Nitrile From nitro alkane

A number of reactants that can give rise to anionic species have been used. These include esters of phenylacetic acid/ malonic and alkymalonic acids/ " acetoacetic acid/ etc. Also useful are some nitriles and nitro-alkanes. The case of 2-nitropropane 76 is interesting. Kloetzel reported that the nature of the product from diethyl fumarate depends on the amount of diethylamine (DEA) catalyst employed. Thus, using 0.20 mole of catalyst, the simple addition product 77 was formed in a 90% yield. However, with 1.25 moles of base, elimination occurred giving 78 in an 83% yield. 

Although the unsaturated nitrile oxides 124 can be prepared via the aldoxime route (see Scheme 8), the older procedure suffers from the disadvantage that a tenfold excess of allyl alcohol and two additional steps are required when compared to Scheme 15. Therefore, unsaturated nitro ether 123 that can be prepared by condensation of an aldehyde 120 and a nitro alkane followed by Michael addition of alcohol 122, was a useful precursor to nitrile oxide 124 [381. The nitrile oxide 124 spontaneously cyclized to ether 125. This procedure is particularly suitable for the synthesis of tetrahydrofurans (125a-h) and tetrahydropyrans (125i-k) possessing Ar substituents in 72-95% yield (Table 12). The seven-membered ether 1251 was obtained only in 30% yield on high dilution. The acetylenic nitro ether 126 underwent INOC reaction to provide the isoxazole 127. 

Various other [3 + 2] cycloadditions, affording chiral, anellated C6o derivatives with stereogenic centers in the addends are reported in literature. The products were generally obtained as racemates and resulted from reaction of buckminsterfullerene with species like 2,3-disubstituted 2//-azirincs (via nitrile ylides [under direct irradiation] or via 2-azaallenyl radical cations [sensitization by photoinduced electron transfer]),365 1-substituted 5-diazopentane-1,4-diones (via cyclic carbonyl ylides),366 7-alkylidene-2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.1] hept-2-ene (via a diradicaloid trimethylenemethane derivative),367 1-benzylpy-razolidine-3-ones in the presence of aldehydes (via pyrazolidinium ylides),368 2-trifluoromethyl-2,5-dihydro-l,3-oxazol-5-ones (via nitrile ylides),369 nitro-alkanes in the presence of triethylamine and trimethylsilyl chloride (via N-silyloxynitrones),370 or dv-HOCH2 CH=C H C H 2 OCO 2 H( in the presence of... 

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A tetrahydropyranyl linker is an acid-sensitive linker for alcohols. Nitrile oxides were generated in situ from tetrahydropyranyl-linked nitro alkanes and phenyl isocyanate under Mukaiyama conditions, and reactions with various alkynes gave resin-bound isoxazoles (Scheme 11.39). Cleavage with diluted trifluoroacetic acid gave isoxazoles as primary alcohols in a traceless manner. A library of 3-hydroxymethyl-4,5-disubstituted isoxazoles was prepared in a parallel and automated fashion by a 96-well plate synthesizer with an average yield of 60%. 

These spectra were plotted from runs on a Jarrell-Ash 25-300 Raman spectrophotometer with a 4880 A argon ion laser. In some spectra the region from 4000 to 2000 cm" has been plotted so that the intensity is 0.5 times its true value compared to the rest of the spectrum. These are marked xO.5. Like the infrared spectra, these Raman spectra illustrate a group frequencies which are labeled directly on the spectra. Groups illustrated include alkanes in spectra 1-6, cyclohexanes 7-8, aromatics 9-12,15,17,18,20,21,25, 32-34, double bonds 13,14,24, isocyanate 15, triple bond 16, nitrile 17,18, carbonyls 19-26, alcohols 27-29, ether 30, amines 31, 32, nitro 33, C—Cl 34, C Br 35, and mercaptan 36. A molecular formula index of the Raman spectra follows. 

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