Electrolytic cleavage

Electrolytic cleavage, 3 (review) of benzamides, to form amines, 356 of benzoate esters, to form alcohols, 102 of benzyl carbamates, to form amines, 336 of benzyl carbonates, to form alcohols, 109 of benzyl esters, to form carboxyl groups, 251... 

Electrolysis, Me4N Cl , 5°, 65-98% yield. " Acylation of a tosylated amine with BOC or benzoyl reduces the potential required for electrolytic cleavage so that these aryltosyl groups can be selectively removed in the presence of a simple tosylamide. °... 

An electrolytic cleavage of such a bond in a convenient potential interval occurs only when the bond is activated, e.g., by an adjacent carbonyl or azomethine group. 

Sublimation of tetraneopentyl zirconium onto the surface of silica dehydroxylated at 500 °C results in the electrolytic cleavage of one Zr-C bond by a surface proton, with the formation of the tris neopentyl zirconium [Si]-0-Zr(CH2CMc3)3 grafted species. Reaction of this supported Zr alkyl with hydrogen at 150°C leads to the formation of a zirconium hydride. Interestingly, this reaction does not yield neopentane, but rather the formation of methane and ethane are observed. These products are in fact the result of the hydrogenolysis of evolved neopentane catalyzed by the silica-supported zirconium hydride. ... 

Electrolytic cleavage of a carbon-carbon bond may occur in the course of both cathodic and anodic reactions. During an uncontrolled anodic oxidation, many organic compounds end up as carbon dioxide and water, which involves splitting of C-C bonds, but only oxidations in which the reaction does not have the character of an extensive degradation are discussed here. The Kolbe reaction that involves a cleavage of a carbon-carbon bond has been discussed in Chapter 14. 

For preparation on a larger scale the direct electrolytic cleavage of 6-ketosulfoxides or )6-ketosulfones [127] has been found preferable. 

Bromo- and l-iodo-5-decyne were studied because they do not possess electroactive carbon-carbon triple bonds and therefore the electrolytic cleavage of the carbon-halogen bonds can be investigated over a relatively wide range of potentials. The reduction product distribution proved to be dependent upon the potentials employed during the... 

Electrolytic cleavage, of acyl-type protecting groups 670, 671, 676 of amines 437... 

The pyrazole ring is resistant to oxidation and reduction. Only ozonolysis, electrolytic oxidations, or strong base can cause ring fission. On photolysis, pyrazoles undergo an unusual rearrangement to yield imidazoles via cleavage of the N —N2 bond, followed by cyclization of the radical iatermediate to azirine (27). 

Three selective methods to remove protective groups are receiving much attention assisted, electrolytic, and photolytic removal. Four examples illustrate assisted removal of a protective group. A stable allyl group can be converted to a labile vinyl ether group (eq. 4) a /3-haloethoxy (eq. 5) or a /3-silylethoxy (eq. 6) derivative is cleaved by attack at the /3-substituent and a stable o-nitro-phenyl derivative can be reduced to the o-amino compound, which undergoes cleavage by nucleophilic displacement (eq. 7) ° ... 

Picolyl ethers are prepared from their chlorides by a Williamson ether synthesis (68-83% yield). Some selectivity for primary versus secondary alcohols can be achieved (ratios = 4.3-4.6 1). They are cleaved electrolytically ( — 1.4 V, 0.5 M HBF4, MeOH, 70% yield). Since picolyl chlorides are unstable as the free base, they must be generated from the hydrochloride prior to use. These derivatives are relatively stable to acid (CF3CO2H, HF/anisole). Cleavage can also be effected by hydrogenolysis in acetic acid. ... 

The reaction is likely to proceed by a radical-chain mechanism, involving intermediate formation of carboxyl radicals, as in the related Kolbe electrolytic synthesis. Initially the bromine reacts with the silver carboxylate 1 to give an acyl hypobromite species 3 together with insoluble silver bromide, which precipitates from the reaction mixture. The unstable acyl hypobromite decomposes by homolytic cleavage of the O-Br bond, to give a bromo radical and the carboxyl radical 4. The latter decomposes further to carbon dioxide and the alkyl radical 5, which subsequently reacts with hypobromite 3 to yield the alkyl bromide 2 and the new carboxyl radical 4Z... 

Cyclic sulphone Solvent Supporting electrolyte Alkylation agent after cleavage reaction Products Isolated yield... 

Under different conditions (in aqueous electrolyte) the selectivity of the cleavage reaction may be perturbed by the occurrence51-53 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 PhC0CH2S02CH3. The absence of crosscoupling products when pairs of / -ketosulphones with different reduction potentials are reduced in a mixture may indicate that the dimerization is mainly a simple radical-radical coupling53 and not a nucleophilic substitution. 

---