Ketimines reaction with electrophiles

Whitesell and Whitesell" have tabulated some of the many types of electrophilic reagents that C-al-kylate metallated imines. These are potent nucleophiles and undergo substitution reactions even with weakly electrophilic species such as epoxides and oxetanes. Lithiated ketimines and aldimines have been frequently used in reactions with alkylating agents containing latent 2-keto (or aldehydo) groupsor 3-keto (or aldehydo) groups. ... 

The pioneering work of Stork and coworkers and Wittig and coworkers on the metallation of ketimines, and their subsequent reaction with a variety of electrophiles, has proven extremely useful for controlled aldol condensation and also for regioselective functionalization of ketones Recently, reactions of chiral lithiated ketimines and aldimines have been established as an important method of asymmetric synthesis, producing chiral ketones in optical yields as high as 95%... 

Directed functionalizations at the a-carbon atom of aldehydes and ketones have been carried out via reactions of their nitrogen derivatives, including aldimines, ketimines, hydrazines, and oximines. The general procedure involves metallation of the nitrogen derivative, subsequent reaction with an electrophile and final conversion of the obtained derivative into the derivative of the starting aldehyde or ketone. The reaction sequence is depicted in the following general scheme ... 

In this chapter, some procedures with simple aldimines and ketimines are described. They show representative conditions for the metallation of these nitrogen derivatives, their subsequent reactions with a number of electrophiles and the final hydrolytic cleavage of the C=N bond with formation of derivatives of the starting aldehydes or ketones. 

Method of synthesis nucleophilic route, ketimine route, or electrophilic process PEK can be obtained by reaction of 4,4 -difuorobenzophenone with 4,4 -dihydroxybenzophenone in the presence of potassium carbonate, using diphenyl sulfone as solvent Ben-Halda, A Colquhoun, H M Hodge, P Williams, D J, J. Mater. Chem., 10, 2011-16, 2000. 

C. Reactions not involving P=0 or P=S Groups.—Enamine phosphine oxides (45) have been prepared by the addition of amines to 1-alkynyl-phosphine oxides, and the reactions of their anions with various electrophiles have been reported. - With ketones a Wittig-type reaction leads to the formation of a/3-unsaturated ketones, in 53—70% yield, while with epoxides cyclopropyl ketimines are formed. A Diels-Alder reaction of l-phenyl-A -phospholen-l-oxide (46) with 1,4-diacetoxybutadiene has been used in the preparation of l-phenyl-benzo[/>]phosphole (47), as... 

Similarly, the enamine salt 15 is obtained by lithiation of 14 (equation 5). In both cases the lower steric hindrance leads to higher stability of the enaminic system33 where the double bond is formed on the less substituted carbon. The Af-metalated enamines 11 and 15 are enolate analogs and their contribution to the respective tautomer mixture of the lithium salts of azomethine derivatives will be discussed below. Normant and coworkers34 also reported complete regioselectivity in alkylations of ketimines that are derived from methyl ketones. The base for this lithiation is an active dialkylamide—the product of reaction of metallic lithium with dialkylamine in benzene/HMPA. Under these conditions ( hyperbasic media ), the imine compound of methyl ketones 14 loses a proton from the methyl group and the lithium salt 15 reacts with various electrophiles or is oxidized with iodine to yield, after hydrolysis, 16 and 17, respectively (equation 5). 

An alternative approach to ensure selective monoarylations of ketimines, including those without meta-substituents, was based on the development of a novel catalytic system. Significant progress was achieved with air-stable (heteroatom-substituted) secondary phosphine oxides (HA)SPOs, since these preligands gave rise to arylation reactions also with less reactive, yet inexpensive, aryl chlorides as electrophiles. Here, the sterically hindered derivative (l-Ad)2P(0)H (54) was found... 

In 2007, Jorgensen presented the first example of an asymmetric Mannich reaction involving imidoyl halides as an electrophilic equivalent to the imidoyl carbocation. This report demonstrated an effective and practical method for preparing optically active ketimines (89), a-functionalised with a quaternary stereocentre, and included several synthetic derivatisations with high yields and good diastereoselectivities (Scheme 16.29). ... 

Ketimines and aldimines proved to be good substrates [73]. Based on the structure modification, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study, kinetic study, and computational study, they proposed a double hydrogen bond structure between the acidic N-H protons and the imine lone pair to activate the electrophile toward the attack by the cyanide ion (Figure 2.15) [74]. The catalyst system is applicable to the Mannich-type reaction of N-Boc-aldimine with ketene silyl acetals to give corresponding P-amino esters in 86-98% ee (Scheme 2.25) [75]. Hydrophospho-nylation of aldimines with bis(2-nitrobenzyl)phosphite by means of (4d) furnished a-amino phosphonates in good enantioselectivity (Scheme 2.26) [76]. 

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