Ethynyl derivatives

The interaction of (10) with vinylmagnesiiim chloride yields, after hydrolysis of the ketal group, 46% of the 3a-vinyl-l7-ketone (11b) and 7% of the 3j5-vinyl-17-ketone (12b). Ethynylation of (10) with potassium acetylide in dimethylformamide or with acetylene and potassium t-amyloxide in t-amyl alcohol-ether gives only the 3a-ethynyl derivative (11c) in 63% and 74% yields, respectively. ... 

Stavely prepared the 17a-ethynyl derivative (55) in 80% yield by reacting acetylene and (54) in the presence of potassium / -amyloxide in ether at room temperature. Sondheimer subsequently showed that a by-product obtained in 3 % yield is di-(3) ,17) -dihydroxyandrost-5-en-17a-yl)-acetylene (57). 

Ethynylation of 3j -hydroxy-16a-methyl-5a-androstan-17-one in a mixture of diethylene glycol dimethyl ether and diethylene glycol monoethyl ether in the presence of potassium hydroxide produces two isomeric 17-ethynyl derivatives. This result is not unexpected since molecular models suggest that the steric influence of the 13/ -methyl group is nearly offset by the 16a-methyl group. The presence of a 16a-acetoxy group in the estrone series also leads to the formation of epimeric 17-ethynyl compounds (61) and (62) on reaction with acetylenedimagnesium bromide. 

Ethynyl derivatives of 2-aryl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindazole were prepared from the p-chlorophenyl hydrazone of cyclohexanone. The hydrazone was treated with two equivalents of -butyllithium at —78°C to generate the dianion, which was then quenched with the appropriate substituted ethyl ester (94MT29). 

Ethynyl derivative 50 was prepared by interaction of potassium carbonate with5-amino-3-cyano-l-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-trimethylsilyl-ethynylpyrazole in methanol for 10 min (97INP9707102 98INP9804530 98INP9824767 99EUP933363) (Scheme 98). 

Terminal acetylenes can be obtained from the corresponding propylcarboxylic acids by thermal decomposition. Thus, l-methyl-3-ethynyl- and 2-methyl-3-ethynylindazole were obtained by thermolysis of indazolylpropiolic acids at 150-160°C. Yields of ethynyl derivatives were 65 and 60%, respectively (75KGS1678) (Scheme 100 Table XXIII). 

Alkylallenes are obtained by the reaction of 1-ethynylcycloalkanol acetates with organocopper reagents, lithium dimethyl- and dibutylcuprates643 (see Section B.l). Even in the case of the presence of a substituent at the acetylenic terminus, SN2 displacement takes place, giving tetra-substituted allenes. Reaction of the steroidal 17-acetoxy-17-ethynyl derivative la shows that the... 

Dehaen and Smeets also described the smooth conversion of meso-( 1,2,3-thiadiazol-4-yl)porphyrins into the corresponding ethynyl derivatives using potassium tcrt-butoxide as base <98TL9841>. 

It has been found that the use, as ligands, of electron-poor phosphines, such as 1,1 -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene, enhances yields ill the palladium-catalysed reaction of aiyl bromides with sodium phenoxides to yield diaryl ethers.87 Palladium-catalysed coupling of ethynylated derivatives of bipyridine or terpyridine with the corresponding bipyridine or terpyridine hahdes or triflates has been used in the synthesis of preorganized polytopic ligands.88... 

Several of the transformations a- to the carbon of the silylmethylamines giving access to differently substituted SMAs have been reported. Thus, an ethynyl derivative has been reduced quantitatively to its vinyl congener or peptide has been prepared in high yield from the corresponding aminoacid.123,130... 

Because the hydrogen atom and phenyl group migrate so readily, the reactions of / -dicarbonyl enolates with ethynyl- and (phenylethynyl)iodonium salts can be expected to result in alkynylation. It has already been noted that the 2- -hexyl-l,3-indandionate ion undergoes alkynylation with (phenylethynyl)phenyliodonium tetrafluoroborate (equation 43), despite the availability of the -hexyl group for [2 + 3] annulation. Ethynylations of six / -dicarbonyl enolates and the anion of 2-nitrocyclohexane with ethynyl(phenyl)-iodonium tetrafluoroborate in THF have also been reported27. For example, admixture of the ethynyliodonium salt and the anion of ethyl 2-cyclopentanone-l-carboxylate in THF affords the 1-ethynyl derivative in 71% isolated yield (equation 124)27. 

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