Deoxygenation radical

Scheme 7. Deoxygenative radical cascade for the stereoselective construction of spiro structures...

Addition of small amounts of (CH3)2S (5 x 10 5 — 5 x 10"4m) to deoxygenated solutions of 3m HC104 and 0.5m DMSO leads to replacement of the 285 nm absorption by 465 nm absorption which is known to belong to the complexed three-electron-bonded radical cation of the disulfide47. 

Another methodology is the deoxygenation of nitroxides by (TMSlsSiH, shown in Reaction (22). Indeed, the reaction of this silane with TEMPO, in the presence of thermal or photochemical radical initiators, afforded the corresponding amine in quantitative yield, together with the siloxane (TMS)2Si (H)OTMS. 

The low reactivity of alkyl and/or phenyl substituted organosilanes in reduction processes can be ameliorated in the presence of a catalytic amount of alkanethiols. The reaction mechanism is reported in Scheme 5 and shows that alkyl radicals abstract hydrogen from thiols and the resulting thiyl radical abstracts hydrogen from the silane. This procedure, which was coined polarity-reversal catalysis, has been applied to dehalogenation, deoxygenation, and desulfurization reactions.For example, 1-bromoadamantane is quantitatively reduced with 2 equiv of triethylsilane in the presence of a catalytic amount of ferf-dodecanethiol. 

Chidsey and coworkers made pioneering works in preparing covalently bonded monolayer films on silicon surfaces by the radical-initiated reaction of 1-alkenes with the H-Si(lll) surfaces. Reactions were carried out in neat deoxygenated alkenes using thermal decomposition of diacyl peroxides as the... 

Unsymmetrical alkenes can be prepared from a mixture of two ketones, if one is in excess. " The mechanism consists of initial coupling of two radical species to give a 1,2-dioxygen compound (a titanium pinacolate), which is then deoxygenated. " ... 

As for the synthesis of 5-e/j/-KDG, compound 6 seemed to be a suitable precursor of the methyl ester of 5-deoxy-KDG 20 since only the C-5 hydroxyl was unprotected. In this case the key step was not the epimerization but the removal of that hydroxyl. Our attempts of radicalar deoxygenation of 6 were unsuccessful because the intermediate radical was intramolecularly trappy by the C-2.C-3 double bound. Therefore we first reduced the double bond and then converted the resulting diastereoisomeric alcohols 14 into the corresponding triflates 15 which were submitted to the action of sodium iodide. Finally the iodides 16 Aus obtained were hydrogenolyzed in the presence of diisopropylethylamin to give 17. 

ESR spectrum of the RjSn radical (R = 2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl), spontaneously generated upon dissolving distannane RBSn-SnRj in deoxygenated toluene, revealed at -140°C in the solid state the Sn hfcc of 163 Such a radical is more planar than the PhjSn radical ( Sn hfcc = 186.6mT) but less planar than the MejSn radical C Snhfcc = 161.1 mT)3° ... 

To the best of our knowledge the first successful realization of this concept was achieved by Kochi in 1968, who described the deoxygenation of epoxides with Cr(II) reagents. However, no further attempts were undertaken to form C - C bonds with the pivotal /3-metaloxy radicals [25]. 

Imidazole-A-thionocarboxylates (also called thiocarbonylimidazolides ) are intermediates in a convenient radical-induced deoxygenation of primary and secondary alcohols with tributylstannane (Barton reaction).[1],[2]... 

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