1,5-diol products

The asymmetric hydrogenation of 5-aryl-5-ketoesters is efficiently catalysed by (78) (Ar = 3,5-Bu 2C6H3) under H2 in presence of EtOH and Bu OK to give chiral 1,5-diol products with excellent enantioselectivity and turnover numbers (TONs) as high as 10 ... 

Cyclopentadiene has also been oxidized by singlet oxygen to 4,5-epoxypenten-2-al-l, cis and trans isomers. These compounds and their hydrogenated diol products are claimed as useful intermediates as cross-linking agents, and in the production of pesticides and perfumes (34). 

Treatment of the following epoxide with aqueous acid produces a carbocation intermediate that reacts with water to give a diol product. Show the structure of the carbocation, and propose a mechanism for the second step. 

The alkoxide ion is protonated by water to give the gem diol product and regenerate the hydroxide ion catalyst. 

In addition, also nonheme iron catalysts containing BPMEN 1 and TPA 2 as ligands are known to activate hydrogen peroxide for the epoxidation of olefins (Scheme 1) [20-26]. More recently, especially Que and coworkers were able to improve the catalyst productivity to nearly quantitative conversion of the alkene by using an acetonitrile/acetic acid solution [27-29]. The carboxylic acid is required to increase the efficiency of the reaction and the epoxide/diol product ratio. The competitive dihydroxylation reaction suggested the participation of different active species in these oxidations (Scheme 2). 

Hydroboration of alkynes is easier to achieve than B-H addition to alkenes. A mixture of alcohol, ketone, and diol products is produced upon [Rh(PPh3)3Cl] catalyzed hydroboration of... 

Several total syntheses of antirhine (11) and 18,19-dihydroantirhine (14) have been developed during the last decade. Wenkert et al. (136) employed a facile route to ( )-18,19-dihydroantirhine, using lactone 196 as a key building block. Base-catalyzed condensation of methyl 4-methylnicotinate (193) with methyl oxalate, followed by hydrolysis, oxidative decarboxylation with alkaline hydrogen peroxide, and final esterification, resulted in methyl 4-(methoxycar-bonylmethyl)nicotinate (194). Condensation of 194 with acetaldehyde and subsequent reduction afforded nicotinic ester derivative 195, which was reduced with lithium aluminum hydride, and the diol product obtained was oxidized with manganese dioxide to yield the desired lactone 196. Alkylation of 196 with tryptophyl bromide (197) resulted in a pyridinium salt whose catalytic reduction... 

Thus the observed product ratio [aldehyde or ketone] [ 1,2-diol] is dependent on the concentration of alcohol. At low [alcohol] more aldehyde or ketone is produced whereas at high [alcohol] more 1,2-diol products are formed. In both cases, the dinuclear complex [Cu2 (Ls )2]2+ is the catalytically competent form. 

Dibromo-2)4-dicyanobutane, 4 358t 2-Dibromo-2-butene-l,4-diol, production... 

Ring opening of the epoxide and generation of the diol product proceeds by a two-step process. In the first step the epoxide is opened forming an alkylated enzyme, and in the second step the diol product is released and enzyme is regenerated. Mechanistically, the two... 

With the analogous reagent 125, however, the corresponding allylboronate intermediate 126 is thought to favor a transition structure 127 where the a-substituent is positioned in a pseudo-axial orientation in order to escape nonbonding interactions with the bulky tetraphenyl dioxaborolane (Eq. 99). This way, a Z-configured allylic alcohol unit of opposite configuration is obtained in diol product 128. This type of steric control with chiral a-substituted allylboronates... 

A mild one-pot procedure based on a platinum-catalyzed diborylation of 1,3-butadienes (see Eq. 30) gives doubly allylic boronate 144, which adds to an aldehyde to form a quaternary carbon center in the intermediate 145 (Eq. 105). The use of a tartrate auxiliary in this process leads to good levels of enantiose-lectivity in the final diol product, which is obtained after oxidation of the primary alkylboronate intermediate. Although examples of aliphatic, aromatic, and unsaturated aldehydes have been described, enantioselectivities vary widely (33 to 74% ee), and are good only for aliphatic aldehydes. An intramolecular variant of this interesting tandem reaction is also known. ... 

Fig. 1.8 for the first two ring-closing steps), giving first a mono-THF, then a bis-THF intermediate and finally the penta-tetrahydrofuranyl diol product (penta-THF in Fig. 1.8) [352],... 

The isoprenoid polyenes famesyl acetate, geranyl acetate and squalene underwent oxidative poly cyclisation to bis-, tris- and penta-tetrahydrofurans with RuO /aq. Na(IO )/CH3CN-EtOAc [185]-[188]. This oxidative polycyclisation of squalene with RuO was shown to lead to the cis-threo-cis-threo-trans-threo-trans-threo-trans penta-tetrahydrofuranyl diol product, this configuration being determined by 2D-NMR (Fig. 3.14) [185]-[188] cf mech. Fig. 1.8 [185]. 

Enzyme catalysed hydrolysis of racemic epoxides is interesting from a practical point of view. This reaction is catalysed by epoxide hydrolases (EHs, EC 3.3.2.3) (Archelas and Furstoss, 1998). Mammalian EHs are the most widely studied and they are divided into five groups among which the soluble (cytosolic) epoxide hydrolases (sEH) and microsomal epoxide hydrolases (mEH) are best charactelised. The mechanism of sEH from rat starts with a nucleophilic attack by Asp333 on a carbon of the epoxide (usually the least hindered one) to form a glycol monoester intermediate which is stabilised by an oxyanion hole. A water molecule activated by His523 releases the 1,2-diol product. An... 

Scheme 4.33 Some examples of products obtained by hydrolase-catalyzed desymmetrizations of meso-diols (products shown).

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