Rearrangement halides

Pyrolysis of carboxylic acids Dehydrohalogenation of acyl halides Dehalogenation of a-halo acyl halides Rearrangement of diazo ketones (Wolff)... 

The reaction is performed most simply by the addition of the propargylic alcohol to a solution of the phosphorus halide. Rearrangement of the phosphorus ester proceeds at ambient temperature or with mild heating. When phosphorus trihalides are used, the product can be isolated as the phosphonic dichloride.168169 Aqueous workup provides the phosphonic acid.162 In most instances, however, a dialkyl phosphorochloridite with only a single halogen on phosphorus available for reaction with alcohol has been used.165 170 174... 

Oxidation of the heterocycles with common reagents such as MCPBA, sodium periodate or hydrogen peroxide cleanly affords the sulfoxides and sulfones, and it is clear that the sulfur atom is the principal centre of reaction for electrophiles. While the sulfone is a quite inert functionality, the sulfoxides may be reduced to the sulfides with phosphorus pen-tasulfide as for the tetrahydro systems (78CJC1423). Positive halogen sources likewise react at sulfur, and the intermediate sulfonium halide rearranges, usually by 1,2-shift to the a-halo product. 

The result in Equation [1] is explained by a carbocation rearrangement involving a 1,2-hydride shift the less stable 2° carbocation (formed from the 2° halide) rearranges to a more stable 3° carbocation, as illustrated in Mechanism 18.8. 

Nucleophilic attack on unsymmetrical allylic halides Rearrangement and stability of allylic alcohols Part II - Preparation of Allylic Alcohols Traditional Methods... 

The last group of reactions uses ring opening of carbonyl or 1-hydroxyalkyl substituted cyclopropanes, which operate as a -synthons. d -Synthons, e.g. hydroxide or halides, yield 1,4-disubstituted products (E. Wenkert, 1970 A). (1-Hydroxyalkyl)- and (1-haloalkyl)-cyclopropanes are rearranged to homoallylic halides, e.g. in Julia s method of terpene synthesis (M. Julia, 1961, 1974 S.F. Brady, I968 J.P. McCormick, 1975). 

Perfluoroalkylzinc iodides, prepared in situ from iodides and ultrasonically dispersed Zn, are coupled with allylic halides via an allylic rearrangement[271]. The Pd-catalyzed homocoupling of allylic acetate in the presence of Zn to give a mixture of regioisomers 416 and 417 may proceed via in situ formation of allylzinc species[272,273]. 

Mercapto-imida2oliuin inner salts have been reported to rearrange under the influence of hydrochloric acid, producing S-aminothiazolium chlorides (Scheme 25) (36). Their N-acylated derivatives are obtained by cyclization of N-thiobenzoyl alkylaminoacetonitriles, effected with acyl or sulfonyl halides (Scheme 26) (34, 35). 

In Chapter 4 you learned that carbocations could be captured by halide anions to give alkyl halides In the present chapter a second type of carbocation reaction has been introduced—a carbocation can lose a proton to form an alkene In the next section a third aspect of carbocation behavior will be described the rearrangement of one carbo cation to another... 

Like alcohol dehydrations El reactions of alkyl halides can be accompanied by carbocation rearrangements Eliminations by the E2 mechanism on the other hand nor mally proceed without rearrangement Consequently if one wishes to prepare an alkene from an alkyl halide conditions favorable to E2 elimination should be chosen In prac tice this simply means carrying out the reaction m the presence of a strong base... 

Dehydrohalogenation of alkyl halides (Sections 5 14-5 16) Strong bases cause a proton and a halide to be lost from adjacent carbons of an alkyl halide to yield an alkene Regioselectivity is in accord with the Zaitsev rule The order of halide reactivity is I > Br > Cl > F A concerted E2 reaction pathway is followed carbocations are not involved and rearrangements do not occur An anti coplanar arrangement of the proton being removed and the halide being lost characterizes the transition state... 

Section 5 15 Dehydrohalogenation of alkyl halides by alkoxide bases is not compli cated by rearrangements because carbocations are not intermediates The mechanism is E2 It is a concerted process m which the base abstracts a proton from the p carbon while the bond between the halogen and the a carbon undergoes heterolytic cleavage... 

Carbocation Rearrangements in Hydrogen Halide Addition to Alkenes... 

CARBOCATION REARRANGEMENTS IN HYDROGEN HALIDE ADDITION TO ALKENES... 

Our belief that carbocations are intermediates m the addition of hydrogen halides to alkenes is strengthened by the fact that rearrangements sometimes occur For example the reaction of hydrogen chloride with 3 methyl 1 butene is expected to produce 2 chloro 3 methylbutane Instead a mixture of 2 chloro 3 methylbutane and 2 chloro 2 methylbutane results... 

Rearrangement can occur and the desired alkyl halide is sometimes accompanied by an isomeric halide An example is seen m the case of the secondary alcohol 2 octanol which yields a mixture of 2 and 3 bromooctane... 

Unbranched primary alcohols and tertiary alcohols tend to react with hydrogen halides without rearrangement The alkyloxonmm ions from primary alcohols react rap idly with bromide ion for example m an Sn2 process Tertiary alcohols give tertiary alkyl halides because tertiary carbocations are stable and show little tendency to rearrange... 

When It IS necessary to prepare secondary alkyl halides with assurance that no trace of rearrangement accompanies their formation the corresponding alcohol is first converted to its p toluenesulfonate ester and this ester is then allowed to react with sodium chloride bromide or iodide as described m Section 8 14... 

The reactions of alcohols with hydrogen halides to give alkyl halides (Chapter 4) are nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyloxonium ions m which water is the leaving group Primary alcohols react by an 8 2 like displacement of water from the alkyloxonium ion by halide Sec ondary and tertiary alcohols give alkyloxonium ions which form carbo cations m an S l like process Rearrangements are possible with secondary alcohols and substitution takes place with predominant but not complete inversion of configuration... 

The carbocations formed as intermediates when allylic halides undergo Stvfl reactions have their positive charge shared by the two end carbons of the allylic system and may be attacked by nucleophiles at either site Products may be formed with the same pattern of bonds as the starting allylic halide or with allylic rearrangement... 

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