Of enol acetate

A commonly used alternative to the direct bromination of ketones is the halogenation of enol acetates. This can be carried out under basic conditions if necessary. Sodium acetate, pyridine or an epoxide is usually added to buffer the reaction mixture. The direction of enolization is again dependent upon considerations of thermodynamic and kinetic control therefore, the proportion of enol acetates formed can vary markedly with the reaction conditions. Furthermore, halogenation via enol acetates does not necessarily give the same products as direct halogenation of ketones 3. 23... 

Hydroxyl groups are stable to peracids, but oxidation of an allylic alcohol during an attempted epoxidation reaction has been reported." The di-hydroxyacetone side chain is usually protected during the peracid reaction, either by acetylation or by formation of a bismethylenedioxy derivative. To obtain high yields of epoxides it is essential to avoid high reaction temperatures and a strongly acidic medium. The products of epoxidation of enol acetates are especially sensitive to heat or acid and can easily rearrange to keto acetates. 

Both the Af-fluorosulfonamides and the A -fluoroammonium salts are very effective in the fluormation of enol acetates, enamines, silyl enol ethers, and enolates (Table 2) The reactions are thought to proceed through a mechanism which involves Sf 2 attack on the fluorine atom, but contributions from electron-transfer pathways also exist [65, 68, 73, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82]... 

The low-temperature method is effective not only in the kinetic resolution of alcohols but also in the enantioface-selective asymmetric protonation of enol acetate of 2-methylcyclohexanone (15) giving (f )-2-methylcyclohexanone (16). The reaction in H2O at 30°C gave 28% ee (98% conv.), which was improved up to 77% ee (82% conv.) by the reaction using hpase PS-C 11 in /-Pt20 and ethanol at 0°C. Acceleration of the reaction with lipase PS-C 11 made this reaction possible because this reaction required a long reaction time. The temperature effect is shown in Fig. 14. The regular temperature effect was not observed. The protons may be supplied from H2O, methanol, or ethanol, whose bulkiness is important. 

After succeeding in the asymmetric reductive acylation of ketones, we ventured to see if enol acetates can be used as acyl donors and precursors of ketones at the same time through deacylation and keto-enol tautomerization (Scheme 8). The overall reaction thus corresponds to the asymmetric reduction of enol acetate. For example, 1-phenylvinyl acetate was transformed to (f )-l-phenylethyl acetate by CALB and diruthenium complex 1 in the presence of 2,6-dimethyl-4-heptanol with 89% yield and 98% ee. Molecular hydrogen (1 atm) was almost equally effective for the transformation. A broad range of enol acetates were prepared from ketones and were successfully transformed into their corresponding (7 )-acetates under 1 atm H2 (Table 19). From unsymmetrical aliphatic ketones, enol acetates were obtained as the mixtures of regio- and geometrical isomers. Notably, however, the efficiency of the process was little affected by the isomeric composition of the enol acetates. 

II and 12 indicate, the selenenylation of ketones can also be effected by reactions of enol acetates or enol silyl ethers. 

The initial addition products to alkynes are not always stable. Addition of acetic acid, for example, results in the formation of enol acetates, which are converted to the corresponding ketone under the reaction conditions.151... 

Nitration of ketones or enol ethers provides a useful method for the preparation of a-nitro ketones. Direct nitration of ketones with HN03 suffers from the formation of a variety of oxidative by-products. Alternatively, the conversion of ketones into their enolates, enol acetates, or enol ethers, followed by nitration with conventional nitrating agents such as acyl nitrates, gives a-nitro ketones (see Ref. 79, a 1980 review). The nitration of enol acetates of alkylated cyclohexanones with concentrated nitric acid in acetic anhydride at 15-22 °C leads to mixtures of cis- and rrans-substituted 2-nitrocyclohexanones in 75-92% yield. 4-Monoalkylated acetoxy-cyclohexanes give mainly m-compounds, and 3-monoalkylated ones yield fra/w-compounds (Eq. 2.40).80... 

Because the a-nitroketones are prepared by the acylation of nitroalkanes (see Section 5.2), by the oxidation of (3-nitro alcohols (Section 3.2.3), or by the nitration of enol acetates (Section 2.2.5), denitration of a-nitro ketones provides a useful method for the preparation of ketones (Scheme 7.10). A simple synthesis of cyclopentenone derivatives is shown in Eq. 7.66.76... 

Scheme 28.15 Enantioselective hydrogenation of enol acetates and enol carbamates.

If the violet color of the reaction solution is completely discharged, indicating that all the methyllithium has been consumed, addition of the enol acetate should be stopped at that point. The actual concentration of enolate anion in the solution can be calculated from the amount of enol acetate added. 

K. Naemura, K. Kittaka, M. Murata, H. Ida, K. Hirose, Y. Tobe, Lipase-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alcoholysis of Enol Acetates Optical Resolution of Ketones and Aldehydes Using Lipases in Organic Solvents , Enantiomer 1996, 1, 219-222. 

Scheme 1.40 Access to NK-2 antagonists by the lipase-catalysed resolution of enol acetates...

Substrate Reaction time (h) Conversion (%) ee of enol acetate (%) E... 

Again, the exclusive formation of six-membered rings indicates that the cyclization takes place by the electrophilic attack of a cationic center, generated from the enol ester moiety to the olefinic double bond. The eventually conceivable oxidation of the terminal double bond seems to be negligible under the reaction conditions since the halve-wave oxidation potentials E1/2 of enol acetates are + 1.44 to - - 2.09 V vs. SCE in acetonitrile while those of 1-alkenes are + 2.70 to -1- 2.90 V vs. Ag/0.01 N AgC104 in acetonitrile and the cyclization reactions are carried out at anodic potentials of mainly 1.8 to 2.0 V vs. SCE. 

The catalytic activity of the oxoisoindolium salt 54 and 55 was compared to that of trityl tetrakis[pentafluorophenyl]borate salts in the addition reaction of enol acetate to benzaldehyde and glycosylation reaction (Scheme 59) [151, 152]. 

Electrochemical oxidation of enol acetates in an undivided cell gives monomeric products in parallel with the reactions of simple alkenes [47, 48]. Thus, in the reaction of menthol enol acetate 23, the a-acetoxyketone product arises from nucleophilic attack of acetate ion on the radical-cation while the enone product... 

Pattenden and Teague have prepared tricyclic diol 684 which is epimeric to the naturally occurring A < -capnellene-8p,10a-diol (68S) Their strategy, which is summarized in Scheme LXXI, encompasses two critical cyclization steps. The first is the Lewis acid-catalyzed ring closure of enol acetate 686 and the second involves reductive closure of acetylenic ketone 687. It is of interest that the oxidation of 688 proved to be stereospecific. 

The oxidation of enol acetates of ketones to a-hydroxy (or a-acetoxy) ketones with the BTSP-FeCls system can also be performed . 

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