Hydroxy-alkyl halides,

Alkylation of aldol type educts, e.g., /3-hydroxy esters, using LDA and alkyl halides leads stereoselectively to erythro substitution. The erythro threo ratio of the products is of the order of 95 5. Allylic and benzylic bromides can also be used. The allyl groups can later be ozonolysed to gjve aldehydes, and many interesting oligofunctional products with two adjacent chiral centres become available from chiral aldol type educts (G. Prater, 1984 D. Seebach, 1984 see also M. Nakatsuka, 1990, p. 5586). 

A special problem arises in the preparation of secondary amines. These compounds are highly nucleophilic, and alkylation of an amine with alkyl halides cannot be expected to stop at any specifle stage. Secondary amides, however, can be monoalkylated and lydrolyzed or be reduced to secondary amines (p. 11 If.). In the elegant synthesis of phenyl- phrine an intermediate -hydroxy isocyanate (from a hydrazide and nitrous acid) cyclizes to pve an oxazolidinone which is monomethylated. Treatment with strong acid cleaves the cyclic irethan. 

Pyrazoles, isoxazoles and isothiazoles with a hydroxyl group in the 3-position (491 Z = NR, O, S) could isomerize to 3-azolinones (492). However, these compounds behave as true hydroxy derivatives and show phenolic properties. They give an intense violet color with iron(III) chloride and form a salt (493) with sodium hydroxide which can be O-alkylated by alkyl halides (to give 494 R = alkyl) and acylated by acid chlorides (to give 494 R = acyl). 

Weiss ° treated 16-dehydro- (6), 17a-acetoxy- (8), 17a-hydroxy- (9) and 17a-bromopregnan-20-one (11) with a solution of lithium, barium, calcium or sodium in liquid ammonia and reacted the intermediate enolate anion (7) with the appropriate alkyl halide. 

The procedure involves C-alkylation of an a-sulfonyl carbanion derived from 245 with alkyl halides or carbonyl compounds, followed by cleavage of the cyclopropanols 247 produced by deprotection of the hydroxy group of 246 to give (E)-substituted aldehydes141. 

A stmple and general synthesis of 2,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted furan-3(2//)-ones from 4-hydroxyalk-2-ynones and alkyl halides via tandem CO, addition-elimination protocol is described <96S 1431>. Palladiuni-mediated intramolecular cyclization of substituted pentynoic adds offers a new route to y-arylidenebutyrolactones <96TL1429>. The first total synthesis of (-)-goniofupyrone 39 was reported. Constmction of the dioxabicyclo[4.3.0]nonenone skeleton was achieved by tosylation of an allylic hydroxy group, followed by exposure to TBAF-HF <96TL5389>. 

Scheme 5.7 illustrates these and other applications of the hydride donors. Entries 1 and 2 are examples of reduction of alkyl halides, whereas Entry 3 shows removal of an aromatic halogen. Entries 4 to 6 are sulfonate displacements, with the last example using a copper hydride reagent. Entry 7 is an epoxide ring opening. Entries 8 and 9 illustrate the difference in ease of reduction of alkynes with and without hydroxy participation. 

AK5-Hydroxy-6-methyl-2-pyridyl)aminomethylenemalonate (1492, R = H) was alkylated with alkyl halides in DMF in the presence of potassium carbonate at 90-110°C for 1 hr to give the 5-alkoxy derivatives (1492, R = Et, /Pr, CH2Ph, CH2OMe) [81JAP(K)131583]. 

Nucleophilic Reactions.—Attack on Saturated Carbon. Selected examples of the Arbusov reaction include phosphorylation of the chloroacetophenones (1) to give phosphonates, which cyclized to (2) in the presence of acid chlorides,1 formation of the azodiphosphonate (3) from 2,2 -dichloro-2,2 -azopropane,2 3 and the reaction of 2-chloro-3,4-dihydro-3-oxo-2//-l,4-benzothiazine (4) with triethyl phosphite to give the 2-phosphonate (5), which is used as an olefin synthon.8 Bis(trimethylsilyl) trimethylsiloxymethylphosphonite (6) has been synthesized by silylation of hydroxy-methylphosphonous acid, and, as expected, undergoes a normal Arbusov reaction with alkyl halides to give the phosphonates (7).4 This series of reactions, followed by... 

An alternative route to sulphones utilizes the reaction of the appropriate activated halide with sodium dithionite or sodium hydroxymethanesulphinite [6], This procedure is limited to the preparation of symmetrical dialkyl sulphones and, although as a one-step reaction from the alkyl halide it is superior to the two-step oxidative route from the dialkyl sulphides, the overall yields tend to be moderately low (the best yield of 62% for dibenzyl sulphoxide using sodium dithionite is obtained after 20 hours at 120°C). The mechanism proposed for the reaction of sodium hydroxymethanesulphinite is shown in Scheme 4.20. The reaction is promoted by the addition of base and the best yield is obtained using Aliquat in the presence of potassium carbonate. It is noteworthy, however, that a comparable yield can be obtained in the absence of the catalyst. The reaction of phenacyl halides with sodium hydroxy-methane sulphinite leads to reductive dehalogenation [7]. 

A novel Michael-type addition of alkyl halides to a,/3-enones (239) has been realized using either aquocobalamin (232) or dibromo[l-hydroxy-8H-HDP]cobalt(111)... 

The reaction of acceptor-substituted carbene complexes with alcohols to yield ethers is a valuable alternative to other etherification reactions [1152,1209-1211], This reaction generally proceeds faster than cyclopropanation [1176], As in other transformations with electrophilic carbene complexes, the reaction conditions are mild and well-suited to base- or acid-sensitive substrates [1212], As an illustrative example, Experimental Procedure 4.2.4 describes the carbene-mediated etherification of a serine derivative. This type of substrate is very difficult to etherify under basic conditions (e.g. NaH, alkyl halide [1213]), because of an intramolecular hydrogen-bond between the nitrogen-bound hydrogen and the hydroxy group. Further, upon treatment with bases serine ethers readily eliminate alkoxide to give acrylates. With the aid of electrophilic carbene complexes, however, acceptable yields of 0-alkylated serine derivatives can be obtained. 

Four-Ring Fused Nonaltemant Hydrocarbons under Polycyclic Hydrocarbons, Nonaltemant Compounds with Four Fused Rings Freon 111 under Saturated Alkyl Halides Freon 113 under Saturated Alkyl Halides Fused-Ring Hydroxy Compounds... 

V-Alkylation of 3-hydroxypyridine results from direct treatment with an alkyl halide or dimethyl sulfate and alkali (59JA5140,57RTC58). Regioselectivity depends, however, on other substituents present as well as conditions. For example, 3-hydroxy-2-nitropyridine is exclusively O-alkylated with dimethyl sulfate and potassium carbonate (81MI20600) and 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridines are exclusively O-benzylated with benzyl chloride and alkali in a two phase system and phase transfer catalyst (Scheme 96) (81S971). 

S )-3-Hydroxy-4-butanolide (1), which is readily available from (—)-(S)-malic acid, can be converted into the dianion and the latter alkylated with alkyl halides or mesylates with moderate yields but with high diastereoselectivity (d.r. >98 2)39. 

A gold monohydride species was also suggested in the report by Ito and Sawamura et al. on the dehydrogenative silylation of alcohols by HSiEt3 and a diphosphine gold(I) complex. Reaction was selective for the silylation of hydroxy groups in the presence of alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, alkenes, alkynes and other functional groups [193]. 

Even in the strong alkali that favors this reaction, very little of the arsenite will be as the trianion nevertheless, there is evidence that it is this form that is responsible for the reaction (104). The insolubility of many alkyl halides in the necessarily aqueous solution of strong alkali is a limitation on this, so ways around must be found. Further, the R group of R—X should not carry a nucleophilic atom on C-4 or C-5, or else it will attack C-l with expulsion of halide and cyclization. This includes a hydroxy group, since it will be in the nucleophilic -0 form in the alkaline conditions. 

Salts of sulfonic acids can be prepared by treatment of primary or secondary alkyl halides with sulfite ion,799 Even tertiary halides have been used, though the yields are low. Epoxides treated with bisulfite give 3-hydroxy sulfonic acids. ... 

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