Iodonium ions reactions

The anomalous iodoacetamide-fluoride reaction violates this rule, in that a less stable -halonium complex (18) must be involved, which then opens to (19) in the Markownikoff sense. This has been rationalized in the following way estimates of nonbonded destabilizing interactions in the possible products suggest that the actual product (16) is more stable than the alternative 6)5-fluoro-5a-iodo compound, so the reaction may be subject to a measure of thermodynamic control in the final attack of fluoride ion on the iodonium intermediate. To permit this, the a- and -iodonium complexes would have to exist in equilibrium with the original olefin, product formation being determined by a relatively high rate of attack upon the minor proportion of the less stable )9-iodonium ion. 

Iodine isocyanate was used to synthesize the first steroidal aziridine, 2, 3 -iminocholestane (95). from 5a-cholest-2-ene (91). This reaction sequence which is believed to proceed through a three-membered ring iodonium ion (92) illustrates the limitation of pseudohalogen additions for the synthesis of -aziridines. The iodonium complex forms from the least hindered side (usually alpha) and is opened tmK5-diaxially to give a -oriented nitrogen function. The 3a-iodo-2 -isocyanate (93) is converted by treatment with... 

Unsaturated carboxylic acid 17 possesses the requisite structural features for an iodolactonization reaction.16 A source of electrophilic iodine could conceivably engage either diastereoface of the A20,21 double bond in 17. The diastereomeric iodonium ion inter-... 

A versatile and regioselective synthesis of benzo[b]furans, naphthalenes, indoles and benzothiophenes was achieved by reaction of o-alkynylarene and heteroarene carboxaldehyde derivatives in the presence of iodonium ions. The reaction mechanism was also discussed <06CEJ5790>. 

Scheme 2. Equilibrium formation of the hypervalent adducts of the iodonium ion with bromide and their reactions. 

The reactions involved are unimolecular, and the cyclohexenyl derivative 3 undergoes solely the spontaneous heterolysis while both spontaneous heterolysis and ligand coupling occur with the iodane 14. The relative contributions of the two reactions of 14 depend on the solvent polarity. The results summarized in Table I show that the iodonium ion and the counteranion are in equilibrium with the hypervalent adduct, X3-iodane. The equilibrium constants depend on the identity of the anion and the solvent employed, and the iodane is less reactive than the free iodonium ion as the k /k2 raios demonstrate. Spontaneous heterolysis of 3 occurs more than 100 times as fast as th t of the adduct 14 as observed in methanol the leaving ability of the iodonid group is lowered by association by more than 100 times. 

Under more basic conditions, a-elimination predominates and insertion of the carbene 40 to the solvent gives racemic 22. Non-basic and poorly nucleophilic conditions allow neighboring group participation to form the rearranged substitution product 23 with complete chirality transfer. The participation can be considered as an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution, and does occur only when it is preferable to the external reactions. Under slightly basic conditions with bases in HFIP, participation is allowed, and the weak base can react with the more electrophilic vinylic cation 21 (but not with the iodonium ion 19). A suitably controlled basicity can result in the formation of cycloalkyne 39, which is symmetrical and leads to racemization. These reactivities are illustrated in Scheme 6. 

Table 2. Rate constants pertaining to the processes shown in Figure 8 for reactions of the bromonium or iodonium ions 10, and 11.

The latter results have been explained on the basis of the following reaction scheme. The 1,2-regioisomers derived from butadiene are obtained through a non-symmetrical iodonium ion intermediate. The subsequent nucleophilic attack on the allylic position gives, under kinetic control, 1,2-derivatives. Nevertheless, when poorer nucleophiles such as benzene or acetonitrile are employed, the conversion of the initially formed iodonium ion into the allylic cation has been suggested to give 1,4-products, under thermodynamic control. However, other alternatives like nucleophilic attack involving allylic participation have not been excluded for the formation of 1,4-derivatives. 

The formation of the tetrazoles 66 and 67 from 62 and 63, respectively, has been rationalized on the basis of the solvent-assisted opening of the initially formed iodonium ion to give the Ritter reaction intermediate 68, which undergoes cycloaddition with azide... 

The difference in the stereochemical behavior of 62 and 63 as compared to that of 60 has been explained by assuming that the presence of the electron-withdrawing carbomethoxy substituents at C(9) and C(10) in the latter markedly decreases the availability of electrons from the participating C(7)—C(8) double bond, thus forcing the reaction to proceed mainly via the iodonium ion. 

The I2 addition to 3 in chlorinated solvents yields a mixture of isomeric 2,6-diiodobicy-clo[3.3.0]octanes (endo.exo-69 and endo,endo-7tt) (equation 71)22. When the reaction was carried out in aqueous acetonitrile under similar conditions, the formation of a mixture of acetamido derivatives 71 and 72, arising from iodocyclization followed by the capture of the iodonium ion by the solvent to give a Ritter reaction intermediate, accompanied the formation of products 69 and 70 (equation 72)22. 

Significant amounts of the bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane adduct and of the octahydropental-enes were isolated also from the reaction of 3 with preformed iodine acetate and iodine acetate thallium (equation 75)94 whereas only the monocyclic 1,2-adducts were obtained from treatment of 3 with iodine azide, iodine isocyanate or iodine nitrate95. The different propensity to give transannular products with these latter reagents has been related to the different positive charge density on carbons in the corresponding iodonium ion intermediates. 

Attempted iodocyclization with iodine in moist acetonitrile of ethyl 2-hydroxypent-4-enoate (59) to give the iodotetrahydrofuran (62) gave instead a 2 1 mixture (80%) of syn- and -lactones (60) and (61). Labelling studies with H2 0 indicated that the probable mechanism of the reaction involved initial attack of the ester group upon the iodonium ion (63) to yield a mixture of epimeric carbocations (64), which upon attack by water would yield the orthoesters (65), elimination of ethanol from which giving the epimeric y-lactones (60, 61). ... 

In order to strengthen evidence in favour of the proposition that concerted inplane 5n2 displacement reactions can occur at vinylic carbon the kinetics of reactions of some /3-alkyl-substituted vinyliodonium salts (17) with chloride ion have been studied. Substitution and elimination reactions with formation of (21) and (22), respectively, compete following initial formation of a chloro-A, -iodane reaction intermediate (18). Both (17) and (18) undergo bimolecular substitution by chloride ion while (18) also undergoes a unimolecular (intramolecular) jS-elimination of iodoben-zene and HCl. The [21]/[22] ratios for reactions of (18a-b) increase with halide ion concentration, and there is no evidence for formation of the -isomer of (Z)-alkene (21) iodonium ion (17d) forms only the products of elimination, (22d) and (23). 

Both the reactions are essentially the additions of iodine carboxylate (formed in situ) to an alkene, i.e., the reaction of an alkene with iodine and silver salt. The Prevost procedure employs iodine and silver carboxylate under dry conditions. The initially formed transiodocarboxylate (b) from a cyclic iodonium ion (a) undergoes internal displacement to a common intermediate acylium ion (c). The formation of the diester (d) with retention of configuration provides an example of neighbouring group participation. The diester on subsequent hydrolysis gives a trans-glycol. 

Woodward hydroxylation of 256 leads mainly to sterically disfavored products having cis-oriented substituents at C-2 and C-3, and C-2 and C-4. In fact, in this case also, the attack of I4 occurs from the less-hindered side. The iodonium ion (284) is then opened by the acetate anion, to afford iodo acetate 285 which, in the following substitution reaction with silver acetate, gives the more-hindered, c/.y-hydroxylation product 286. 

Alternatively, the addition of iodine azide under similar conditions to 9,10-dimethyltricy-clo[4.2.2.02,5]deca-3,7-diene produced the tetracyclic tetrazole 3, whose formation possibly involves initial reaction of the solvent acetonitrile with the azide ion.1 The addition proceeds via electrophilic attack of iodine azide with the formation of a three-membered iodonium ion intermediate backside opening of the intermediate results in the anti configuration of the tetrazole derivative (see Table 1). 

Other alkyl hypohalites usually add to carbon-carbon multiple bonds in a free-radical process.155-158 Ionic additions may be promoted by oxygen, BF3, or B(OMe)3.156-160 While the BF3-catalyzed reaction of alkyl hypochlorites and hypo-bromites gives mainly halofluorides,159 haloethers are formed in good yields but nonstereoselectively under other ionic conditions.156-158 160 In contrast, tert-BuOI reacts with alkenes in the presence of a catalytic amount of BF3 to produce 2-iodoethers.161 Since the addition is stereoselective, this suggests the participation of a symmetric iodonium ion intermediate without the involvement of carbocationic intermediates. 

G. H. Veeneman, S. H. van Leeuwen, and J. H. van Boom, Iodonium ion promoted reactions at the anomeric centre. II. An efficient thioglycoside mediated approach toward the formation of... 

The promoter of choice for direct coupling of NPGs is NIS/EtjSiOTf [13]. The reaction is usually conducted in methylene chloride as solvent at room temperature [14]. Under these conditions, the coupling reaction is very fast, often being completed within the time it takes to sample the mixture by thin-layer chromatography (TLC). The process can be rationalized by an acid-induced heterolysis of NIS, whereby a very potent source of iodonium ion is generated (Scheme 5). Usually, only a catalytic amount of EtjSiOTf is... 

We may seem to have contradicted ourselves because Equation 10-1 shows a carbocation to be formed in bromine addition, but Equation 10-5 suggests a bromonium ion. Actually, the formulation of intermediates in alkene addition reactions as open ions or as cyclic ions is a controversial matter, even after many years of study. Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine the structure of the intermediate ions by any direct physical method because, under the conditions of the reaction, the ions are so reactive that they form products more rapidly than they can be observed. However, it is possible to generate stable bromonium ions, as well as the corresponding chloronium and iodonium ions. The technique is to use low temperatures in the absence of any strong nucleophiles and to start with a 1,2-dihaloalkane and antimony penta-fluoride in liquid sulfur dioxide ... 

Alkyl(aryl)halonium Ions. Dence and Roberts366 attempted to prepare the cyclopropylphenyliodonium ion from phenyliodoso chloride and cyclopropyllithium [Eq. (4.104)]. However, they were unable to obtain the corresponding iodonium ion or any cyclopropylbenzene from the reaction mixture. Thus, the iodonium ion was not formed, even as an unstable reaction intermediate. 

Barnett and Sohn (12, 13, see also 14) have discovered that the iodolactoni-zation of b,r-unsaturated carboxylic acid salts 37 yield, under kinetically controlled conditions, the Y-iodo-B-lactones 39 in preference to the more stable B-iodo-Y-lactones l. Similar results were obtained in the course of the bromolactonization reaction. Thus, here again, the formation of a four-membered ring is more facile than that of a five-membered ring. This can be rationalized on the basis of Stork s analysis, i.e. the internal opening by the carboxylate anion of the three-membered ring iodonium ion (or bromonium) 38 39 is preferred over the other mode of opening 40 41 for stereoelectronic reason. 

Di- and trisubstituted alkenes. A few years ago Zweifel and coworkers1 reported a stereospecific synthesis of cis-alkenes by treatment of the adduct of a 1-atkyne and a dialkylborane with I, and NaOH (equation I). The reaction is believed to involve an iodonium ion, transfer of one of the R groups, and trans-elimination of I - and BROH. 

Detailed studies on the solution structure of [hydroxy(mesyloxy)iodo]ben-zene and [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene 17 suggest that in aqueous solution iodosylbenzene 18 exists as a monomeric iodonium ion form 136, if the pH is < 2.3, and as a neutral species 137 at pH > 5.3 through mildly alkaline conditions [216]. The monomer 137 is soluble only to the extent of about 3 x 10"3 M. Based on these finding, we propose a structure of 138 as a reactive species in the reaction using a combination of (PhIO)n 18 and BF3-Et20. 

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