Enols as nucleophiles

Quite recently, not only Lewis adds, but also Bronsted adds were found to be effedive catalysts for the three-component Mannich-type reactions in water with the aid of a surfadant. For example, Akiyama and co-workers1301 have reported that a combination of HBF4 and SDS is effedive for the readions of aldehydes, amines, and silyl enolates. We have found that dodecylbenzenesulfonic add (DBSA), a Bronsted add with a surfadant moiety, also catalyzes the reactions in water.1311 Furthermore, DBSA can be used for the dired Mannich-type reactions of aldehydes, amines, and ketones, without using silyl enolates as nucleophilic components (Eq. 8).1321... 

Caubere et al. [64, 65] also employed enolates as nucleophiles to intercept the intermediates produced from 32a and the mixture of sodium amide and a sodium enolate. Scheme 6.12 illustrates the results obtained by using the enolates of cyclohexanone and cyclopropyl methyl ketone. The former furnished only the ketone 43 in hexamethylphosphoric triamide as solvent, but almost exclusively the cyclobuta-... 

The effectiveness of magnesium enolates as nucleophilic agents limits the interest of the reaction. With less substituted substrates (R = H), the aldol reaction is faster than the sily-lation. Moreover, due to solubility limitations, the authors are unable to determine whether the high thermodynamic kinetic ratio of silylenol ethers obtained accurately represents the magnesium enolate composition. Nonetheless, this method is an excellent procedure to selectively prepare the thermodynamic silylenol ether from an unsymmetrical ketone. ... 

Have you noticed that we have now fulfilled the specification of frame 219 we have used enols as nucleophiles in reaction of types a, b, and c ... 

Initial reports on the use of simple enolates as nucleophiles in TT-allylpalladium chemistry met with only limited success.77 106 The enolate of acetophenone reacted with allyl acetate in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4, but gave predominantly dialkylated product.106 The use of the enol silyl ether of acetophenone gave only monoalkylated product with allyl acetate and Pd° catalysis, but substituted allyl acetates did not function in this reaction.106 Enol stannanes, however, have been found to give monoalkylated products with a wide variety of allyl acetates (equation 19).106 In situ generation of enol stannanes from lithium enolates and trialkylstannyl trifluoroacetates followed by Pd°-catalyzed allylation has been demonstrated.107... 

The formation of C-C bonds in SN reactions using ketone enolates as nucleophiles has been reviewed.4... 

Although the reaction system stated above has extended the substrate applicability in Mannich reactions in water, there is still a drawback that the silicon enolates, which are prepared from the corresponding carbonyl compounds usually under anhydrous conditions, have to be used. From atom-economical and practical points of view, it is desirable to develop an efficient system for Mannich-type reactions in which the parent carbonyl compounds are directly used. Along this line, we next investigated three-component Mannich-type reactions in water using ketones, instead of silicon enolates, as nucleophilic components, and found that DBSA was also an effective catalyst [36]. An example is shown in Equation (7), where only 1 mol% DBSA was sufficient to give the desired product. 

E. Ketone Enolates as Nucleophiles in Transition-metal Catalyzed Allylic... 

The great importance of nonproteinogenic amino acids including a-substituted derivatives led to numerous investigations of modified amino acid enolates as nucleophiles in both classical alkylation or Mannich reactions and palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylations. 

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