Enol ethers lithiation

Lewis acids, 15,72,106,108-11,112,116,128 Lithiation, 84 reductive, 68 o-Lithiation, 40 a-Lithiosilanes, 65, 68 o-Lithiosilyl enol ethers, 77 a-Lithiovinylsilanes, 69 Lithium bis(phenyldimethylsilyl)cuprate, 8,53... 

The metalation of vinyl ethers, the reaction of a-lithiated vinyl ethers obtained thereby with electrophiles and the subsequent hydrolysis represent a simple and efficient method for carbonyl umpolung. Thus, lithiated methyl vinyl ether 56 and ethyl vinyl ether 54, available by deprotonation with t- or n-butyllithium, readily react with aldehydes, ketones and alkyl halides. When the enol ether moiety of the adducts formed in this way is submitted to an acid hydrolysis, methyl ketones are obtained as shown in equations 72 and 73 . Thus, the lithiated ethers 56 and 54 function as an acetaldehyde d synthon 177. The reactivity of a-metalated vinyl ethers has been reviewed recently . 

Time of stirring the reaction mixture at 0-3°C after transferring the solution of the cuprate to the lithiated enol ether and warming to 0°C. 

Carbon-13 shift of common non-aromatic heterocycles with endo- and exocyclic double bonds are reviewed in Table 4.66 [416-432], - Deshieldings of / -carbons induced by carbonyl groups in heterocyclic a, /1-enones due to (—)-M electron withdrawal (e.g. 2-pyrones, coumarins) and shieldings of [ carbons in cyclic enol ethers arising from (+ )-M electron release (e.g. 2,3-dihydrofuran and oxepine derivatives in Table 4.66) fully correspond to the effects described for the open-chain analogs. Outstandingly large shift values are observed for the lithiated carbon in cyclic a-lithium enol ethers (Table 4.66). In terms of its a and / carbon-13 shifts, 2,7-dimethyloxepine is also a typical enol ether [420], Further, 2,6-dimethyl-4-pyrone [421] and flavone [422] display similiar shift values for the a, /1-enone substructure. 

Benzyl methyl ether or allyl methyl ethers can be selectively metalated at the benzylic/allylic position by treatment with BuLi or sBuLi in THF at -40 °C to -80 C, and the resulting organolithium compounds react with primary and secondary alkyl halides, epoxides, aldehydes, or other electrophiles to yield the expected products [187, 252, 253]. With allyl ethers mixtures of a- and y-alkylated products can result [254], but transmetalation of the lithiated allyl ethers with indium yields y-metalated enol ethers, which are attacked by electrophiles at the a position (Scheme 5.29). Ethers with ft hydrogen usually undergo rapid elimination when treated with strong bases, and cannot be readily C-alkylated (last reaction, Scheme 5.29). Metalation of benzyl ethers at room temperature can also lead to metalation of the arene [255] (Section 5.3.11) or to Wittig rearrangement [256]. Epoxides have been lithiated and silylated by treatment with sBuLi at -90 °C in the presence of a diamine and a silyl chloride [257]. 

The 1,3-silyl migrations from O to C in lithiated silyl enol ethers 205 afforded a-silylcarbonyl compounds 206 after hydrolysis (equation 134)326 -330. 

Ketones may direct lateral lithiation even if the ketone itself is enolised enolates appear to have moderate lateral-directing ability. Mesityl ketone 433, for example, yields 434 after silylation - BuLi is successful here because of the extreme steric hindrance around the carbonyl group.396 The lithium enolate can equally well be made from less hindered ketones by starting with a silyl enol ether.396... 

Certain functionalised vinyl bromides can similarly be lithiated the Z-enol ether 121 gives 122, which is stable up to -30 °C without elimination.105 121105 and 124106 are readily transmetallated, while the F-enol ether 123105 is preferentially lithiated a to oxygen and will not undergo transmetallation. 

Lithiated silyl enol ethers related to 124 have been used in the synthesis of polyunsaturated aldehydes by chain extension, as shown below.109110 The stereospecificity (or otherwise) of the reaction is irrelevant to the stereochemistry of the products 131 and 132, which is under thermodynamic control. 

S-Substituted a-lithiated silyl enol ether 557 has been prepared by reductive lithia-tion of vinyl tellurides834 and sulfides835,836 with lithium 1 -(dimethylamino)naphthalenide (LDMAN). This intermediate 557 gave, after inverse Brook rearrangement, the enolate 558 and after hydrolysis the corresponding acylsilane (Scheme 151). 

An orf/io-directed lithiation allows the conversion of 25 to aryl iodide 40. Reductive ether formation of aldehyde 40 with crotyl alcohol yields compound 41. Intramolecular Heck reaction of 41 affords a mixture of the olefins 42 and 43. The undesired alkene 42 can be isomer-ized quantitatively to the desired enol ether 43 with Wilkinson s catalyst. Sharpless dihydroxylation ee 94 %) of the enol ether 43 provides lactol 44, which is oxidized directly to lactone 45. Finally, the pyridone-O-methyl ester is cleaved under acid conditions (45 — 7). 

Dioxene can be used to prepare trisubstituted annulated furans in a three-step sequence. By lithiation of 1,4-dioxene, followed by carbonyl addition, an allylic alcohol 13 is obtained, which can be reacted with silyl enol ethers in the presence of a Lewis acid to furnish disubstituted dioxanes of type 14. These compounds rearrange to furans under mild conditions upon treatment with camphorsulfonic acid (Scheme 16) <1999TL2521>. 

This procedure consists of the synthesis of a precursor, methoxymethyl vinyl ether, an a-hydroxy enol ether, and the intramolecular hydrosilylatlon of the latter followed by oxidative cleavage of the silicon-carbon bonds. The first step, methoxymethylation of 2-bromoethanol, is based on Fujita s method.7 The second and third steps are modifications of results reported by McDougal and his co-workers. Dehydrobromination of 2-bromoethyl methoxymethyl ether to methoxymethyl vinyl ether was achieved most efficiently with potassium hydroxide pellets -9 rather than with potassium tert-butoxide as originally reported for dehydrobromination of the tetrahydropyranyl analog.10 Potassium tert-butoxide was effective for the dehydrobromination, but formed an adduct of tert-butyl alcohol with the vinyl ether as a by-product in substantial amounts. Methoxymethyl vinyl ether is lithiated efficiently with sec-butyllithium in THF and, somewhat less efficiently, with n-butyllithium in tetrahydrofuran. Since lithiation of simple vinyl ethers such as ethyl vinyl ether requires tert-butyllithium,11 metalation may be assisted by the methoxymethoxy group in the present case. 

The enol triflates derived from tetrahydropyran-2-ones undergo a cross-coupling with benzenethiols catalysed by Ni(0) that gives the 6-arylsulfanyl-3,4-dihydro-2//-pyrans, readily oxidised to the stable sulfoxides. The latter undergo facile conversion to the a-lithiated enol ethers <03S584>. 

Formation of the antiaromatic enolate 11 from the low acidity ketone 10 " is evidently unfavourable compared with its acyclic variant 17. Attempts at isolating a stable enol derivative of 10, such as its silyl enol ether, have proved unsuccessful ". Treatment of benzocyclobutanone (10) with LiTMP in THE at —78°C, followed by the addition of trimethylsilyl chloride (MesSiCl), gave the corresponding C-silylated benzocyclobutanone 18 (equation 3) ". The non-aromatic C-lithiated ketone 20 appears to be more preferred than its related 0-lithiated enolate 11. Unlike traditional lithium enolates, this particular lithium enolate reacts in situwilh its parent compound, benzocyclobutanone (10), to give the diketone 19 (equation 3). In comparison, bridgehead enolates have also been shown to be similarly reactive ... 

There has been almost no activity in connection with true furans of this class which are almost unknown. Recent attempts to prepare 2,4-dimethoxy-furan were fruitless.85 Lithiation of 4-methoxyfuran-2(5//)-one (60) produces the 5-anion normally, but this reacts only at carbon giving with iodomethane the homolog (61) and with aldehydes a variety of 5-ylidenefuranones (62). No enol ether is formed. Whereas this is not remarkable, the failure of acetylation and particularly silylation procedures to furnish enol derivatives is almost unprecedented.85 The situation is not yet understood. 

Molecular oxygen inserts into substituted cyclopentadienes under acidic conditions producing pyrylium salts a hydroperoxide rearrangement is proposed <05JOC5768>. In a further development of the use of benzotriazole (Bt) in synthesis, P-lithiation of the vinyl ether 16 and quenching of the anion with chalcone affords an enol ether. Cyclisation with PCI5 produces 2,4,6-triarylpyrylium salts <05S245>. 

Just as anions of allyl derivatives can be homoenolate equivalents (chapter 13) so anions of vinyl derivatives can be acyl anion equivalents. Vinyl (or enol) ethers can be lithiated reasonably easily, especially when there is no possibility of forming an allyl derivative, as with the simplest compound 81. The most acidic proton is the one marked and the vinyl-lithium derivative 82 reacts with electrophiles to give the enol ether of the product17 84. However, tertiary butyl lithium is needed and compounds with y-CHs usually end up as the chelated allyl-lithium 85. These vinyl-lithium compounds add directly to conjugated systems but the cuprates will do conjugate addition.18... 

Avoidance by choice of oxygenated starting materials Oxidation through Lithiation and Ort/ro-Lithiation Hydroxylation of Pyridines by ortho-Lithiation Synthesis of Atpenin B Introducing OH by Nucleophilic Substitution Part II - Oxidation of Enols and Enolates Direct Oxidation without Formation of a Specific Enol Selenium dioxide Nitrosation with nitrites Nitrosation with stable nitroso compounds Indirect Oxidation with Formation of a Specific Enol Enone Formation Pd(II) oxidation ofsilyl enol ethers Bromination of enols in enone formation Sulfur and selenium compounds in enone formation Asymmetric Synthesis of Cannabispirenones... 

ACSA(B)62]. The stannanes are available from enol ethers by a-lithiation and quenching with trialkylstannyl chloride. The coupling reactions have been run on derivatives that had either a chlorine atom in an activated position or a bromine atom in the benzenoid position. Mild acid hydrolysis of the a-pyrimidinylalkenyl ethers yields ketones, the acyl-substituted pyrimidines. In the 4,5-dichloro derivative (130), the masked acyl group is introduced into the electrophilic 4-position (131). In the 2,5-disubstituted pyrimidine (133), having a methyl group in the 5-position and a chlorine atom in the 2-position results in the addition of a masked acyl group in the electrophilic 2-position (134). When the 5-substituent in the latter example is a bromine atom, the chemoselectivity leads to masked acylation in 5-position (135). This reaction sequence constitutes a convenient... 

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