Lithium chloride halide displacement

Optically active halides also can be racemized by an SN2 mechanism. A solution of active 2-chlorobutane in 2-propanone containing dissolved lithium chloride becomes racemic. Displacement of the chloride of the halide by chloride ion inverts configuration at the atom undergoing substitution (see Section 8-5). A second substitution regenerates the original enantiomer. Eventually, this back-and-forth process produces equal numbers of the D and l forms the substance then is racemic ... 

Displacement of secondary allyl halides is satisfactory for the formation of symmetric allylstannanes, e.g., ( )-tributyl(l-mcthyl-2-butcnyl)stannane17, but can give 1,3-rearranged products in other cases, e.g., from 3-chlorobutene and trimethyltin reagents14 lS. Allylic cyclohexenyl chlorides react with triphenyltin lithium with clean inversion and little 1,3-transformation19,20. 

Although lower-order cuprate reagents will often engage in displacement reactions with alkyl halides, such reactions are usually slow. They are generally much less facile than 1,4-addition reactions to a,P-unsaturated enones or enoates. The latter processes are particularly facile when trimethylsilyl chloride is employed as an additive. It was Corey and Boaz10 who first recognised the accelerating effect of trimethylsilyl chloride on cuprate addition reactions to a,p-unsaturated carbonyls. Buszek therefore capitalised on Corey s earlier observations in his reaction of 10 with lithium dimethylcuprate to obtain 15. 

The most useful of all allyl anion equivalents are the allyl silanes.20 This is because it is easy to make them regioselectively, because they do not undergo allylic rearrangement (silicon does not do a [1,3] shift) and because their reactions with electrophiles are very well controlled addition always occurring at the opposite end to the silicon atom. Symmetrical allyl silanes can be made from allyl-lithiums or Grignards by displacement of chloride from silicon. A useful variant is to mix the halide with a metal, e.g. sodium, and Me3SiCl in the same reaction, rather after the style of the silicon acyloin reaction,21 as in the synthesis of the acetal 80. 

Reaction of nonstabilized carbanions with [Fp(olefin)] complexes generally results in either displacement of the olefin or reduction of the metal rather than formation of stable (j -alkyliron complexes. This is especially true with simple, nonstabilized organo-magnesium halide or lithio reagents. However, allylmagnesium chloride and phenylmag-nesium chloride react in modest (20-40%) yield with the ethylene, propene and butadiene (1,4 addition) iron complexes. Lithium dimethylcuprate is even more efficient, reacting in up to 70% yield with Fp complexes of styrene, butadiene (1,4 addition) isoprene (1,4 addition) and allene. Complexes of cyclopentene and allene react in low... 

Tetravalent phosphorus halides are known to react with lithium reagents, but data is scarce. Aryllithium reagents easily displace chloride ion from phosphoryl chloride in the synthesis of tertiary phosphine oxides (143,144,174). A small quantity of the corresponding phosphinic acid (42) was isolated in the preparation of tris(p-dimethylamino-phenyl)phosphine oxide (43) (174). Choice of conditions and concentrations of reactants may well favor either the single or the double dis-... 

Several types of replacement of halide by metals are known. The only one that appears to have direct utility in asymmetric synthesis is the reaction of (tributylstan-nyl)lithium with (a-chloroalkyl)boronic esters. The replacement is stereospecific and provides a route to a-lithioethers having high enantiopurity [88]. This chemistry is illustrated by the conversion of (S)-DIPED (R)-(l-chloro-2-methylpropyl)boronate (157) into the (S)-tributylstannyl derivative 158 (Scheme 8.38). The displacement is unusually sluggish and was promoted with zinc chloride. Peroxidic deboronation yielded... 

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