Double sacrificial

Electrochemical synthesis was utilized to prepare labeled compounds. Tetramethyllead labeled with 14C was prepared in a double compartment cell in DMF with NaClC>4, by electrolyzing 14CH3l on lead electrodes. The method is reported as superior to transmet-allation with methylmagnesium halide. It is also possible to incorporate lead isotopes. 2i°Pb2+ ions were deposited on a Cu foil and the latter was used as a sacrificial electrode in solutions of CH3I. The yield of labeled tetramethyllead was 85%65. Synthesis of 210Pb-labeled chlorotrimethylplumbane was also described66. 

Iu search for efficieut aud greeuer processes over the past few years various heterogeneous catalysts such as titanium incorporated mesoporous molecular sieves [45,46], Schiff-base complexes supported on zeolite [47] and Zn(II)-Al(III) layered double hydroxide (LDH) [48], oxomolybdenum(VI) complexes supported on MCM-41 and MCM-48 [49], polyoxometallate supported materials [50], Co and Mn-AlPO s [51] etc. have been developed and studied for the catalytic epoxidatiou of a-pinene. Many of these processes suffer from drawbacks and limited applicability due to the poor conversion and also the selectivities. Sacrificial aldehydes are often used as an oxygen acceptor in such processes to achieve reasonable yield and selectivities but, this procedure leads to an increase in the E-factors and decrease in the atom economy [51]. 

The synthesis of the module is provided in Scheme 10.5 (Kushner et al. 2007). Double alkylation of ethyl acetoacetate followed by guanidine condensation afforded alkenyl-pyrimidone intermediate 24 (Kushner et al. 2007). Isocyanate 25 was coupled to pyrimidone 24 to yield 26. Upon dimerization in DCM, RCM effectively cyclized the two UPy units (Mohr et al. 1997 Week et al. 1999). A one-pot reduction and deprotection through hydrogenation using Pearlman s catalyst gave diol module 27. Finally, capping 27 with 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate at both ends provided the UPy sacrificial cross-linker 28, which was thoroughly characterized by H- and C-NMR, Fourier transform IR (FTIR), and mass spectrometry. 

Photoelectrochemical hydrogenation of double and triple bonds has been reported with sulfide anion acting as a sacrificial donor, Eq. (35)With CdS metallized with platinum or rhodium as the photocatalyst, hydrogenation was found to be about... 

Nb, 4.80 (4.66) O, 17.0 (17.6) total, 99.4% (100.18). This compound is stored in a screw-capped polyethylene bottle in the drybox, preferably double-bottled to protect it from trace oxygen. [In addition, the product may be stored over a small layer of the compound in the outer bottle topped by a layer of tissues (i.e., using some of the complex as its own, sacrificial, ideal-affinity oxygen scavenger).]... 

Photosensitized generation of hydrido-metal complexes in aqueous media provides a general route for H2-evolution, hydrogenation of unsaturated substrates (i.e. olefins, acetylenes), or hydroformylation of double bonds, see Scheme 2. Co(II) complexes, i.e. Co (II)-fn s-bipyridine, Co(bpy) +, or the macrocyclic complex Co(II)-Me4[14]tetraene N4, act as homogeneous H2-evolution catalysts in photosystems composed of Ru(bpy) + (or other polypyridine (Ru(II) complexes) as photosensitizers and triethanolamine, TEOA, or ascorbic acid, HA-, as sacrificial electron donors [156,157], Reductive ET quenching of the excited photosensitizer... 

As mentioned previously, the role of the metal is not specific. Even transition metal free layered double hydroxides are suitable catalysts for the olefin epoxidation with O2 and a sacrificial aldehyde (205). Leaching of the metal from the solid catalyst is a serious problem since organic acids that are potential metal ligands accumulate during the reaction. Leaching occurs, for example, with the polybenzimidazole-supported Ni2+ catalyst (199). 

In the EC process, the destabilization mechanism of the contaminants, particulate suspension, and breaking of emulsions may be summarized as follows. (1) Compression of the diffuse double layer around the charged species by the interactions of ions generated by oxidation of the sacrificial anode. (2) Charge neutralization of the... 

Analogous photoelectrochemical hydrogenations of double and triple bonds have also been reported with other oxidizable sacrificial donors (Eq. 27) [166]. 

C-C double bonds are elTiciently cyclopropanated electrochemically in a one-compartment cell fitted with a sacrificial zinc anode which allowed the formation of organozinc species from geminal dihaloalkanes. Electrolysis of dibromomethane in dichloromethane/dimethyl-formamide as solvent mixture is recommended as the standard condition for electrolysis. The best chemical yields were obtained with allylic alcohols and unfunctionalized alkenes. For example electrolysis of allyl alcohol 23 gave cyclopropane 24 in 70% yield. 

Hydrazine, EtOH, 25°C, 12 h HsO, 76% yield. Hydrazine can oxidize to form diimide which will reduce double bonds. This was observed during the deprotection in the following scheme. The problem was solved by including a sacrificial alkene to scavenge any diimide that was formed. ... 

This process is synthetically important because a sacrificial alkene such as 1-decene or 1-hexadecene can be added to bias the overall reaction toward a specific target alkene. Mechanistically, thermal isomerization apparently involves a series of reversible elimination reactions of borane followed by re-addition in an anti-Markovnikov manner.2 If the sacrificial alkene has a significantly higher boiling point, then the desired alkene can he distilled from the reaction medium.22a xhe sacrificial alkene must not boil < 160°C, however, which is the temperature required for borane isomerization. This process makes it possible to isomerize the double bond of an alkene to a less substituted isomer, a process that Brown termed contrathermodynamic isomerization.29,30 methylenecyclohexane (41) was prepared from 1-methylcyclohexene by... 

This reaction formally introduces a carbon-carbon double bond next to a carbonyl group. Again, the sacrificial reagents facilitate the electronic requirements of the reaction. 

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