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Nitrated fluoro compounds are synthesized by electrophilic (NOz+), radical (NO2 ), or nucleophilic (NO2-) methods Indirect nitration routes can suppress the side reactions associated with severe reaction conditions and some nitration reagents Novel fluoronitro compounds, unobtainable by direct nitration, can also be pre pared For example, the nitration of (2-fluoro-2,2-dinitroethoxy)acetaldoxime followed by oxidation of the nitroso intermediate with hydrogen peroxide yields 2-fluoro-2,2-dinitioethyl 2,2-dinitroethyl ether [f] (equation 1)... 

Much of the recent effort m the study of perfluoroaliphatic lithium compounds IS concerned with vinyl or substituted fluorovinyl compounds. Modifications and extensions of the earlier research on the synthesis of trifluorovinyllithium provide many new fluorovmyllithium intermediates that react with numerous electrophiles to give novel and interesting fluoroolefinic compounds... 

Without question, the most significant advance in the use of sulfur-centered nucleophiles was made by Shibasaki, who discovered that 10 mol% of a novel gallium-lithium-bis(binaphthoxide) complex 5 could catalyze the addition of tert-butylthiol to various cyclic and acyclic meso-epoxides with excellent enantioselectiv-ities and in good yields (Scheme 7.11) [21], This work builds on Shibasaki s broader studies of heterobimetallic complexes, in which dual activation of both the electrophile and the nucleophile is invoked [22]. This method has been applied to an efficient asymmetric synthesis of the prostaglandin core through an oxidation/ elimination sequence (Scheme 7.12). 

A novel approach to azabicyclic ring systems, based on an epoxide-initiated electrophilic cyclization of an alkyl azide, has been developed by Baskaran. A new stereo- and enantioselective synthesis of the 5-hydroxymethyl azabicyclic framework 91a, present in (+)- and (-)-indolizidines 167B and 209D, for example, was... 

A novel result of azo coupling was observed by Bagal et al. (1992 a) when they reacted 4-phenylazophenol and its 2-methyl derivative with an excess of 4-nitroben-zenediazonium salt. They obtained a compound whose elemental analysis and H NMR, UV, and IR spectra are consistent with 4,4-bis(4 -nitrophenylazo)-cyclohexa-2,5-dienone (12.14). The replacement of an arylazo group by a more electrophilic diazonium ion had occasionally been observed before this, but the double azo coupling in the 4-position is new. 

A novel and versatile method for preparing polymer-supported reactive dienes was recently developed by Smith [26]. PS-DES (polystyrene diethyl-silane) resin 28 treated with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid was converted to a polymer-supported silyl triflate 29 and then functionalized with enolizable a,jS-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones to form silyloxydienes 30 and 31 (Scheme 4.4). These reactive dienes were then trapped with dienophiles and the Diels Alder adducts were electrophilically cleaved with a solution of TFA. 

In principle, numerous reports have detailed the possibility to modify an enzyme to carry out a different type of reaction than that of its attributed function, and the possibility to modify the cofactor of the enzyme has been well explored [8,10]. Recently, the possibility to directly observe reactions, normally not catalyzed by an enzyme when choosing a modified substrate, has been reported under the concept of catalytic promiscuity [9], a phenomenon that is believed to be involved in the appearance of new enzyme functions during the course of evolution [23]. A recent example of catalytic promiscuity of possible interest for novel biotransformations concerns the discovery that mutation of the nucleophilic serine residue in the active site of Candida antarctica lipase B produces a mutant (SerlOSAla) capable of efficiently catalyzing the Michael addition of acetyl acetone to methyl vinyl ketone [24]. The oxyanion hole is believed to be complex and activate the carbonyl group of the electrophile, while the histidine nucleophile takes care of generating the acetyl acetonate anion by deprotonation of the carbon (Figure 3.5). 

A novel approach to 3-substituted indolines and indoles via the anionic cyclization of 2-bromo-lV,lV-diallyanilines has been developed simultaneously by Bailey <96JOC2596> and Liebeskind <96JOC2594>. Thus, treatment of 2-bromo-lV,lV-diallylanilines 78 with 2 equivalents of BuLi at -78 °C leads to the formation of the intermediate 79 which may be trapped with an electrophile to afford 3-substituted indolines 80. Aside from ease of preparation, an additional benefit of the intramolecular carbolithiation of <7-lithio-W,Al-diallyl-anilines is the production of Al-allyl-protected indolines, which are easily deprotected using... 

A novel method has been developed for the selective N-arylation of indoles with aryl electrophiles in the presence of potassium fluoride adsorbed onto basic alumina <96TL299>. 

Methylation of the dihaptothioacyl complex 22 affords compound 23 containing a bidentate carbene ligand, which on reaction with chloride ion leads to the neutral monodentate carbene complex 24 (50,51). The chelate carbene complex 26 is generated in a novel interligand reaction from the thiocarboxamidothiocarbonyl cation 25. The thiocarbonyl carbon acts as the electrophilic component in this reaction, and 26 is further alkylated to a bidentate dicarbene species (52). 

A novel C-3 functionalization of methylene aziridines has also been reported <06T8447>. Selective deprotonation of 98 to form 99 and the reaction 99 with an electrophile yielded 100 in good yields. In this way, a variety of alkyl groups could be selectively placed on the aziridine. These researchers also found that (S)-a-methylbenzyl substituted methylene aziridines, 101, when deprotonated and reacted with a variety of electrophiles gave 102 in moderate yields and with good diastereoselectivity. 

Benzotriazole-related methodology publications appeared in 2006. Reaction of 1-formylbenzotriazole with triphenylphosphine/carbon tetrachloride afforded l-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)benzotriazole, where lithiation followed addition of electrophiles gave a variety of functionalized M-(ethynyl)benzotriazoles <06T3794>. Novel mono- and symmetrical di-/V-hydroxy- and IV-aminoguanidines were readily prepared from the reaction of diverse hydroxylamines or hydrazines with reagent classes di(benzotriazol-l-yl)methanimine, (bis-benzotriazol-1 -y 1-methy lene)amines, benzotriazole-1 -carboxamidines, benzotriazole-1 -... 

A novel electrophilic reaction of the 2-methoxyazepinium ion 2, formed in situ from 1 on treatment with TiCl4,was observed in the presence of benzene to give 3, 4 and 5. The kinetics of the isomerisation (ki k2, k3) of the 477-azepine 3 to 8 via 6 and 7 were also reported <06EJ03803>. 

The one-electron oxidation of enol silyl ether donor (as described above) generates a paramagnetic cation radical of greatly enhanced homolytic and electrophilic reactivity. It is the unique dual reactivity of enol silyl ether cation radicals that provides the rich chemistry exploitable for organic synthesis. For example, Snider and coworkers42 showed the facile homolytic capture of the cation radical moiety by a tethered olefinic group in a citronellal derivative to a novel multicyclic derivative from an acyclic precursor (Scheme 8). 

Schreiber and his coworkers have published extensively over the past decade on the use of this photocycloaddition for the synthesis of complex molecules730 81. Schreiber was the first to recognize that the bicyclic adducts formed in these reactions could be unmasked under acidic conditions to afford threo aldol products of 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds (175 to 176) (Scheme 40). The c -bicyclic system also offers excellent stereocontrol in the addition of various electrophilic reagents (E—X) to the enol ether of these photoadducts on its convex face (175 to 177). This strategy has been exploited in the synthesis of a variety of architecturally novel natural products. 

Titanium enolates of various carbonyl compounds play an increasingly important role in Mannich-type reactions with different electrophiles. Recently, Liotta and co-workers reported a novel diastereoselective addition of chloro-titanium enolate 80 of iV-acylthiazolidinethione to various types of O-methyl oximes to afford the desired anti-azetines, precursors of a,/3-disubstituted /3-amino carbonyl derivatives 82 (Scheme 32).109... 

The vinylcyclobutane rearrangement serves as a novel [3 + 3] or [4 + 2] strategy for six membered ring formation depending upon whether a nucleophilic (Eq. 96) or electrophilic (Eq. 97) conjunctive cyclopropyl reagent is employed. The use of the... 

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