Hydroboration unsaturated hydrocarbons

The addition of a gas to a reaction mixture (commonly the hydrogen halides, fluorine, chlorine, phosgene, boron trifluoride, carbon dioxide, ammonia, gaseous unsaturated hydrocarbons, ethylene oxide) requires the provision of safety precautions which may not be immediately apparent. Some of these gases may be generated in situ (e.g. diborane in hydroboration reactions), some may be commercially available in cylinders, and some may be generated by chemical or other means (e.g. carbon dioxide, ozone). An individual description of the convenient sources of these gases will be found under Section 4.2. 

With this spectrum of reagents, virtually all unsaturated hydrocarbons can be hydroborated. Moreover, many functional groups are tolerated in hydroboration with substituted borane derivatives, since double and triple C—C bonds react more rapidly than most other functionalities (see Table 1). Only aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic groups must be protected. Consequently, for the first time, functionalized organometall-ics are available. Chiral organoboranes of high optical purity can be prepared ... 

Complexes of the group 9 metals, especially rhodium and iridium, represent one of the more numerous families on which a systematic appraisal of struc-ture/bonding properties for the boryl ligand can be based. In part, this reflects the involvement of such systems not only in earlier work on metal-catalyzed hydroboration chemistry [2-5,35,113-123], but in more recent studies of di-boration [124,125], and the activation of C-H bonds in both saturated [9,10, 126-135] and unsaturated hydrocarbons [9,10,50,51,127,129,134,136-159]. 

Purpose. The oxidation of an alkene to an alcohol is investigated via the in situ formation of the corresponding trialkylborane, followed by the oxidation of the carbon-boron bond with hydrogen peroxide. The conditions required for hydroboration (a reduction) of unsaturated hydrocarbons are explored. Alkylboranes are particularly useful synthetic intermediates for the preparation of alcohols. The example used in this experiment is the conversion of 1-octene to 1-octanol in which an anti-Markovrukov addition to the double bond is required to yield the intermediate, trioctylborane. Since it is this alkyl borane that subsequently undergoes oxidation to the alcohol, hydroboration offers a synthetic pathway for introducing substituents at centers of unsaturation that are not normally available to the anti-Markovnikov addition reactions that are based on radical intermediates. 

The addition of metal-hydrogen bonds across carbon-carbon multiple bonds, called hydrometallations, are very important, versatile transformations in organic synthesis. First, they allow the synthesis of new organometallic compounds. The products thus formed may be further transformed into other valuable compounds. The two most important reactions, hydroboration and hydrosilylation, will be treated here in detail, whereas other hydrometallation reactions (hydroalanation, hydro-zirconation) will be discussed only briefly. Hydrostannation, a very important transformation of substituted unsaturated compounds, has no significance in the chemistry of hydrocarbons possessing nonactivated multiple bonds. 

Transfers of hydride from boron or lithium to carbon usually occur in the context of addition of the complete M—H moiety to polar or non-polar unsaturation. Additions of boranes to alkenes have been extensively reviewed (Brown et al., 1983a), but the experimental characterization of the hydroboration transition state remains problematic. Dialkylboranes, including 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (Wang and Brown, 1980), borinane (Brown et al., 1984), and disiamylborane (Chandrasekharan and Brown, 1985) have now been shown to be dimeric in hydrocarbon and ethereal solvents. With unreactive alkenes, their additions are first order in alkene and half order in the dimer. With reactive terminal alkenes, the reactions are first order only in dimer, with intermediate behaviour between these extremes. A reaction scheme (10) involving reaction of monomeric borane with the alkene satisfies the data, with the observed order depending on the ratio k i/k2. 

Hunsdiecker reaction, 341 Hybridization, 17 Hybrid orbital number, 17, 18, 32 Hybrid, resonance, 24 Hydration of cyclohexane derivatives, 191 Hydrazine, 4 Hydride shift, 93 Hydroboration, 95 Hydroboration-oxidation, 258, 270 Hydrocarbons, cyclic, 162 unsaturated, 87 Hydrogenation of alkenes, 57 Hydrogen bond, 22 Hydroperoxides in ethers, 284 Hydroquinone, 430 Hydroxy acids, 344... 

We characterized the specificity of the direct hydroboration reaction products of straight chain and cyclic dienes using computational methods. It was previously thought that only partial hydroboration takes place in dienes, resulting in unsaturated reaction products described by Brown and Bhat [18]. Our recent study [17] demonstrated that hydroboration was not limited to one of the double bonds, and that in fact polymers formed as a result of fiiUy saturated, boron-containing hydrocarbons cross-linking... 

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