Nucleophiles, decompositions

It is well known that halide anions lower the thermal stability of ILs due to their nucleophilic nature and their ability to decompose by S l or 5 2 nucleophilic decomposition [20]. ILs that are not thoroughly purified and examined using ion chromatography for the presence of trace levels of halide anions will produce significant colunm bleed at relatively low-column temperatures. Excessive decomposition/volatilization of [C4QIm]Cl has been observed starting at 145°C [21]. 

Cyclizations can occur with heteroatoms present in the tether as long as the groups are not strongly nucleophilic. Decomposition of a-diazo- 3-arylmethanesulfonyl esters (173) resulted in the formation of 1,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxides (174 equation 38),143 which are valuable precursors to o-quinodimethanes. Reaction with /V-aryldiazoamides (175) has been shown to be a useful method for preparing 2(3//)-indolinones (176 equation 39),22a while reaction of a-diazo-(3-keto esters (177) has been developed as a process to synthesize 3-acetylbenzofiiran-2(3//)-ones (178 equation 40).144... 

A few examples have appeared of the formation of 3-amino-substituted pyrazine- and quin-oxalinecarboxylic derivatives by nucleophilic decomposition of their pyrimidine-fused ring systems (pteridines and analogues) (see also Section 6.03.4.1) <86JHC843,87JHC1013,91JHC1485>. 

Phosphites probably undergo oxidation and sulfidation reactions like phosphines, albeit at much lower rate due to their lower nucleophilicity. Decomposition of phosphites can be much faster than that of phosphines due... 

More frequent are nucleophilic decompositions of —S—S— links. These can be achieved with the participation of sulfides, disulfides, and inorganic hydrosulfide, used individually or in mixture with Na2S03- The following reactions take place [421 ... 

The higjily water-soluble dienophiles 2.4f and2.4g have been synthesised as outlined in Scheme 2.5. Both compounds were prepared from p-(bromomethyl)benzaldehyde (2.8) which was synthesised by reducing p-(bromomethyl)benzonitrile (2.7) with diisobutyl aluminium hydride following a literature procedure2.4f was obtained in two steps by conversion of 2.8 to the corresponding sodium sulfonate (2.9), followed by an aldol reaction with 2-acetylpyridine. In the preparation of 2.4g the sequence of steps had to be reversed Here, the aldol condensation of 2.8 with 2-acetylpyridine was followed by nucleophilic substitution of the bromide of 2.10 by trimethylamine. Attempts to prepare 2.4f from 2.10 by treatment with sodium sulfite failed, due to decomposition of 2.10 under the conditions required for the substitution by sulfite anion. 

Pd(II) compounds coordinate to alkenes to form rr-complexes. Roughly, a decrease in the electron density of alkenes by coordination to electrophilic Pd(II) permits attack by various nucleophiles on the coordinated alkenes. In contrast, electrophilic attack is commonly observed with uncomplexed alkenes. The attack of nucleophiles with concomitant formation of a carbon-palladium r-bond 1 is called the palladation of alkenes. This reaction is similar to the mercuration reaction. However, unlike the mercuration products, which are stable and isolable, the product 1 of the palladation is usually unstable and undergoes rapid decomposition. The palladation reaction is followed by two reactions. The elimination of H—Pd—Cl from 1 to form vinyl compounds 2 is one reaction path, resulting in nucleophilic substitution of the olefinic proton. When the displacement of the Pd in 1 with another nucleophile takes place, the nucleophilic addition of alkenes occurs to give 3. Depending on the reactants and conditions, either nucleophilic substitution of alkenes or nucleophilic addition to alkenes takes place. 

In the alcohol oxidations, the sulfonium intermediate (2, nucleophile = R2C(OH)) loses a proton and dimethyl sulfide to give the carbonyl compound (42). The most common mechanism for the decomposition of (2) is attack by a mild base to remove a proton from one of the methyl groups. Subsequent cycHc coUapse leads to the carbonyl compound and dimethyl sulfide (eq. 9) ... 

The reaction involves the nucleophilic attack of a peracid anion on the unionized peracid giving a tetrahedral diperoxy intermediate that then eliminates oxygen giving the parent acids. The observed rate of the reaction depends on the initial concentration of the peracid as expected in a second-order process. The reaction also depends on the stmcture of the peracid (specifically whether the peracid can micellize) (4). MiceUization increases the effective second-order concentration of the peracid because of the proximity of one peracid to another. This effect can be mitigated by the addition of an appropriate surfactant, which when incorporated into the peracid micelle, effectively dilutes the peracid, reducing the rate of decomposition (4,90). 

Diazetidinones carbonyl derivatives nucleophilic reactions, 7, 462 A -1,2-Diazetine, c/s-3,4-diethyl-3,4-dimethyl-decomposition, 7, 456-457, 483 A -1,2-Diazetine, tetrafluoro-thermolysis, 7, 456 A -l,2-Diazetine, tetramethyl-thermolysis, 7, 456 A -1,2-Diazetine, 3,3,4,4-tetramethyl-properties, 7, 483... 

Two mechanisms are among those that have been postulated for decomposition of aryl diazonium salts in aqueous solution containing nucleophilic anions, A ... 

The kinetics of the hydrolysis of some imines derived from benzophenone anc primary amines revealed the normal dependence of mechanism on pH with ratedetermining nucleophilic attack at high pH and rate-determining decomposition of the tetrahedral intermediate at low pH. The simple primary amines show a linear correlation between the rate of nucleophilic addition and the basicity of the amine Several diamines which were included in the study, in particular A, B, and C, al showed a positive (more reactive) deviation from the correlation line for the simple amines. Why might these amines be more reactive than predicted on the basis of thei ... 

There are several reaction sequences which involve such intramolecular hydrogen abstraction steps. One example is the photolytically intitiated decomposition of N-haloamines in acidic solution, which is known as the Hofinann-Loffier reactionThe reaction leads initially to y-haloamines, but these are usually converted to pyrrolidines by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution ... 

Better yields are attributed to intimate association of the basic nitrile group at the surface of the mtrosomum salt causing nitrosative decomposition of the azide to occur in close proximity to the weakly nucleophilic complex fluoride anion Fluorination yields can be further enhanced to 59-81% by lengthening the azido nitrile chain, but the reaction is accompanied by pronounced secondary fluoronitnle formation arising from rearrangement [100, 101] (Table 8)... 

Numerous other reactions have been documented, most of which are initiated by nucleophilic attack on B. There is no evidence that electrophilic substitution of the borazine ring occurs and conditions required for such reactions in benzenoid systems disrupt the borazine ring by oxidation or solvolysis. However, it is known that the less-reactive hexamethyl derivative B3N3Mee (which can be heated to 460° for 3 h without significant decomposition)... 

With a chiral phenylglycinol nucleophile (Scheme 8.4.17), use of the chloride Zincke salt 6 (cf. Scheme 8.4.16) gave decomposition of the salt back to isoquinoline and 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene. The desired reaction was enabled by exchanging chloride for the weakly nucleophilic dodecyl sulfate anion. The resulting salt 49 also had improved... 

Nitration of benzofuroxans (Section VII, A) and decomposition of polynitrophenyl azides, provide generally satisfactory routes to nitrobenzofuroxans. The nitro groups render the ring susceptible to nucleophilic attack (see Section VII,B). 4,6-Dinitrobenzofuroxan, 5,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan, and nitrobenzodifuroxan (34) act as acceptors in change-transfer complex formation with aromatic hydrocarbons. Nitrobenzofuroxans have not been reduced to the... 

Qiu et al. [11] reported that the aromatic tertiary amine with an electron-rich group on the N atom would favor nucleophilic displacement and thus increase the rate of decomposition of diacyl peroxide with the result of increasing the rate of polymerization (Table 1). They also pointed out that in the MMA polymerization using organic peroxide initiator alone the order of the rate of polymerization Rp is as follows ... 

The strained bicyclic carbapenem framework of thienamycin is the host of three contiguous stereocenters and several heteroatoms (Scheme 1). Removal of the cysteamine side chain affixed to C-2 furnishes /J-keto ester 2 as a possible precursor. The intermolecular attack upon the keto function in 2 by a suitable thiol nucleophile could result in the formation of the natural product after dehydration of the initial tetrahedral adduct. In a most interesting and productive retrosynthetic maneuver, intermediate 2 could be traced in one step to a-diazo keto ester 4. It is important to recognize that diazo compounds, such as 4, are viable precursors to electron-deficient carbenes. In the synthetic direction, transition metal catalyzed decomposition of diazo keto ester 4 could conceivably furnish electron-deficient carbene 3 the intermediacy of 3 is expected to be brief, for it should readily insert into the proximal N-H bond to... 

The thermal, and more importantly, the photolytic decomposition of aryl azides in the presence of nucleophiles, generally amines or alcohols, is the commonest method for preparing 3H-azepines. In fact, jV-phenyl-3//-azepin-2-amine (32, R = Ph), the first example of a 3//-azepine, was prepared by thermal decomposition of phenyl azide in aniline.32... 

The structure of the tar, formed in many azide decompositions, consists of polyazepine units,103 and arises by attack of arylamine, formed from triplet arylnitrene, on the azepine precursor 30 to give the l//-azcpin-2-amine 31, which acts as a nucleophile towards more azepine precursor to yield ultimately the polyazepine 95. 

A novel route to 2-fluoropyridines involved the base-induced decomposition of substituted N-fluoropyridinium salts. Abstraction of the 2-H produces a singlet carbene (11) that removes F from a counterion. This is in contrast to the reaction with C nucleophiles, which are fluorinated, and is attributed to the high stability of C—F compared to O—F and N—F (89JOC1726). 

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