Mesylates bromination

Mesylated and Tosylated Celluloses. It has been estabUshed that the flame resistance of ceUulose (qv) is improved by oxidation of —CH2OH groups to —COOH (58—60). To correct some of the shortcomings of this treatment, mesyl or tosyl ceUulose was prepared and then the mesyl (CH2SO2) or tosyl (CH2CgH4S02) group was replaced with bromine or iodine (58—60) ... 

A very efficient one-pot procedure for the production of 3-hydroxy-3-cephems (45) has been developed which gives the desired product in almost 80% overall yield from (43a) which is readily available from penicillin. TTie sequence of reactions is (1) mesylation to give (43b), (2) formation of enamine (43c), (3) bromination to afford (44) and (4) hydroly-sis/cyclization with hydrochloric acid in methanol to afford (45) which, in some cases, crystallizes directly from the reaction mixture (B-82MI51000). 

Similarly, replacement of the bromine in 19-bromo-3 -acetoxyandrost-5-ene (199) proceeds smoothly to yield 19-djL-androst-5-en-3jS-ol (200) while attempts to displace the corresponding tosylate or mesylate give unsatisfactory results. ... 

The first total synthesis of 87 was published in 1990 (90TL1523). 5-Hydroxyindole (88) was mesylated and then reduced with sodium cyanoborohydride to give an indoline which was brominated to afford the bromoindoline 89 in good yield (Scheme 33). Cross-coupling with ortho-formyl boronic acid under Suzuki conditions, followed by air oxidation of the resulting cyclized product, followed by reduction of the lactam formed with excess Red-Al gave the target compound 87. 

Snieckus described short syntheses of ungerimine (121) and hippadine by Suzuki couplings of boronic acid 118 with 7-bromo-5-(methylsulfonyloxy)indoline (116) and 7-iodoindoline (117), respectively [130]. Cyclization and aerial oxidation also occur. Treatment of 119 with Red-Al gave ungerimine (121) in 54% yield, and oxidation of 120 with DDQ afforded hippadine in 90% yield. Indoline 116 was readily synthesized from 5-hydroxyindole in 65% overall yield by mesylation, reduction of the indole double bond, and bromination. Indoline 117 was prepared in 67% yield from N-acetylindoline by thallation-iodination and basic hydrolysis. 

The bromoallene (-)-kumausallene (62) was isolated in 1983 from the red alga Laurencia nipponica Yamada [64a], The synthesis of the racemic natural product by Overman and co-workers once again employed the SN2 -substitution of a propargyl mesylate with lithium dibromocuprate (Scheme 18.22) [79]. Thus, starting from the unsymmetrically substituted 2,6-dioxabicyclo[3.3.0]octane derivative 69, the first side chain was introduced by Swern oxidation and subsequent Sakurai reaction with the allylsilane 70. The resulting alcohol 71 was protected and the second side chain was attached via diastereoselective addition of a titanium acetylide. The synthesis was concluded by the introduction of two bromine atoms anti-selective S -substitution of the bulky propargyl mesylate 72 was followed by Appel bromination (tetrabromo-methane-triphenylphosphine) of the alcohol derived from deprotection of the bromoallene 73. 

The evident interest attending this method of bromination was reinforced by the observation that the reaction may be conducted in the presence of a wide range of other groups that are unaffected under these conditions (for instance, O-mesyl, -tosyl, -acetyl, -benzoyl, and -methyl groups, and a-epoxides).116... 

If we consider reaction of mesylate ion with methyl bromide, we find that this is an endergic reaction thus the transition state lies along the reaction coordinate farther toward the products titan the reactants (Figure 5.11). The activated complex will therefore have a structure more resembling the products. There will be significant carbon-oxygen bond formation between the mesylate group and carbon and only a weak residual bond between carbon and bromine. The bromine... 

One of the starting materials, the bromoindolinemesylate 183 was obtained from the commercially available 5-hydroxyindole by mesylation followed by successive treatment of the resulting indole derivative with sodium cyanoborohydride and bromine. Coupling of 183 with the known boronic acid 184 in the presence of zero valent palladium complex led directly to the lactam 185, the intermediate carbinolamine 186 formed initially in the reaction suffering facile aerial oxidation during work-up. On reduction with sodium (2-methoxyethoxy)aluminium-hydride, the amide 185 yielded the aminophenol 187 which on chromatography underwent oxidative aromatisation to 182 in 54% yield. 

Several efficient syntheses of ( )-cherylline (595) have been reported, and the common strategic feature of these entries is the cyclization of p-quinonemethides or functional equivalents thereof (223-225). For example, reaction of 609, which was readily accessible from 4-benzyloxystyrene by sequential reaction with bromine and methanol, with 3-benzyloxy-4-methoxy-(V-methylbenzylamine gave the tertiary amine 611 (223). In related work, 611 was obtained via ami-nolysis of the mesylate 610 that was prepared in two straightforward steps from 4-benzyloxystyrene oxide (224). When 611 was heated in strong acid, cycliza-... 

Starting from optically resolved carboxylic acid 215, the synthesis of bromide 218 encompassed three steps including performic acid treatment to 216, reductive fission of the lactone moiety to obtain 217, and double bromination. A three-step sequence involving mono-debromination, deacetylation and selective 2,3-O-isopropylidene protection converted 218 into exo-methylene precursor 219, on which C4 inversion to 220 was performed via mesylate. Changing the acetyl groups for methoxymethyl... 

Cesium fluoride promoted oxirane preparation starting from bis(sulfonyl fluorides) has been reported. In general, epoxide formation predominates over furan synthesis. Investigations of cyclohexane derivatives 1 show trans elimination to form 2 this still holds true when the syn chlorine is substituted by a bromine.Epoxide 4 is a versatile, general, enan-liomerically pure building block that is best synthesized by substitution of the mesylate 3. ... 

The synthesis of the preceding vinyl amino sulfone offers a very good example of a stereospecific sulfide-directed epoxidation (Scheme 76).Oxidation of optically active sulfide alcohol (12 readily made from epoxycyclopentadiene and resolved) with MCPBA affords the corresponding sulfoxide, which is in equilibrium with the sulfenate ester. Treatment with pyridine hydrobromide and then phenyl disulfide and bromine gives the bromodiol (13), which is simply cyclized to the epoxide with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution (83% overall yield from the sulfoxide). Treatment of the P-epoxy sulfone with DBU followed by in situ silylation with f-butyldiphenylsilyl chloride affords an 86% yield of vinyl sulfone (14). Mesylation of the alcohol moiety followed by immediate treatment with dimethylamine produces the amino vinyl sulfone via a syn Sn2 substitution. ... 

The above-mentioned reactions for the introduction of bromine always involve an activation of the alcohol as the first step. In some cases it can be useful to isolate the activated intermediate. The reactions of alkyl mesylates or tosylates with MgBr2 give alkyl bromides under mild conditions with good yields (equation 20) Neopentyl tosylate with LiBr in HMPA gives neopentyl bromide in 67% yield (equation 21). Complete inversion with little or no rearrangement is observed in this difficult case. 

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