Nucleophilic attack of carbonyls

The Felkin-Anh model has also been used to explain the preference for axial attack by nucleophiles on cyclohexanones and the effect of proximate substituents on facial selection. The anti periplanar geometry that Anh regarded as important in nucleophilic attack of carbonyl compounds is compromised by torsional strain in the reactions of cyclohexanones from the equatorial face. Felkin slated Whereas both torsional strain and steric strain can be simultaneously minimised in a reactant-like transition state when the substrate is acyclic... this is not possible in the cyclohexanone case.. ..These reactions all proceed via reactant-like transition states. In the absence of polar effects, their steric outcome is determined by the relative magnitude of torsional strain and steric strain [in the axial and equatorial transition states] [16]. 

Cyclopropanation proceeds through the formation of an electrophilic (2-furyl)carbene-chromium complex which in turn forms through 5-exo dig cyclization. As shown in Scheme 10.13, cyclization of ene-yne-ketone 15 begins with the nucleophilic attack of carbonyl oxygen to an internal carbon of an alkyne in q -alkyne complex A. A might be the most plausible pathway for generation of (2-furyl)carbene-chromium complex 18. A slipped, polarized q -complex B would be an alternatively possible intermediate. It is known that A is prone to isomerize to B, which has been... 

Umpolung behaviour has been achieved, whereby direct thioesterification of aldehydes (other than aliphatic) and enals by direct nucleophilic attack of carbonyl C on disulfides is promoted by an NHC and DBU/DEAD. ° ... 

Formation of carboxylic acids ami their derivatives. Aryl and alkenyl halides undergo Pd-catalyzed carbonylation under mild conditions, offering useful synthetic methods for carbonyl compounds. The facile CO insertion into aryl- or alkenylpalladium complexes, followed by the nucleophilic attack of alcohol or water affords esters or carboxylic acids. Aromatic and a,/ -unsaturated carboxylic acids or esters are prepared by the carbonylation of aryl and alkenyl halides in water or alcohols[30l-305]. 

Electron release from nitrogen stabilizes the carbonyl group of amides and decreases the rate at which nucleophiles attack the carbonyl carbon... 

Polyfluoroalkyl- andperfluoroalkyl-substituted CO and CN multiple bonds as dipolarophiles. Dmzo alkanes are well known to react with carbonyl compounds, usually under very mild conditions, to give oxiranes and ketones The reaction has been interpreted as a nucleophilic attack of the diazo alkane on the carbonyl group to yield diazonium betaines or 1,2,3 oxadiazol 2 ines as reaction intermediates, which generally are too unstable to be isolated Aromatic diazo compounds react readily with partially fluorinated and perfluorinated ketones to give l,3,4-oxadiazol-3-ines m high yield At 25 °C and above, the aryloxa-diazolines lose nitrogen to give epoxides [111]... 

The product is a hemithioacetal. In the rate-determining step, the general acid HA donates a proton to the carbonyl oxygen, thus assisting the nucleophilic attack of the thiol on the carbonyl carbon. 

FIGURE 16.27 A mechanism for the aspartic proteases. In the first step, two concerted proton transfers facilitate nucleophilic attack of water on the substrate carbonyl carbon. In the third step, one aspartate residue (Asp" " in pepsin) accepts a proton from one of the hydroxyl groups of the amine dihydrate, and the other aspartate (Asp" ) donates a proton to the nitrogen of the departing amine. 

There are two methods for the introduction of a hydroxyalkyl group at position 5 of the pyrazol-3-one ring. Schmidt and Zimmer converted furanediones 258a-k into arylmethylenepyrazol-3-reaction with hydrazine hydrate or methylhydrazine (83Jmechanism proposed for the reaction involves nucleophilic attack of the hydrazine on the ketone carbonyl, followed by attack on the ester carbonyl and ring opening of the... 

The suggested reaction mechanism involves a nucleophilic attack of the imine nitrogen at the activated triple bond, followed by a proton exchange, to give a benzimidazolinium system which, by intramolecular attack at the carbonyl group, leads to an epoxide that ring opens to the observed product. For the ethyl derivative (R = Et) a tub conformation could be established by X-ray crystallographic analysis.33... 

A 6-endo cyclization by a y-epoxy alcohol can be accomplished through the presence of an appropriately disposed electron-withdrawing group, as found in the total synthesis of (+)-phonomactin. Treatment of the hydroxy-epoxy ketone 30 (R = H) with HC1 afforded the bicyclic compound 31, containing a pyran-4-one ring, in which nucleophilic attack of the y-OH group occurred at the oxirane carbon distal from the unfavorable electronic effect of the carbonyl group (Scheme 8.7) [20a]. 

A detailed mechanism of Goldschmidt s process has not been given two reaction paths are possible either proton transfer to the acid with the formation of RC(OH) (in which case the slow step would be an Aac2 Ingold mechanism) or nucleophilic attack of the carbonyl group of the acid on the protonated alcohol. The second mechanism would require an alkyl scission (A l). In more recent studies2501, it has been shown that scission in most cases is of the acyl type and particularly in the examples studied by Goldschmidt. 

The carbonyl group also possesses electrophilic properties at the carbon atom and nucleophilic properties at the oxygen atom. Nucleophilic attack of the carbonyl group is favored if this is attached to an aromatic ring (inductive effect) and there is also a methoxy or phenolic OH group present in the 4-position. Changing a neutral reaction medium by proton addition has the same effect. 

The cyclization involves a nucleophilic attack of the malonic ester car-banion on the carbonyl carbon atom of the aldehyde, and the substituted malonic ester carbanion attacks the electron-deficient carbon atom bearing the iodine atom, or in the reverse order, to give 119. The hydroxyl group generated in the first step of the reaction attacks the carbon atom, giving the pyranose product. 

This reaction may be visualized as proceeding by nucleophilic attack of tervalent phosphorus at the carbonyl group to give an intermediate such as (15). The structure of (16) was deduced from the fact that it was hydrolysed to the known phosphine oxide (17). Methylenephosphoranes (phosphorus ylides) may also be converted into monophosphazenes by reaction with benzonitrile ... 

The relatively basic (hydroxyalkyl)phosphines act toward LMCs as reductants and, compatible with this, also as strong nucleophiles. We have studied such reactions in aqueous and D2O solutions by P-, H-, and C-NMR spectroscopies (including 2D correlation methods), product isolation and, when possible, X-ray analysis of isolated compounds or their derivatives. Thus, aromatic aldehyde moieties present in lignin (e.g., 3) are reduced to the corresponding alcohols (see 4) with co-production of the phosphine oxide in D2O, -CH(D)OD is formed selectively (36). The mechanism proceeds via a phosphonium species formed by initial nucleophilic attack of the P-atom at the carbonyl C-atom, i.e., via ArCH(OH)P%, where Ar is the aromatic residue and R is the hydroxyalkyl substituent (36). When the aldehyde contains a 4-OH substituent, the alcohol product... 

The spiroindolinobenzopyran 2 is a classical example of spiropyran and is easily prepared by the condensation of l,3,3-trimethyl-2-methyleneindo-line (Fischer s base) and salicylaldehyde in anhydrous ethanol or benzene (Scheme 2).ia The nucleophilic attack of Fischer s base on the carbonyl group (like an enamine) gives an aldol product, which undergoes ring closure followed by dehydration. This condensation is reversible therefore, an exchange of the salicylaldehyde component of spiropyran with a different salicylaldehyde is possible. For example, when a solution of spiropyran 2 (Scheme 2) was refluxed with 3,5-dinitro-substituted salicylaldehyde, the open form of 6,8-dinitro-BIPS was obtained.2... 

A two-step mechanism must be assumed for this very valuable reaction of carboxylic acids with CDI.[9] Obviously the first step is a nucleophilic attack of the carboxylic acid or —depending on the acidity —the carboxylate ion on the carbonyl group of CDI, leading after elimination of imidazole to a mixed anhydride of imidazole-iV-carboxylic acid and the attacking carboxylic acid. This intermediate must have a very short life-time since it has not been detected down to — 50 °C. Rapid cleavage of CO2 from this mixed anhydride involves exclusively the carbonyl group linked to the imidazole unit If... 

Studies of the base-hydrolysis mechanism for hydrolysis of technetium complexes have further been expanded to an octahedral tris(acetylacetonato)techne-tium(III) [30], Although a large number of studies dealing with base hydrolysis of octahedral metal(III) complexes have been published [31], the mechanism of the tris(acetylacetonato)metal complex is still unclear. The second-order base hydrolysis of the cationic complex tris(acetylacetonato)silicon(IV) takes place by nucleophilic attack of hydroxide ion at carbonyl groups, followed by acetylacetone liberation, and finally silicon dioxide production [32], The kinetic runs were followed spectrophotometrically by the disappearance of the absorbance at 505 nm for Tc(acac)3. The rate law has the following equation ... 

We would expect the C=0 linkage, by analogy with C=C (p. 178), to undergo addition reactions but whereas polar attack on the latter is normally initiated only by electrophiles, attack on the former— because of its bipolar nature—could be initiated either by electrophilic attack of X or X on oxygen or by nucleophilic attack of Y or Yt on carbon (radical-induced addition reactions of carbonyl compounds are rare). In practice, initial electrophilic attack on oxygen is of little significance except where the electrophile is an acid (or a Lewis acid), when rapid, reversible protonation may be a prelude to slow, rate-limiting attack by a nucleophile on carbon, to complete the addition, i.e. the addition is then acid-catalysed. 

On the basis of these experimental results, a possible mechanism has been proposed for the reaction of 1-215 with Sml2 (Scheme 1.52). After formation of the syn-complex A, a rearrangement occurs to give the aldehyde B, which coordinates to the added aldehyde RCHO to afford complex C. Subsequent samarium-catalyzed nucleophilic attack of the secondary alcohol to the carbonyl of RCHO generates a hemiacetal, D. There follows an irreversible intramolecular 1,5-hydride transfer via... 

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