Dioxane carbonylation

Selenium dioxide oxidations may be accomplished by heating with neat substrates [5f9], but more often, they are carried out in solvents such as water, tert-butyl alcohol, ethanol, dioxane, acetic acid, and acetic anhydride. The solvent used often affects the outcome of the reaction. The use of acetic acid or acetic anhydride favors oxidation to acetates (and thence to alcohols), whereas in water or dioxane, carbonyl compounds are usually formed. An unpleasant feature of oxidations with selenium dioxide is the formation of red colloidal selenium, which cannot always be separated by distillation but can be removed by treatment of the product with potassium cyanide [522], mercury [523], or deactivated Raney nickel [524]. 

Zu drastische Reaktionsbedingungen Entaktivierung des Katalysators. Infolgc Chlorhydrogenolyse ent-steht Dichloro-hydrido-tris-[triphenylphosphin]-rhodium und infolge Decarbonylierung von Allyl-alkohol, Estern, DMF oder 1,4-Dioxan Carbonyl-chloro-tris-[triphenylphosphin]-rhodium... 

Suspend 0 25 g. of 2 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine in 5 ml. of methanol and add 0-4 0-5 ml. of concentrated sulphuric acid cautiously. FUter the warm solution and add a solution of 0 1-0-2 g. of the carbonyl compound in a small volume of methanol or of ether. If no sohd separate within 10 minutes, dUute the solution carefuUy with 2N sulphuric acid. CoUect the solid by suction filtration and wash it with a little methanol. RecrystaUise the derivative from alcohol, dUute alcohol, alcohol with ethyl acetate or chloroform or acetone, acetic acid, dioxan, nitromethane, nitrobenzene or xylene. 

The conversion of a carbonyl compound by ammonium polysulphide solution into an amide with the same number of carbon atoms is known as the Willgerodt reaction. The procedure has been improved by the addition of about 40 per cent, of dioxan or of pyridine to increase the mutual solubility of the ketone and aqueous ammonium polysulphide the requisite temperature is lowered to about and the yield is generally better. 

Complete exchange of protons in a sterically unhindered position a to a carbonyl group can be achieved by heating a solution of the ketone in O-deuterated solvents in the presence of an acid or base catalyst, the latter being the more effective. The most commonly used solvents are methanol-OD, ethanol-OD, and the aprotic solvent anhydrous tetrahydrofuran or dioxane mixed with deuterium oxide. Under alkaline conditions the exchange rate in 153 2 14,164 stcroids, for example, is usually... 

Reductive cleavage of phenylhydrazones of carbonyl compounds provides a route to amines. The reduction is carried out conveniently in ethanol containing ammonia over palladium-on-carbon. Ammonia is used to minimize formation of secondary amines, derived by addition of the initially formed amine to the starting material (160). Alternatively, a two-phase system of benzene, cyclohexane, toluene, or dioxane and aqueous hydrochloric acid can be used. 

It was decided to construct a D-ring acylating agent bearing a latent C-8 vinyl group. To this end, benzylation of the known 5-bromo-orr/to-vanillin (22),14 followed by protection of the aldehyde carbonyl in the form of a cyclic acetal (1,3-dioxane), affords com-... 

Disodium tetracarbonylferrate sesquidioxanate Ferrate(2-), tetra-carbonyl (1,4-dioxane-O )-, disodium (9) (57398-59-1)... 

Solvent effects on the rate of the decarbonylation of MeCOMn(CO)5 were examined by Calderazzo and Cotton (50) and are presented in part in Table IV. In general they are very small, and no regular trends can be discerned. This virtual lack of dependence of the rate on the nature of the solvent and very little correlation between the rate and the dielectric constant of the solvent are typical of substitution reactions of metal carbonyls (J). In the light of the foregoing, a qualitative observation that CpFe(CO)2-COMe decarbonylates much more readily on treatment at reflux in nonpolar heptane or cyclohexane than in polar dioxane is somewhat intriguing 219). 

B. l,3>2>Dioxaphospholens.—The kinetics of the addition of trialkyl phosphites to benzil have been investigated spectrophotometrically. The second-order reaction of trimethyl phosphite in dioxan has activation parameters of A// = 8.4 kcal mol and AS = — 47.5 e.u. In benzene the rate constant increases linearly with low concentrations of added organic acid and decreases linearly with low concentrations of added base. The Diels-Alder mechanism is considered unlikely on the basis of these data, and the slow step is considered to be nucleophilic addition of the phosphite to the carbon of the carbonyl group (see Scheme). 

Purely aromatic ketones generally do not give satisfactory results pinacols and resinous products often predominate. The reduction of ketonic compounds of high molecular weight and very slight solubility is facilitated by the addition of a solvent, such as ethanol, acetic acid or dioxan, which is miscible with aqueous hydrochloric acid. With some carbonyl compounds, notably keto acids, poor yields are obtained even in the presence of ethanol, etc., and the difficulty has been ascribed to the formation of insoluble polymolecular reduction products, which coat the surface of the zinc. The adffition of a hydrocarbon solvent, such as toluene, is beneficial because it keeps most of the material out of contact with the zinc and the reduction occurs in the aqueous layer at such high dilution that polymolecular reactions are largdy inhibited (see Section IV,143). 

For internal olefins, the Wacker oxidation is sometimes surprisingly regioselective. By using aqueous dioxane or THF, oxidation of P,y-unsaturated esters can be achieved selectively to generate y-keto-esters (Eq. 3.18).86 Under appropriate conditions, Wacker oxidation can be used very efficiently in transforming an olefin to a carbonyl compound. Thus, olefins become masked ketones. An example is its application in the synthesis of (+)-19-nortestosterone (3.11) carried out by Tsuji (Scheme 3.5).87... 

A mixture of 1,4-dioxane and water is often used as the solvent for the conversion of aldehydes and ketones by H2Se03 to a-dicarbonyl compounds in one step (Eq. 8.117).331 Dehydrogenation of carbonyl compounds with selenium dioxide generates the a, (i-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in aqueous acetic acid.332 Using water as the reaction medium, ketones can be transformed into a-iodo ketones upon treatment with sodium iodide, hydrogen peroxide, and an acid.333 Interestingly, a-iodo ketones can be also obtained from secondary alcohol through a metal-free tandem oxidation-iodination approach. 

Other reactions shown to occur at the same rate under the two heating methods include the acid-catalyzed isomerization of carvone 40 to carvacrol 41 [33], and ene reactions involving carbonyl enophiles (Scheme 4.21) [32], The former reaction was performed in a mixture of chlorobenzene (slightly polar) and dioxane (nonpolar) and in the latter reaction a large excess of 1-decene was used and so the reaction was effectively performed in a solution of low polarity. 

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