Lithium Diethylamide

When butyllithium is used as a base it abstracts a proton in this case a proton attached to nitrogen The source of lithium diethylamide must be diethylamine... 

Enamines of an entirely different reactivity can be obtained by reacting compounds having co-hydroperfluoroalkyI chains with lithium diethylamide These... 

When a solution of 25 in a 1 1 mixture of methanol and methylene chloride is exposed to periodic acid, the dithiane group is cleaved oxidatively to give, after treatment of the crude product with camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) in methanol, bisacetal 12 as a 2 1 mixture of C-12 anomers in a yield of 80% (Scheme 3). Although the conversion of 12 into 10 could be carried out on the mixture of anomers, it was found to be more convenient to carry each isomer forward separately. When 12 is treated with lithium diethylamide, the methine hydrogen adjacent to the lactone carbonyl is removed as a proton to give an enolate which is then oxidized in a completely diastereoselective fashion with Davis s oxaziridine18 to afford 11. 

The existence of a metalated epoxide was first proposed by Cope and Tiffany, to explain the rearrangement of cyclooctatetraene oxide (8) to cydoocta-l,3,5-trien-7-one (11) on treatment with lithium diethylamide. They suggested that lithiated epoxide 9 rearranged to enolate 10, which gave ketone 11 on protic workup (Scheme 5.4) [4],... 

Treatment of ris-cyclooctene oxide (15) with lithium diethylamide in ether at reflux gave endo-ris-bicyclo[3.3.0]octan-2-ol (16) in 70% yield. Under identical conditions, trons-cyclooctene oxide (17) gave exo-as-bicyclo[3.3.0]octan-2-ol (18) in 55-60% yield (Scheme 5.6) [7]. In each case, the reaction is completely stereospe-cific, with neither of the epimeric alcohols being observed, which suggests that the reactions proceed through insertion of a carbenoid (rather than the same a-li-... 

The effect of substrate structure on product profile is further illustrated by the reactions of cis- and trons-stilbene oxides 79 and 83 with lithium diethylamide (Scheme 5.17) [32]. Lithiated cis-stilbene oxide 80 rearranges to enolate 81, which gives ketone 82 after protic workup, whereas with lithiated trans-stilbene oxide 84, phenyl group migration results in enolate 85 and hence aldehyde 86 on workup. Triphenylethylene oxide 87 underwent efficient isomerization to ketone 90 [32]. 

The present procedure is a convenient, one-step method of preparing optically active /raw.s -pin ocarveol. Although lower in yield than the lithium diethylamide procedure, it is more readily adaptable to large-scale work. Moreover, the two methods are complimentary in the conditions required (neutral vs. basic) and in the overall transformation accomplished ... 

Reaction of benzylideneaniline with optically active methyl p-tolyl sulphoxide 449 in the presence of lithium diethylamide produces the corresponding jS-anilinosulphoxide 450 with 100% asymmetric induction. Its reductive desulphurization with Raney nickel leads to the enantiomerically pure amine 451524 (equation 270). When the same optically active... 

No stereoselectivity was observed in the formation of a 1 1 diastereomeric mixture of 2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl p-tolyl sulfoxide 145 from treatment of (R)-methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide 144 with lithium diethylamide . However, a considerable stereoselectivity was observed in the reaction of this carbanion with unsymmetrical, especially aromatic, ketones The carbanion derived from (R)-144 was found to add to N-benzylideneaniline stereoselectivity, affording only one diastereomer, i.e. (Rs,SJ-( + )-iV-phenyl-2-amino-2-phenyl p-tolyl sulfoxide, which upon treatment with Raney Ni afforded the corresponding optically pure amine . The reaction of the lithio-derivative of (-t-)-(S)-p-tolyl p-tolylthiomethyl sulfoxide 146 with benzaldehyde gave a mixture of 3 out of 4 possible isomers, i.e. (IS, 2S, 3R)-, (IS, 2R, 3R)- and (IS, 2S, 3S)-147 in a ratio of 55 30 15. Methylation of the diastereomeric mixture, reduction of the sulfinyl group and further hydrolysis gave (—)-(R)-2-methoxy-2-phenylacetaldehyde 148 in 70% e.e. This addition is considered to proceed through a six-membered cyclic transition state, formed by chelation with lithium, as shown below . ... 

Imidate esters can also be generated by reaction of imidoyl chlorides and allylic alcohols. The lithium anions of these imidates, prepared using lithium diethylamide, rearrange at around 0°C. When a chiral amine is used, this reaction can give rise to enantioselective formation of 7, 8-unsaturated amides. Good results were obtained with a chiral binaphthylamine.265 The methoxy substituent is believed to play a role as a Li+ ligand in the reactive enolate. 

The phosphole, m. p. 95-97°, is obtained in 74% yield by reaction of tetraphen-ylphosphonium bromide with lithium diethylamide. 

The regioselective ring-opening of epoxides 34 (R1 = Me, vinyl, Ph etc.) with aminolead compounds R23 PbNEt2, prepared from lithium diethylamide and R23 PbBr, gives good yields of the amino alcohols 3567. 

Reactions of amines with alkenes have been reviewed298,299. Alkali metal amides are active homogeneous catalysts for the amination of olefins. Thus diethylamine and ethylene yield triethylamine when heated at 70-90 °C at 6-10 atm in the presence of lithium diethylamide and /V./V./V. /V -tetrarncthylcthylcncdiaminc. Solutions of caesium amide promote the addition of ammonia to ethylene at 100 °C and 110 atm to give mixtures of mono-, di- and triethylamines300. The iridium(I)-catalysed addition of aniline to norbomene affords the anilinonorbomane 274301. Treatment of norbomene with aniline... 

It has been shown that, in the presence of lithium diethylamide at —70 °C, bromoben-zoic acids form arynes which may react with arylacetonitriles to yield, predominantly, 2-cyanobenzoic acids. The reaction of alkyl and aryl isocyanides with benzyne may yield benzamide derivatives, showing their ability to act as charge-reversed equivalents to isocyanates. The generation and cyclization of a benzyne-tethered alkyllithium have been reported, and lead to a convenient synthetic route for 4-substituted indans. ... 

Lithium diethylamide [814-43-3] Pyrophoric sohd, SH2154B, SR(2)3061G. ... 

Under certain conditions, the cyclization to lactam 499 occurs spontaneously, eliminating one equivalent of lithium diethylamide, which goes on to deprotonate the benzylic position a second time to yieid 500 and then 501 . 

On the contrary, a-lithiated epoxides have found wide application in syntheses . The existence of this type of intermediate as well as its carbenoid character became obvious from a transannular reaction of cyclooctene oxide 89 observed by Cope and coworkers. Thus, deuterium-labeling studies revealed that the lithiated epoxide 90 is formed upon treatment of the oxirane 89 with bases like lithium diethylamide. Then, a transannular C—H insertion occurs and the bicyclic carbinol 92 forms after protonation (equation 51). This result can be interpreted as a C—H insertion reaction of the lithium carbenoid 90 itself. On the other hand, this transformation could proceed via the a-alkoxy carbene 91. In both cases, the release of strain due to the opening of the oxirane ring is a significant driving force of the reaction. 

The need for solvation in anionic polymerization manifests itself in some instances by other deviations from the normal reaction rate expressions. Thus the butyllithium polymerization of methyl methacrylate in toluene at — 60°C shows a second-order dependence of Rp on monomer concentration [L Abbe and Smets, 1967]. In the nonpolar toulene, monomer is involved in solvating the propagating species [Busson and Van Beylen, 1978]. When polymerization is carried out in the mixed solvent dioxane-toluene (a more polar solvent than toluene), the normal first-order dependence of Rp on [M] is observed. The lithium diethylamide, LiN(C2H5)2, polymerization of styrene at 25°C in THF-benzene similarly shows an increased order of dependence of Rp on [M] as the amount of tetrahydrofuran is decreased [Hurley and Tait, 1976]. 

An improved route to milnacipran (2) and derivatives is described in Scheme 14.5. In this approach, lactone 20 was opened with lithium diethylamide to provide amide alcohol 25, which was readily transformed into azide 26. Hydrogenation on palladium-carbon directly led to the desired target in 86% yield over the three steps. 

Meyers and Shimano further expanded the scope of this methodology to include lithium amides as the nucleophile. The authors meticulously optimized the reaction conditions and determined the scope of the amide addition. Selected examples are listed in Table 8.32 (Scheme 8.163). The best results were obtained when THF was used as the solvent together with a stoichiometric amount of HMPA, relative to the lithium amide. The reaction was quite sensitive to the steric demand of the amide. Thus, lithium diethylamide give no product whereas lithium methyl n-pentylamide and lithium piperidide gave efficient reaction. Primary amides also failed to react. 

Caution. Volatile metal carbonyls are highly toxic. Contact of phenyl-lithium and lithium diethylamide with the skin must be avoided. Lithium diethylamide is pyrophoric on contact with air. 

Asymmetric elimination in epoxycyclopentenones bearing a chiral ketal group 1 with achiral lithium amides to give hydroxycyclopentenones has been examined due to the utility of the latter in prostaglandin synthesis67. When lithium diethylamide in diethyl ether and (3S, 5S )-2,6-dimeth-yl-3,5-heptanediol as chiral auxiliary are used, the diastereomeric cyclopentenol derivatives 2 are obtained in a ratio of 87.7 12.3 in 80 % yield. The absolute configuration is based on chemical correlation and the diastereomeric ratio on GC analysis. No further examples are reported. 

Formation of the enolate from 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (a y-lactam) is accomplished by treatment with lithium diethylamide in hexamethylphosphoric triamide/benzene at — 20 °C. Addition of bromomethane or (chloromethyl)benzene then results in good yield of the a-alkylation product15. 

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