Electrophilic substitution aryl Grignard compounds

Electrophilic Substitution Reactions in Aryl Grignard and Aryllithium Compounds That Are Accessible from Aryl Halides... 

In contrast to benzene compounds, which undergo ready electrophilic substitution, the highly n-deficient pyrazine and quinoxaline nuclei are susceptible towards nucleophilic attack by a variety of reagents. The direct nucleophilic substitution with organolithium or Grignard reagents to form alkyl or aryl heteroaromatics, however, is rather ineffective, and the dihydro and/or tetrahydro compounds are formed preferentially. For example, reaction of pyrazine with phenyllithium affords... 

A mixture of 2-t-butylfuran and 2,5-di-t-butylfuran is obtained by the action of t-butyl chloride on furan in the presence of mesitylene nolybdenum tricarbonyl." The intermediate in the nitration of furan-2-aldehyde in acetic anhydride has been identified as compound (26). Treatment of 5-bromo-2-furoic acid with sulphur tetrafluoride in hydrogen fluoride yields the dihydrofuran (27). Bromo-furans are converted into aryl-furans by crosscoupling with aryl Grignard reagents in the presence of nickel(II)-phosphine complexes. 2-Furoic acid is lithiated at position 5, 3-furoic acid at C-2. 2-Methylfuran yields the 5-methylthio-derivative by lithiation and subsequent treatment with dimethyl disulphide. The corresponding phenylthio-compound (28) has been converted into a series of 4-substituted 2-methyl-furans (29 R = alkyl, MeaSi, CO2H, or RCHOH) by the sequence bromi-nation, lithiation, treatment with the appropriate electrophile, and, finally, desulphurization with Raney nickel. 2-Lithiofuran reacts with copper(II)... 

The a,(3-unsaturated ester (8), aldehyde (9), and nitro (10) compounds participate as electrophiles in a number of useful conjugate addition reactions. Copper-catalyzed addition of Grignard reagents provides access to aryl butanoic acid derivatives substituted with an oxetane (equation 1 in scheme 13.7). The ester, aldehyde, and nitro electrophiles also undergo mild Rh-catalyzed additions of aryl and vinyl boronic acids (equation 2 through equation 4 in scheme 13.7). Interestingly, the unsaturated aldehyde participates readily in an amine conjugate addition to afford oxetane substituted 3-amino-acetaldehyde derivatives. 

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