LDA Lithium

Scheme 10. Synthesis of the ds-donor-acceptor-substituted TEE 86 [ 100]. DIBAL-H diisobutylaluminum hydride, PCC pyridinium chlorochromate, LDA lithium diisopropylamide...

Scheme 18.47 Synthesis of the allenic amino acid derivative 149 by chelate-controlled Claisen rearrangement [135] (LDA= lithium diisopropylamide Cbz = benzyloxycarbonyl).

Fig. 26 Chemical derivatization of PCL by an anionic route LDA lithium diisopropylamide...

Deprotonation of 3-picoline is more difficult (the anion cannot achieve stability through resonance, as happens with the others) and a much stronger base, LDA [lithium diisopropylamide (lithium propan-2-ylamide)], is needed. Once achieved, however, the conjugate anion behaves as a nucleophile and undergoes typical carbanion reactions (indeed, it is more reactive than its counterparts, since reactivity is most often the opposite of stability ). 

LDA = lithium diisopropylamide DMAP = 4-N,N-dimethylaminopyridine PPTS = pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate... 

Since the first reports23 in 1963 on metalation of imines, a number of bases such as ethyl-1 or isopropylmagnesium bromide1 24, lithium9 and potassium diethylamide13, lithium diisopropyl-amide (LDA), lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (LTMP)9 10,13, and lithium bis(trimethylsi-lyl)amide13 have been successfully applied in the preparation of imine-derived azaenolates. The most common of these reagents is LDA which has been applied in deprotonation reactions of the whole palette of different imines. 

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