Ketones with boron-containing reagents

Imidazole-containing compounds have been utilized as reagents for various synthetic transformations. A convenient access to substituted allyl enol carbonates was established through the reaction of ketone enolates with the complex of allyl l//-imidazole-l-carboxylates 74 and boron trifluoride etherate <07JOC9372>. Relatively mild and highly efficient Cul-catalyzed /V-arylation procedures for imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl bromides or chlorides have been developed in the presence of ligands 75 and cesium carbonate <07JOC2737>. a, -Unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles 76 are an alternative and practical class of dienophiles for the DNA-based catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction in... 

Lithium tri-sec-butylborohydride, also known as L-selectride, is a metal hydride reagent that contains three sec-butyl groups bonded to boron. When this reagent is used to reduce cyclic ketones, one stereoisomer often predominates as product. Explain why the reduction of 4-ferf-butylcyclohexanone with L-selectride forms the cis alcohol as the major product. 

Allylic t ganranetallics modified at the metal center by chiral adjuvants add to aldehydes and ketones to provide optically active hranoallylic alcohols. This process has been described for reagents containing boron, tin and chromium metd centers. Gore and coworkers have shown that a chrranium-medi-ated addition reaction of allylic brranides to simple aldehydes that uses a complex of lithium N-methyl-nt ephedrine and chromium(Il) chloride occurs with modest (6-16% ee) enantioselectivity (equation 61, Table 8). 

Hydroxy-3-alkylcyclopent-2-ene-l-ones. The substances (2) are available in 50-70% yield by treatment of 2,3-epoxy-2-alkylcyclopentanones (1, obtained by alkaline epoxidation of 2-alkylcyclopent-2-ene-l-ones) with acetic acid containing 2% of concentrated sulfuric acid at 55°. Use of boron trifluoride etherate, the classical reagent for rearrangement of cyclic 2,3-epoxy ketones (1,... 

Lithium tetrafluoroborate in wet acetonitrile has been described as an effective combination for the hydrolysis of acetals under mild weakly acidic conditions. Dithians were unaffected. Methods for the hydrolysis of thioacetals continue to appear. Reagents that have been described include a polystyryl-mercury(n) trifluoroacetate combination, which retains the metal on the resin, lead(iv) dioxide and boron trifluoride etherate, aqueous hydrochloric acid in dioxan containing dimethyl sulphoxide, methyl-bis(methylthio)sulphonium hexa-chloroantimonate, and iodoxybenzene, catalysed by toluene-p-sulphonic acid. Dithioacetals derived from ethane-1,2-dithiol may be cleaved with dimethyl sulphoxide in combination with either t-butyl or trimethylsilyl bromides and iodides. Regeneration of ketones from ethanediyl-S S -acetals via the lithium-di-isopropylamide-promoted fragmentation to the thioketone and subsequent hydrolytic work-up only gives satisfactory yields for aryl methylketone derivatives. Dithioacetal SS-dioxides are rapidly cleaved in hot methanolic hydrochloric acid solution. ... 

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