Nucleophilic addition, to double

If the carbanion has even a short lifetime, 6 and 7 will assume the most favorable conformation before the attack of W. This is of course the same for both, and when W attacks, the same product will result from each. This will be one of two possible diastereomers, so the reaction will be stereoselective but since the cis and trans isomers do not give rise to different isomers, it will not be stereospecific. Unfortunately, this prediction has not been tested on open-chain alkenes. Except for Michael-type substrates, the stereochemistry of nucleophilic addition to double bonds has been studied only in cyclic systems, where only the cis isomer exists. In these cases, the reaction has been shown to be stereoselective with syn addition reported in some cases and anti addition in others." When the reaction is performed on a Michael-type substrate, C=C—Z, the hydrogen does not arrive at the carbon directly but only through a tautomeric equilibrium. The product naturally assumes the most thermodynamically stable configuration, without relation to the direction of original attack of Y. In one such case (the addition of EtOD and of Me3CSD to tra -MeCH=CHCOOEt) predominant anti addition was found there is evidence that the stereoselectivity here results from the final protonation of the enolate, and not from the initial attack. For obvious reasons, additions to triple bonds cannot be stereospecific. As with electrophilic additions, nucleophilic additions to triple bonds are usually stereoselective and anti, though syn addition and nonstereoselective addition have also been reported. 

In general, the mechanisms of nucleophilic additions to double bonds have not been as much studied or systemized as those of electrophilic addition. Reactions 7.51 and 7.52 are examples of the very useful Michael condensation, in which a carbanion adds to an a,/ -unsaturated carbonyl or nitrile compound. The usefulness of these reactions arises from the fact that the number of ways of building longer carbon chains from smaller ones is limited. 

B. Nucleophilic Addition to Double Bonds. There are at least two reports of 0 adding in nucleophilic fashion to a carbon-carbon double bond. Although the reaction mechanisms were not elucidated in detail, in both reports the double bond was activated for nucleophilic addition. 

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... 

FIGURE 18 7 Nucleophilic addition to a p unsaturated aldehydes and ketones may take place either in a 1 2 or 1 4 manner Direct addition (1 2) occurs faster than conjugate addition (1 4) but gives a less stable product The product of 1 4 addition retains the carbon-oxygen double bond which is in general stronger than a carbon-carbon double bond... 

Other limitations of the reaction are related to the regioselectivity of the aryl radical addition to double bond, which is mainly determined by steric and radical delocalization effects. Thus, methyl vinyl ketone gives the best results, and lower yields are observed when bulky substituents are present in the e-position of the alkene. However, the method represents complete positional selectivity because only the g-adduct radicals give reductive arylation products whereas the a-adduct radicals add to diazonium salts, because of the different nucleophilic character of the alkyl radical adduct. ... 

Such an intermediate ean also stabilize itself by combining with a positive species. When it does, the reaction is nucleophilic addition to a C=C double bond (see Chapter 15). It is not surprising that with vinylie substrates addition and substitution often compete. For chloroquinones, where the charge is spread by resonance, tetrahedral intermediates have been isolated ... 

Protonation of the enolate ion is chiefly at the oxygen, which is more negative than the carbon, but this produces the enol, which tautomerizes. So, although the net result of the reaction is addition to a carbon-carbon double bond, the mechanism is 1,4 nucleophilic addition to the C=C—C=0 (or similar) system and is thus very similar to the mechanism of addition to carbon-oxygen double and similar bonds (see Chapter 16). When Z is CN or a C=0 group, it is also possible for Y to attack at this carbon, and this reaction sometimes competes. When it happens, it is called 1,2 addition. 1,4 Addition to these substrates is also known as conjugate addition. The Y ion almost never attacks at the 3 position, since the resulting carbanion would have no resonance stabilization " ... 

Nucleophilic addition to allenyl sulphoxides 547 proceeds across the a, /(-double bond to produce the corresponding )3-substituted allylic sulphoxides which undergo readily a [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement affording substituted allyl alcohols (equation 345). Under proper basic conditions, the initially formed allylic sulphoxides can rearrange to the corresponding vinyl sulphoxides which can be elaborated to 2,4-dienones 549 (equation 346) and a-ketosulphoxides (equation 347) . ... 

Iodine is a very good electrophile for effecting intramolecular nucleophilic addition to alkenes, as exemplified by the iodolactonization reaction71 Reaction of iodine with carboxylic acids having carbon-carbon double bonds placed to permit intramolecular reaction results in formation of iodolactones. The reaction shows a preference for formation of five- over six-membered72 rings and is a stereospecific anti addition when carried out under basic conditions. 

These reactions comprise nucleophilic SN2 substitutions, -eliminations, and nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds or activated double bonds, etc. They involve the reactivity of anionic species Nu associated with counterions M+ to form ion-pairs with several possible structures [52] (Scheme 3.4). 

As mentioned above nonconjugated dienes give stable complexes where the two double bonds can form a chelate complex. A common pathway in palladium-catalyzed oxidation of nonconjugated dienes is that, after a first nucleophilic addition to one of the double bonds, the second double bond inserts into the palladium-carbon bond. The new (cr-alkyl)palladium complex produced can then undergo a /(-elimination or an oxidative cleavage reaction (Scheme 2). An early example of this type of reaction, although not catalytic, was reported by Tsuji and Takahashi (equation 2)12. 

A further synthetic approach to carbon-metal double bonds is based on the acid-catalyzed abstraction of alkoxy groups from a-alkoxyalkyl complexes [436 -439] (Figure 3.11). These carbene complex precursors can be prepared from alk-oxycarbene complexes (Fischer-type carbene complexes) either by reduction with borohydrides or alanates [23,55,63,104,439-445] or by addition of organolithium compounds (nucleophilic addition to the carbene carbon atom) [391,446-452]. 

A different method of generating a nitrenium ion has been demonstrated the sulfur-nitrogen bond in (55) cleaves and then a novel intramolecular hydride shift to the arylnitrenium ion centre takes place. The nitrenium species (56) undergoes two nucleophilic additions to the double bond to give the product (57). Two studies concerning the physiological effects of nitrenium ions in vivo are reported. Products are formed from both the ion-paired nitrenium ion (59) and the free ion (60)... 

A a-5-bonded r-alkene (r] ) intermediate (325) has been invoked to account for the hydrogenation of the thiaplatinacycle (324) to the complex (326) in which two hydrogens have been added and a hydrogen shift has occurred." When coordinated to neutral and cationic palladium(II) and platinum(II) centres, the diphosphine 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propene, on treatment with benzylamine, was found to undergo isomerization to coordinated c/i-l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)propene rather than the expected nucleophilic addition to the double bond. 

The formation of jp -carbanions adjacent to pyridine-like nitrogen in 6-membered heteroaromatic rings is complicated by the fact that with alkyl and aryllithiums, 1,2-nucleophilic addition to the azomethine double bond (Scheme 103) normally occurs in preference to metalation [88H2659, 88MI2 88T1 90H(31)1155 91AHC(52)187]. 

Product predictions for nucleophilic additions to C q, based on AMI calculations, show that among the many possible isomers a few are energetically favored [29]. Two areas within the molecule can be distinguished, which are the inert belt at the equator and the more reactive CgQ-like double bonds at the poles (Figure 3.4). Experimentally, hydroalkylation and hydroarylation reactions of C q under quantitative HPLC control yield predominantly one isomer of each C7oHR[4]. 

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