Lewis acids alkynes

Methylarsine, trifluoromethylarsine, and bis(trifluoromethyl)arsine [371-74-4] C2HAsF, are gases at room temperature all other primary and secondary arsines are liquids or solids. These compounds are extremely sensitive to oxygen, and ia some cases are spontaneously inflammable ia air (45). They readily undergo addition reactions with alkenes (51), alkynes (52), aldehydes (qv) (53), ketones (qv) (54), isocyanates (55), and a2o compounds (56). They also react with diborane (43) and a variety of other Lewis acids. Alkyl haUdes react with primary and secondary arsiaes to yield quaternary arsenic compounds (57). 

Lewis acids promote migration of fluorine m halofluoroalkenes to yield isomers, which can be transformed easily into perfluorinated alkynes [27. 22] (equation 6)... 

A unique method to generate the pyridine ring employed a transition metal-mediated 6-endo-dig cyclization of A-propargylamine derivative 120. The reaction proceeds in 5-12 h with yields of 22-74%. Gold (HI) salts are required to catalyze the reaction, but copper salts are sufficient with reactive ketones. A proposed reaction mechanism involves activation of the alkyne by transition metal complexation. This lowers the activation energy for the enamine addition to the alkyne that generates 121. The transition metal also behaves as a Lewis acid and facilitates formation of 120 from 118 and 119. Subsequent aromatization of 121 affords pyridine 122. 

Alkynes don t react directly with aqueous acid but will undergo hydration readily in the presence of mercury(II) sulfate as a Lewis acid catalyst. The reaction occurs with Markovnikov regiochemistry the -OH group adds to the more highly substituted carbon, and the — H attaches to the less highly substituted one. 

Indolones and isoindolones have been utilised in the synthesis of fused azepine derivatives. In the one reaction, rearrangement of the alkynes 18 to 2-benzazepine-l,5-diones 19 in the presence of Lewis acids has been reported <96XL393>. Xhe yields vary from moderate to very good. Xricyclic azepines 20 are obtained by the reaction of the 4-[2 -(p-toluenesulfonyloxy)ethyl]-2-oxindole with imines <96JHC209>. 

Based on the experimental results above and together with Wang s previous work a tentative mechanism was proposed (Scheme 20) [33]. Thus, intermediate A is formed initially through coordination of imine and alkyne to the Lewis acid. This coordination sets the stage for an addition of the alkyne to the imine leading to the propargylamine intermediate B, which then undergoes an intramolecular... 

Alkenylsilanes can be made by Lewis acid-catalyzed hydrosilation of alkynes. Both AlClj and C2H5A1C12 are effective catalysts.73 The reaction proceeds by net anti addition, giving the Z-alkenylsilane. The reaction is regioselective for silylation of the terminal carbon. 

Lewis acid-catalyzed hydrostannylation has been observed using ZrCl4. With terminal alkynes the Z-alkenylstannane is formed.142 These reactions are probably similar in mechanism to Lewis acid-catalyzed additions of silanes (see p. 811). 

Mascarenas developed a synthetic method to 1,5-oxygen-bridged medium-sized carbocycles through a sequential ruthenium-catalyzed alkyne-alkene coupling and a Lewis-acid-catalyzed Prins-type reaction (Eq. 3.45). The ruthenium-catalyzed reaction can be carried out in aqueous media (DMF/H20 = 10 1).181... 

Protonic acid and Lewis acids can activate carbonyls to facilitate the addition of nucleophile attacks in aqueous media. The Prins reaction, reaction with alkyne, and Friedel-Crafts-type reactions have been discussed in related chapters in detail. 

The key feature of the first total synthesis of (+)-homopumiliotoxin 223G 418 was a Lewis acid-induced, chelation-controlled propargylation of the trifluoroacetate salt of (. )-2-acetyl pi peri dine 415, derived from iV-Cbz-L-pipecolinic acid. Alkyne 416 thus formed was transformed after several steps into 417, which was cyclized by activation of the primary hydroxyl with the carbon tetrabromide-triphenylphosphine system to give the natural product (Scheme 98) <1998TL2149>. 

Table 3.. V-Phenylsulfon i m idoyl chlorides with alkynes in the presence of Lewis acids...

A direct addition of cydoethers to terminal alkynes has been discovered by Zhang and Li (Scheme 6.136) [271]. The best results were obtained when the reactions were run without additional solvent and in the absence of additives such as transition metal catalysts, Lewis acids, or radical initiators. Typically, the cycloether was used in large excess (200 molar equivalents) as solvent under sealed-vessel conditions. At a reaction temperature of 200 °C, moderate to good yields of the vinyl cycloether products (as mixtures of as and trans isomers) were obtained. The reaction is proposed to follow a radical pathway. 

Similar to the addition of secondary phosphine-borane complexes to alkynes described in Scheme 6.137, the same hydrophosphination agents can also be added to alkenes under broadly similar reaction conditions, leading to alkylarylphosphines (Scheme 6.138) [274], Again, the expected anti-Markovnikov addition products were obtained exclusively. In some cases, the additions also proceeded at room temperature, but required much longer reaction times (2 days). Treatment of the phosphine-borane complexes with a chiral alkene such as (-)-/ -pinene led to chiral cyclohexene derivatives through a radical-initiated ring-opening mechanism. In related work, Ackerman and coworkers described microwave-assisted Lewis acid-mediated inter-molecular hydroamination reactions of norbornene [275]. 

Flynn et al., also described the synthesis of the fused indoles [73]. The o-iodotrifluoroacetanilide 110 was coupled to aryl alkyne 111 under Sono-gashira conditions followed by subsequent reaction with aryl iodide, 107 with gaseous carbon dioxide produced the fused indole 158. Lewis acid dealkylation with aluminum trichloride produced the deprotected alcohol 159. 

The skeletal rearrangements are cycloisomerization processes which involve carbon-carbon bond cleavage. These reactions have witnessed a tremendous development in the last decade, and this chemistry has been recently reviewed.283 This section will be devoted to 7T-Lewis acid-catalyzed processes and will not deal, for instance, with genuine enyne metathesis processes involving carbene complex-catalyzed processes pioneered by Katz284 and intensely used nowadays with Ru-based catalysts.285 By the catalysis of 7r-Lewis acids, all these reactions generally start with a metal-promoted electrophilic activation of the alkyne moiety, a process well known for organoplatinum... 

Burger2 has shown that alkynes undergo both Lewis acid-catalyzed and thermal carbonyl-yne reactions with 3,3,3-trifluoropyruvates to give allenes. Reaction of 1 (Equation (2)) occurs to give a 1 1 mixture of diastereomeric allenyl carbinols 2. Alternatively, reaction of hexyne 1 and methyl trifluoropyruvate with MgBr2-OEt2 at low temperature afforded 2 as an 8 1 mixture of diastereomers. The thermal reaction does not suffer from allylic alcohol byproducts arising from reaction of the substrate with the Lewis acid.3... 

In addition to transition metals, recent work has demonstrated that strong Lewis acids will catalyze the addition of silanes to alkynes in both an intra- and an intermolecular fashion.14,14a-14c The formation of vinylsilanes from alkynes is possible by other means as well, such as the synthetically important and useful silylcupration15,15a of alkynes followed by cuprate protonation to afford vinylsilanes. These reactions provide products which can be complementary in nature to direct hydrometallation. Alternatively, modern metathesis catalysts have made possible direct vinylsilane synthesis from terminal olefins.16,16a... 

Since both a acceptors and n donors at the alkyne termini are known to facilitate the Bergman cyclization, Zaleski and coworkers established a model46 in which the coordination of a Lewis acid (metal ion) would change the electronic environment in favor of diradical formation (Scheme 11). 

Closely related to both allyl carbenoids and the allenyl carbenoids discussed above, propargyl carbenoids 101 are readily generated in situ and insert into zirconacycles to afford species 102 (Scheme 3.27), which are closely related to species 84 derived from allenyl carbenoids [65], Protonation affords a mixture of allene and alkyne products, but the Lewis acid assisted addition of aldehydes is regioselective and affords the homopropargylic alcohol products 103 in high yield. Bicydic zirconacyclopentenes react similarly, but there is little diastereocontrol from the ring junction to the newly formed stereocenters. The r 3-propargyl complexes derived from saturated zirconacycles are inert towards aldehyde addition. 

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