Osmium hydroxylation

Hydroxylation, osmium tetroxide, 138 Hypoglycemics, oral, 20 Hypotensive agent, 5... 

Hydrogen hexachloroplatinate(IV)-Diethoxymethylsilane, 76 Hydroxylation Osmium tetroxide, 186 Osmium tetroxide-N-Methylmorpho-line N-oxide, 222... 

Another method for the hydroxylation of the etliylenic linkage consists in treatment of the alkene with osmium tetroxide in an inert solvent (ether or dioxan) at room temperature for several days an osmic ester is formed which either precipitates from the reaction mixture or may be isolated by evaporation of the solvent. Hydrolysis of the osmic ester in a reducing medium (in the presence of alkaline formaldehyde or of aqueous-alcoholic sodium sulphite) gives the 1 2-glycol and osmium. The glycol has the cis structure it is probably derived from the cyclic osmic ester ... 

The reagent Is expensive and poisonous, consequently the hydroxylation procedure is employed only for the conversion of rare or expensive alkenes (e.g., in the steroid field) into the glycols. Another method for hydroxylation utilises catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide rather than the stoichiometric quantity the reagent is hydrogen peroxide in tert.-butyl alcohol This reagent converts, for example, cyc/ohexene into cis 1 2- t/ohexanedlol. 

Overall the reaction leads to addition of two hydroxyl groups to the double bond and IS referred to as hydroxylation Both oxygens of the diol come from osmium tetraox ide via the cyclic osmate ester The reaction of OSO4 with the alkene is a syn addition and the conversion of the cyclic osmate to the diol involves cleavage of the bonds between oxygen and osmium Thus both hydroxyl groups of the diol become attached to the same face of the double bond syn hydroxylation of the alkene is observed... 

Oxidation. Maleic and fumaric acids are oxidized in aqueous solution by ozone [10028-15-6] (qv) (85). Products of the reaction include glyoxyhc acid [298-12-4], oxalic acid [144-62-7], and formic acid [64-18-6], Catalytic oxidation of aqueous maleic acid occurs with hydrogen peroxide [7722-84-1] in the presence of sodium tungstate(VI) [13472-45-2] (86) and sodium molybdate(VI) [7631-95-0] (87). Both catalyst systems avoid formation of tartaric acid [133-37-9] and produce i j -epoxysuccinic acid [16533-72-5] at pH values above 5. The reaction of maleic anhydride and hydrogen peroxide in an inert solvent (methylene chloride [75-09-2]) gives permaleic acid [4565-24-6], HOOC—CH=CH—CO H (88) which is useful in Baeyer-ViUiger reactions. Both maleate and fumarate [142-42-7] are hydroxylated to tartaric acid using an osmium tetroxide [20816-12-0]/io 2LX.e [15454-31 -6] catalyst system (89). 

There are also reactions which show stereoselectivity primarily because of mechanism rather than spatial bias of substrate. For instance, the conversion of an olefin to a 1,2-diol by osmium tetroxide mechanistically is a cycloaddition process which is strictly suprafacial. The hydroxylation transform has elements of both substrate and mechanism control, as illustrated by the retrosynthetic conversion of 146 to 147. The validity of the retrosynthetic removal of both... 

Otsuka K-76, a fungal product with strong anticomplement activity, was synthesized from the A/B bicyclic precursor of stemodin. The aromatic subunit was retrosynthetically disconnected to a symmetrical precursor. A surprising non-selectivity of olefinic hydroxylation by osmium tetroxide was noted. 

A classical method for the vicinal hydroxylation of a double bond involves treatment with osmium tetroxide to give a cyclic ester, followed by reductive cleavage to the glycol ... 

Because osmium tetroxide is expensive, and its vapors are toxic, alternate methods have been explored for effecting vic-glycol formation. In the aliphatic series, olefins can be hydroxylated with hydrogen peroxide with the use of only a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide. Anhydrous conditions are not necessary 30% hydrogen peroxide in acetone or acetone-ether is satisfactory. The intermediate osmate ester is presumably cleaved by peroxide to the glycol with regeneration of osmium tetroxide. When this reaction was tried on a A -steroid, the product isolated was the 20-ketone ... 

Similar hydroxylation-oxidations can be carried out using a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide with A-methylmorpholine oxide-hydrogen peroxide or phenyliodosoacetate." A recent patent describes the use of triethylamine oxide peroxide and osmium tetroxide for the same sequence. Since these reactions are of great importance for the preparation of the di-hydroxyacetone side-chain of corticoids, they will be discussed in a later section. 

Selective hydroxylation with osmium tetroxide (one equivalent in ether-pyridine at 0 ) converts (27) to a solid mixture of stereoisomeric diols (28a) which can be converted to the corresponding secondary monotoluene-sulfonate (28b) by treatment with /7-toluenesulfonyl chloride in methylene dichloride-pyridine and then by pinacol rearrangement in tetrahydrofuran-lithium perchlorate -calcium carbonate into the unconjugated cyclohepte-none (29) in 41-48 % over-all yield from (27). Mild acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the ketal-ketone (29) removes the ketal more drastic conditions by heating at 100° in 2 hydrochloric acid for 24 hr gives the conjugated diketone (30). 

Hydroxylation of the double bond of methyltestosterone by means of osmium tetroxide and hydrogen peroxide affords the 4,5 diol. This undergoes beta elimination on treatment with base to yield oxymestrone (83). ... 

The preparation of Pans-1,2-cyclohexanediol by oxidation of cyclohexene with peroxyformic acid and subsequent hydrolysis of the diol monoformate has been described, and other methods for the preparation of both cis- and trans-l,2-cyclohexanediols were cited. Subsequently the trans diol has been prepared by oxidation of cyclohexene with various peroxy acids, with hydrogen peroxide and selenium dioxide, and with iodine and silver acetate by the Prevost reaction. Alternative methods for preparing the trans isomer are hydroboration of various enol derivatives of cyclohexanone and reduction of Pans-2-cyclohexen-l-ol epoxide with lithium aluminum hydride. cis-1,2-Cyclohexanediol has been prepared by cis hydroxylation of cyclohexene with various reagents or catalysts derived from osmium tetroxide, by solvolysis of Pans-2-halocyclohexanol esters in a manner similar to the Woodward-Prevost reaction, by reduction of cis-2-cyclohexen-l-ol epoxide with lithium aluminum hydride, and by oxymercuration of 2-cyclohexen-l-ol with mercury(II) trifluoro-acetate in the presence of ehloral and subsequent reduction. ... 

Problems of acyl anion equivalents met above in the synthesis of similar TMs disappear if (25) is made from the alkene (26), A Wittig is the obvious method to make (26) and reaction between (27) and PhgCO will probably give (26), An alternative is the dehydration of (28), made by Grignard addition to ester (20), Osmium tetroxide was used for the hydroxylation. 

Hydroxylation of 16 with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide, followed by acetylation, gave 5a-carba-/ -DL-gulopyranose pentaacetate... 

When 35 was heated in acetic acid containing hydrogen bromide, the tribromide 46 was obtained as a single product in 74% yield. Debromina-tion of 46 with zinc dust in acetic acid furnished the cyclohexene derivative 47, which was converted into compound 48 by osmium tetraoxide hydroxyl-ation and acetylation. The substitution reaction of 48 with acetate ions provided carba-a-DL-glucopyranose pentaacetate (49), which gave the carba-sugar 50 on hydrolysis. ... 

Analogously, for preparation of racemic carba-a-glucopyranose 49 from 52, esterification of (—)-52 furnished the ester 95, which was transformed into compound 96 by debromination with zinc dust and acetic acid. Stereoselective hydroxylation of 96 with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide, followed by acetylation, gave compound 97. Lithium aluminum hydride reduction of 97, and acetylation of the product, gave pentaacetate 98, which was converted into 99 by hydrolysis. ... 

Starting from 149, novel carba-sugar pentaacetates of the P-L-allo (168) and a-u-manno (171) configuration have been synthesized. Reduction of 149 with diisobutylaluminum hydride (DIBAL-H) and acetylation gave a mixture of acetates 162 and 163. Hydroxylation of the mixture with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide provided compounds 164 and 165 in the ratio of 9 1. Hydrolysis of 164 gave compound 166, which was transformed into 168 by a reaction analogous to that employed in the preparation of 157 from 153. 

Syn-hydroxylation of alkenes is also effected by a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. Originally developed by Milas, the reaction can be performed with aqueous hydrogen peroxide in solvents such as acetone or diethyl ether.58 Allyl alcohol is quantitatively hydroxylated in water (Eq. 3.12).59... 

Amino-Hydroxylation. A related reaction to asymmetric dihydroxylation is the asymmetric amino-hydroxylation of olefins, forming v/c-ami noalcohols. The vic-hydroxyamino group is found in many biologically important molecules, such as the (3-amino acid 3.10 (the side-chain of taxol). In the mid-1970s, Sharpless76 reported that the trihydrate of N-chloro-p-toluenesulfonamide sodium salt (chloramine-T) reacts with olefins in the presence of a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide to produce vicinal hydroxyl p-toluenesulfonamides (Eq. 3.16). Aminohydroxylation was also promoted by palladium.77... 

Vinyl acetate had been hydroxylated by treatment with excess hydrogen peroxide in presence of osmium tetraoxide catalyst. An explosion occurred while excess vinyl acetate and solvent were being removed by vacuum distillation. This was attributed to the presence of peracetic acid, formed by interaction of excess hydrogen peroxide with acetic acid produced by hydrolysis of the vinyl acetate. 

Ishikawa s endgame toward of 54 is shown in Scheme 3.12. First, the allylic alcohol function was oxidized by a substrate-directed dihydroxylation reaction, as developed by Donohoue and coworkers (66 % yield) [36]. This reaction is conducted using 1 equiv each of osmium tetroxide and tetramethylethylene diamine (TMEDA) and provides a method to obtain the syn-A i hydroxylation product in the... 

Another cis-diol (XV) derived from BP was obtained by the action of osmium tetroxide on 4,5-dihydroxybenzo[a]pyrene (86). The hydroxyl group at C5a is axial and that at C6 is equatorial, illustrating the relative rigidity of the BP ring system and the flexibility at C6 of the ring bearing the diol groups. 

Osmium(VIII) tetraoxide (0s04) is an effective reagent for the cis hydroxylation of olefins under stoichiometric conditions as well as in a variety of catalytic variants.213 Under both catalytic and stoichiometric conditions, the critical step is the formation of an osmium(VI) cycloadduct, the formation of which is dramatically accelerated in the presence of amine bases such as pyridine,214 i.e.,... 

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