Diketone Coupling

De Nicola, A. J., and Bell, J. P., Synthesis and Testing of p-Diketone Coupling Agents for Improved Durability of Epoxy Adhesion to Steel, in Adhesion Aspects of Polymeric Coatings, K. L. Mittal, ed., Plenum Press, New York, 1983, p. 443. 

Far fewer examples of intramolecular diketone coupling have been presented, perhaps because such a process is inherently more difficult [36], Nevertheless, some spectacular successes have been reported [44], leading to unusual, highly strained structural motifs that would be difficult to access by any other means (Eqs. 37, 38). 

The effect of hexanetriol trithioglycolate on the durability of the Versamid 140 cured system is presented in Figure 3. Treatment of the steel surface with this coupling agent results in a considerable increase in water durability. A previous study of B-diketone coupling agents perfonaed in our laboratory... 

Champmartin D and Rubini P 1996 Determination of the 0-17 quadrupolar coupling constant and of the C-13 chemical shielding tensor anisotropy of the CO groups of pentane-2,4-dione and beta-diketonate complexes in solution. NMR relaxation study/norg. Chem. 35 179-83... 

The carbonylation of aryl iodides in the presence of alkyl iodides and Zn Cu couple affords aryl alkyl ketones via the formation of alkylzinc species from alkyl iodides followed by transmetallation and reductive elimination[380]. The Pd-catalyzed carbonylation of the diaryliodonium salts 516 under mild conditions in the presence of Zn affords ketones 517 via phenylzinc. The a-diketone 518 is formed as a byproduct[381],... 

The o -diketone 865 can be prepared by the coupling of the acylstannane 864 with acyl chlorides[738,739]. The a-keto ester 868 is prepared by the coupling of (a-methoxyvinyl)tributylstannane (866) with acyl chloride, followed by ozo-nization of the coupled product 867[740,741],... 

The acylstannanes 874 and 875 are prepared by the reaction of acyl chlorides with (MciSnl - The symmetrical 1,2-diketones 877 can be prepared by the reaction of an excess of benzoyl chloride with (EtjSn) . Half of the benzoyl chloride is converted into the benzoyltin reagent 876, which is then coupled with the remaining benzoyl chloride under a CO atmosphere to afford the a-diketone 877[748], Triethyl phosphite is used as a ligand. 

The coupling of enamines with aromatic diazonium salts has been used for the syntheses of monoarylhydrazones of a-diketones (370,488-492) and a-ketoaldehydes (488,493). Cleavage of the initial enamine double bond and formation of the phenylhydrazone of acetone and acetophenone has been reported with the enamines of isobutyraldehyde and 2-phenylpropionalde-hyde. Rearrangement of the initial coupling product to the hydrazone tautomer is not possible in these examples. 

Retrosynthetic cleavage of the trans A8,9 disubstituted double bond in intermediate 11, the projected precursor of diketone 10, provides phosphorus ylide 12 and aldehyde 13 as potential precursors. In the forward sense, a Wittig reaction could conceivably achieve a convergent coupling of intermediates 12 and 13 with concomitant formation of the requisite trans C8-C9 olefin. Ordinarily, the union of a nonstabilized ylide, such as 12, with an aldehyde would be expected to afford an alkene with a cis geometry.8 Fortunately, however, the Schlosser modification of the Wittig reaction permits the construction of trans olefins from aldehydes and nonstabilized phosphorus ylides.9... 

Barbituric acid can be considered as a cyclized malonic acid diamide (malonyl-urea). It is therefore a cyclic diketone that may be classified, in the sense of the compounds discussed in Section 12.6, as a coupling component with a methylene group activated by two carbonyl groups in the a- and a -positions. The reaction with arenediazonium salts was studied by Nesynov and Besprozvannaya (1971). These authors obtained coupling products (in good yield) that they considered to be arylhydrazones. Coupling with 4-(phenylazo)benzenediazonium chloride was studied by Chandra and Thosh (1991). The lH NMR spectra of these compounds are consistent with the arylhydrazone structure 12.68. 

The coupling reaction of arenediazonium ions with semidione radicals (12.84, obtainable by reduction of 1,2-diketones, 12.83) is also included here in the discussion of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, although it is a coupling with a nucleophilic radical and does not strictly belong in this context. The reaction (Scheme 12-43) was... 

By the radical pathway l, -diesters, -diketones, -dienes or -dihalides, chiral intermediates for synthesis, pheromones and unusual hydrocarbons or fatty acids are accessible in one to few steps. The addition of the intermediate radicals to double bonds affords additive dimers, whereby four units can be coupled in one step. By way of intramolecular addition unsaturated carboxyhc acids can be converted into five raembered hetero- or carbocyclic compounds. These radical reactions are attractive for synthesis because they can tolerate polar functional groups without protection. 

In a related coupling reaction, the reaction of diethyl 2,7-nonadien-l,9-dioate and Mg/MeOH generated a five-membered ring via coupling of an intermediate radical.Treatment of conjugated ketones with Smij in HMPA gave the coupled diketone via Wurtz-type coupling. 

Acyl halides can be coupled with pyrophoric lead to give symmetrical a-diketones in... 

Silyi enol ethers can be dimerized to symmetrical 1,4-diketones by treatment with Ag20 in DMSO or certain other polar aprotic solvents." The reaction has been performed with R , R = hydrogen or alkyl, though best yields are obtained when r = r = H. In certain cases, unsymmetrical 1,4-diketones have been prepared by using a mixture of two silyi enol ethers. Other reagents that have been used to achieve either symmetrical or cross-coupled products are iodosobenzene-Bp3-Et20," ceric ammonium nitrate," and lead tetraacetate." If R =0R (in which case the substrate is a ketene silyi acetal), dimerization with TiCU leads to a dialkyl succinate (34, r =0R)." ... 

The Wittig-Horner procedure, starting from bisphosphonate or aromatic bisphosphine oxide monomers, allows for AA/BB-coupling of the PO-activated bismethylene monomers, not only with aromatic dialdehydes but also with aromatic diketones to the corresponding PPV derivatives (76), and for the selfcondensation of AB-type aromatic starting compounds containing both alde-hyde/keto and PO-activated methylene functions [101]. 

Under different conditions (in aqueous electrolyte) the selectivity of the cleavage reaction may be perturbed by the occurrence of a dimerization process. Thus, while the major process remains the two-electron reductive pathway, 20% of a dimer (y diketone) may be isolated from the cathodic reduction of PhCOCH2S(32CH3. The absence of crosscoupling products when pairs of )S-ketosulphones with different reduction potentials are reduced in a mixture may indicate that the dimerization is mainly a simple radical-radical coupling and not a nucleophilic substitution. 

A cross-coupling reaction of aldehydes with a-diketones proceeded in the presence of water to give the corresponding adducts in moderate to good yield. It is possible to use the substrates such as phenyl-glyoxal monohydrate, aqueous methylglyoxal, formalin, and aqueous a-chloroacetaldehyde for this reaction.330... 

The 1,5- and 1,6-dialdehydes 22 and 24 undergo the annulative pinacol coupling to give the cyclic vzc-diols 23 and 25, respectively (Scheme 13) [29]. The vanadium-catalyzed intramolecular coupling reaction of 1,5-diketone 26 also proceeds with excellent selectivity (Scheme 14) although the intermolecular coupling of ketones such as acetophenone results in low diastereoselectivity under these conditions [21]. 

Because the interligand C—C coupling of the acyl carbon donor atoms in metalla-/3-diketonate complexes [Eq. (8)] is such a general (though unusual) reaction that occurs very facilely, we have proposed (without proof) a formal description of how this type of coupling might take place (44,50). This formalism has been adopted by others to explain the C—C coupling shown in Eq. (10) (47). 

The general interligand C—C coupling reaction shown in Eq. (8) for (metalla-/3-diketonato)BF2 compounds also occurs directly with metalla-/3-diketonate anions, thereby precluding the need to prepare the neutral difluoroboron complexes (53). As a one-pot synthesis, metal carbonyl acetyl compounds can be converted to neutral 77-allyl complexes [Eq. (12)]. 

Nonaflates obtained from enolates of 1,3-diketones and /3-ketoesters serve as easily available coupling partners (93).321... 

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