Copper reagent preparation

Addition to dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate.22 The copper reagent prepared by reaction of RMgBr and CuBr S(CH3)2 in THF adds stereoselectively to dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give dimethyl 2-alkylmaleates in 70-95% yield (equation I). 

Halogen-copper exchange, in copper reagent preparation,... 

Copper halide transmetallation of a fluorovinylzinc reagent and refunctionalization of the copper reagent preparation of (Z)-1,1,2,5,5,5-hexafluoro-4-iodo-3-trifluoro methylpenta-1,3-diene15-16... 

An important question, studied in considerable detail, is whether the oxidative cleavage of catechol and o-benzoquinone does or does not require molecular oxygen. Experiments under anaerobic conditions with the "copper reagent" prepared in the absence of oxygen yielded essentially the same amounts of 21 as the aerobic syntheses. The obvious conclusion is that catechol is stoichiometrically oxidized by a copper(II) species and molcular oxygen is not involved in the cleavage. The function of 0 is merely to reoxidize the copper(I) formed. 

Fleming and Roessler have reported that the silyl-copper reagent prepared by mixing two molar equivalents of dimethylphenylsilyl-lithium with one of copper(l) cyanide reacts with terminal acetylenes to give vinyl-copper intermediates with silicon almost exclusively (>99%) at the terminal position [e.g. (30)]. These intermediates react stereospecifically with a wide range of electrophiles, providing access to a variety of 2,2-disubstituted vinylsilanes. ... 

Rao and Knochel have reported the addition of copper reagents prepared by transmetallation from polyfunctional organozinc iodides to reactive alkynes in a stereochemically well-defined syn-addition. Intramolecular carbocupration of functionalized alkynyl-substituted alkylcopper species such as 74 obtained from the alkyl iodide 75 allows the preparation of highly substituted five-membered car-bocylcles giving stereochemically pure exo-alkylidenecyclopentane derivatives such as 76. The lower reactivity compared to the lithium- or magnesium-copper reagents does not allow the reaction with unactivated terminal alkynes but tolerates ester, nitrile or chloride functions (Scheme 9.23) [34]. 

After the air in the flask had been replaced completely with nitrogen, 100 ml of dry diethyl ether, 0.20 mol of the cumulenic ether (see Chapter V, Exps. 7, 8 and 11) and 1 g (note 1) of copper(l) bromide were placed in it. A solution of the Grignard-reagent, prepared from 0.50 mol of the chloride (see Chapter II,... 

This complex should be used when the organolithium is in solution in a hydrocarbon solvent. For organolithium reagents prepared in ether (see Note 4), the same complex may be used or, more conveniently, copper iodide (Cull can be used. The Cul purchased from Prolabo or Merck 4 Company, Inc. may be used directly. Other commercial sources of Cul (Fluka, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Alfa Products, Morton/Thiokol, Inc.) furnish a salt which affords better results when purified. 1 mol of Cul is stirred for 12 hr with 500 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran, then filtered on a sintered glass funnel ( 3), washed twice with 50 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran, once with 50 ml of anhydrous ether and finally dried under reduced pressure (0.1 imO for 4 hr. 

In 1958 Simmons and Smith described a new and general synthesis of cyclopropanes by treatment of olefins with a reagent prepared from methylene iodide and a zinc-copper couple in ether solution. 

Only few examples of functionalized copper reagents have been prepared The perfluoroallyleopper reagent was prepared via metathesis of the corresponding perfluoroallylcadmium compound [146] (equation 159) Reaction of the allyl... 

Reductive coupling reaction of fluonnated vinyl iodides or bromides has been used as a route to fluorinated dienes [246, 247, 248, 249, 250. Generally, the vinyl iodide is heated with copper metal in DMSO or DMF no 1 ntermediate perfluorovmy I-copper reagent is detected. Typical examples are shown m equations 163-165 [246, 247, 249. The X-ray crystal structure of perfluorotetracyclobutacyclooctatetraene, prepared via coupling of tetrafluoro-l,2-diiodocyclobutene with copper, is planar... 

Optically active five- or six-membered cyclic A -acyliminium ions of this type are generated from the a-inethoxy derivatives, easily obtainable through anodic methoxylation of intermediates that are prepared via ex-chiral-pool syntheses from certain natural amino acids. Reaction of 5-substituted five-membered cyclic A -acyliminium ions with various nucleophiles leads to the predominant formation of cw-products with moderate selectivity. The trans-selective reaction with alkyl copper reagents appears to be an exception. 

Another type of copper reagent was prepared from RZnI/CuCN, and this was shown to couple with alkenyl halides." ... 

Among other methods for the preparation of alkylated ketones are (1) the Stork enamine reaction (12-18), (2) the acetoacetic ester synthesis (10-104), (3) alkylation of p-keto sulfones or sulfoxides (10-104), (4) acylation of CH3SOCH2 followed by reductive cleavage (10-119), (5) treatment of a-halo ketones with lithium dialkyl-copper reagents (10-94), and (6) treatment of a-halo ketones with trialkylboranes (10-109). 

Vinylic copper reagents react with CICN to give vinyl cyanides, though BrCN and ICN give the vinylic halide instead." Vinylic cyanides have also been prepared by the reaction between vinylic lithium compounds and phenyl cyanate PhOCN." Alkyl cyanides (RCN) have been prepared, in varying yields, by treatment of sodium trialkylcyanoborates with NaCN and lead tetraacetate." Vinyl bromides reacted with KCN, in the presence of a nickel complex and zinc metal to give the vinyl nitrile. Vinyl triflates react with LiCN, in the presence of a palladium catalyst, to give the vinyl nitrile." ... 

Another way is to dissolve an alkylcopper compound in an alkyllithium solution. Higher order cuprates can also be prepared, as well as non-ate copper reagents. Metallocenes (see p. 53) are usually made by this method ... 

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