Diols hydroxy ketones

DMSO, molybdenum peroxide, benzene, reflux, 7-20 h, 60% yield. This method was used to m onoprotect 1,2-diols. The method is not general because oxidation to a-hydroxy ketones and diketones occurs with some substrates. On the basis of the mechanism and the results it would app>ear that overoxidation has a strong conformational dependence. 

The milder metal hydnde reagents are also used in stereoselective reductions Inclusion complexes of amine-borane reagent with cyclodexnins reduce ketones to opucally active alcohols, sometimes in modest enantiomeric excess [59] (equation 48). Diisobutylaluminum hydride modified by zmc bromide-MMA. A -tetra-methylethylenediamme (TMEDA) reduces a,a-difluoro-[i-hydroxy ketones to give predominantly erythro-2,2-difluoro-l,3-diols [60] (equation 49). The three isomers are formed on reduction with aluminum isopropoxide... 

Now the ether may be disconnected, diol (13) being the obvious starting material. This contains an i-hydroxy ketone so we might consider disconnecting an acyl anion equivalent from a ketone. If we use an acetylene, the starting material (14) is symmetrical so hydration presents no problems,... 

Reduction of (3-hydroxy ketones through chelated TSs favors. yy -l,3-diols. Boron chelates have been exploited to achieve this stereoselectivity.129 One procedure involves in situ generation of diethylmethoxyboron, which then forms a chelate with the (3-hydroxyketone. Reduction with NaBH4 leads to the vyn-diol.130... 

Tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydride gives anft -l,3-diols from (3-hydroxy ketones.136 These reactions are thought to occur by a rapid exchange that introduces the hydroxy group as a boron ligand. 

The use of trifluorosilanes permits reactions through hexacoordinate silicon, which presents an opportunity for chelation control. For example, a-hydroxy ketones give syn diols.110... 

The cyclization of y -hydroxy ketones is useful for the formation of pyrans,306,403 both directly and via rearrangement, as illustrated in Eq. 231.153 As with their acyclic counterparts, these cyclizations also occur with the silyl ethers of the hydroxy ketones where Et3SiH/BiBr3 is used with the TBS and TES ethers.342,404 A methyl thiomethyl ether is also capable of undergoing the reductive cyclization 405 In like manner, 1,4-diols and e-hydroxy ketones provide oxepanes, with I ds Si H or PhMe2SiH/TMSOTf being especially effective (Eqs. 232 and 233).336,406 The trimethylsilyl ether of the alcohol also provides the oxepane.306... 

In the hydrogenation of diketones by Ru-binap-type catalysts, the degree of anti-selectivity is different between a-diketones and / -diketones [Eqs (13) and (14)]. A variety of /1-diketones are reduced by Ru-atropisomeric diphosphine catalysts to indicate admirable anti-selectivity, and the enantiopurity of the obtained anti-diol is almost 100% (Table 21.17) [105, 106, 110-112]. In this two-step consecutive hydrogenation of diketones, the overall stereochemical outcome is determined by both the efficiency of the chirality transfer by the catalyst (catalyst-control) and the structure of the initially formed hydroxyketones having a stereogenic center (substrate-control). The hydrogenation of monohydrogenated product ((R)-hydroxy ketone) with the antipode catalyst ((S)-binap catalyst) (mis-... 

Cyanohydrins are starting materials of widespread interest for preparing important compounds such as a-hydroxy acids/esters, a-amino acids, / -amino alcohols, a-hydroxy aldehydes, vicinal diols, and a-hydroxy ketones. Cyanohydrin compounds can be synthesized using various chiral catalysts such as cyclic... 

R)-l results in the (R)-hydroxy ketone (3) as expected. Further hydrogenation with the same catalyst gives R,R-4 and meso-4 in the ratio 99 1. In contrast, hydrogenation of 3 catalyzed by Ru-(S)-1 gives the same diols, but in the ratio... 

Stereoselective hydrogenation ofl -diketones. Hydrogenation of 1,3-alkane-diones catalyzed by Ru2Cl4[(R)-l][N(C2H5)3] results in anf/-l,3-diols with high dias-tereoisomeric and enantiomeric excesses (equation I). Under the same conditions l-phenyl-l,3-butanedione (2) is reduced mainly to the (3-hydroxy ketone 3 in 98%... 

Hydrosilylation of fi-hydroxy ketones.1 (3-Silyloxy ketones (2), prepared by silylation of (3-hydroxy ketones with 1 under the usual conditions (DMAP or Py), on treatment with a Lewis acid form a mixture of siladioxanes, 3a and 3b, which on desilylation with HF is converted into a mixture of anti- and syn-diols (4). The... 

Reduction of a-methyl-fi-hydroxy ketones,2 The r-butyldimethylsilyl ethers of these ketones, in which chelation is difficult, are reduced by lithium aluminum hydride with a high degree of 1,2-anri-selectivity. This reaction can therefore afford either aM ,a/iri-l,3-diols or anti,syn- 1,3-diols with high selectivity. 

Bu2Sn=0 Selective oxidation of 1,2-diols to a-hydroxy ketones was electro-chemically achieved in a double mediatory system consisting of dialkyl tin oxide and the bromide ion (Fig. 3) [34]. 

For example, 1,2-diol (14) was selectively oxidized to give a-hydroxy ketone (15) in 84% yield at a current consumption of 2 F mol , even though the electrolysis was carried out in the presence of... 

Kalaitzakis, D., Rozzell, J.D., Kambourakis, S. and Smonou, I., Synthesis of valuable chiral intermediates by isolated ketoreductases application in the s3mthesis of -alkyl—hydroxy ketones and 1,3-diols. Adv. Synth. Catal, 2006, 348, 1958-1969. 

The reduction of a-hydroxy ketones 43 to 1,2-diols 44 was achieved in good yield and high diastereoselectivity in favour of the anti product by using ClsSiH and photolytic conditions [56]. In the proposed mechanism of Scheme 5.8, the addition proceeded via the intermediate adduct 45, which participated in the stereo-controlled hydrogen donation, and via the a-silylether 46, affording 1,2-diols in a preferential anti conformation. 

Hydroxy ketones and hydroxy-a,/3-unsaturated ketones in the steroids such as estrone and testosterone, respectively, can be reduced to diols biochemically. Estrone acetate gave 68% yield of a-estradiol on incubation with baker s yeast at room temperature after five days [909]. Testosterone was reduced by bacteria to the saturated hydroxy ketones, etiocholan-17-ol-3-one and androstan-17-ol-3-one, and further to the diols, ep/-etiocholane-3,17-diol and the epimeric isoandrostane-3,17-diol, both in low yields [329]. 

Reduction of diketones to either hydroxy ketones or diols can be accomplished by different biochemical reductions [327, 834] Procedure 50, p. 218). 

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