Ketones, preparation from aromatic compounds

They can be prepared from acyclic compounds. In an industrial process, dimethyl malonate is condensed with 4-alken-3-ones (or a mixture of the respective ketones with 5-chloroalkan-3-ones) to give a substituted 3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexenone. Aromatization, in good yield is achieved by reaction of the hydroxycyclohexenones... 

Prepare the following compounds starting from benzaldehyde and the appropriate ketone. Provide reactions for preparing the ketones starting from aromatic hydrocarbon compounds... 

The Willgerodt reaction is useful in the preparation of arylacetic acids and amides from substituted methyl aryl ketones or vinyl aromatic compounds. The aliphatics and acetylenes give lower yields. The conversion is effected by heating aromatic compounds at 160°-200°C in an aqueous solution under pressure using ammonium polysulfide. In the Kindler modification, the ketone or styrene is refluxed with a mixture of sulfur and an amine, usually morpholine, to give a thioamide, ArCHjCSNRj. 

The N,]S -dialkyl-/)-PDAs are manufactured by reductively alkylating -PDA with ketones. Alternatively, these compounds can be prepared from the ketone and -lutroaruline with catalytic hydrogenation. The /V-alkyl-/V-aryl- -PDAs are made by reductively alkylating -nitro-, -nitroso-, or /)-aminodipheny1 amine with ketones. The AijAT-dialkyl- PDAs are made by condensing various anilines with hydroquinone in the presence of an acid catalyst (see Amines-aromatic,phenylenediamines). 

D. S. Treybig and R. G. Martinez. Compositions prepared from hydrocarbyl substituted nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compounds, an aldehyde and/or ketone and an amine. Patent US 4871848, 1989. 

The palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of aryl halides in the presence of various nucleophiles is a convenient method for synthesizing various aromatic carbonyl compounds (e.g., acids, esters, amides, thioesters, aldehydes, and ketones). Aromatic acids bearing different aromatic fragments and having various substituents on the benzene ring have been prepared from aryl iodides at room temperature under 1 atm... 

Samarium(II) iodide also allows the reductive coupling of sulfur-substituted aromatic lactams such as 7-166 with carbonyl compounds to afford a-hydroxyalkylated lactams 7-167 with a high anti-selectivity [74]. The substituted lactams can easily be prepared from imides 7-165. The reaction is initiated by a reductive desulfuration with samarium(ll) iodide to give a radical, which can be intercepted by the added aldehyde to give the desired products 7-167. Ketones can be used as the carbonyl moiety instead of aldehydes, with good - albeit slightly lower - yields. 

The production of optically active cyanohydrins, with nitrile and alcohol functional groups that can each be readily derivatized, is an increasingly significant organic synthesis method. Hydroxynitrile lyase (HNL) enzymes have been shown to be very effective biocatalysts for the formation of these compounds from a variety of aldehyde and aliphatic ketone starting materials.Recent work has also expanded the application of HNLs to the asymmetric production of cyanohydrins from aromatic ketones. In particular, commercially available preparations of these enzymes have been utilized for high ee (5)-cyanohydrin synthesis from phenylacetones with a variety of different aromatic substitutions (Figure 8.1). 

A ketone can also be formed with a Friedel-Crafts acylation. The process requires an acid chloride and an aromatic compound. An aldehyde can t be formed by this procedure because the appropriate acid chloride, formyl chloride (HCOCl), is unstable and decomposes to carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride. Figure 10-12 illustrates the preparation of acetophenone from benzene and acetyl chloride. 

However, these compounds are generally unstable. Most imines with a hydrogen on the nitrogen spontaneously polymerize.143 Stable hemiaminals can be prepared from polychlorinated and polyfluorinated aldehydes and ketones, and diaryl ketones do give stable imines Ar2C=NH.144 Aside from these, when stable compounds are prepared in this reaction, they are the result of combinations and condensations of one or more molecules of 12 and/or 13 with each other or with additional molecules of ammonia or carbonyl compound. The most important example of such a product is hexamethylenetetramine145 (11), prepared from ammonia and formaldehyde.146 Aromatic aldehydes give hydrobenzamides ArCH(N=CHAr)2 derived from three molecules of aldehyde and two of ammonia.147... 

Borane and aluminum hydrides modified by chiral diols or amino alcohols are well-known, effective reagents for the stoichiometric enan-tioselective reduction of prochiral ketones and related compounds (34). Reduction of prochiral aromatic ketones with the Itsuno reagent, which is prepared from a chiral, sterically congested /3-amino alcohol and borane, yields the corresponding secondary alcohols in 94-100% ee... 

Many 1,2,3-selenadiazoles have been prepared as intermediates for the ultimate preparation of other organic compounds or for biological activity evaluation [6], The most general, extensively applied method is based on the oxidation of semicar-bazones, mostly derived from aromatic and carbocyclic ketones, by selenium dioxide [6, 14, 188-191], Synthesis of 4-(2-naphthyl)-l,2,3-selenazole (117) from semicarbazone (116) is an example (Scheme 36). 

The solvent extracts can be cleaned up by traditional column chromatography or by solid-phase extraction cartridges. This is a common cleanup method that is widely used in biological, clinical, and environmental sample preparation. More details are presented in Chapter 2. Some examples include the cleanup of pesticide residues and chlorinated hydrocarbons, the separation of nitrogen compounds from hydrocarbons, the separation of aromatic compounds from an aliphatic-aromatic mixture, and similar applications for use with fats, oils, and waxes. This approach provides efficient cleanup of steroids, esters, ketones, glycerides, alkaloids, and carbohydrates as well. Cations, anions, metals, and inorganic compounds are also candidates for this method [7],... 

Fig (10) The iron complex (80), prepared from methyl abietate (79) is converted to compound (81) utilizing standard organic reactions. It was converted to allylic alcohol (82) by treatment with iodine and potassium bicarbonate. The ketone (83) obtained from (82) undergoes aromatization on bromination and dehydrobromination. Yielding (84) whose transformation to lactone (87) is accomplished following the similar procedure adopted for the conversion of (68) to (74). It is converted to pisiferic acid (1) by treatment with aluminium bromide in... 

An enamine (4) prepared from aniline and an aromatic ketone yields indole-type compounds (5 and 6) upon anodic oxidation (equation 3)4. 

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