Catalytic hydrogenation procedure

Earlier, the reduction of y-nitro esters with zinc and ammonium chloride had been shownto provide a suitable route to A-hydroxy 2-pyiTolidones, e.g., 42. Various catalytic hydrogenation procedures can also effect the same reductive cyclization. ... 

Optically active esters in which the activity is due to asymmetry of the a-carbon atom ate racemized by the Bouveault-Blanc and catalytic hydrogenation procedures. The optically active alcohols may be prepared by the addition of small pieces of sodium to a stirred mixture of an ethereal solution of the ester and aqueous sodium acetate at 0°. A slight acidity is maintained by periodic additions of acetic acid (Prin s method).An asymmetric center in the alpha position to a carboxyl group is not racemized by lithium aluminum hydride. ... 

Both the Bouveault-Blanc and catalytic hydrogenation proceduresare popular methods for the preparation d dials from esters of dibasic acids. The reduction of malonic esters, /3-keto esters, and /3-hydroxy esters by the usual catalytic hydrogenation procedure results in extensive bydrogenolysis of the carbon chain to give lower-molecular-weight alcohols. However, with relatively large amounts of catalyst... 

Preparative Methods minor improvements to the original catalytic hydrogenation procedure have been described (eq 1). ... 

Te/HOAc procedure (cited in [16]) Catalytic hydrogenation procedure (cited in [16]) ... 

The carbonyl group of carbohydrates can be reduced to an alcohol function Typi cal procedures include catalytic hydrogenation and sodium borohydnde reduction Lithium aluminum hydride is not suitable because it is not compatible with the solvents (water alcohols) that are required to dissolve carbohydrates The products of carbohydrate reduc tion are called alditols Because these alditols lack a carbonyl group they are of course incapable of forming cyclic hemiacetals and exist exclusively m noncyclic forms... 

M. Ereifelder, in Catalytic Hydrogenation in Organic Synthesis Procedures and Commentay, ]ohrs Wiley Sons, Inc., New York, 1978, Chapts. 5, 7. P. N. Rylander, Inc., Catalytic Hydrogenation in Organic Syntheses, Academic Press, New York, 1979. 

Reduction of the halogen substituent has been carried out by different procedures such as catalytic hydrogenation using palladium-carbon or Raney nickel, red phosphorus and hydroiodic acid, and zinc and sulfuric acid (66AHQ6)347). 3-Deuteropyrazole has been... 

The procedure described is a modification of the directions of Prelog, Frenkiel, Kobelt, and Barman. Cyclodecanone has been prepared by the dehydration of sebacoin followed by catalytic hydrogenation, by the pyrolysis of the thorium or yttrium salt of nonane-1,9-dicarboxylie acid, and by the ring enlargement of cyclononanone, as well as by the reduction of sebacoin. ... 

In the minds of many, especially those who have not had the opportunity to use it, catalytic hydrogenation has acquired an aura of mystery the choice of catalyst seems capricious, operating conditions arbitrary, catalyst preparation secret, and the working of the catalyst unfathomable. It is the purpose of this work to meet these objections to provide rationale for choice of catalyst and conditions to acquaint the reader with catalysts, equipment, and procedure and to impart the conviction that hydrogenation is a powerful, readily handled, broad-scoped procedure of general utility for synthesis in both laboratory and industrial plant. 

Ethyl l-cyano-2-methylcyclohexanecarboxylate has been prepared by catalytically hydrogenating the Diels-Alder adduct from butadiene and ethyl 2-cyano-2-butenoate3 and by the procedure described in this preparation.4 8 This procedure illustrates a general method for the preparation of alicyclic compounds by the cyclization of <5-ethylenic carbon radicals l.6 Whereas the primary 5-hexen-l-yl radical 1... 

Whether activated or not, halogeno substituents may be removed in favor of hydrogen by chemical reduction or by catalytic hydrogenation (usually in the presence of a base and often accompanied by nuclear reduction). Such dechlorination may also be achieved by loss of hydrogen halide from a nucleus-reduced quinoxaline. The following examples illustrate these procedures. 

Amides are very weak nucleophiles, far too weak to attack alkyl halides, so they must first be converted to their conjugate bases. By this method, unsubstituted amides can be converted to N-substituted, or N-substituted to N,N-disubstituted, amides. Esters of sulfuric or sulfonic acids can also be substrates. Tertiary substrates give elimination. O-Alkylation is at times a side reaction. Both amides and sulfonamides have been alkylated under phase-transfer conditions. Lactams can be alkylated using similar procedures. Ethyl pyroglutamate (5-carboethoxy 2-pyrrolidinone) and related lactams were converted to N-alkyl derivatives via treatment with NaH (short contact time) followed by addition of the halide. 2-Pyrrolidinone derivatives can be alkylated using a similar procedure. Lactams can be reductively alkylated using aldehydes under catalytic hydrogenation... 

Caution Most selenium compounds are toxic consequently care should be exercised in handling them. The hydrogen peroxide oxidation of selenides is highly exothermic, acid-catalyzed, and auto-catalytic. The procedure given for adding the hydrogen peroxide solution should be carefully followed. 

It is interesting to remark that classical hydrogenation is a method used to prepare deuterium-labeled compounds by aromatic dehalogenation, but the usual reaction conditions suffer from several limitations. A microwave-enhanced catalytic dehalogenation procedure for rapid and specific deuterium labeling of N-4-picolyl-4-halogenobenzamide 68, by use of deuterated formate, [41] was recently reported (Scheme 8.25). 

Neither tritium or deuterium gas, with zero dipole moments, can be expected to interact positively with microwave radiation. Their low solubilities are seen as a further disadvantage. Our thoughts therefore turned towards an alternative procedure, of using solid tritium donors and the one that has found most favor with us is formate, usually as the potassium, sodium or ammonium salt. Catalytic hydrogen transfer of this kind is remarkably efficient as the results for a-methylcinnamic acid show [50]. The thermal reaction, when performed at a temperature of 50 °C, takes over 2 h to come to equilibrium whereas the microwave-enhanced reaction is complete within 5 min. A further advantage is that more sterically hindered al-kenes such as a-phenylcinnamic acid which are reduced with extreme difficulty when using H2 gas and Wilkinson s catalyst are easily reduced under microwave-enhanced conditions. 

Reactions of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles with radicals and carbenes are virtually unknown. Catalytic hydrogenations and dissolving metal reductions usually cleave the N-S bond in a reversal of the oxidative cyclization procedures used in synthesis of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles (see Section 5.08.9.4). 

I. New Procedures for Reduction of Nitroso Acetals Containing the N- OSiMejRu1 Fragment Selective reduction of cyclic nitroso acetals was briefly considered in Section 3.4.3.4.3. The latest data on catalytic hydrogenation of cyclic and NOSiN Bu -containing acyclic nitroso acetals (including... 

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