Initiators organic halides

Allylation of organic halides. T wo laboratories2 have reported briefly that in the presence of a radical initiator organic halides undergo allylic substitution reactions with allyltrialkyltin compounds in moderate yield. This reaction was used in a recent Synthesis of the neurotoxin (+ )-perhydrohistrionicotoxin (7) to introduce the n-butyl tide chain.3 AI BN-catalyzed reaction of the bromide 2 with 1 proceeds in unexpectedly igh yield and with complete stereocontrol to give a single product 3. It is the tndesired isomer, but the desired stereochemistry is obtained by epimerization of the Intermediate ketone 5. The hydroxy lactam (6) had previously been used for the Synthesis of 7. 

In Grignard reactions, Mg(0) metal reacts with organic halides of. sp carbons (alkyl halides) more easily than halides of sp carbons (aryl and alkenyl halides). On the other hand. Pd(0) complexes react more easily with halides of carbons. In other words, alkenyl and aryl halides undergo facile oxidative additions to Pd(0) to form complexes 1 which have a Pd—C tr-bond as an initial step. Then mainly two transformations of these intermediate complexes are possible insertion and transmetallation. Unsaturated compounds such as alkenes. conjugated dienes, alkynes, and CO insert into the Pd—C bond. The final step of the reactions is reductive elimination or elimination of /J-hydro-gen. At the same time, the Pd(0) catalytic species is regenerated to start a new catalytic cycle. The transmetallation takes place with organometallic compounds of Li, Mg, Zn, B, Al, Sn, Si, Hg, etc., and the reaction terminates by reductive elimination. 

Grignard reagents are normally prepared by the slow addition of the organic halide to a stirred suspension of magne.sium turnings in the appropriate solvent and with rigorous exclusion of air and moisture. The reaction, which usually begins slowly after an induction period, can be initiated by addition of a small crystal of iodine this penetrates the protective layer of... 

Metal complex-organic halide redox initiation is the basis of ATRP. Further discussion of systems in this context will be found in Section 9.4, The kinetics and mechanism of redox and photoredox systems involving transition metal complexes in conventional radical polymerization have been reviewed by Bam ford. 

The first purposeful use of ATRA in polymer synthesis was in the production of telomers.26j In this early work, comparatively poor control over the polymerization was achieved and little attempt was made to explore the wider utility of the process. Some analogies may also be drawn with the work of Bamford et al, and others on transition metal/organic halide redox initiation (Sections 3.3,5.1 and 7.6.2).2M... 

The initiator in ATRP is usually a low molecular weight activated organic halide (RX, R=aclivated alkyl, X=chlorine, bromine, iodine). However, organic pscudohalidcs (e.g, X=thiocyanatc, azide) and compounds with weak N-X (e.g. N-bromosuccinimide 7 ) or S-X (e.g. sulfonyl halides - see below) have been used. 

Meehanistieal studies on the reaction of stable stannylenes with organic halides have been performed by M. F. Lappert and his group161 163>. On the basis of ESR spectroscopic data they proposed a radicalic pathway for this reaction. Initially, one electron of the stannylene is transferred to the organic halide the... 

PMMA - Red Phosphorus System. The initial reaction that was investigated was that between PMMA and red phosphorus (4-51. Phosphorus was chosen since this material is known to function as a flame retardant for oxygen-containing polymers (1 2). Two previous investigations of the reaction of PMMA with red phosphorus have been carried out and the results are conflicting. Raley has reported that the addition of organic halides and red phosphorus to PMMA caused moderate to severe deterioration in flammability characteristics. Other authors have reported that the addition of chlorine and phosphorus compounds are effective flame retardant additives (12). 

To develop thermal iniferters which act at a lower temperature, Otsu and Tazaki proposed a redox iniferter system [153,154]. For example, reduced nickel (Ni°) reacts with organic halides (R-X) such as benzyl chloride to form a radical, which can initiate polymerization (Eqs. 33-35) ... 

If one wants to use only a metal halide as the initiator for an alkene polymerisation, an analysis similar to ours can be made for the metal halide alone. In addition, there is a 1 2 equilibrium for the organic halide [35, 36] and a molecular aggregate <-> single molecule equilibrium associated with the metal halide. Thus, a solution of a carbocation salt is more exactly described by the series of linked equilibria summarised in Scheme 5. 

Until recently the possibility was ignored that initiators involving metal halides MtXB and organic halides, such as Ar3CX, or complex salts formed from these may be involved in a BIE, (Grattan and Plesch, 1979 Pask and Nuyken, 1983), e.g.,... 

Germanes are also used for the reduction of various organic halides at ambient temperature under Et3B/C>2 initiation. For example, tri-2-furylgermane mediated radical cyclizations of aryl iodides proceed in good yields (Scheme 6, Eq. 6a) and are also possible with NaBH4 in the presence of a catalytic amount of triphenylgermane (Eq. 6b) [ 16]. 

The first successful polymerizations were obtained in solution, with cationic initiators, under conditions typical of ring-opening polymerization. Bredereck and Hutten polymerized the perbenzyl ether and peracetate of levoglucosan, using, as initiators, various carbonium ions formed in situ from organic halides and silver perchlorates. The products were apparently not stereoregular, but were definitely poly-... 

Organopalladium(II) intermediates formed by oxidative addition of sp2 and sp3 organic halides and related compounds to Pd(0) species undergo a variety of synthetically useful reactions (e.g., Heck reaction) (191). For example, Pd complexes catalyze substitutive C—C bond formation between olefins and organic halides by the mechanism shown in Scheme 80 (192). The initially formed organo-Pd(II) intermediate adds across the C—C bond, and subsequent /3-elimination of Pd(II) hydride affords the final product. Other organic compounds that have electronegative... 

Organic halide Catalyst initial pressure of 1 1 H2 CO (psi) Reaction conditions Product (% yield)... 

Hydrodehalogenation. Triethylborane (10 mole %) can initiate reduction of organic halides, particularly iodides or bromides, by Bu3SnH even at —78°. Alkenyl iodides are also reduced under these conditions. Aryl halides require room temperature or higher. Yields are comparable to those obtained by radical initiators. 

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