Iodomethane reactions

Another methylation method makes use of a reaction with iodomethane and a catalyst [478], as follows. About 30 mg of an oil dispersion of sodium hydride was washed three times with anhydrous diethyl ether, dried under a mild stream of nitrogen and suspended in 1 ml of freshly distilled dimethyl sulphoxide. A 200-jul portion of this suspension was added to ca. 1 /amol of phenylurea dissolved in 100 pi of pure dimethyl sulphoxide followed immediately by 50 pi of iodomethane. Reaction was allowed to proceed for 5—10 min with continuous stirring. Then 1 ml of water was carefully added and the mixture was extracted with three 1-ml portions of diethyl ether or light petroleum. The extracts were dried with anhydrous sodium sulphate, filtered and evaporated to dryness under a stream of nitrogen. Silicone stationary phases [OV-225 at 108°C or a mixture of DC-200 and QF-1 (1 3) at 170°C] were used. 

A comparison of the energetics of the reaction in Figure 7.1 and that in Figure 7.2 makes it is clear that iodide will displace chlorine from chlo-romethane, but chloride ion will not displace iodide from iodomethane. The first reaction is exothermic and spontaneous, whereas the second is endothermic and nonspontaneous. The reaction of iodide ion and chloromethane is not expected to be reversible because the chloride ion + iodomethane reaction does not generate enough energy to overcome the activation barrier. This simple analysis has provided a great deal of information about these reactions, which is the point of this entire section. 

N-Alkylpyrroles may be obtained by the Knorr synthesis or by the reaction of the pyrrolyl metallates, ie, Na, K, and Tl, with alkyl haUdes such as iodomethane, eg, 1-methylpyrrole [96-54-8]. Alkylation of pyrroles at the other ring positions can be carried out under mild conditions with allyhc or hensylic hahdes or under more stringent conditions (100—150°C) with CH I. However, unless most of the other ring positions are blocked, poly alkylation and polymerisation tend to occur. N-Alkylation of pyrroles is favored by polar solvents and weakly coordinating cations (Na", K" ). More strongly coordinating cations (Li", Mg " ) lead to more C-alkylation. 

A positive value for AH° signifies an endothermic reaction. The reactants are more stable than the products, and so iodination of alkanes is not a feasible reaction. You would not want to attempt the preparation of iodomethane by iodination of methane. 

The first use of chiral oxazolines as activating groups for nucleophilic additions to arenes was described by Meyers in 1984. " Reaction of naphthyloxazoline 3 with phenyllithium followed by alkylation of the resulting anion with iodomethane afforded dihydronaphthalene 10 in 99% yield as an 83 17 mixture of separable diastereomers. Reductive cleavage of 10 by sequential treatment with methyl fluorosulfonate, NaBKi, and aqueous oxalic acid afforded the corresponding enantiopure aldehyde 11 in 88% yield. 

Meyers has demonstrated that chiral oxazolines derived from valine or rert-leucine are also effective auxiliaries for asymmetric additions to naphthalene. These chiral oxazolines (39 and 40) are more readily available than the methoxymethyl substituted compounds (3) described above but provide comparable yields and stereoselectivities in the tandem alkylation reactions. For example, addition of -butyllithium to naphthyl oxazoline 39 followed by treatment of the resulting anion with iodomethane afforded 41 in 99% yield as a 99 1 mixture of diastereomers. The identical transformation of valine derived substrate 40 led to a 97% yield of 42 with 94% de. As described above, sequential treatment of the oxazoline products 41 and 42 with MeOTf, NaBKi and aqueous oxalic acid afforded aldehydes 43 in > 98% ee and 90% ee, respectively. These experiments demonstrate that a chelating (methoxymethyl) group is not necessary for reactions to proceed with high asymmetric induction. 

Methyl esters (RCO2CH3) undergo a cleavage reaction to yield carboxylate ions plus iodomethane on heating with Lil in dimethylformamide ... 

Ethers can be prepared by reaction of an alkoxide or phenoxide ion with a primary alkyl halide. Anisole, for instance, results from reaction of sodium phenoxide with iodomethane. What kind of reaction is occurring Show the mechanism. 

Because the Williamson synthesis is an S 2 reaction, it is subject to all the usual constraints, as discussed in Section 11.2. Primary halides and tosylates work best because competitive E2 elimination can occur with more hindered substrates. Unsymmetrical ethers should therefore be synthesized by reaction between the more hindered alkoxide partner and less hindered halide partner rather than vice versa. For example, terf-butyl methyl ether, a substance used in the 1990s as an octane booster in gasoline, is best prepared by reaction of tert-butoxide ion. with iodomethane rather than by reaction of methoxide ion with 2-chloro-2-methylpropane. 

Methyl aryl ethers, such as anisole, are cleaved to iodomethane and a phen-oxide ion by treatment with Li) in hot DMR Propose a mechanism for this reaction. 

An alkylation reaction is used to introduce a methyl or primary alkyl group onto the a position of a ketone, ester, or nitrile by S 2 reaction of an enolate ion with an alkyl halide. Thus, we need to look at the target molecule and identify any methyl or primary alkyl groups attached to an a carbon. In the present instance, the target has an a methyl group, which might be introduced by alkylation of an ester enolate ion with iodomethane. 

Many of the reactions of amines are familiar from past chapters. Thus, amines react with alkyl halides in S 2 reactions and with acid chlorides in nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions. Amines also undergo E2 elimination to yield alkenes if they are first qualernized by treatment with iodomethane and then heated with silver oxide, a process called the Hofmann elimination. 

Name the following amine, including R,S stereochemistry, and draw the product of its reaction with excess iodomethane followed by heating with Ag20 (Hofmann elimination). Is the stereochemistry of the alkene product Z or E Explain. 

Hofmann elimination (Section 24.7) The elimination reaction of an amine to yield an alkene by reaction with iodomethane, followed by heating with Ag2Q. 

Koenigs-Knorr reaction of, 990 molecular model of, 119, 126, 985 mutarotation of, 985-986 pentnacetyl ester of, 988 pentamethyl ether of, 988 pyranose form of, 984-985 pyruvate from. 1143-1150 reaction with acetic anhydride, 988 reaction with ATP, 1129 reaction with iodomethane, 988 sweetness of. 1005 Williamson ether synthesis with. 988... 

Catalytic hydrogenation of dimethyl 3-methyl-3//-3-benzazepine-2,4-dicarboxylate (10) to the 1,2,4,5-tetrahydro derivative with hydrogen and a palladium-barium sulfate catalyst, followed by treatment of the reaction mixture with iodomethane in refluxing methanol, yields a mixture of the 2,4-dicarboxylic acid 11 and the methiodide salt 12.24... 

The monothione 2 (vide supra) is converted into the (methylsulfanyl)benzoxazepinone 3a by sodium hydride/iodomethane an analogous reaction with ethyl bromoacetate gives the ester 3b.37... 

The 4-phenylbenzodiazepin-l-one 5a is alkylated at N2 by reaction with iodomethane or io-doethane under alkaline conditions to yield derivatives 15.130... 

Using oxathiane 11, ( + )-(i )-2-methoxy-2-phenylpropanoic acid was obtained in 97% ee, however, the synthesis contains some inconvenient reaction steps. Thus, reduction of ( + )-10-camphorsulfonic acid (8) leads in low yield to a mixture of 10-mercaptoisoborneol (9 A) and 10-mercaptoborneol (9B) which must be separated by chromatography. The oxathiane 10 resists deprotonation with butyllithium and, therefore,, y -butyllithium had to be employed. Furthermore, after addition of methylmagnesium iodide, cleavage of the oxathiane moiety 12, with iodomethane did not proceed as well as with the simpler oxathianes 3. 

Hydroxy-substituted iron-acyl complexes 1, which are derived from aldol reactions of iron-acyl enolates with carbonyl compounds, are readily converted to the corresponding /i-methoxy or /1-acetoxy complexes 2 on deprotonation and reaction of the resulting alkoxide with iodomethane or acetic anhydride (Tabic 1). Further exposure of these materials to base promotes elimination of methoxide or acetate to provide the a,/ -unsaturated complexes (E)-3 and (Z)-3 (Table 2). 

Such a complex, cw-Rh(CO)2I2, is the active species in the Monsanto process for low-pressure carbonylation of methanol to ethanoic acid. The reaction is first order in iodomethane and in the rhodium catalyst the rate-determining step is oxidative addition between these followed by... 

Most of the above reactions are used for the cleavage of aryl sulphones. Recently, a note has appeared109 in which the use of potassium metal dispersed ultrasonically in toluene to cleave saturated cyclic sulphones is described. Addition of iodomethane permits the isolation of acyclic alkyl methyl sulphones (as outlined in equation (44)). 

Dicyclopentadienyltin also takes part in oxidative addition reactions with such reagents as iodomethane, diiodomethane, ethyl bromoace-tate, and diphenyl disulfide, and there is evidence that the reactions involve a radical chain-mechanism (324, 325). 

When Sn2 reactions are carried out on these substrates, rates are greatly increased for certain nucleophiles (e.g., halide or halide-like ions), but decreased or essentially unaffected by others. For example, a-Chloroaceto-phenone (PhCOCH2Cl) reacts with KI in acetone at 75°C 32,000 times faster than l-Chlorobutane, ° but a-bromoacetophenone reacts with the nucleophile triethylamine 0.14 times as fast as iodomethane. The reasons for this varying behavior are not clear, but those nucleophiles that form a tight transition state (one in which bond making and bond breaking have proceeded to about the same extent) are more likely to accelerate the reac-tion. ... 

For example, precursor (S)-57 may be prepared by reaction of R)-56 with methyllithium or by reduction of (S)-56 with lithium naphthalenide and subsequent methylation with iodomethane, making the overall transformation of the diastereomeric mixture 56 nearly quantitatively (Scheme 6) [87]. 

There was an explosion during the reaction of oxygen with iodomethane at 300-500°C. It was attributed to the formation of methyl periodate, an explosive. 

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