Nucleophilic substitution amine/alcohol addition

Notably, proline was unique for this transformation, as all the other chiral secondary amines tested failed to promote the reaction. Another well-estabhshed organo-catalyst (4), invented by MacMillan [27], and unable to form secondary interactions with electrophiles like proUne, was used in the addition of aldehydes to indolyl and other carbocations derived from alcohols. The formation of stable carbenium ions from alcohols and their compatibility with water, generated by the organocatalytic cycle (formation of enamines from the corresponding carbonyl derivatives), was estabUshed by Cozzi in a SnI nucleophilic substitution of alcohols in the presence of water [28]. The enamine formed in situ by the MacMUlan catalyst approaches the carbocation from the less hindered side and the hindrance of the incipient carboca-tion controls the stereoselectivity of the reaction (Scheme 26.2) [29]. 

A typical second step after the insertion of CO into aryl or alkenyl-Pd(II) compounds is the addition to alkenes [148]. However, allenes can also be used (as shown in the following examples) where a it-allyl-r 3-Pd-complex is formed as an intermediate which undergoes a nucleophilic substitution. Thus, Alper and coworkers [148], as well as Grigg and coworkers [149], described a Pd-catalyzed transformation of o-iodophenols and o-iodoanilines with allenes in the presence of CO. Reaction of 6/1-310 or 6/1-311 with 6/1-312 in the presence of Pd° under a CO atmosphere (1 atm) led to the chromanones 6/1-314 and quinolones 6/1-315, respectively, via the Jt-allyl-r 3-Pd-complex 6/1-313 (Scheme 6/1.82). The enones obtained can be transformed by a Michael addition with amines, followed by reduction to give y-amino alcohols. Quinolones and chromanones are of interest due to their pronounced biological activity as antibacterials [150], antifungals [151] and neurotrophic factors [152]. 

The first evidence that an elimination-addition mechanism could be important in nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkanesulfonyl derivatives was provided by the observation (Truce et al., 1964 Truce and Campbell, 1966 King and Durst, 1964, 1965) that when alkanesulfonyl chlorides RCH2S02C1 were treated in the presence of an alcohol R OD with a tertiary amine (usually Et3N) the product was a sulfonate ester RCHDS020R with exactly one atom of deuterium on the carbon alpha to the sulfonyl group. Had the ester been formed by a base-catalysed direct substitution reaction of R OD with the sulfonyl chloride there would have been no deuterium at the er-position. Had the deuterium been incorporated by a separate exchange reaction, either of the sulfonyl chloride before its reaction to form the ester, or of the ester subsequent to its formation, then the amount of deuterium incorporated would not have been uniformly one atom of D per molecule. The observed results are only consistent with the elimination-addition mechanism involving a sulfene intermediate shown in (201). Subsequent kinetic studies... 

Substituted allyl alcohols can be prepared on insoluble supports under mild conditions using the Baylis-Hillman reaction (Figure 7.2). In this reaction, an acrylate is treated with a nucleophilic tertiary amine (typically DABCO) or a phosphine in the presence of an aldehyde. Reversible Michael addition of the amine to the acrylate leads to an ester enolate, which then reacts with the aldehyde. The resulting allyl alcohols are valuable intermediates for the preparation of substituted carboxylic acids [43,44],... 

Several heteroatom nucleophiles, for example, amines, alcohols, thiols, carboxylates, and dialkylphosphines, undergo Michael addition reactions with alkene- and alkyne-substituted carbene complexes. Reaction of alkyne-substituted chromium carbenes with urea affords products derived from Michael... 

The use of sulfur dioxide as the solvent and low temperatures allows efficient and clean formation of the a-chloro nitroso compound4 6. The primary adducts, containing nitroso, nitro, or oxime functions, can be reduced to chlorine-free amines or /i-chloro amines 8. Additionally, chlorine readily undergoes substitution by nucleophiles (hydrides, alcohols, amines, etc.), such that halogen-free and /i-functionalized nitroso and nitro compounds, which can further be reduced to amines, can be prepared by this route. Recently, the conversion of nitroso compounds (RNO) to amines (RNHEt) using a triethylborane/borane mixture has been described9 10, although not applied specifically to /i-chloro nitroso compounds. 

Nucleophilic substitution and addition reactions of olefins are possible with Pd2 salts. A typical example is the formation of acetaldehyde by the reaction of ethylene with water (Wacker reaction). As nucleophiles, water, alcohols, phenols, carboxylic acids, amines, enamines, carbanions derived from active methylene compounds, and carbon monoxide react with olefins with stoichiometric consumption of Pd2 salts. 

The mechanism of the amines or alcohols arylation catalyzed by nickel(II) complexes has not been elucidated until now (refs. 7, 17), even though the arylation of nucleophiles catalyzed by nickel(0) complexes is better understood. In this last case it is generally admitted that the reaction proceeds by an oxidative addition step, followed by a nucleophilic substitution, and then a reductive elimination of the arylation product (Scheme 4). According to the work of Kochi (ref. 18), the oxidative addition of the haloarene on a nickel(O) complex takes place through a monoelectronic transfer from the metal to the aryl halide with simultaneous formation of a nickel(I) intermediate, the actual catalyst of the reaction (ref. 6). 

In addition, 3-chloro and 3-bromo groups in 1,2,4-triazine 2-oxides and benzo-l,2,4-triazine 1-oxides are substituted easily on treatment with amines, alcohols, phenols, sodium azide, and other nucleophiles <1998HOU(E9c)582, 1998RCR633, 1998RJ0297, 2002AHC(82)261, 2003BP1807>. 

The latter is known as the elimination-addition mechanism of the nucleophilic aromatic substitution. The high reactivity of aryllithiums precludes the use of several types of functional groups such as aldehydes, ketones, esters, amides, amines, alcohols, phenols, nitro-compounds, carboxylic acids etc. However, properly protected alcohols, phenols or amines can effect the reaction. Various ether protecting groups, e.g. Tr, Me, /-Pr, Bn, 4-MeOBn, are employed in the former instances, whereas A, V-dibenzyl group is convenient for the amine protection. 

The earlier domino reactions initiated by nucleophihc substitution, mostly involve substitution on an alkyl halide or its variants by carbon- or hetero-nucleophiles (amines, alcohols, phenols, thiols, etc.) and subsequent Michael addition of regenerated carbon or hetero-nucleophiles on an enone functionahty present in the alkyl halide precursor, thus resulting in the formation of cychc, bicychc, and sometimes polycyclic compounds [2]. 

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