Lithium succinimide

Mukaiyama developed a variety of catalytic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions with the use of trimethylsilyl nucleophiles in the presence of simple lithium Lewis-base catalysts, such as lithium acetate, lithium pyrro-lidone, lithium succinimide, lithium benzamide, lithium diphenylamide, and lithium benzyloxide (Scheme 2.1). For example, the Mukaiyama aldol... 

Bugge brominated thienothiophenes 1 and 2 with IV-bromo-succinimide in glacial acetic acid to 2-bromothieno[2,3-6]thiophene (66%) and 2-bromothieno[3,2-6]thiophene (55%). The structure of 2-bromothieno[2,3-6]thiophene was confirmed by the replacement of bromine by lithium at —70° followed by carbonation to thieno[2,3-6j-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid 2-bromothieno[3,2-fe]thiophene was independently prepared by the treatment of 2-lithiothieno[3,2-6]thiophene with one equivient of bromine at —70°. The 2-bromo derivatives of thienothiophenes 1 and 2 decompose within several hours at 20°, but remain uncWged for weeks at —15°. 

Miscellaneous Compounds. A saturated spirocychc pyrrohdine serves as the nucleus for a diamine that has been described as a hypohpemic agent. Treatment of the carbanion of the substituted cylcohexane carboxyhc ester (20-1) with methyl bromoacetate leads to the alkylation and formation of the diester (20-2). Saponification of the ester groups followed by reaction with acetic anhydride leads to ring closure of the succinic anhydride (20-3). Condensation with ammonia leads to the succinimide (20-4). The side chain is then added by alkylation of the anion on nitrogen with l-bromo-4-dimethylaminobutane (20-5). Reaction of this last intermediate with lithium aluminum hydride leads to the reduction of the carbonyl groups to methylene. This affords the pyrrolidine (20-6) atiprimod [22]. 

Thiiranes can be formed directly and stereospecifically from 1,2-disubstituted alkenes by addition of trimethylsilylsulfenyl bromide, formed at -78 C from reaction of bromine with bis(trimethylsilyl) sulfide (Scheme 7).12 A two-step synthesis of thiiranes can be achieved by addition of succinimide-A/-sulfe-nyl chloride or phthalimide-A -sulfenyl chloride to alkenes followed by lithium aluminum hydride cleavage of the adducts (Scheme 8).13 Thiaheterocycles can also be formed by intramolecular electrophilic addition of sulfenyl chlorides to alkenes, e.g. as seen in Schemes 914 and 10.13 Related examples involving sulfur dichloride are shown in Schemes 1116 and 12.17 In the former case addition of sulfur dichloride to 1,5-cyclooctadiene affords a bicyclic dichloro sulfide via regio- and stereo-specific intramolecular addition of an intermediate sulfenyl chloride. Removal of chlorine by lithium aluminum hydride reduction affords 9-thiabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, which can be further transformed into bicyclo[3.3.0]oct-1,5-ene.16... 

A further example of this general type of reaction is provided by the synthesis of cyclooctene sulphide (6).4 Here an alkene is converted into an adduct with succinimide-A-sulphenyl chloride (reaction formulated in full in Expt 8.3), which is reduced with lithium aluminium hydride at — 78 °C to form the product. 

Takeda et found that treatment of bicycloelemene (470) with iV-bromo-succinimide in aqueous acetone gave the bromohydrin (471 R = Sr) which, on hydrogenolysis with lithium in liquid ammonia, afforded ( + )-maaliol (471 R = H). It therefore follows that bicycloelemene has the absolute stereochemistry shown and, furthermore, the conformation of bicyclogermacrene is considered to be (472) since it is the precursor of (470) via a Cope rearrangement. Rucker... 

Additions of the Michael type of nucleophiles to the carbon-carbon double bond of thiete 1,1-dioxides to give 3-substituted thietane 1,1-dioxides occur readily. The addition of hydrogen has been discussed in Section A. Nucleophiles include cyanide, the anion of nitroethane, the lithium salt of r-butyl o-tolyl sulfone, dimethylamine, cyclohexylamine, ethoxide, and hydrogen sulfide. The reaction is exemplified by the synthesis of 278. Additions to 3-chloro-2H-thiete 1,1-dioxide most likely proceed by an addition-elimination mechanism an example is shown for the addition of the anion of dimethylmalonate to give 279. The replacement of a 3-morpholinyl group by a 3-A methyl-A-phenylamino group in thiete 1,1-dioxide is another example of addition-elimination. An addition of ethoxide with elimination of p-nitrophenyl anion may occur with 268 (Ar = / -N02C6H4). " Addition of bromine via N-bromo-succinimide to the double bond of 4-phenyl-2H-thiete 1,1-dioxide occurs only in 1.5% yield. ... 

Cyclopropylidenetriphenylphosphorane (1) generated by treatment of cyclopropyltriphenyl-phosphonium tetrafluoroborate (4) with lithium diisopropylamide, reacts with dialkyl disulfides (diphenyl disulfide does not react) or 7V-(phenylsulfanyl)succinimide in tetrahydrofuran to afford [1 -alkylsulfanyl(cyclopropyl]triphenylphosphonium tetrafluoroborates (5). The latter are useful three-carbon synthons, suitable for pentannulation reactions, as demonstrated with enolates of 2-methoxycarbonyl-4-methylcyclohept-4-enone and -0x0 esters. ... 

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