Hydroxy group in alcohols

An elegant method for the replacement of hydroxy groups in alcohols by hydrogen is the addition of alcohol to dialkylcarbodiimide followed by catalytic hydrogenation of the intermediate 0-alkoxy-A,A -dialkylisoureas over palladium at 40-80° and 1 -60 atm (yields 52-99%) [606]. 

Cationic Bismuth-Catalyzed Hydroamination and Direct Substitution of the Hydroxy Group in Alcohols with Amides... 

Trifluorodi(phenyl)-A >-phosphane and difluorotri(phenyl)-/L -phosphane are suitable fluorinating agents for the direct substitution of hydroxy groups in alcohols.10,12... 

As discussed in Chapter 13, the hydrogenation of mixtures of simple alkenes and olefinic alcohols in non-polar solvents results in the selective saturation of the hydroxy olefin because of the enhanced adsorption of this material caused by the presence of the hydroxy group. In alcoholic solvents, however, this haptophilic assistance is negated by the adsorption of the solvent molecules on the catalyst, and hydrogenation selectivity is controlled by the steric environments of the competing olefins.7i.72... 

Alcohols are available in a variety of cyclic and acyclic forms, and, as such, have been utilized as versatile starting materials for the construction of carbon compounds including natural products with many centers of chirality. In order to functionalize and manipulate the hydroxy group in alcohols by a displacement process, activation of the hydroxy group is an important step which involves (i) activation of the O—H bond to enhance the nucleophilicity of the oxygen or (ii) activation of the R—O bond to convert the alcohol into a reactive alkylating reagent. 

The Pd-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of vinyloxiranes with formate affords homoallyl alcohols, rather than allylic alcohols regioselectively. The reaction is stereospecific and proceeds by inversion of the stereochemistry of the C—O bond[394,395]. The stereochemistry of the products is controlled by the geometry of the alkene group in vinyloxiranes. The stereoselective formation of stereoisomers of the syn hydroxy group in 630 and the ami in 632 from the ( )-epoxide 629 and the (Z)-epoxide 631 respectively is an example. 

Oxidation of the hydroxy group in (10) to the ketone followed by isomerization affords the 10oc-methyl-A -3-ketone (11). In contrast, methylenation of 3)5-hydroxy-A ° -compounds proceeds in refluxing ether solution to give, after oxidation and acid rearrangement, the natural 10/5-methyl-A -3-keto steroids. With an epimeric mixture of 3fi- and 3a-A ° -alcohols only the )5-alcohol reacts under these imild conditions. ... 

One of the most useful ways of introducing fluorine into organic compounds is the placement of the hydroxyl group in alcohols hydroxy compounds, and carboxylic acids Methyl alcohol reacts with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride at 100 500 °C in the presence of aluminum fluoride [60, 61], zinc fluoride [62] chromium fluonde [63], or a mixture of aluminum and chromium fluondes [64] to give a 20-78% yield of fluoromethane Attempted fluorinations of higher alcohols by this method failed [60]... 

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All these steps proceed to afford free or N -substituted crystalline cytidines 6 in high yields [11] (cf. the preparation of N (tetramethylene)cytidine 6b in 95.4% yield in Section 1.1.). This simple one-pot reaction is also very easy to perform on a technical scale, as are the subsequently discussed analogous silylation-aminations of purine nucleosides and other hydroxy-N-heterocycles (cf. Sections 4.2.4 and 4.2.5). The concept of silylation-activation while simultaneously protecting hydroxyl groups in alcohols, phenols, or phosphoric acids by silylation was subsequently rediscovered and appropriately termed transient protection [16-18]. 

With an efficient synthesis of allylic alcohol 46 in our hands, our attention turned to the selective reduction of the double bond. As stated above, we intended to use the hydroxy group in 46 to deliver hydride from the same face as the hydroxy group. Mainly there were two methods available (i) transition metal-mediated hydrogenation and (ii) metal hydride reduction. 

The hydroxy groups in natural products like, for example, the macrolide antibiotics erythromycin, 1"1 and desmycosin, 2001 2011 as well as the 3-(hydroxymethyl)-2- or 3-cephems 2021 and derivatives of the amino sugar garamin 2031 have been converted into the carbamate function with CDI and amines. In the case of aminoglycoside antibiotics of the sisomicin series, thiocarbamates or dithiocarbamates have been prepared from alcohols or thiols using ImCSIm and amines.12041... 

The formation of vinylcarbamates is restricted to secondary amines and also to terminal alkynes, which is in line with the formation of a metal vinylidene intermediate. It is noteworthy that even starting from secondary amines, the presence of a hydroxy group in propargylic alcohols drove the reaction towards the formation of fi-keto carbamates, resulting from initial Markovnikov addition of the carbamate anion to the triple bond followed by intramolecular transesterification [10]. The proposed general catalytic cycle which applies for the formation of vinylic carbamates is shown in Scheme 10.2. 

Oxidation of secondary or primary alcohols by dehydrogenases is usually not performed biocatalytically. The reaction destroys a stereocentre, it is thermodynamically not favoured and product inhibition is a problem. It is attractive only in cases where it is necessary to discern between several hydroxy groups in a molecule. Microbial oxidation of D-glucitol to yield L-sorbose is the key step in production of vitamin C (Reichstein and Griissner, 1934). 

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]. 

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