [52]. These catalysts are used specifically for reduction of carbonyl- and carboxyl-containing compounds to alcohols. Aldehydes and ketones are reduced at 150-200° and 100-150 atm, whereas esters and acids require temperatures up to 300° and pressures up to 350 atm. Because such conditions require special equipment and because all reductions achievable with copper chromite catalysts can be accomplished by hydrides and complex hydrides the use of Adkins catalyst in the laboratory is very limited. 

Enamine nucleophiles react readily with soft conjugated electrophiles, such as a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl, nitro, and sulfonyl compounds [20-22], Both aldehydes and ketones can be used as donors (Schemes 27 and 28). These Michael-type reactions are highly useful for the construction of carbon skeletons and often the yields are very high. The problem, however, is the enantioselectivity of the process. Unlike the aldol and Mannich reactions, where even simple proline catalyst can effectively direct the addition to the C = O or C = N bond by its carboxylic acid moiety, in conjugate additions the charge develops further away from the catalyst (Scheme 26) ... 

The highly ionic thallic nitrate, which is soluble in alcohols, ethers, and carboxylic acids, is also a very useful synthetic reagent. Oxidation of olefins, a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, p-carbonyl sulfides, and Ot-nitrato ketones can all be conveniently carried out in good yields (31,34—36). 

Oxidation of the allylic carbon of alkenes may lead to allylic alcohols and derivatives or a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Selenium dioxide is the reagent of choice to carry out the former transformation. In the latter process, which is more difficult to accomplish, Cr(VI) compounds are usually applied. In certain cases, mixture of products of both types of oxidation, as well as isomeric compounds resulting from allylic rearrangement, may be formed. Oxidation of 2-alkenes to the corresponding cc,p-unsaturated carboxylic acids, particularly the oxidation of propylene to acrolein and acrylic acid, as well as ammoxidation to acrylonitrile, has commercial importance (see Sections 9.5.2 and 9.5.3). 

Oxetanes can be formed by intramolecular reaction between a carbonyl group and an alkene, and this has been used (4.74) in making analogues of thromboxane A, (one of the compounds responsible for the control of blood clotting), albeit usually as the minor product. A special case of intramolecular reaction is seen for a,p-unsaturated carboxylic acids 14.75), where the product is an oxete that is tautomeric with a p-lactone. Oxetes may also be formed by photocycloaddition of ketones or aldehydes with alkynes the oxete normally ring-opens at room temperature to give an a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compound (4.76), but at lower temperatures its spectral... 

The functions of flavoprotein enzymes are numerous and diversified.151-1533 A few of them are shown in Table 15-2 and are classified there as follows (A) oxidation of hemiacetals to lactones, (B) oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, (C) oxidation of amines to imines, (D) oxidation of carbonyl compounds or carboxylic acids to a,(3-unsaturated compounds,... 

The Gabriel-Cromwell reaction of amines with chiral c/., 3-unsaturated a-bromo carbonyl compounds was exploited for the synthesis of aziridine-2-carboxylic acid derivatives. 79 This procedure was optimized for a solid support synthesis in which the peptide resin was acylated with 2,3-dibromopropanoic acid active ester in the presence of 3 equivalents of NMM to produce directly on resin the a-bromoacrylamide for the addition of amines to produce the aziridine ring. 80 ... 

In a similar manner, carbonyl carbons in a, /f-unsaturated aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids are shielded by about 10 ppm when compared with those of corresponding saturated carbonyl compounds [73] ... 

Primary and secondary alkyl peroxyesters thermally decompose by a nonradical process, giving almost quantitative yields of carboxylic acids and carbonyl compounds. Art-Alkyl peroxyesters are much less sensitive to radical-induced decompositions than diacyl peroxides. Induced decomposition is only significant in peroxyesters containing nonhindered a-hydrogens or a, /(-unsaturation. 

See also page 403, Section 6, for the synthesis of a,/3-unsaturated nitriles, carboxylic acids and derivatives, and page 1711, Section 4, for the homologation of carbonyl compounds. 

Table V is also an index to Table I it classifies the compounds according to the functional groups they contain. One frequently wants to examine data on carbonyl compounds, on unsaturated or halogenated ketones, or another more or less specific class of substances, and the purpose of Table V is to simplify searches of this sort. Pyruvic acid appears in Table V both among the ketones and among the carboxylic acids, and Inspection of either group would quickly reveal any closely related compound that appears in this volume.

Carbonyl compounds will be taken in this chapter to mean any organic compound that contains at least one carbon-oxygen double bond where we limit the substitution to only saturated aliphatic, saturated alicyclic and aryl hydrocarbyl groups. Carbonyl compounds with a variety of unsaturated substituents have earlier been discussed within the context of enones4. Non-hydrocarbyl substituents, X , may be directly attached to the carbonyl and elsewhere in the molecule. The first type of species, RCOX, is alternatively identified as acyl derivatives such as carboxylic acids and their esters, halides and amides and have already been discussed in a recent Patai thermochemistry... 

This section reviews some of the futher important methods of synthesis of (i) unsaturated alcohols, (ii) unsaturated carbonyl compounds, and (iii) unsaturated carboxylic acids. It also provides an opportunity to consider those methods which were not conveniently included elsewhere, but which are of great importance and interest. 

This chapter will be divided into sections according to the electrophiles aldehydes and ketones, imines and iminium salts, carboxylic acid derivatives and finally a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, which undergo conjugate additions. Further subdivision will be made according to the nature of the nucleophile, i.e. 0-, N-, S-, P- or C-nucleophiles. Finally, multicomponent heterocyclic syntheses will be mentioned, if they consist at least of one iron-catalyzed addition step to a carbonyl compound. 

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