Coupling reactions Grignard compound

All of the alkenylations and arylations discussed in this section follow the common mechanism exemplified in Figure 16.18. The steps shown in Figure 16.18 may involve more than one elementary reaction, as in the case of the mechanistic course of the Ni-catalyzed C,C coupling with Grignard compounds (Figure 16.12). It should be noted that the basic sequence of steps is very much the same in Figures 16.18 and 16.12. 

Dilithium tetrachlorocuprate is recommended as an additive for cross coupling of Grignard compounds with tosylates even allylic and benzylic acetates give good yields . a-Methylene-ketones, -carboxylic acids and -lactones have been prepared via sulfides and sulfoxides. A convenient and general synthesis of acetylene derivatives from boranes via the reaction of iodine with lithium 1-alkynyltriorganoborates has been published ar-Nitrostyrenes can be easily obtained by a Wittig synthesis with formaldehyde in an aqueous medium . A new synthesis of unsym. ketones by reaction of dialkyldiloroboranes with lithium aldimines has recently been published . Metallo aldimines have also served for the synthesis of a variety of other compound classes such as a-hydroxyketones, a-keto acids, nitriles, and for the asym. synthesis of a-amino acids . Polycondensations of malononitriles with benzylic chlorides have been carried out quantitatively under mild conditions in dimethyl sulfoxide with triethylamine as acid acceptor . Carbonyl compounds can react with dibromoacetonitrile to yield a-bromo esters with additional carbon atom . ... 

Another area of interest to the industrial sector is the development of a more efficient synthesis of biaryl compounds. This has been accompHshed using a Ni(II)-cataly2ed Grignard coupling reaction with an aryl haUde (86—89). 

Benzyl chloride readily forms a Grignard compound by reaction with magnesium in ether with the concomitant formation of substantial coupling product, 1,2-diphenylethane [103-29-7]. Benzyl chloride is oxidized first to benzaldehyde [100-52-7] and then to benzoic acid. Nitric acid oxidizes directly to benzoic acid [65-85-0]. Reaction with ethylene oxide produces the benzyl chlorohydrin ether, CgH CH20CH2CH2Cl (18). Benzylphosphonic acid [10542-07-1] is formed from the reaction of benzyl chloride and triethyl phosphite followed by hydrolysis (19). 

The formation of g-alkyl-a,g-unsaturated esters by reaction of lithium dialkylcuprates or Grignard reagents in the presence of copper(I) iodide, with g-phenylthio-, > g-acetoxy-g-chloro-, and g-phosphoryloxy-a,g-unsaturated esters has been reported. The principal advantage of the enol phosphate method is the ease and efficiency with which these compounds may be prepared from g-keto esters. A wide variety of cyclic and acyclic g-alkyl-a,g-unsaturated esters has been synthesized from the corresponding g-keto esters. However, the method is limited to primary dialkylcuprates. Acyclic g-keto esters afford (Zl-enol phosphates which undergo stereoselective substitution with lithium dialkylcuprates with predominant retention of stereochemistry (usually > 85-98i )). It is essential that the cuprate coupling reaction of the acyclic enol phosphates be carried out at lower temperatures (-47 to -9a°C) to achieve high stereoselectivity. When combined with they-... 

In addition to its uses in photography and medicine, iodine and its compounds have been much exploited in volumetric analysis (iodometry and iodimetry, p. 864). Organoiodine compounds have also played a notable part in the development of synthetic organic chemistry, being the first compounds used in A. W. von Hofmann s alkylation of amines (1850), A. W. Williamson s synthesis of ethers (1851), A. Wurtz s coupling reactions (1855) and V. Grignard s reagents (1900). 

Organic halides play a fundamental role in organic chemistry. These compounds are important precursors for carbocations, carbanions, radicals, and carbenes and thus serve as an important platform for organic functional group transformations. Many classical reactions involve the reactions of organic halides. Examples of these reactions include the nucleophilic substitution reactions, elimination reactions, Grignard-type reactions, various transition-metal catalyzed coupling reactions, carbene-related cyclopropanations reactions, and radical cyclization reactions. All these reactions can be carried out in aqueous media. 

Decomposition of azo compounds and peroxides provides the alkoxyamine by the nitroxide-trapping of the primary radicals [29]. The radicals produced by hydrogen abstraction with oxy radicals are also trapped by the nitroxide [242, 243]. In the photoreaction, alkoxyamines were isolated with high yields [244]. The reactions of Grignard reagents with nitroxides [215] and the coupling reaction of sodium nitroxides with bromo compounds [234,235] are also used. The hydrolysis of 56 followed by the reaction with acyl or alkyl halides afforded alkoxyamines with various functional groups,63 (Eq. 68) [245-251] ... 

Recent notable improvements by Knochel and co-workers include iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of various acid chlorides 148 with dialkylzinc reagents (Equation (24))324 as well as the iron-catalyzed arylation of aroyl cyanides 149 with Grignard reagents (Equation (25)).3 5 In the first case Knochel s reaction conditions tolerate ester groups on the organozinc compounds, while in the latter case ester, aryl alkyl ether, cyano, and chloro functionalities on the aromatic moieties are compatibles with the reaction conditions. 

Finally, attention is drawn to the extensive work of Okazaki and co-workers, wherein two terphenyl units have been attached to a central functionality in order to create novel all-carbon molecular bowl-like molecules.97 For example, the novel molecular bowl compound Ar Br (Ar Br = 2,6-bis(CH2C6H3-2,6-Dmp2)-4-/fT/-butyl-l-bromophenyl), was synthesized by a cross-coupling reaction between the Grignard reagent of the iodoterphenyl... 

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