Mesyl with chloride

The method of choice for the preparation of cholesta-3,5-diene is treatment of cholesteryl tosylate with potassium /-butoxide in DMSO. The mesylate and chloride react similarly. 

ALDEHYDES BY OXIDATION OF TERMINAL OLEFINS WITH CHROMYL CHLORIDE 2,4,4-TRIMETHYL-PENTANAL, 51, 4 ALDEHYDES FROM ACID CHLORIDES BY MODIFIED ROSENMUND REDUCTION 3,4,5—TRIMETHOXYBENZ-ALDEHYDE, 51, 8 ALDEHYDES FROM ACID CHLORIDES BY REDUCTION OF ESTER MESYLATES WITH SODIUM BOROHY-DRIDE CYCLOBUTANECARBOXAL-DEHYDE, 51, 11... 

ALDEHYDES FROM ACID CHLORIDES BY REDUCTION OF ESTER-MESYLATES WITH SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE CYCLOBUTANECARBOXALDEHYDE... 

In the event, iodolactonization of the carboxylate salt derived from the ester 458 afforded 459, and subsequent warming of the iodo lactone 459 with aqueous alkali generated an intermediate epoxy acid salt, which suffered sequential nucleophilic opening of the epoxide moiety followed by relactonization on treatment with methanol and boron trifluoride to deliver the methoxy lactone 460. Saponification of the lactone function in 460 followed by esterification of the resulting carboxylate salt with p-bromophenacylbromide in DMF and subsequent mesylation with methanesulfonyl chloride in pyridine provided 461. The diazoketone 462 was prepared from 461 by careful saponification of the ester moiety using powdered potassium hydroxide in THF followed by reaction with thionyl chloride and then excess diazomethane. Completion of the D ring by cyclization of 462 to the keto lactam 463 occurred spontaneously on treatment of 462 with dry hydrogen chloride. 

The hydroxy group of l-(2-hydroxyethyl)thieno[3,4-d]pyrimidine-2,4(3//)-dione 344 was chlorinated with thionyl chloride in a mixture of pyridine and chloroform, or mesylated with methanesulfonyl chloride in pyridine. No ring chlorination was observed under these conditions. The resulting l-(2-chloro or 2-methanesulfonylethyl) derivative 365 was cyclized to l,2-dihydrooxazolo[2,3-6]thieno[3,4-d]pyrimidin-5-one 366 with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) (89H985). A similar transformation of 3-(2-hydroxyethyl)thieno[3,4-d]pyrimidine-2(l//),4-diones 333a,b into the 3-(2-chloroethyl) derivatives 367 with thionyl chloride occurred in chlo-... 

One of the challenges in the Suzuki-type cross-coupling is to extend this reaction from electron-rich aryl iodides, bromides, and triflates to less reactive aryl sulfonates and aryl chlorides, which show poor reactivity in terms of oxidative addition in the catalytic cycle. Aryl mesylates, benzenesulfonates, and tosylates are much less expensive than triflates, and are unreactive toward palladium catalysts. The Ni(0)-catalyzed Suzuki-type cross-coupling reaction of aryl sulfonates, including mesylates, with arylboronic acids in the presence of K3P04 has been reported [123]. 

The hydroxy part of a hydroxy acid can also be activated for macrolactonization. Vedejs et al. [60] applied such a strategy to the synthesis of the macrocychc pyrrolizidine alkaloid monocrotaline 108). Thus, the seco acid derivative 106 was first mesylated with MsCl/EtjN in dichloromethane, and the crude product was added over 3 h to an excess of tetrabutylammonium fluoride trihydrate in acetonitrile at 34 °C to effect ring carboxy deprotection and ring closure to give 107 in 71% yield (Scheme 36). It has been noted that the active intermediate of this kind of lactonization may be an allylic chloride rather than a mesylate [61a], In addition, an intramolecular nucleophilic displacement process of chloride from an a-chloro ketone moiety by a remote carboxylate has been recently reported as an efficient approach to macrocychc keto lactones [61 bj. 

Oxetanes are synthesized from /(-halo alcohols under basic conditions. Chlorides,426-429 iodides,430 mesylates,431,432 or tosylatcs433 are used. Though different bases give good results, 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undcc-7-ene seems to work best for the cyclization of alcohol 1 to oxetane 2.430 Higher yields are obtained with chlorides, especially if no elimination to form alkenes can occur.426,427... 

The controlled fragmentation of the primary sugar allyltins is a convenient method for the preparation of dienoaldehydes with the -configuration across the internal double bond. The Z-dienes are also available from sugar allyltins, but the secondary ones. When the sugar allylic mesylates (or chlorides) 86 reacted with a tin nucleophile, the Sn2 product 92 was obtained. 

Our first synthesis of brassinolide started from stigmasterol which was converted to (20S)-6p-methoxy-3a,5-cyclo-5a-pregnane-20-carboxaldehyde (2). This pathway involved formation of the mesylate with methanesulfonyl chloride in pyridine and tetrahydrofuran, treatment of the mesylate with potassium acetate in methanol, and ozonolysis of die i-sterol with reductive work-up. 

The partial hydrolysis of 4a with methanolic potassium hydroxide followed by selective carboxylic acid reduction with excess borane and treatment of the resulting monoalcohol with methanesulfonyl chloride affords methyl 4-0-methanesulfonyl-2,3-0-isopropylidene-L-threonate (43). Facile displacement of the mesylate with azide followed by ester hydrolysis and catalytic reduction to an amine provides 4-amino-4-deoxy-2,3-0-isopropylidene-L-threonic acid (44). Mild acidic deprotection and ion-exchange desalting of 44 yields (2i ,3 S)-4-amino-4-deoxy-L-threonic acid (45), which has been utilized for the preparation of anthopleurine 46, the alarm pheromone of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima [4] (Scheme 11). 

Aryl chlorides are important starting materials in palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions [7]. Compared with the corresponding aryl iodides or aryl bromides, the advantages of aryl chlorides are obviously that they are inexpensive, easy to prepare, stable, etc. The same is true if we compare aryl tosylates or aryl mesylates with their aryl triflates analogs. Even though aryl chlorides, aryl mesylates and aryl acetates have been studied and have succeeded in cross-coupling reactions, their... 

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