Methyl thallium

Methyl thallium species have been discovered in natural water quite recently but thallium was reported to undergo biomethylation in vitro already more than two decades ago [32]. While the total thallium levels in oceans and lakes vary between 1.6 and 20.1 ng/L, levels exceeding 1000 ng/L have been found in industrial waste waters [33]. The proportion of [(CH3)2T1]+ to total thallium ranged up to 48%. The stability of the monomethyl derivatives varies in the order mercury(II) > thallium(III) 2> lead(IV) bismuth(V) [3b]. 

C2 2H2ON3S2TI, (2,6-Bis(1-methyl-2-(2-thiolophenyl)-2-azaethene)pyridine) methyl thallium( III ), 43B, 1400 C22H3oAl2f 1 Ethyl-3-methyl-1-alumina-indan dimer, 45B, 791 C2 2H3 6AI2CI2 f Di-M-ehloro-bis( 77 -pentamethyleyelopentadienyl)methyl-aluminum)), 45B, 792... 

Thallation of aromatic compounds with thallium tris(trifluoroacetate) proceeds more easily than mercuration. Transmetallation of organothallium compounds with Pd(II) is used for synthetic purposes. The reaction of alkenes with arylthallium compounds in the presence of Pd(Il) salt gives styrene derivatives (433). The reaction can be made catalytic by use of CuCl7[393,394], The aryla-tion of methyl vinyl ketone was carried out with the arylthallium compound 434[395]. The /9-alkoxythallium compound 435, obtained by oxythallation of styrene, is converted into acetophenone by the treatment with PdCh[396]. 

In small-scale syntheses, a wide variety of oxidants have been employed in the preparation of quinones from phenols. Of these reagents, chromic acid, ferric ion, and silver oxide show outstanding usefulness in the oxidation of hydroquinones. Thallium (ITT) triduoroacetate converts 4-halo- or 4-/ f2 -butylphenols to l,4-ben2oquinones in high yield (110). For example, 2-bromo-3-methyl-5-/-butyl-l,4-ben2oquinone [25441-20-3] (107) has been made by this route. 

Thallium trinitrate oxidi2es naphthols and hydroquinone monoethers, respectively, to quinones and 4,4-diaIkoxycyclohexa-2,5-dienones, eg, 4,4-dimethoxy-2-methyl-2,5-cyclohexadienone [57197-11 -2] (108) (111,112). The yield of (108) is 89%. Because the monoacetal is easily converted to the quinone, the yield of 5-hydroxy-l,4-naphthoquinone [481-39-0] is 64%. 

N-Unsubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles are methylated mainly in the 1-position with methyl iodide and silver or thallium salts, but mainly in the 2-position by diazomethane. There is also some steric control. For example, 4-phenyl-l,2,3-triazole with dimethyl sulfate gives the 2-methyl-4-phenyl (38%) and l-methyl-4-phenyl isomers (62%), but none of the more hindered 1-methyl-5-phenyltriazole (74AHC(16)33). JV-Unsubstituted 1,2,4-triazoles are generally alkylated at N-1. 

Lithium pyrazolate with complex 235 yields 236 (R = R = H) (97OM2709), while thallium 3-methyl- and 3-fert-butylpyrazolate, 3,5-dimethyl- and... 

A number of alkylated and ring-annelated derivatives of cyclopentadienyl-thallium(I) have been reported. All were prepared by the same procedure used for the parent compound, and relevant experimental data are listed in Table I. None of these compounds is as stable as cyclopentadienylthallium-(I) the methyl-substituted derivative, for example, undergoes essentially spontaneous oxidation on exposure to the atmosphere (25), and, qualitatively, the order of stability has been assessed (105) as... 

The utility of thallium(III) salts as oxidants for nonaromatic unsaturated systems is a consequence of the thermal and solvolytic instability of mono-alkylthallium(III) compounds, which in turn is apparently dependent on two major factors, namely, the nature of the associated anion and the structure of the alkyl group. Compounds in which the anion is a good bidentate ligand are moderately stable, for example, alkylthallium dicar-boxylates 74, 75) or bis dithiocarbamates (76). Alkylthallium dihalides, on the other hand, are extremely unstable and generally decompose instantly. Methylthallium diacetate, for example, can readily be prepared by the exchange reaction shown in Eq. (11) it is reasonably stable in the solid state, but decomposes slowly in solution and rapidly on being heated [Eq. (23)]. Treatment with chloride ion results in the immediate formation of methyl chloride and thallium(I) chloride [Eq. (24)] (55). These facts can be accommodated on the basis that the dicarboxylates are dimeric while the... 

The presence of three hydroxyl groups per glucose unit was shown by the preparation of a triacetate and a tribenzoate. Six or seven methyla-tions (using dimethyl sulfate and concentrated alkali) of dextran did not raise the methoxyl content above 41% (theoretical maximum 45.6%). Also, Purdie methylations (using methyl iodide and silver oxide) and methylation with thallium ethoxide and methyl iodide were ineffective in raising the methoxyl content of methylated dextran above 43.5%. The maximum theoretical methoxyl content was eventually attained by modified Muskat methylations. 6 Partially methylated dextran suspended in anisole solution was treated with sodium in liquid ammonia, and the sodium salt of methylated dextran thus formed was allowed to react with methyl iodide. The methoxyl content of the partially methylated dextran was raised by three such methylations from 42% to 45.5% and by five such methylations from 30% to 45.4%. 

Treatment of ZnMe2 with the thallium salt of a bis(pyrazolyl)hydroborate gave the methylzinc complex [BpZnMe] 104 in which zinc is three coordinate.162 This complex reacted with paraformaldehyde, Scheme 73, with the direct insertion of the CH20 moiety into the B-H bond to produce the methylzinc complex 105 (Figure 51), in which zinc is tetrahedrally surrounded by the methyl group and the newly formed N,N,O-ligand.163... 

It is now well established that organometallic compounds are formed in the environment from mercury, arsenic, selenium, tellurium and tin and hence were also deduced on the basis of analytical evidence for lead, germanium, antimony and thallium. Biological methylation of tin has been demonstrated by the use of experimental organisms. Methylgermanium and methyllead were widely found in the environment but it is debatable whether germanium and lead are directly methylated by biological activity in natural environment. 

Somei and co-workers made extensive use of the Heck reaction with haloindoles in their synthetic approaches to ergot and other alkaloids [26, 40, 41, 240-249]. Thus, 4-bromo-l-carbomethoxyindole (69%) [26], 7-iodoindole (91%) (but not 7-iodoindoline or l-acetyl-7-iodoindoline) [40, 41], and l-acetyl-5-iodoindoline (96%) [41] underwent coupling with methyl acrylate under standard conditions (PdlOAc /PhsP/EtjN/DMF/100 °C) to give the corresponding (E)-indolylacrylates in the yields indicated. The Heck coupling of methyl acrylate with thallated indoles and indolines is productive in some cases [41, 241, 246]. For example, reaction of (3-formylindol-4-yl)thallium bis-trifluoroacetate (186) affords acrylate 219 in excellent yield [241], Similarly, this one-pot thallation-palladation operation from 3-formylindole and methyl vinyl ketone was used to synthesize 4-(3-formylindol-4-yl)-3-buten-2-one (86% yield). 

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