Nucleophilic attack reduction reactions

Catalytic reactions can be analyzed into a cyclic series of stoichiometric steps, for each of which there are many well-understood model systems. The most frequently encountered steps are ligand substitution oxidative addition ligand migration (or migratory insertion) nucleophilic attack reductive elimination and p-and a-elimination. Catalytic cycles are defined by a sequence of several such reactions at the metal centre the organometallic steps are often preceeded or followed by purely organic reactions. 

Activation of imines A recent synthesis of (+ )-biotin (6) is based on activation of the imine group of a 3-thiazoline (1) by BF, etherate to nucleophilic attack. Thus reaction of 1, substituted by the biotin side chain, with the ester enolate 2 in the presence of 1 equiv. of the Lewis acid results in the thiazolidine 3 as the major product. The stereochemistry at the future C7-center is determined to some extent by the ester group of 2. Selective reduction of the Chester group furnishes the alcohol 4. Reaction of 4 with... 

Electrophilic attack Nucleophilic attack Free radical attack Photochemical reactions Oxidative and reductive reactions... 

Furazano[3,4-d]pyrimidine, 7-amino-synthesis, 6, 729 UV spectra, 6, 713 Furazanopyrimidines amine synthesis from, 5, 591 synthesis, 6, 418 Furazano[3,4-d]pyrimidines nucleophilic attack, 6, 719 nucleophilic substitution, 6, 713 reduction, 6, 402 7-substituted reactions, 6, 722 Furazano[3,4-a]quinolizines synthesis, 6, 730... 

It was pointed out earlier that the low nucleophilicity of fluoride ion and its low concentration in HF solutions can create circumstances not commonly observed with the other halogen acids. Under such conditions rearrangement reactions either of a concerted nature or via a true carbonium ion may compete with nucleophilic attack by fluoride ion. To favor the latter the addition of oxygen bases, e.g., tetrahydrofuran, to the medium in the proper concentration can provide the required increase in fluoride ion concentration without harmful reduction in the acidity of the medium. 

The reaction processes shown in Scheme 8 not only accomplish the construction of an oxepane system but also furnish a valuable keto function. The realization that this function could, in an appropriate setting, be used to achieve the annulation of the second oxepane ring led to the development of a new strategy for the synthesis of cyclic ethers the reductive cyclization of hydroxy ketones (see Schemes 9 and 10).23 The development of this strategy was inspired by the elegant work of Olah 24 the scenario depicted in Scheme 9 captures its key features. It was anticipated that activation of the Lewis-basic keto function in 43 with a Lewis acid, perhaps trimethylsilyl triflate, would induce nucleophilic attack by the proximal hydroxyl group to give an intermediate of the type 44. 

O Brien et al. provided the first examples of olefin formation by reductive alkylation of aziridines [97]. Treatment of aziridine 267 with s-BuLi gave olefin 270 in 76% yield (Scheme 5.68). For the formation of olefin 270 they suggest a reaction pathway that proceeds in a manner analogous to that proposed for epoxides [36] namely, nucleophilic attack of s-BuLi on lithiated aziridine 268 to form dilithiated species 269, which eliminates Li2NTs (TsNH2 was observed as a product of this reaction) to yield olefin 270. 

It is intriguing to note that this reaction scheme for the reduction of a sulphone to a sulphide leads to the same reaction stoichiometry as proposed originally by Bordwell in 1951. Which of the three reaction pathways predominates will depend on the relative activation barriers for each process in any given molecule. All are known. Process (1) is preferred in somewhat strained cyclic sulphones (equations 22 and 24), process (2) occurs in the strained naphtho[l, 8-hc]thiete 1,1-dioxide, 2, cleavage of which leads to a reasonably stabilized aryl carbanion (equation 29) and process (3) occurs in unstrained sulphones, as outlined in equations (26) to (28). Examples of other nucleophiles attacking strained sulphones are in fact known. For instance, the very strained sulphone, 2, is cleaved by hydride from LAH, by methyllithium in ether at 20°, by sodium hydroxide in refluxing aqueous dioxane, and by lithium anilide in ether/THF at room temperature. In each case, the product resulted from a nucleophilic attack at the sulphonyl sulphur atom. Other examples of this process include the attack of hydroxide ion on highly strained thiirene S, S-dioxides , and an attack on norbornadienyl sulphone by methyllithium in ice-cold THF . ... 

Since activation of the N-H bond of PhNHj by Ru3(CO)i2 has been reported to take place under similar conditions [306], it has been proposed that the reaction mechanism involves (i) generation of an anUido ruthenium hydride, (ii) coordination of the alkyne, (iii) intramolecular nucleophilic attack of the nitrogen lone pair on the coordinated triple bond, and (iv) reductive ehmination of the enamine with regeneration of the active Ru(0) center [305]. 

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... 

In the reduction of acids there is a tendency for the lithium salt, RCO20Li to separate from the ethereal solution, and thus bring reduction to a halt this can be avoided by first converting the acid to a simple, e.g. Me or Et, ester. In the reduction of the latter, the initial nucleophilic attack by AIH4 results in an addition/elimination reaction—OR is a good leaving group in (40)—followed by normal attack, as above, on the resultant carbonyl compound (41) to yield the primary alcohol (42) ... 

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