Formation from hydrazone hydrogenation

A mechanism which is consistent with the various experimental results for olefin formation involves the initial abstraction of the hydrazone proton (103->106) In this case, however, expulsion of the tosylate anion is associated with the abstraction of a second hydrogen from C-16 instead of hydride attack on the C=N bond (compare 97 98 and 106 107). Ex-... 

In certain cases this reduction (with lithium aluminum hydride) takes a different course, and olefins are formed. The effect is dependent on both the reagent concentration and the steric environment of the hydrazone. Dilute reagent and hindered hydrazone favor olefins borohydride gives the saturated hydrocarbon. The hydrogen picked up in olefin formation comes from solvent, and in full reduction one comes from hydride and the other from solvent. This was shown by deuteriation experiments with the hydrazone (150) ... 

Scheme 6.13 Mechanistic proposal for the catalytic effect of hydrogen-bonding thiourea 9 and the product formation resulting from an equilibrium between the hydrazone and its nucleophilic ene-hydrazine form.

A mechanism which is consistent with the various experimental results for olefin formation involves the initial abstraction of the hydrazone proton (103 - 106)82 In this case, however, expulsion of the tosylate anion is associated with the abstraction of a second hydrogen from C-16 instead of hydride attack on the C=N bond (compare 97 - 98 and 106 - 107). Expulsion of nitrogen from the resulting intermediate (107) yields an anion (108) which is most probably stabilized in the form of a metal complex and can be readily decomposed by water to give an olefin (109). This implies that 17-d1-androst-16-ene (104) can be prepared by using deuterium oxide as the sole deuterated reagent.82... 

Attempts to prepare this hydrocarbon from benzanthrone by the Wolff-Kishner method (formation and hydrolysis of the hydrazone) or its modifications, by Raney nickel reduction, or by zinc-dust distillation were either unsuccessful or gave the desired hydrocarbon in poor yield. The successful reduction using synthesis gas demonstrates further the potentialities of this new hydrogenation procedure in problems of synthetic organic chemistry. 

Dinitrophenylhydrazones (DNPHs) were applied to the GC analysis of keto acids. As with carbonyl compounds, they are prepared by reaction with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine and are also used mainly for the preliminary isolation of keto acids. They can be isolated from a dilute aqueous sample by adsorption on activated carbon and selective desorption [178] hydrazones of aldehydes with a methyl formate-dichloromethane mixture and hydrazones of keto acids with a pyridine-water azeotropic mixture. Hydrazones of acids are released from their pyridine salts with methanol containing hydrogen chloride. After... 

Other methods for the synthesis of l,4-dihydro-l,2,4,5-tetrazines 9 which can be explained by intermediate formation of nitrile imines 8 are the photolysis of 1,2,3-triazoles 2181 and sydnones 3,182 reaction of tetrazoles 4180 with tosyl chloride, elimination of pyridine from the pyridinium compounds 5,189-190 of hydrogen chloride from the hydrazonic acid chlorides 1 s.3-i88 or elimination 0f sulfinate from the a-sulfonyl hydrazone 7.189... 

Hexosulose hydrazones and the mixed osazones react with diazotized aniline to give formazans, and with hydrogen peroxide to give pentonic acids. Unlike the mixed osazones obtained by transhydrazonation, the derivatives obtained from the glycosulose hydrazones are pure, uncontaminated compounds, and the positions of their hydrazone residues are well established. Thus, they afford remarkable possibilities, not only in the preparation of new types of compound, but also in enabling the reaction of osazones to be followed more closely, as in the case of triazole formation," and in studying the structure of anhydro-osazones. ... 

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