Metal acyl halides

With Acyl Halides, Hydrogen Halides, and Metallic Halides. Ethylene oxide reacts with acetyl chloride at slightly elevated temperatures in the presence of hydrogen chloride to give the acetate of ethylene chlorohydrin (70). Hydrogen haUdes react to form the corresponding halohydrins (71). Aqueous solutions of ethylene oxide and a metallic haUde can result in the precipitation of the metal hydroxide (72,73). The haUdes of aluminum, chromium, iron, thorium, and zinc in dilute solution react with ethylene oxide to form sols or gels of the metal oxide hydrates and ethylene halohydrin (74). 

Pyrrole and alkylpyrroles can be acylated by heating with acid anhydrides at temperatures above 100 °C. Pyrrole itself gives a mixture of 2-acetyl- and 2,5-diacetyl-pyrrole on heating with acetic anhydride at 150-200 °C. iV-Acylpyrroles are obtained by reaction of the alkali-metal salts of pyrrole with an acyl halide. AC-Acetylimidazole efficiently acetylates pyrrole on nitrogen (65CI(L)1426). Pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde is acetylated on nitrogen in 80% yield by reaction with acetic anhydride in methylene chloride and in the presence of triethylamine and 4-dimethylaminopyridine (80CB2036). 

In the alkyl chain hydroxy groups or side chains may be present. The reaction is somewhat different when acyl halides are used. Hydroxymethanediphosphonic acid is prepared by reacting phosgene with an alkali metal, dialkyl phosphite. The reaction is rapid and exothermic. The temperature is controlled between 10 and 20°C. After hydrolysis with HC1, hydroxymethanediphosphonic acid is recovered [91,92]. 

Unsymmetrical as well as symmetrical anhydrides are often prepared by the treatment of an acyl halide with a carboxylic acid salt. The compound C0CI2 has been used as a catalyst. If a metallic salt is used, Na , K , or Ag are the most common cations, but more often pyridine or another tertiary amine is added to the free acid and the salt thus formed is treated with the acyl halide. Mixed formic anhydrides are prepared from sodium formate and an aryl halide, by use of a solid-phase copolymer of pyridine-l-oxide. Symmetrical anhydrides can be prepared by reaction of the acyl halide with aqueous NaOH or NaHCOa under phase-transfer conditions, or with sodium bicarbonate with ultrasound. 

Acyl halides are reduced to alcohols by L1A1H4 or NaBH4, as well as by other metal hydrides (Table 19.5), but not by borane. 

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When alkyl oxalyl chlorides were employed instead of acyl halides, symmetrical dibenzyl ketones were formed in good yields(44). Transition metal carbonyls or metal salts/carbon monoxide have generally been used for... 

Friedel-Crafts acylation reactions of aromatics are promoted by Tilv complexes.104 In some cases, a catalytic amount of the titanium compound works well (Scheme 28). In addition to acyl halides or acid anhydrides, aldehydes, ketones, and acetals can serve as electrophile equivalents for this reaction.105 The formylation of aromatic substrates in the presence of TiCl4 is known as the Rieche-Gross formylation metalated aromatics or olefins are also formylated under these conditions.106... 

Metallostannation often gives a better regio- and stereoselectivity than does hydrostannation, and the vinylmetal group that is formed can often react further with suitable electrophiles such as halogens, acids, alkyl halides, acyl halides, metal halides, aldehydes, or epoxides.110 ... 

ACID ANHYDRIDES, ACYL HALIDES, ALKALI METALS ALKYLALUMINIUM DERIVATIVES, ALKYLNON-METAL HALIDES COMPLEX HYDRIDES, METAL HALIDES, METAL HYDRIDES METAL OXIDES, NON-METAL HALIDES (AND THEIR OXIDES)... 

Fig. 2.4. Generation and O-alkylation of nucleophilic acyl complexes from metallates and acyl halides [101].

The most frequently used ylides for carbene-complex generation are acceptor-substituted diazomethanes. As already mentioned in Section 3.1.3.1, non-acceptor-substituted diazoalkanes are strong C-nucleophiles, easy to convert into carbene complexes with a broad variety of transition metal complexes. Acceptor-substituted diazomethanes are, however, less nucleophilic (and more stable) than non-acceptor-substituted diazoalkanes, and require catalysts of higher electrophilicity to be efficiently decomposed. Not surprisingly, the very stable bis-acceptor-substituted diazomethanes can be converted into carbene complexes only with strongly electrophilic catalysts. This order of reactivity towards electrophilic transition metal complexes correlates with the reactivity of diazoalkanes towards other electrophiles, such as Brpnsted acids or acyl halides. 

Concurrent with acetic anhydride formation is the reduction of the metal-acyl species selectively to acetaldehyde. Unlike many other soluble metal catalysts (e.g. Co, Ru), no further reduction of the aldehyde to ethanol occurs. The mechanism of acetaldehyde formation in this process is likely identical to the conversion of alkyl halides to aldehydes with one additional carbon catalyzed by palladium (equation 14) (18). This reaction occurs with CO/H2 utilizing Pd(PPh )2Cl2 as a catalyst precursor. The suggested catalytic species is (PPh3)2 Pd(CO) (18). This reaction is likely occurring in the reductive carbonylation of methyl acetate, with methyl iodide (i.e. RX) being continuously generated. 

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