Grignard reagents acetylenic

The conversion of acetylenes into acetyl ides, M-C=C-R (M = Li, Na, K, MgBr), by means of alkyllithium or Grignard reagents in organic solvents or by alkali metal amides in liquid ammonia is well documented (for practical examples see ref. 1, for review articles consult inter alia refs. 2-5). 

Alkynyl anions are more stable = 22) than the more saturated alkyl or alkenyl anions (p/Tj = 40-45). They may be obtained directly from terminal acetylenes by treatment with strong base, e.g. sodium amide (pA, of NH 35). Frequently magnesium acetylides are made in proton-metal exchange reactions with more reactive Grignard reagents. Copper and mercury acetylides are formed directly from the corresponding metal acetates and acetylenes under neutral conditions (G.E. Coates, 1977 R.P. Houghton, 1979). 

Acetylenic Grignard reagents of the type RC CMgBr are prepared not from an acetylenic halide but by an acid-base reaction in which a Grignard reagent abstracts a proton from a terminal aUcyne... 

Sodium acetylide and acetylenic Grignard reagents react with aldehydes and ketones to give alcohols of the type... 

Acetylene Grignard reagents, which are useful for further synthesis, are formed by the reaction of acetylene with an alkyhnagnesium bromide. 

Trialkylsilanes are usually formed by the addition of a lithium or Grignard reagent to the silyl chloride, and thus, discussions related to the formation of the silyl acetylene bond will be kept to a minimum. Silyl acetylenes are prepared from the alkynylcopper(I) reagents in the presence of PPh3, Zn or TMEDA in CH3CN at 100°, 36-98% yield. It is interesting to note that the... 

A closely related reaction of (—)-(S)-276 with the Grignard reagents obtained from a-acetylenic halides leads to the formation of mixtures of acetylenic sulphoxides 290 and allenic sulphoxides 291363 (equation 161). The latter compounds are most probably formed via transition state 292, which is analogous to 289. On the other hand, hex-l-ynyl p-tolyl sulphoxide 293 is smoothly prepared from hex-1 -ynylmagnesium bromide and (— )-(S)-276363 (equation 162). 

Jacobi reports using a variant of method A to access the A,B,E-ring system of wortmannin.14 The sequential addition of methyl lithium and acetylenic Grignard reagent followed by triflation proceeds from 7 to the corresponding triflate 8 in 74% yield (Fig. 4.13). Subsequent carbonylation of the alkyne and the phenol produces the acyl oxazole 9, which is smoothly converted into the furanolactone 10 over three more steps. 

It occurs with the alkyls, aryls or acetylides of metals more electropositive than magnesium, but including Grignard reagents, and is often carried out by adding a solution of the organometallic compound in an inert solvent to a large excess of powdered, solid C02 it is a particularly useful method for the preparation of acetylenic acids. The Kolbe-Schmidt reaction (p. 291) is another example of carbanion carbonation. 

Another method of synthesis was also used. This involved the action of chloroacetaldehyde on the Grignard reagent derived from acetylene in order to obtain the meso divinylacetylene dichlorohydrin, CH2CI—CHOH—C=C—CHOH—CH C1, from which one passed to the corresponding hexynetetrol, CH2OH—CHOH—C=C—CHOH— CHjOH. This, in turn, was reduced to the hexenetetrol, CHjOH— CHOH—CH=CH—CHOH—CH2OH, by means of Bourguel s catalyst,8 a dispersion of colloidal palladium on starch. When the hexenetetrol was hydroxylated by the use of silver chlorate and osmic acid, two hexitols, dulcitol and allitol, were obtained. 

Chloroacetaldehyde was prepared by heating its crystalline polymer and collecting the distillate in ether. The ethereal solution was at once reacted with the acetylenic Grignard reagent according to the procedure described above. After removal of the ether, the reaction mixture was concentrated as far as possible with a water pump. The residue at this point contained tneso-divinylacetylene dichlorohydrin, CHaCl—CHOH—C=C—CHOH—CHjCl, and probably the d,l isomer. When distillation was attempted by heating the reaction mixture strongly, it decomposed in an explosive manner. 

The desired intermediates, a pentadienol or a pentenetriol were unknown at the time, but it occurred to me that their synthesis might be accomplished by the partial reduction of a pentenynol or a pentynetriol, the latter being obtained from the reaction of one molecule of acrolein or acrolein dichloride with the Grignard reagent derived from acetylene. The reactions which have been carried out in accordance with this scheme are shown in the accompanying flow sheet. 

Selenienylalkynylcarbinols were prepared by the addition of Grignard reagents or the sodium salts of acetylenes to 2-formylselenophene and its derivatives. The alcohols were oxidized and the resulting ketones treated with hydrazine and hydroxylamine to give the diheteroaryls 81 and 82.94... 

In the general context of donor/acceptor formulation, the carbonyl derivatives (especially ketones) are utilized as electron acceptors in a wide variety of reactions such as additions with Grignard reagents, alkyl metals, enolates (aldol condensation), hydroxide (Cannizzaro reaction), alkoxides (Meerwein-Pondorff-Verley reduction), thiolates, phenolates, etc. reduction to alcohols with lithium aluminum hydride, sodium borohydride, trialkyltin hydrides, etc. and cyloadditions with electron-rich olefins (Paterno-Buchi reaction), acetylenes, and dienes.46... 

Sato, F. Urabe, H. Preparation of Grignard Reagents from Olefins and Acetylenes. In Handbook of GrignardReagents Silverman, G. S., Rakita, P. E., Eds. Dekker New York, 1996 chapter 3, pp 23-52. 

In 1999, Sekiguchi et al. prepared the first silyl acetylene dendrimers 255 and 256 with up to 22 Si atoms and 21 acetylene units (Schemes 35 and 36).358 The preparation of 255 and 256 has been achieved by the reaction of the triple Grignard reagent 257 with the trisila diyne 258 and the heptasila hexayne 259, respectively. 

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