Eliminations trifluoromethanesulfonate

Opening by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate yields an adduct (54) from which trifluoromethanesulfonic acid can be eliminated to give an allylic alcohol (Scheme 47) (79JA2738) [cf. base-promoted isomerization to allylic alcohols (Section 5.05.3.2.2)]. 

Frejd and co-workers utilized a different tactic for aniline cyclization by first employing a Heck-Jeffery protocol under solvent-free conditions to prepare o-amino dehydrophenylalanine derivatives from o-aminoaryl iodides with the former undergoing a spontaneous la cyclization-elimination sequence to afford 2-methoxycarbonyl indoles <06S1183>. Dimethyl(methylthio)sulfonium trifluoromethanesulfonate (DMTST) was used by the Okuma group to promote the cyclization of o-vinyl-A-p-toluenesulfonylanilide to N-tosylindole <06CL1122>. 

By using (/ )-. Y, V-dimethyl-l-phenylethylarnine. alkenes of the opposite absolute configuration but, surprisingly, with different enantioselectivity are formed81. However, elimination with ( S i-A. jY-dimeLhyTl-phenylethylamine of the trifluoromethanesulfonate of cfs-cyclohex-ane-l,4-diol monomethoxymethyl ether gives the corresponding alkene with only 5% ee. 

The total synthesis of mniopetal E (5) was achieved in a six-step sequence from the cycloadduct 125 (Scheme 21). The treatment of 125 with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride (Tf20) afforded triflate 129. Elimination of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid to introduce a double bond was accomplished in 2,6-lutidine at 100 °C, giving 130 in 84% yield. Deprotection of TBDPS ether was followed by Parikh-Doering oxidation of the resulting 131 by the same procedure used in the case of 127. Taking advantage of the electron-rich double bond between C-l... 

The cyclohexadiene complex 29 has been further elaborated to afford either the cydo-hexenone 34 or the cyclohexene 36 in moderate yields (Scheme 1) [21]. The addition of HOTf to 29 generates the oxonium species 33, which can be hydrolyzed and treated with cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate (CAN) to release the cyclohexanone 34 in 43 % yield from 29. Alternatively, hydride reduction of 33 followed by treatment with acid eliminates methanol to generate the r 3-allyl complex 35. This species can be trapped by the conjugate base of dimethyl malonate to afford a cyclohexene complex. Oxidative decomplexation of this species using silver trifluoromethanesulfonate liberates the cyclohexene 36 in 57 % overall yield (based on 29). 

Cycloaddition of thiazolium azomethine ylides with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates 61 provides another approach to pyrrolo[2,1 -bjthiazoles 64 <070L4099>. Quatemization of 2-methylthiothiazole with trimethylsilylmethyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (TMSChkOTf) and subsequent fluoride-induced desilylation of the resulting (trimethylsilyl)methylammonium salt generate the acyclic azomethine ylide 62. This ylide readily participates in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with acetylene derivatives 61 to give adducts 63, which undergo spontaneous elimination of methylmercaptan to give the A-fuse cl thiazoles 64. ... 

Electrocyclization is the key step in a route to 4//-imidazoles 1187 and imidazoles 1188. Thus, activation of AT-acylamidines 1183 with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride and subsequent condensation with amino compounds 1185 produces l-amino-2,4-diazapenta-l,3-dienes 1186. Deprotonation of 1186 by the use of strong organic bases yields the corresponding 4//-imidazoles 1187 or imidazoles 1188 after amine elimination through an anionic 1,5-electrocyclization reaction. For the cyclization to occur, the amino compound 1185 needs to possess electron-withdrawing substituents such as alkoxycarbonyl or fluorenyl groups (Scheme 290) <2004EJO2567>. 

In the majority of substitution and elimination reactions, the sulfonate moiety functions as the leaving group, and certain sulfonates, e.g. methanesulfonate (mesylate), p-toluenesulfonate (tosylate) and trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate), are exceptionally good leaving groups. The introduction of these sulfonate groups therefore greatly facilitate... 

The reactivity of the trichlorocyclopropenylium ion exhibited a marked dependence on its counterion. In contrast to the tetrachloroaluminate salt, the trifluoromethanesulfonate salt 7 reacted with a large excess of benzene or fluorobenzene to give the corresponding triarylcyclo-propenylium salts 8 in good yield. By using the hexachloroantimonate salt 9, the trichlorocyclopropenylium ion underwent trisubstitution by disubstituted alkenes via the addition-elimination mechanism this reaction was not attained with the use of other counterions. ... 

Two groups, those of Corey and Sih, have reported studies on chemical analogs of the proposed biochemical mechanism, in which they activated the hydroperoxide function by forming the corresponding mesylate or trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate). In no case were the peroxy esters isolated as they underwent elimination under the conditions of formation, even at -110 C. 

Conversion of alcohols to sulfonate esters is a way of labilising them to nucleophilic substitution and elimination. The common leaving groups are arenesulfonates, particularly p-toluenesulfonate (tosylate), methanesulfonates (mesylate) and trifluromethanesulfonate (triflate) they are introduced by reaction of the acid chlorides (or, in the case of the trifluoromethanesulfonates, acid anhydrides) in a basic solvent such as pyridine. Traditionally, the reactions are carried out in pyridine as solvent, but both this solvent and the liberated... 

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