Enols defined

The stereo-defined enol ester 432 is prepared by the reaction of the vinyl-mercurial 431, obtained by acetoxymercuration of 2-butyne. with mercury(II) carboxylates using a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2[392]. 

There have been numerous studies of the rates of deprotonation of carbonyl compounds. These data are of interest not only because they define the relationship between thermodynamic and kinetic acidity for these compounds, but also because they are necessary for understanding mechanisms of reactions in which enolates are involved as intermediates. Rates of enolate formation can be measured conveniently by following isotopic exchange using either deuterium or tritium ... 

Scheme 5 details the asymmetric synthesis of dimethylhydrazone 14. The synthesis of this fragment commences with an Evans asymmetric aldol condensation between the boron enolate derived from 21 and trans-2-pentenal (20). Syn aldol adduct 29 is obtained in diastereomerically pure form through a process which defines both the relative and absolute stereochemistry of the newly generated stereogenic centers at carbons 29 and 30 (92 % yield). After reductive removal of the chiral auxiliary, selective silylation of the primary alcohol furnishes 30 in 71 % overall yield. The method employed to achieve the reduction of the C-28 carbonyl is interesting and worthy of comment. The reaction between tri-n-butylbor-... 

The chlorotitanium enolate, generated by treatment of (S )-l-tm-butyldimethylsiloxy-l-cyclohexyl-2-butanone with titanium(iv) chloride and diisopropylethylamine, provides the syn-product upon reaction with benzaldehyde. The diastereoselectivity of 99 1 is defined as the ratio of the major isomer to the sum of all other isomers47bc. 

Crystalline, diastereomerieally pure syn-aIdols are also available from chiral A-acylsultams. lhe outcome of the induction can be controlled by appropriate choice of the counterion in the cnolate boron enolates lead, almost exclusively, to one adduct 27 (d.r. >97 3, major adduct/ sum of all other diastereomers) whereas mediation of the addition by lithium or tin leads to the predominant formation of adducts 28. Unfortunately, the latter reaction is plagued by lower induced stereoselectivity (d.r. 66 34 to 88 12, defined as above). In both cases, however, diastereomerieally pure adducts are available by recrystallizing the crude adducts. Esters can be liberated by treatment of the adducts with lithium hydroxide/hydrogen peroxide, whereby the chiral auxiliary reagent can be recovered106. 

When the related saccharin derived sultam (R)-29 is converted into the (Z)-boron enolate and subsequently treated with aldehydes,. vy -diastereomers 30 result almost exclusively. Thus, the diasteromeric ratios, defined as the ratio of the major product to the sum of all other stereoisomers, surpass 99 1. Hydroperoxide assisted saponification followed by esterification provides carboxylic esters 31 with recovery of sultam 32106a. 

Methodology for the preparation of preformed enolates with well-defined double bond configuration was developed and it was shown that simple diastereoselection can be controlled, in many instances, through the use of these enolates 3. 

Geometrically defined a/ -epoxysilanes have been shown (6) to undergo a highly stereoselective rearrangement to silyl enol ethers (see also Chapter 15). This rearrangement is catalysed by boron trifluoride etherate, and seems to involved-opening of the epoxysilane, as shown ... 

Carbons adjacent to a Z group (as defined on p. 548) can be nitrosated with nitrous acid or alkyl nitrites. The initial product is the C-nitroso compound, but these are stable only when there is no tautomerizable hydrogen. When there is, the product is the more stable oxime. The situation is analogous to that with azo compounds and hydrazones (12-7). The mechanism is similar to that in 12-7 R—H —> R + N=0 — R—N=0. The attacking species is either NO or a carrier of it. When the substrate is a simple ketone, the mechanism goes through the enol (as in halogenation 12-4) ... 

Hydrazoic acid can be added to certain Michael-type substrates (Z is as defined on p. 975) to give 3-azido compounds. The reaction apparently fails if R is phenyl. Ammonia also adds to enol ethers CH2=CHOR to give CH3—CH(OR)N3, and to silyl enol ethers, but it does not add to ordinary alkenes unless a Lewis acid catalyst, such as TiCU, is used, in which case good yields of azide can be obtained. Ammonia can also be added indirectly to ordinary alkenes by azidomercuration, followed by demercuration, analogous to the similar procedures mentioned in... 

Unfortunately, it quickly became apparent that a shortfall in this proposal was an inability to prepare the desired vinyl halide 25 in a straightforward and selective manner [19]. In contrast, we reasoned that the selective formation of an enol sulfonate, such as the enol triflate 26a, could be controlled by judicious tuning of enolization conditions starting from the corresponding ketone, and that such an enol sulfonate would possibly be a substrate for a palladium-mediated coupling (Scheme 9.17). In this way a common intermediate from the previously defined synthesis, that is, the racemic ketone rac-13 or its cyano equivalent rac-5 could be used to generate the required enamide. 

Use of the above conditions in conjunction with the enol tosylate 32, provided only low yields of 22, prompting an extensive screening of structurally diverse phosphine ligands/solvents and palladium sources to attempt to define suitable conditions. Quite quickly a number of conditions were found to be effective, with chelating diphosphines being superior to monodentate phosphines (Table 9.7). In... 

The well-defined single-site magnesium enolate initiator (187) initiates the living polymerization of MMA at -30 °C.452 Mw/Mn values are typically 1.07-1.11, and Mn increases linearly both with... 

Samarium enolates 60 can be easily prepared by reduction of ct-bromocarboxylic acid esters with SmT. These enolates mediated well-defined synthesis of star-shaped block co-polymers 61 (Scheme 21 ).32 32l Sml3 also mediated the formation of samarium enolates. Phenacyl thiocyanate 6233 and cr-haloketone 6434 are converted to samarium(lll) enolate intermediates 63 and 65, respectively, which undergo addition to benzaldehyde derivatives affording the corresponding oy i-unsaturatcd ketones as shown in Schemes 22 and 23. 

E. J. Corey, F. Xu, M. C. Noe, A Rational Approach to Catalytic Enantioselective Enolate Alkylation Using a Structurally Rigidified and Defined Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salt under Phase Transfer Conditions , J. Am. Chem. Soc, 1997,119,12414-12415. 

The term glycal is used to define sugar derivatives having a double bond between C-1 and C-2. Accordingly, C-1 glycals are A1,2 unsaturated carbohydrate derivatives with a carbon substituent at the anomeric position. These compounds are versatile synthetic intermediates, owing to the variety of transformations associated with their enol ether functionality, and have found ample use in the preparation of C-glycosyl compounds,1 carbohydrate mimics,2 and natural products.3... 

The determination of the lifetime of the ionic intermediates using the azide-clock method has been however useful in showing that electrophilic addition of Br2 can occur, even through a fully concerted mechanism, definable as SN2-like. Bromination of cyclic enol ethers (glycals) 8-10 in methanol in the presence of... 

For such cases in which the two forms have been brought to light solely as a result of improved experimental methods, the term tauto-merism " has been modified to desmotropism In desmotropic substances the tautomeric relations are therefore particularly clear and well defined numerous examples have become known, which now also include aceto-acetic ester. The case of acetylacetone is quite similar, but here the formation of the enol-form is much more favoured. The liquid substance contains up to 80 per cent of enol. 

In principle, stereoselective aldol condensations can be carried out under two distinct sets of conditions. Under the influence of acid catalysis, stabilized enol derivatives of defined geometry (M = SiMea,... 

R3 R2 and R2 Ri gauche interactions however, for the same set of substituents, an increase in the steric requirements of either Rj or R3 will influence only one set of vicinal steric interactions (Rj R2 or R3 R2). Some support for these conclusions has been cited (eqs. [6] and [7]). These qualitative arguments may also be relevant to the observed populations of hydrogen- and nonhydrogen-bonded populations of the aldol adducts as well (see Table 1, entries K, L). Unfortunately, little detailed information exists on the solution geometries of these metal chelates. Furthermore, in many studies it is impossible to ascertain whether the aldol condensations between metal enolates and aldehydes were carried out under kinetic or thermodynamic conditions. Consequently, the importance of metal structure and enolate geometry in the definition of product stereochemistry remains ill defined. This is particularly true in the numerous studies reported on the Reformatsky reaction (20) and related variants (21). 

Lithium, magnesium, and aluminum enolates appear to afford comparable levels of kinetic aldol diastereoselection for a given enolate of defined structure. 

A summary of representative stereochemically defined metal enolates and their respective kinetic aldol condensations with benzaldehyde is provided in Table 24. Both the metal center and the enolate substituent Ri for the substituted carbonyl derivatives... 

In the titanium tetrachloride-promoted aldol condensations of stereochemically defined enolsilanes (eq. [58]) variable levels of aldol diastereoselection have been noted (Table 26) (73). A detailed analysis of this reaction in terms of probable intermediates and transition state awaits further studies however, some experimental observations suggest that titanium enolates may not be involved (73b). 

Noyori (4) has recently disclosed the mechanistically intriguing condensation of enolsilanes and acetals, which is catalyzed by tri-methylsilyl triflate (69) (eq. [61]). The results of a set of representative condensations between stereochemically defined enolates and... 

Reformatsky reaction has covered aspects of this topic (20b). If analogous pericyclic transition states are involved in these condensations, the added stereochemical control element imposed on the condensation by the imine geometry should provide a more well-defined set of transition states than for the analogous aldehyde condensations. The four diastereomeric chair and boat transition states for ( )- and (Z)-enolates with ( )-imines are illustrated in Scheme 15. 

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