Electrophiles olefins

The ene reaction is a concerted reaction in which addition of an alkene to an electrophilic olefin occurs with migration of a hydrogen and the alkene double bond. For example ... 

With very electrophilic olefins, an alternative hydrogen fluoride addition process is often preferred This process, involving reaction of the olefin with fluoride ion in the presence of a proton donor, is applicable to certain perhalogen ated alkenes [/] and substrates with other electron attracting groups attached to the double bond [i5, 36] (equations 4 and 5)... 

Risaliti et al. (22), have shown that in the addition of the electrophilic olefins to the enamines of cyclohexanone, the formation of the less substituted enamine is favored when a bulky group is present at the electrophilic carbon atom. For instance, the reaction of (8-nitrostyrene with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone gave only the trisubstituted isomer (30) with the substituent in the axial orientation (23). The product on hydrolysis led to the ketone (31) to which erythro configuration was assigned on the grounds illustrated in Scheme 3 (24). 

The reaction of enamines with ketene (146) and sulfene (147) are presumed to proceed by a two-step process involving an iminium intermediate such as 99. In fact, reaction with all electrophilic olefins such as acrylonitrile and related reagents could be thought of as going through an iminium intermediate similar to 99. Another example is given by addition to an enamine... 

A two-step cyclization of an enamine with an electrophilic olefin has been reported in which the first step is alkylation by an allyl halide and the second step is alkylation by the electrophilic olefin (50). The reaction... 

NH-Phosphinous amides are also alkylated at phosphorus by electrophilic olefins, such as acrylonitrile and acrylamide, with concomitant formation of a... 

SET processes do not occur among moderately electrophilic olefinic acceptors, but are likely to be involved in highly electrophilic substrates. Some recent examples are the polyadditions of cuprate to fullerenes (Sect. 10.1.1). Fluorenone ketyl radical has been detected in a cuprate reaction of fluorenone [20]. Doubly activated olefins [67-69] and bromonaphthoquinone [70] also probably react through SET. 

The present procedure is a general method for the preparation of monoalkylated ketones from enamines of aldehydes and ketones with electrophilic olefins. There are many advantages in this method of alkylation. Only monoalkylation occurs, even when such reactive species as acrylonitrile are used and, when a cyclic ketone like 2-methylcyclohexanone is used, reaction occurs only at the lesser substituted center. In a general base-catalyzed reaction, substitution occurs on the more substituted center. 

Another advantage of this method is that no catalyst is needed for the addition reaction this means that the base-catalyzed polymerization of the electrophilic olefin (i.e., a,j8-unsaturated ketones, esters, etc.) is not normally a factor to contend with, as it is in the usual base-catalyzed reactions of the Michael typCi It also means that the carbonyl compound is not subject to aldol condensation which often is the predominant reaction in base-catalyzed reactions. An unsaturated aldehyde can be used only in a Michael addition reaction when the enamine method is employed. 

Carbohydrate anisyl tellurides are easily prepared by treatment of the corresponding mesylates or tosylates with the anisyl teUurolate anion. By irradiation of these tellurocarbohy-drates in the presence of M-acetoxythiopyridone and the electrophilic olefin, the tandem addnct is formed. The oxidative elimination of the thiopyridine moiety leads to the trans-olefms. ... 

Also in the case of intennediate 374, a lithium-copper transmetallation with a copper(I) halide (bromide or chloride) allowed one to carry out the conjugate addition [to electrophilic olefins R CH = CH2Z (Z = COR, CO2R) giving compounds 381 in 31-76% yield], the acylation (with acyl chlorides yielding ketones 382 in 35-65% yield) and dimerization [using copper(II) chloride as the additive, to give compound 383 in 59% yield] processes ... 

When the metallic additive to the intermediate 374 was zinc dihalide (or another Lewis acid, such as aluminum trichloride, iron trichloride or boron trifluoride), a conjugate addition to electrophilic olefins affords 381 . In the case of the lithium-zinc transmetallation, a palladium-catalyzed Negishi cross-coupling reaction with aryl bromides or iodides allowed the preparation of arylated componnds 384 ° in 26-77% yield. In addition, a Sn2 allylation of the mentioned zinc intermediates with reagents of type R CH=CHCH(R )X (X = chlorine, bromine) gave the corresponding compounds 385 in 52-68% yield. ... 

This is a general method of preparing enamines from a secondary aliphatic amine and cyclohexanone or cyclopentanone. Acylation of such enamines is the first step in a general procedure for increasing the chain length of a carboxylic acid by 5 or 6 carbon atoms and of a dicarboxylic acid by 10 or 12 carbon atoms.6 Alkylation of enamines of cyclohexanones by alkyl halides 7 or electrophilic olefins,8 followed by hydrolysis, is a good route to a-monoalkyl cyclohexanones. 

Alternative mechanisms for the additions of electrophilic olefins like TCE to 1,3-dicarbonyl C-acids have been discussed in detail.36,124... 

Alkylation of tt-Electron-rich Heterocyclic Compounds with Electrophilic Olefins G. V. 

Reaction of enaminothiones (241) with electrophilic olefins, such as maleic anhydride (81TL3175) or 1-chloro-l-cyanoethylene (82T1705),... 

Michael addition of substituted electrophilic olefins to the activated 2-substituent yields pyrrolooxazines on cyclization.244-248... 

Trichloroethylene is an electrophilic olefin, which is deactivated toward reaction with J02 no 102 rate constant is reported. R02 oxidation is moderately rapid for this olefin because the carbon radical formed by addition of ROz is stabilized, but no measured value is reported. An estimate of 50 M 1 s 1 assumes TCE is six times as reactive as an ordinary terminal olefin (Mill and Hendry, 1980). Aqueous HO oxidation is very rapid with kHO = 4.9 x 109 M 1 s 1 (Buxton et al., 1988). Table 15.13 summarizes rate constants. 

Esposti, S., Dondi, D., Fagnoni, M., and Albini, A. (2007) Acylation of electrophilic olefins through decatungstate-photocatalyzed activation of aldehydes. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 46, 2531-2534. 

The hydroarylation of olefins is relatively uncommon in photochemistry, despite a high interest in this process which allows the formation of an aryl-carbon bond via the direct activation of an aromatic, with no need for leaving groups in both components of the reaction. The process follows a photo-EOCAS (Electrophile-Olefin Combination Aromatic Substitution) mechanism [32], and is initiated by a PET reaction between an electron-rich aromatic and an electron-poor olefin, as illustrated in Scheme 3.14. 

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