Keto-enol tautomerism alkylation

A mechanistic study of acetophenone keto-enol tautomerism has been reported, and intramolecular and external factors determining the enol-enol equilibria in the cw-enol forms of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds have been analysed. The effects of substituents, solvents, concentration, and temperature on the tautomerization of ethyl 3-oxobutyrate and its 2-alkyl derivatives have been studied, and the keto-enol tautomerism of mono-substituted phenylpyruvic acids has been investigated. Equilibrium constants have been measured for the keto-enol tautomers of 2-, 3- and 4-phenylacetylpyridines in aqueous solution. A procedure has been developed for the acylation of phosphoryl- and thiophosphoryl-acetonitriles under phase-transfer catalysis conditions, and the keto-enol tautomerism of the resulting phosphoryl(thiophosphoryl)-substituted acylacetonitriles has been studied. The equilibrium (388) (389) has been catalysed by acid, base and by iron(III). Whereas... 

Acylation of a-lithio-a-phosphonylalkyl sulfides (440) with carboxylic acid esters was utilized as a facile route to a-alkylsulfenyl substituted p-ketophos-phonates (441). Keto-enol tautomerism of these new compounds in different solvents as well as regiochemistry of alkylation and acylation reactions and usefulness for HWE olefination reactions were studied (Scheme 104). ... 

P-Keto acids, decarboxylation, 762—763, 768, 838, 840-841, 850 Keto-enol isomerism, 355, 705—707 Keto-enol tautomerism. See Keto-enol isomerism P-Keto esters acidity of, 831 alkylation of, 839-841, 850 Michael addition of, 846—847 nomenclature of, 832 preparation of... 

Stork reaction Alkylation or acylation of a ketone or aldehyde using its enamine derivative as the nucleophile. Acidic hydrolysis regenerates the alkylated or acylated ketone or aldehyde, (p. 1055) tautomerism An isomerism involving the migration of a proton and the corresponding movement of a double bond. An example is the keto-enol tautomerism of a ketone or aldehyde with its enol form. (p. KM2)... 

CycUzation of 4-bromobutyl-2electrochemical cleavage of the alkyl-cobalt bond in microemulsions and in DMF. Microemulsions gave a stereoselective ratio of 93 7 trans. cis, but poor stereoselectivity was obtained in homogeneous DMF. Preferential formation of thermodynamically favored trans-l-decalone involved equilibration of isomers via keto-enol tautomerism catalyzed by hydroxide ions formed by the coelectrolysis of water. 

Examples of the remaining potential 3,4-dihydroxy heterocycles are presently restricted to furan and thiophene. Although the parent 3,4-dihydroxyfuran apparently exists as the dioxo tautomer (86), derivatives bearing 2-alkyl or 2,5-dialkyl substituents prefer the keto-enol structure (87) (71T3839, 73HCA1882). The thiophene analogues also prefer the tautomeric structure (87), except in the case of the 2,5-diethoxycarbonyl derivative which has the fully aromatic structure (88) (71T3839). 

Reactions of Halogenation and Nitrosation Nitrones with protons in the a-alkyl group can occur in tautomeric nitrone-hydroxylamine equilibrium (Scheme 2.117) similar to keto-enol and imine-enamine tautomerisms. 

When an alkyne undergoes the acid-catalyzed addition of water, the product of the reaction is an enol. The enol immediately rearranges to a ketone. A ketone is a compound that has two alkyl groups bonded to a carbonyl (C=0) group. An aldehyde is a compound that has at least one hydrogen bonded to a carbonyl group. The ketone and enol are called keto-enol tautomers they differ in the location of a double bond and a hydrogen. Interconversion of the tautomers is called tautomerization. The keto tautomer predominates at equilibrium. Terminal alkynes add water if mercuric ion is added to the acidic mixture. In hydroboration-oxidation, H is not the electrophile, H is the nucleophile. Consequently, mercuric-ion-catalyzed addition of water to a terminal alkyne produces a ketone, whereas hydroboration-oxidation of a terminal alkyne produces an aldehyde. 

Hydroxythiophenes 56 have two possible keto tautomers (57 and 58) [for review see (86HC1)]. As has been pointed out earlier (76AHCS1, p. 229), the tautomerism of 5-substituted eompounds was extensively studied by Lawesson and eoworkers (63T1867) and by Hornfeldt (63MI1 68MI1). For 5-alkyl eompounds, only the keto forms were present, whereas with R = phenyl, thienyl and ethoxyearbonyl substantial amounts of the enol forms were deteeted. Computations for the parent system (R = H) showed that the 4 -thiobutenolide of type 57 is most stable (Table VII). 

But the hydrogen atoms of alkyl groups do not exchange readily unless enol-keto tautomerism occurs ... 

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