Methyl vinyl carbonate

The dominant product ions from mixtures of methanol with methyl vinyl carbonate, methyl isopropenyl carbonate, and methyl tert-butyl carbonate are mlz 59, 73, and 73, respectively. In the case of the vinylic esters, ions mlz 59 and mlz 73 are each formed by two independent routes, decarboxylation and condensation of the protonated ester with methanol. Using deuterium and O-18-labeled methanol, we were able to unravel the reaction pathways involved. 

Moreover, in 1998 Ube Industries, Ltd. discovered that PC decomposition is suppressed by small quantities of additives (carboxylic acid vinyl esters, such as vinyl acetate (7) and divinyl adipate (8) vinyl carbonates, such as methyl vinyl carbonate (9) [50] carboxylic acid allyl esters, such as allyl acetate (10) allyl carbonates, such as allyl methyl carbonate (11) [51] and cyclic vinyl esters, such as a-angelica lactone (12) [52]). 

Poly(methyl vinyl carbonate) Chromatogtapliy Poly((dimeAyllieptylsilyl)ethylene)... 

Under certain conditions, the /(-substitution products are obtained as major products[66]. Methyl vinyl ether reacts with bromonitrobenzene to give the f-methoxystyiene 64 in good yield in toluene at 120 "C by using Pd on carbon as... 

In this reaction the enolate of diethyl malonate adds to the p carbon of methyl vinyl ketone... 

Syn- and anti-orientations are possible and there is evidence that the anti-orientation does not favor orbital overlap such an orientation is favored with larger branched-chain substituents. A C-nmr study found that the TT-electron density on the vinyl P-carbon is lower as the reactivity of the monomer increases (20). Methyl vinyl ether exists almost entirely ia the syn-stmcture, a favorable orbital overlap situation, and MVE for this reason is less reactive to both polymerization and hydrolysis (21). 

Heterocyclic enamines often undergo two-step 1,3 cycloaddition with methyl vinyl ketone. This involves electrophilic attacks by an olefinic carbon and by a carbonyl carbon (24,25). For example, 1,2-dimethyl-Zl -pyrroline (14), when treated with methyl vinyl ketone, produces 1,6-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydroindole (15) (24). The requirement which must be met so that this type of cyclization reaction can take place is that the a position of the heterocyclic enamine be carbon substituted. This provides... 

Two-step 1,4 cycloaddition of enamines, such as was observed with methyl vinyl ketone, is not possible with acrylate or maleate esters. This is due to the fact that, following the initial simple substitution, no side-chain carbanion is available for nueleophilic attack on the a carbon of the iminium ion. Likewise two-step 1,3 eycloaddition, such as that found when alicyclic enamines were treated with acrolein, is impossible with acrylate or maleate esters because transfer of the amine moiety from the original enamine to the side chain to form a new enamine just prior to the final cyclization step is not possible. That is, the reaction between a seeondary amine and an ester does not produce an enamine. 

Since most often the selective formation of just one stereoisomer is desired, it is of great importance to develop highly selective methods. For example the second step, the aldol reaction, can be carried out in the presence of a chiral auxiliary—e.g. a chiral base—to yield a product with high enantiomeric excess. This has been demonstrated for example for the reaction of 2-methylcyclopenta-1,3-dione with methyl vinyl ketone in the presence of a chiral amine or a-amino acid. By using either enantiomer of the amino acid proline—i.e. (S)-(-)-proline or (/ )-(+)-proline—as chiral auxiliary, either enantiomer of the annulation product 7a-methyl-5,6,7,7a-tetrahydroindan-l,5-dione could be obtained with high enantiomeric excess. a-Substituted ketones, e.g. 2-methylcyclohexanone 9, usually add with the higher substituted a-carbon to the Michael acceptor ... 

In principle, numerous reports have detailed the possibility to modify an enzyme to carry out a different type of reaction than that of its attributed function, and the possibility to modify the cofactor of the enzyme has been well explored [8,10]. Recently, the possibility to directly observe reactions, normally not catalyzed by an enzyme when choosing a modified substrate, has been reported under the concept of catalytic promiscuity [9], a phenomenon that is believed to be involved in the appearance of new enzyme functions during the course of evolution [23]. A recent example of catalytic promiscuity of possible interest for novel biotransformations concerns the discovery that mutation of the nucleophilic serine residue in the active site of Candida antarctica lipase B produces a mutant (SerlOSAla) capable of efficiently catalyzing the Michael addition of acetyl acetone to methyl vinyl ketone [24]. The oxyanion hole is believed to be complex and activate the carbonyl group of the electrophile, while the histidine nucleophile takes care of generating the acetyl acetonate anion by deprotonation of the carbon (Figure 3.5). 

Very recently, Cook and Danishefsky [24] reported an interesting regioselectivity of intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions reversed by the change in the dienophihc moieties from vinyl to allenyl group (Scheme 19). For R = 2-propenyl group, C is bonded to the methyl substituted carbon Cj of the cyclohexadienone ring. For R = 2,3-butadienyl, C is bonded to Cy... 

The reaction of crotonaldehyde and methyl vinyl ketone with thiophenol in the presence of anhydrous hydrogen chloride effects conjugate addition of thiophenol as well as acetal formation. The resulting j3-phenylthio thioacetals are converted to 1-phenylthio-and 2-phenylthio-1,3-butadiene, respectively, upon reaction with 2 equivalents of copper(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate (Table I). The copper(I)-induced heterolysis of carbon-sulfur bonds has also been used to effect pinacol-type rearrangements of bis(phenyl-thio)methyl carbinols. Thus the addition of bis(phenyl-thio)methyllithium to ketones and aldehydes followed by copper(I)-induced rearrangement results in a one-carbon ring expansion or chain-insertion transformation which gives a-phenylthio ketones. Monothioketals of 1,4-diketones are cyclized to 2,5-disubstituted furans by the action of copper(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate. ... 

A. Nucleophilic Attack on Carbon. —(/) Activated Olefins. A study of triarylphosphine-catalysed dimerization of acrylonitrile to 2-methylene-glutaronitrile (26) and 1,4-dicyano-l-butene (27) has established a balance between phosphine nucleophilicity and protolytic strength of the solvent. The reaction of methyl vinyl ketone with triphenylphosphine in triethyl-silanol gave only 3-methylene-2,6-heptadienone (28). 

Copolymerization of butadiene with another monomer such as acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, styrene, or methyl vinyl ketone increases perceptibly the proportion of 1,4 units at the expense of 1,2. The ratio of cis to trans is not materially altered, however. One is obliged to conclude that the co-monomer shows a greater preference for addition to the terminal carbon (i.e., to carbon 4) of the resonating chain radical than does the butadiene Foster and... 

Reactions of the hydrido(hydroxo) complex 2 with several substrates were examined (Scheme 6-14) [6]. The reactions are fairly complicated and several different types of reachons are observed depending on the substrate. Methyl acrylate and small Lewis bases such as CO, P(OMe)3, BuNC coordinate to the five-coordinated complex 2 affording the corresponding six-coordinate complexes. In reactions with the unsaturated bonds in dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate, carbon dioxide, phenylisocyanate indications for the addition across the O-H bond but not across the Os-OH bond were obtained. In reactions with olefins such as methyl vinyl ketone or allyl alcohol, elimination of a water molecule was observed to afford a hydrido metalla-cyclic compound or a hydrido (ethyl) complex. No OH insertion product was obtained. 

Jenner investigated the kinetic pressure effect on some specific Michael and Henry reactions and found that the observed activation volumes of the Michael reaction between nitromethane and methyl vinyl ketone are largely dependent on the magnitude of the electrostriction effect, which is highest in the lanthanide-catalyzed reaction and lowest in the base-catalyzed version. In the latter case, the reverse reaction is insensitive to pressure.52 Recently, Kobayashi and co-workers reported a highly efficient Lewis-acid-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition in water.53 A variety of unsaturated carbonyl derivatives gave selective Michael additions with a-nitrocycloalkanones in water, at room temperature without any added catalyst or in a very dilute aqueous solution of potassium carbonate (Eq. 10.24).54... 

The Use of deuterium has revealed interesting mechanistic details. Over Rh/C, Pt/C, and Pd/C, the butanone resulting from the deuteriumation of methyl vinyl ketone contains substantially more deuterium at position 4 than at 3 (Table 2.7). This can generally be accounted for by the classic mechanism assuming the a-carbon (position 3) remains preferentially attached to the surface while the P-carbon (position 4) undergoes multiple exchange by repeated second-point attachment (Fig. 2.27). However, over Pd/C, even less deuterium... 

FIGURE 2.27 Two possible mechanisms to explain deuterium distributions resulting from deuteriumation and exchange of methyl vinyl ketone. Deuterium is assumed to move subsurface and to attack adsorbed carbons from threefold hollows. Path A multiple exchange by repeated addition-rotation-abstraction at the [3-carbon (classic mechanism) path B I -A hydrogen shift followed by desorption as enol. 

Another domino Heck/Diels-Alder process described by the same group [64] implies the Pd°-catalyzed reaction of 6/1-118 in the presence of acrylate or methyl vinyl ketone to give the corresponding bicyclic compounds 6/1-120 and 6/1-121 via the transient 6/1-119 (Scheme 6/1.32). Good yields were obtained only if potassium carbonate is used as base. 

This compound is prepared by the addition of ethyl vinyl ether to acrolein, under conditions similar to those described for a similar addition of methyl vinyl ether to crotonaldehyde in Org. Syntheses, 34, 29 (1954) see Longley and Emerson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 72, 3079 (1950). Glutaraldehyde is available currently as a 30% aqueous solution from the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company, 30 East 42nd Street, New York. 

The interaction diagrams for the above conformations are identical with that of methyl vinyl ether (Fig. 30) except that the oxygen lone pair AO is replaced by an unoccupied carbon 2p AO. With this in mind we conclude that the transoid conformation of the cation, Ts, will be more stable than the cisoid conformation, Cs, since the <(>j—Pz two electron stabilizing interaction is greater for the Ts conformation. 

With an unsymmetrical electron-deficient dienophile, the electron-rich central carbon of vinylallene preferentially adds to the more electron-deficient carbon of the dienophile. Moderate regioselectivities were observed in the reactions of methyl vinyl ketone with vinylallenes at 100 °C [164]. 

TABLE 6. Effect of the methyl group at the electrophilically attacked vinylic carbon by p-methoxydiphenylmethyl carbenium ion... 

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