Ketones, cyclic => diesters

Benzoin derivatives are used as initiators for the photochemical curing of printing inks, lacquers and other surface coatings, since the intermediate radicals in a reaction such as (4.7) can be diverted to initiate the polymerization of vinyl monomers. The use of an unsvm-metrical ketone (4.8) also shows that discrete radicals are produced in the cleavage reaction, since the ratio of hydrocarbon products is close to that expected tor a random combination of separated radicals. Esters that give rise to similar stabilized radicals undergo loss of carbon dioxide (decarboxylation) by a closely related mechanism, and this has proved useful in making quite strained cyclic systems bv irradiation of readily prepared cyclic diesters (4.9). 

Acyloin condensation Formation of cyclic a-hydroxy ketones from diesters. 4... 

A two-carbon ring expansion of cyclic ketones was achieved by the addition of acetylenic esters and diesters to the enamine derivatives of the ketones, and reported almost simultaneously from several laboratories (337-343). The intermediate bicyclic adduct could be isolated in some cases. 

Ketones can be oxidatively carbonylated at the a-carbon via enol intermediates using PdCl2 as the catalyst and Q1CI2 as oxidant [122], The initially formed carbonylation products correspond to a-chlorination and a-alkoxycarbonylation. Under the reaction conditions, these compounds undergo further transformations involving C - C cleavage eventually leading to a mixture of esters and an alkyl chloride or (in the case of cyclic ketones) to a diester and a chloroester (Schemes 20-21). 

Scheme 4.18 a,co-Diesters from cyclic aliphatic ketones. 

In the carbonylation of unconjugated dienes the nature of the products is influenced by reaction conditions. With Pd halides in ethanol at 100°C and 97 atm CO, 1,5-cyclooctadiene is successively carbonylated to the unsaturated monoester and then to the saturated diester (II). With (Ph3P)2PdCl2 in ethanol-HCl and 300-700 atm CO, the monoester is produced selectively at 60°C and the diester at 100°C (8). Finally, with (Bu3P)2PdI2 in THF at 150°C and 1000 atm CO, 1,5-cyclooctadiene undergoes transannular addition of CO to give a cyclic ketone in 40-45% yield (14, 15). The mechanism proposed involves a a-7r-cyclooctenyl... 

A number of linear and cyclic alkenes have been studied in this reaction. The presence of a base favoured the formation of diesters from linear alkenes, whereas cyclic alkenes gave diesters even in absence of base.519 In a further study using dienes and unsaturated alcohols, ketones and esters, the dicarboxylation reaction could quite generally be achieved in good yields.S20S21... 

Recent advances include the use of new chiral bases, extention to substrates other than ketones, and trapping with electrophiles other than silylating reagents and aldehydes. Regarding alternate substrates and electrophiles, the Simpkins group reported alkylation of a prochiral diester with common alkyl halides with >98% ee [46]. Simpkins and coworkers have also demonstrated desym-metrization of cyclic imides, in this case with trapping by silyl groups [47]. 

Treatment of a,co-diesters with dispersions of sodium or a sodium-potassium alloy in refluxing toluene or xylene results in joining of the two ester moieties to furnish cyclic a-hydroxy ketones (acyloins). 

A variation on this reaction is when the anion is formed from the diester derivative of 4-butandioic acid (succinic acid). In this case, the reaction proceeds via an intermediate that is a cyclic ester (i.e. a lactone). Write down the mechanism for the reaction between a general ketone, R CK), and the... 

In the literature there are reactions of DMC with what would be considered ambident nucleophiles. For instance, indole is an ambident nucleophile. Using various organic chemistry procedures, reactions can either occur at the nitrogen or the conjugated arene carbon." In the field of DMC chemistry, Shieh and co-workers were able to selectively methylate the nitrogen using DABCO as a catalyst in contrast to other systems that effected carboxymethylation at the same nucleophilic centre. " Also cyclic ketones have been successfully reacted witli DMC to produce acyclic diesters via carboxymethylation at the alpha carbon. In these examples, however, the ambidenticity of these systems toward DMC has not been shown (Scheme 12). Only activation of one of tlie two centres has occurred. 

The use of oxirane together with Na2HP03 to prepare (2-hydroxyethyl)phosphonic acid as its disodium salt is of historical interest. Other poorly exploited, yet interesting and potentially valuable, reactions include the combination of a trialkyl phosphite and dialkyl chlorophosphate with an oxirane to yield O-phosphorylated derivatives of (2-hydrox-yalkyl)phosphonic diesters (reaction 10)" and, following the initial reaction of an a,j8-unsaturated ketone with a phosphorus(III) triester to give the cyclic phosphorane 272, the subsequent further reaction of the latter with an aldehyde followed by hydrolysis (reaction 11)" Dialkyl acetyl phosphites are reported to react with oxirane through anionic intermediate species with the formation, albeit in low yields, of dialkyl (2-acetyloxyethyl)phos-phonates hydrolysable with concentrated HCl, to give (2-hydroxyethyl)phosphonic acid ... 

Rare examples of normal Michaelis-Becker reactions which involve co-chloroalkanal diethyl acetals are to be found, and although the formation of dialkyl acylphosphonates from sodium dialkyl phosphites and, for example, benzoyl chloride, is to be observed at -85 °C, the system is further complicated, even at -10 °C, by further addition steps followed by rearrangements which would seem to render the process of little value for the synthesis of oxoalkyl phosphonic esters On the other hand, in a more detailed and systematic study of reactions between sodium dialkyl phosphites, (RO)2PONa(R = Et or Bu), and the ketones R CO(CH2) Cl, Sturtz and others have observed the formation of epoxides when n = 1 and (1-hydroxy alk-2-enyl)phosphonic diesters when n = 2(R = Me or Pr ), according to the displacement in 532, and of derivatives of tetrahydrofuran or tetrahy-dropyran, according to 533 n = 3 or 4) when R = Et, the formation of the cyclic ethers was accompanied by low yields of the expected (oxoalkyl)phosphonic diester, but otherwise the latter were isolated as a single product only for R = Me, n = 5, and R = Et or Pr when n = 2. 

The reaction between cyclic ketone enolates and diethyl phosphorochloridite followed by aerial oxidation of the intermediate P(III) esters, yields mixtures of C - and (7-phosphorylated products. The formation of the (1 -oxoalkyl)phosphonic diesters was optimized using diethyl ether as solvent (although better yields were sometimes obtained for reactions in Et20/THF when hexamethylphosphoric triamide was added) when the... 

This reaction was first reported by Bouveault and Blanc in 1903, and was further extended by Bouveault and Locquin. It is the synthesis of symmetrical a-hydroxy ketones via the reductive condensation of esters in an inert solvent in the presence of sodium. Since symmetrical a-hydroxy ketones, the aliphatic analogs of benzoins, are generally known as acyloins, the formation of a-hydroxy ketones from esters is simply referred to as acyloin condensation. In a few cases, it is also referred to as acyloin reaction." For the individual acyloin, the name is derived by adding the suffix oin to the stem name of corresponding acid, e.g., acetoin prepared from acetate. The most common method used to make acyloin is the reductive condensation of aliphatic esters with sodium in inert solvents, such as ether, xylene or even in liquid NH3 The yield of this reaction can be greatly improved when trimethylchlorosilane presents." " Intromolecular acyloin condensation from aliphatic diesters affords cyclic ketones of different ring sizes. 

This reaction has been used to synthesize cyclic ketones of intermediates to a large ring from diesters with long hydrocarbon chain between two ester groups. ... 

Finally, oxidative carbonylations of simple ketones, such as hexanone and pentanone, were reported to give diesters [42,43]. In the presence of PdCl2, CUCI2, CO, and in methanol, various diesters have been produced in good yields from corresponding cyclic ketones. 

The addition of diester 178 to cyclic enone was apphed by Plaquevent et al. in the synthesis of methyl dihydrojasmonate, a natural ketone with olfactory properties isolated from Jasminum grandiforum L (Scheme 11.43). Despite the relatively moderate 80% ee and large excess of dimethyl malonate required (30 equiv), the rapidity of the synthesis (two steps to the natural product) and the simple reaction conditions remained attractive for scaleup. 

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