Nucleophilic addition compounds

The Pd—C cr-bond can be prepared from simple, unoxidized alkenes and aromatic compounds by the reaction of Pd(II) compounds. The following are typical examples. The first step of the reaction of a simple alkene with Pd(ll) and a nucleophile X or Y to form 19 is called palladation. Depending on the nucleophile, it is called oxypalladation, aminopalladation, carbopalladation, etc. The subsequent elimination of b-hydrogen produces the nucleophilic substitution product 20. The displacement of Pd with another nucleophile (X) affords the nucleophilic addition product 21 (see Chapter 3, Section 2). As an example, the oxypalladation of 4-pentenol with PdXi to afford furan 22 or 23 is shown. 

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. 

Although the present chapter includes the usual collection of topics designed to acquaint us with a particular class of compounds its central theme is a fundamental reaction type nucleophilic addition to carbonyl groups The principles of nucleophilic addition to aide hydes and ketones developed here will be seen to have broad applicability m later chap ters when transformations of various derivatives of carboxylic acids are discussed... 

A number of compounds of the general type H2NZ react with aldehydes and ketones m a manner analogous to that of primary amines The carbonyl group (C=0) IS converted to C=NZ and a molecule of water is formed Table 17 4 presents exam pies of some of these reactions The mechanism by which each proceeds is similar to the nucleophilic addition-elimination mechanism described for the reaction of primary amines with aldehydes and ketones... 

Ordinarily nucleophilic addition to the carbon-carbon double bond of an alkene is very rare It occurs with a p unsaturated carbonyl compounds because the carbanion that results IS an enolate which is more stable than a simple alkyl anion... 

Hemiacetal (Section 17 8) Product of nucleophilic addition of one molecule of an alcohol to an aldehyde or a ketone Hemiacetals are compounds of the type... 

Because of their relative instabiUty, primary phosphine oxides caimot be isolated and must be converted direcdy to derivatives. Primary and secondary phosphine oxides undergo reactions characteristic of the presence of P—H bonds, eg, the base-cataly2ed nucleophilic addition to unsaturated compounds such as olefins, ketones, and isocyanates (95). 

Many other reactions of ethylene oxide are only of laboratory significance. These iaclude nucleophilic additions of amides, alkaU metal organic compounds, and pyridinyl alcohols (93), and electrophilic reactions with orthoformates, acetals, titanium tetrachloride, sulfenyl chlorides, halo-silanes, and dinitrogen tetroxide (94). 

When two moles of a carbonyl compound are used instead of formalin, the mechanism is different (Scheme 58) (70BSF3147). In one example (80CCC2417) the product of the nucleophilic addition of the hydrazine to the pyrazolinium salt (635 R = = Ph, R = R" =... 

Because the pK s of the aldehyde and water are similar, the solution contains significant quantities of both the aldehyde and its enolate. Moreover, their reactivities are complementary. The aldehyde is capable of undergoing nucleophilic addition to its carbonyl group, and the enolate is a nucleophile capable of adding to a carbonyl group. And as shown in Figure 18.4, this is exactly what happens. The product of this step is an alkoxide, which abstracts a proton from the solvent (usually water or ethanol) to yield a (3-hydroxy aldehyde. A compound of this type is known as an aldol because it contains both an aldehyde function and a hydroxyl group (aid + ol = aldol). The reaction is called aldol addition. 

There is some debate in the literature as to the actual mechanism of the Beirut reaction. It is not clear which of the electrophilic nitrogens of BFO is the site of nucleophilic attack or if the reactive species is the dinitroso compound 10. In the case of the unsubstituted benzofurazan oxide (R = H), the product is the same regardless of which nitrogen undergoes the initial condensation step. When R 7 H, the nucleophilic addition step determines the structure of the product and, in fact, isomeric mixtures of quinoxaline-1,4-dioxides are often observed. One report suggests that N-3 of the more stable tautomer is the site of nucleophilic attack in accord with observed reaction products. However, a later study concludes that the product distribution can be best rationalized by invoking the ortho-dinitrosobenzene form 10 as the reactive intermediate. 

Heterocyclic structures analogous to the intermediate complex result from azinium derivatives and amines, hydroxide or alkoxides, or Grignard reagents from quinazoline and orgahometallics, cyanide, bisulfite, etc. from various heterocycles with amide ion, metal hydrides,or lithium alkyls from A-acylazinium compounds and cyanide ion (Reissert compounds) many other examples are known. Factors favorable to nucleophilic addition rather than substitution reactions have been discussed by Albert, who has studied examples of easy covalent hydration of heterocycles. 

The first representatives of this group of compounds, 1,5-benzotelluroazepinones 57, have been prepared in 17% yield by the reaction between 2-iodopropyolanilides and NaHTe (98H631). The reaction proceeds, most probably, as nucleophilic substitution of the iodine, resulting in telluroles 58 and the subsequent nucleophilic addition of a hydrotelluride group to the triple bond. An alternative mechanism involving initial addition of NaTeH to the triple bond followed by the nucleophilic substitution of the iodine atom was mled out because the anilides PhNHCOC=CR do not react with NaTeH under the conditions at which the heterocycles 57 were obtained. Neither of the adducts PhNHCOCH=C(R)TeH or [PhNHCOCH=C(R)Te]2 was isolated. 

All these compounds possess a highly electrophilic triple bond. In a number of cases the nucleophilic addition occurs at this bond only, whereas the carbonyl function acts as a negative charge acceptor. 

Reacting 6 with triethyl phosphite (TEP) as the solvent gave compound 60 (01T(57)5453). The bromo derivative 46, with an equimolecular amount of TEP, afforded 29, which could be trasformed into 61 by reacting with an excess of TEP, showing a reversal of the usual regiochemistry observed in the nucleophilic addition of other 3-aminosubsdtuted isothiazole 5,5-dioxides. Reactivity of this new class of isothiazole dioxides was studied (Section II.B.l.a). 

In addition there are certain other methods for the preparation such compounds. Upon heating of the thionocarbonate 2 with a trivalent phosphorus compound e.g. trimethyl phosphite, a -elimination reaction takes place to yield the olefin 3. A nucleophilic addition of the phosphorus to sulfur leads to the zwitterionic species 6, which is likely to react to the phosphorus ylide 7 via cyclization and subsequent desulfurization. An alternative pathway for the formation of 7 via a 2-carbena-l,3-dioxolane 8 has been formulated. From the ylide 7 the olefin 3 is formed stereospecifically by a concerted 1,3-dipolar cycloreversion (see 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition), together with the unstable phosphorus compound 9, which decomposes into carbon dioxide and R3P. The latter is finally obtained as R3PS ... 

Both in the laboratory and in living organisms, the reactions of carbonyl compounds take place by one of four general mechanisms nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic acyl substitution, alpha substitution, and carbonyl condensation. These... 

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