Grignard reagents carboxylation with carbon

Grignard reagents react with carbon dioxide to yield acid salts, which, upon acidification, produce carboxylic acids. 

Acetylenic Grignard reagents react with carbon dioxide (CO2) to yield carboxylic acids of the type RC CCOOH. The reactions with ethylcarbonate [CO(OEt)2] or ethylchloro-... 

Grignard reagents react with CO2 to give carboxylic acids after protonation with aqueous acid. This reaction, called carboxylation, forms a carboxylic acid with one more carbon atom than the Grignard reagent from which it is prepared. 

Grignard reagents react with aldehydes to form secondary alcohols, with ketones and acyl halides to form tertiary alcohols, and with carbon dioxide to form carboxylic acids. Aldehydes are reduced to primary alcohols, ketones to secondary alcohols, and amides to amines. 

Grignard reagents react with CO2 to give carboxylic acids—thus, an acid can be disconnected to a Grignard reagent and hence a halide. The disconnection in Figure 19.37 was used to prepare benzoic acid labeled with using labeled CO2 produced from acid on labeled barium carbonate. 

We ve seen how Grignard reagents add to the carbonyl group of aldehydes ketones and esters Grignard reagents react m much the same way with carbon dioxide to yield mag nesium salts of carboxylic acids Acidification converts these magnesium salts to the desired carboxylic acids... 

In some instances a carbon-carbon bond can be formed with C-nucleophiles. For example, 3-carboxamido-6-methylpyridazine is produced from 3-iodo-6-methylpyridazine by treatment with potassium cyanide in aqueous ethanol and l,3-dimethyl-6-oxo-l,6-dihydro-pyridazine-4-carboxylic acid from 4-chloro-l,3-dimethylpyridazin-6-(lH)-one by reaction with a mixture of cuprous chloride and potassium cyanide. Chloro-substituted pyridazines react with Grignard reagents. For example, 3,4,6-trichloropyridazine reacts with f-butyl-magnesium chloride to give 4-t-butyl-3,5,6-trichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (120) and 4,5-di-t-butyl-3,6-dichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (121) and both are converted into 4-t-butyl-3,6-dichloropyridazine (122 Scheme 38). 

Section 19.11 Carboxylic acids can be prepared by the reaction of Grignard reagents with carbon dioxide. 

Carboxylation (Section 19.11) In the preparation of a carboxylic acid, the reaction of a carbanion with carbon dioxide. Typically, the carbanion source is a Grignard reagent. 

Methods of synthesis for carboxylic acids include (1) oxidation of alkyl-benzenes, (2) oxidative cleavage of alkenes, (3) oxidation of primary alcohols or aldehydes, (4) hydrolysis of nitriles, and (5) reaction of Grignard reagents with CO2 (carboxylation). General reactions of carboxylic acids include (1) loss of the acidic proton, (2) nucleophilic acyl substitution at the carbonyl group, (3) substitution on the a carbon, and (4) reduction. 

The Grignard reagents prepared from the activated magnesium appear to react normally with electrophiles. Thus reactions with proton donors, ketones, and carbon dioxide afford hydrocarbons, alcohols, and carboxylic acids, respectively. The reductive coupling of ketones to pinacols had also been accomplished with the activated magnesium. ... 

The addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes, ketones, and esters is the basis for the synthesis of a wide variety of alcohols, and several examples are given in Scheme 7.3. Primary alcohols can be made from formaldehyde (Entry 1) or, with addition of two carbons, from ethylene oxide (Entry 2). Secondary alcohols are obtained from aldehydes (Entries 3 to 6) or formate esters (Entry 7). Tertiary alcohols can be made from esters (Entries 8 and 9) or ketones (Entry 10). Lactones give diols (Entry 11). Aldehydes can be prepared from trialkyl orthoformate esters (Entries 12 and 13). Ketones can be made from nitriles (Entries 14 and 15), pyridine-2-thiol esters (Entry 16), N-methoxy-A-methyl carboxamides (Entries 17 and 18), or anhydrides (Entry 19). Carboxylic acids are available by reaction with C02 (Entries 20 to 22). Amines can be prepared from imines (Entry 23). Two-step procedures that involve formation and dehydration of alcohols provide routes to certain alkenes (Entries 24 and 25). 

After multiple steps, an organic halide can be converted to a carboxylic acid. The organic halide converts to a Grignard reagent, which reacts with carbon dioxide and then acidification forms the acid. Figures 12-13 and 12-14 illustrate the steps in this process. 

Carboxylic acids are obtained from Grignard reagents by reaction with carbon dioxide. Scheme 7.3 includes some specific examples of procedures described in Organic Syntheses. 

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