Heteroatom Carbanions

Such reactive carbanions can also act as reducing agents or as strong bases, and can lead to numerous unexpected reactions [197]. Few solvents are sufficiently inert to withstand them [198], Chelate-stabilized, a-heteroatom-substituted carbanions can, on the other hand, be quite stable, and in recent years numerous useful transformations involving these intermediates have been developed. 

Allylic and propargylic heteroatom-substituted carbanions can yield rearranged or unrearranged products on treatment with an electrophile. The regio- and stereoselectivity of these reactions depends on the precise structure of the carbanion, on the metal and solvent chosen [199], and on the structure of the electrophile [150, 200-203], and can be difficult to predict. 

Non-enolizable amides, for example N,N-dialkyl pivalamides [212], benzamides, thiobenzamides [213], or phosphinamides (Ph2P(0)NR2[214]), can be lithiated a to the amino group by treatment with sBuLi[54, 213, 215] or tBuLi[216], without further additives, in THF at -78 °C. N,N-Dimethylbenzamides can be attacked at the carbonyl group by these organolithium reagents to yield ketones [217] or alcohols, but with sterically more demanding amides metalation is usually faster than addition. 

Because amides are often difficult to hydrolyze, their utility as transient activating groups for amines is limited. For this reason more readily hydrolyzable groups were 

Convenient alternatives to direct deprotonation of ethers are tin-lithium exchange [199, 258-261], halogen-magnesium exchange [262], or reductive cleavage of 0,Se-acetals [263, 264], Another synthetic equivalent of a-metalated ethers are (alkoxymethyl)phosphonium salts [265]. 

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Reactivity of Five-membered Rings with Two or More Heteroatoms (ii) Activated methyl and methylene carbanions... 

The ylides may be defined as dipolar compounds in which a carbanion is covalently bonded to a positively charged heteroatom. They are represented by the following general formula ... 

The Andersen sulphoxide synthesis allows one also to synthesize a variety of a-heteroatom substituted sulphoxides starting from a-heteroatom stabilized carbanions and (—)-(S)-276. The selected examples shown in Scheme 3 are the best illustration of the generality of this approach. The reaction of enolates or enolate like species with (—)-(S)-276 has been used for the synthesis of optically active a-carbalkoxy sulphoxides. For example, treatment of (—)-(S)-276 with the halogenomagnesium enolates of -butyl acetate, t-butyl propionate or t-butyl butyrate resulted in the formation of ( + )-(R)-t-butyl p-toluenesulphinylcarboxylates 298367 (equation 163). 

Since a great number of such transformations were described in the chemical literature, only selected examples of general importance will be presented here. This section will consist of the following parts reactions of the sulphoxide a-carbanions introduction, substitution, transformation and elimination of heteroatomic groups attached to organic substituents in sulphoxides additions to unsaturated sulphoxides other modifications of organic substituents in sulphoxides. 

A few observations of the isolation of carbocation-carbanion salt containing heteroatoms, such as oxygen and nitrogen, have been reported. Over 30 years ago LeGoff and LaCount (1963) reported the formation of a... 

Me3SiCl reacts with phosphinomethanides I (R=Me) with at least one hydrogen as carbanion substituent (X = Y=H X=H, Y=SiMe3, PMej) via Si-C bond formation to give heteroelement substituted phosphinomethanides [4]. With fully C-heteroatom-substituted I, the reaction depends on the nature of X and Y, as shown by Eqs. (l)-(3) ... 

Comparison of rates of Brook rearrangement of jS-substituted a-silyl allyl alcohols as a means of estimating the a-carbanion stabilizing ability of heteroatom substituents suggests that PhS is much more stabilizing than MesSi. ... 

A review entitled a-heteroatom-substituted 1-alkenyllithium regents carbanions and carbenoids for C-C bond formation has addressed the methods of generation of such species, illustrated the carbenoid reactivity of a-lithiated vinyl halides and vinyl ethers, and emphasized the synthetic potential of the carbanion species in asymmetric synthesis of a-hydroxy- and a-amino-carbonyl compounds. ... 

Ylides, by definition, are nucleophiles. Probably the most complete definition has been given by AW Johnson [2], who stated that an ylide is a carbanion directly bonded to a heteroatom with a high degree of formal positive charge, this charge... 

The addition of anionic heteroatom-centered nucleophiles (HO, MeO, pyr-azolate, etc.) and carbanions (CN , enolates, aUcyl or alkynyl reagents) to the cationic allenylidenes [Ru( 7 -C9H7)(=C=C=CR R )(PPh3)2][PF6] [125-128,... 

Further data from the polarography and cyclic voltammetry in dimethylformamide are given in Table 5.1 for a series of overall two-electron processes leading to cleavage of a benzyl-heteroatom bond. The first electron transfer step is of the dissociative electron transfer type leading to a benzyl radical. This radical is reduced firrther, at the working potential, to the benzyl carbanion. The carbanion fi om benzyl chlorides, esters, ethers, sulphides, sulphones and quaternary ammonium salts can be trapped by carbon dioxide to form phenylacetic acid [2]. Reac-... 

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