Indium overall reaction scheme

Little work has been reported concerning the direct synthesis of alkylindium halides. Gynane and coworkers [2] reported the direct reaction of indium metal with alkyl halides. The reaction times were, however, on the order of a day or more, and the product was a mixture of R2lnX and RI11X2. We have found that our reactive indium will react with methyl and ethyl iodide in 2h at 80°C in xylene to give nearly quantitative yields of a single product, the dialkylindium iodide. The overall reaction scheme is summarized as follows ... 

The reaction of the black indium powder with the a-bromoacetate can be readily observed by the rapid disappearance of the black powder and the formation of a brownish-yellow material. The proposed structure for the intermediate indium compounds is (EtOCOCH2)2lnBr. This is based on an analysis of the material which was xylene soluble and showed an In/halide ratio of 1.05 1.00. The overall reaction scheme is shown in Equation 6.1. 

The reactions of A -BOC-protected a-amino acids 424 and diazomethane in the presence of iV-methylmorpholine-polystyrene and isobutyl chloroformate resulted in formation of diazoketones 425, which, on treatment with indium(lll) triflate, were cyclized to 4-substituted-tetrahydro-l,3-oxazine-2,5-diones 426 in high overall yields (Scheme 82) <2006TL7969>. 

The indium-mediated aqueous Barbier-type reaction of crotyl bromide with benzaldehyde shows no diastereo-selectivity. However, the use of preformed crotylindium sesquibromide in DMF affords. sy/z-l-phenyl-2-methyl-3-buten-l-ol (ca. 40% de) after aqueous acidic workup. At 22 °G in DMF prior to workup, a greater relative proportion of //-intermediate is decomposed as compared to its yy/z-diastereomer. The resultant kinetic diastereoselection upgrades the syn anti ratio to 99 1 with a concomitant drop in overall yield (Scheme 14).127... 

Indium-mediated Barbier-type reaction of glyoxal monoacetal with bromomethyl acrylonitrile or bromomethyl-acrylate gives a masked a-hydroxy aldehyde (Equation (48)).91 The reaction of 3-bromo-2-chloro-l-propene, an aldehyde, and indium in water gives the corresponding homoallyl alcohol, which upon ozonolysis in methanol furnishes a / -hydroxy ester. The overall reaction is equivalent to the Reformatsky reaction, which cannot be realized by a direct indium-mediated reaction of an ct-halo ester with an aldehyde in water (Scheme 59).235... 

Indium Lewis acids have garnered attention due to their mild reactivity and air and water stability. Both Li et al. and Chan and Loh have shown that In(III) complexes are suitable Lewis acids for Prins cyclizations [81, 82]. These reports prompted Loh and coworkers to embark on a synthesis of (+)-SCH 351488 that utilized this strategy (Scheme 40) [83]. Condensation of homoallylic alcohol 147 and aldehyde 148 in the presence of indium ttibromide and TMSBr gave 4-bromo THP 149 in 65 % overall yield as an inconsequential mixture of diastereomers (2,A-cisP,4 trans = 75 25). Complete retention of the homoallylic alcohol stereochemistry is responsible for the key 2,6-cis relationship in the product. Initial attempts to apply these same conditions to the B ring resulted in acetonide deprotection and no THP formation. Subsequent optimization revealed that indium triflate and TMSCl were competent additives to effect cyclization. Careful temperature control was required to suppress an undesired Prins side reaction. The combination of homoallylic alcohol 150 and aldehyde 151 in the presence of the appropriate Lewis acids at 78 °C, followed by warming to 0 °C for 4 h, led to the desired monomer precursor 152 in 42 % yield. 

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