Methyl production

Nitraminothiazoles are sufficiently acidic to be alkylated by diazomethane the methyl substituent is introduced on the exocyclic nitrogen (194). When sulfathiazole is methylated with diazomethane in ether, a mixture of ring-methylated and amino-methylated products is obtained, the ratio being 30 70 (85). With anion 31 (R = p-NO CsH4SO -) the ratio becomes 15 85 (195). 

Substrates Reaction time (hr) Substitution (%) Methylated product obtained (total lOOSl... 

Carbon is alkylated ia the form of enolates or as carbanions. The enolates are ambident ia activity and can react at an oxygen or a carbon. For example, refluxing equimolar amounts of dimethyl sulfate and ethyl acetoacetate with potassium carbonate gives a 36% yield of the 0-methylation product, ie, ethyl 3-methoxy-2-butenoate, and 30% of the C-methylation product, ie, ethyl 2-methyl-3-oxobutanoate (26). Generally, only one alkyl group of the sulfate reacts with beta-diketones, beta-ketoesters, or malonates (27). Factors affecting the 0 C alkylation ratio have been extensively studied (28). Reaction ia the presence of soHd Al O results mosdy ia C-alkylation of ethyl acetoacetate (29). 

Table 10 Experimental and Calculated Ni/N Methylation Product Ratios for the Reaction of 3-X,6-Y-Pyridazines with Methyl Iodide in Acetonitrile...

Methylation product Codeine. isoCodeine. aHo-iA-Codeine i4-Codeine. ... 

An example is the preparation of 18-trideuterio 5a-steroids bearing a side chain at C-17. Labeling of this position with three deuteriums was accomplished by utilizing the Johnson procedure for steroid total synthesis. This synthesis involves, in part, introduction of the 18-angular methyl group by methylation of the D-homo-17a-keto-17-furfurylidene intermediate (243). By substituting d3-methyl iodide in this step, the C/D cis- and ra/J5-18,18,18-d3 labeled ketones [(244) and (245)] are obtained. Conversion of the C/D tra 5-methylation product (245) into 18,18,18-d3-d /-3)8-hydroxy-5a-androstan-17-one (246) provides an intermediate which can be converted into a wide variety of C-18 labeled compounds of high (98%) isotopic... 

The pyrrolidine enamines of /l -3.]cetosteroids (111), on alkylation with methyl iodide, gave mainly the N-alkylated product (5,55) in nonpolar solvents such as benzene. The reaction in more polar solvents gave the 4-methylated product (5.S). The reaction of (111) with perchloryl fluoride involves attack at the C-4 atom to give, after acid hydrolysis, either 4-fluoro-zJ -3-ketone (119) or 4,4-difluoro-zJ -3-ketone 120), depending on the reaction conditions (59). 

Azides can use enamines as dipolarophiles for ],3 cycloadditions to form triazolines. These azides can be formate ester azides (186), phenyl azides (187-195), arylsulfony] azides (191-193,196), or benzoylazides (197,198). For example, the reaction between phenyl azide (138) and the piperidine enamine of propionaldehyde (139) gives 1 -phenyl-4-methy l-5-( 1 -piperidino)-4,5-dihydro-l,2,3-triazole (140), exclusively, in a 53% yield (190). None of the isomeric l-phenyl-5-methyl product was formed. This indicates that the... 

When the immonium form of the enamine is precluded sterically, enamines are alkylated solely on the nitrogen atom. Methylation of neostrychnine with methyliodide proceeds in this manner as well as that of zl -tetrahydro-julolidine (117) (202), which affords only the N-methylated product (118). 

C-Methylation products, o-nitrotoluene and p-nitrotoluene, were obtained when nitrobenzene was treated with dimethylsulfoxonium methylide (I)." The ratio for the ortho and para-methylation products was about 10-15 1 for the aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction. The reaction appeared to proceed via the single-electron transfer (SET) mechanism according to ESR studies. 

The reaction of 78 with phosphorus pentasulfide in xylene gives the corresponding 2-oxazolethione, which also forms the iV -methyl product with dimethyl sulfate and 4,5-diphenyl-2-methyhnercapto-oxazole in 98% yield on treatment with silver oxide-methyl iodide. 

Conjugate addition of methyl magnesium iodide in the presence of cuprous chloride to the enone (91) leads to the la-methyl product mesterolone (92) Although this is the thermodynamically unfavored axially disposed product, no possibility for isomerization exists in this case, since the ketone is once removed from this center. In an interesting synthesis of an oxa steroid, the enone (91) is first oxidized with lead tetraacetate the carbon at the 2 position is lost, affording the acid aldehyde. Reduction of this intermediate, also shown in the lactol form, with sodium borohydride affords the steroid lactone oxandrolone... 

Reaction of 1,4-diazocinediones with methylating agents leads to different products depending on the conditions. With dimethyl sulfate, the annulated derivative 6 gives JV-methylation selectively 7 however, on reaction with diazomethane, a mixture of the O- and iV-methylated products is obtained.9... 

A23187-Methyl ester and polyvinylpyrrolidone Hydroxylation 16-Hydroxylated (and N-de methylated) products Streptomyces chartreusis... 

When methyltriflone 248 was treated with two equivalents of n-butyllithium at — 50 °C in THF, a, a-dianion 249 is formed. After methylation of this dianion, further treatment with two equivalents of n-butyllithium gives the a, a -dianion 250. This dianion can be alkylated at the terminal carbon atom, like the dianions from ketosulfones. On reaction with three equivalents of n-butyllithium, 248 gives a, a, a -trianion 251 which, upon methylation with methyl iodide, afforded methylated product 252. Hendrickson and Palumbo328 prepared cyclopentenone derivatives using 248 as the starting material. 

Palm H, J Knuutinen, J Haimi, J Salminen, V Huhta (1991) Methylation products of chorophenols, catechols and hydroquinones in soil and earthworm of sawmill environments. Chemosphere 23 263-267. 

Vinyl cyclopropanes tethered to an aUcyne chain 127 were also subjected to the cycloisomerisation reaction in presence of the NHC-Ni catalyst system (Scheme 5.34) [39], The product formation depends on the substrate used and the NHC hgand. When SIPr carbene is used, three different products were obtained depending on the size of the R group attached to the alkyne moiety. If R is small (like a methyl) product 128 is obtained exclusively. If R is Et or Pr a mixture of 128 and 129 is obtained in 3 2 to 1 2 ratio, respectively. However, when R is large groups such as Bu or TMS only product 130 is obtained. When IfBu carbene 131 is used as the ligand, cycloisomerisation of 127 afforded product 128 exclusively, regardless of substituent size (Scheme 5.34) [39]. 

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