Olefinic alcohols acetylenic esters

A. Condensation of Alcohols with Substituted Olefins and Acetylenes to Give Ortho Esters... 

When olefins are treated with N204 in an ether, ester, or alkane as solvent, vtc-dinitro compounds and 3-nitro alkyl nitrites are produced.803 The reaction can be successfully performed with all kinds of olefins and acetylenes. Generally, both products are produced. The dinitro compound is usually stable, but the ester is quite reactive. Upon addition of water or alcohol it is hydrolyzed to a 3-nitro alcohol. If oxygen is added, it is oxidized to a 3-nitro alkyl nitrate or an a-nitro aldehyde or ketone. 

Hydrides from carboxylic acids Carboxylic acids from hydrides Carboxylic acids from hydrides Esters from hydrides Hydrides from aldehydes Hydrides from aldehydes Alkyls from aldehydes Ketones from methylenes Ketones from ketones Alkyls from olefins Acetylenes from halides also acetylenes from acetylenes Esters from alcohols also esters from carboxylic acids Alkyls from olefins Alkyls from olefins... 

The methods described thus far represent only a small subset of the available methodologies for the formation of C-furanosides and C-pyranosides. Other methods shown to be useful include cyclizations of halo olefins and ene-ynes. As shown in Scheme 7.6.1, Lee, et al.,29 prepared halo olefins from suitable alcohols and acetylenic esters. Subsequent application of free radical conditions thus effected cyclizations. All reactions proceeded in yields exceeding 95%. Furthermore, where the formation of diastereomers was an issue, selective cis formation was observed. Thus the ease of preparation of the vinyl ether substrates required for these cyclization reactions makes this methodology an extremely useful addition to the technology surrounding the preparation of C-glycosides. 

This was the appearance of publications by W. Reppe and co-workers in followed by Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik patents/ They showed that various triphenylphosphine complexes of nickel, especially [Ni(CO)2(PPh5)2](Ph = QHs), were more effective than other nickel complex catalysts for the polymerization of olefinic and acetylenic substances and that others, especially [NiBr2(PPh3)2], catalyzed the formation of acrylic acid esters from alcohols (ROH), acetylene, and carbon monoxide ... 

Cobalt, nickel, iron, ruthenium, and rhodium carbonyls as well as palladium complexes are catalysts for hydrocarboxylation reactions and therefore reactions of olefins and acetylenes with CO and water, and also other carbonylation reactions. Analogously to hydroformylation reactions, better catalytic properties are shown by metal hydrido carbonyls having strong acidic properties. As in hydroformylation reactions, phosphine-carbonyl complexes of these metals are particularly active. Solvents for such reactions are alcohols, ketones, esters, pyridine, and acidic aqueous solutions. Stoichiometric carbonylation reaction by means of [Ni(CO)4] proceeds at atmospheric pressure at 308-353 K. In the presence of catalytic amounts of nickel carbonyl, this reaction is carried out at 390-490 K and 3 MPa. In the case of carbonylation which utilizes catalytic amounts of cobalt carbonyl, higher temperatures (up to 530 K) and higher pressures (3-90 MPa) are applied. Alkoxylcarbonylation reactions generally proceed under more drastic conditions than corresponding hydrocarboxylation reactions. 

Although the reaction is frequently performed in the presence of small amounts of mineral acids these are not a necessary reaction participant and the water may be replaced by alcohols, mercaptans, ammonia, amines, and organic acids. With acetylenes and alcohols the esters are formed at a distinctly slower rate than the free acids, and temperatures of 120-220° C are required. Nevertheless, pelds of ester with olefins having four to eighteen carbon atoms are reported to be 90%. Various by-products are produced, e.g. carbonic acids, aldehydes, ethers, and other olefins. With ethylene small amounts of polyethylene and some higher carboxylic acids are also formed 14). 

There is a wide variety of reactants in this reaction. Suitable unsaturated starting materials or unsaturated compound-forming components are acetylenes, olefins, alcohols, cyclic and non cyclic ethers, epoxides, acetals, esters, saturated aldehydes, lactones and halides. Water, alcohols, ammonia, amines, mercaptans and carboxylic acids, e. g. are used as nucleophilic compounds with mobile hydrogen atoms. 

Me3SiI, CH2CI2, 25°, 15 min, 85-95% yield.Under these cleavage conditions i,3-dithiolanes, alkyl and trimethylsilyl enol ethers, and enol acetates are stable. 1,3-Dioxolanes give complex mixtures. Alcohols, epoxides, trityl, r-butyl, and benzyl ethers and esters are reactive. Most other ethers and esters, amines, amides, ketones, olefins, acetylenes, and halides are expected to be stable. 

Chromium(II) sulfate is a versatile reagent for the mild reduction of a variety of bonds. Thus aqueous dimethylformamide solutions of this reagent at room temperature couple benzylic halides, reduce aliphatic monohalides to alkanes, convert vicinal dihalides to olefins, convert geminal halides to carben-oids, reduce acetylenes to /raw5-olefins, and reduce a,j3-unsatu-rated esters, acids, and nitriles to the corresponding saturated derivatives. These conditions also reduce aldehydes to alcohols. The reduction of diethyl fumarate described in this preparation illustrates the mildness of the reaction conditions for the reduction of acetylenes and o ,j8-unsaturated esters, acids, and nitriles. 

Metal Hydrides. Metal hydrides generally react readily with acetylenes, often by an insertion mechanism. Cobalt hydrocarbonyl gives complicated mixtures of compounds with acetylenes. The only products which have been identified so far are dicobalt hexacarbonyl acetylene complexes (34). Greenfield reports that, under conditions of the hydroformy lation reaction, acetylenes give only small yields of saturated monoaldehydes (30), probably formed by first hydrogenating the acetylene and then reacting with the olefin. Other workers have identified a variety of products from acetylene, carbon monoxide, and an alcohol with a cobalt catalyst, probably cobalt hydrocarbonyl. The major products observed were succinate esters (74,19) and succinate half ester acetals (19). 

Numerous metal-catalyzed reactions of organic halides with carbon monoxide and olefins, acetylenes, aldehydes, etc., have been carried out (21). Only two of these, however, appear to have been developed into generally useful reactions. One is the reaction of allylic halides with carbon monoxide and acetylene in alcoholic solution with a nickel catalyst (22,23). This reaction produces cis-2,5-hexadienoate esters at atmospheric pressure in good yields ... 

Despite the chemical diversity of the several hundred structures representing herbicidal activity, most reactions of herbicides fall within only a limited number of mechanistic types oxidation, reduction, nucleophilic displacements (such as hydrolysis), eliminations, and additions. "Herbicides", after all, are more-or-less ordinary chemicals, and their principal transformations in the environment are fundamentally no different from those in laboratory glassware. Figure 2 illustrates three typical examples which have received their share of classical laboratory study—the alkaline hydrolysis of a carboxylic ester (in this case, an ester of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, IX), the cycloaddition of an alcohol to an olefin (as in the acetylene, VI), and the 3-elimination of a dithiocarbamate which provides the usual synthetic route to an isothiocyanate (conversion of an N.N-dimethylcarbamic acid salt, XI, to methyl isothiocyanate). Allow the starting materials herbicidal action (which they have), give them names such as "2,4-D ester" or "pronamide" or "Vapam", and let soil form the walls of an outdoor reaction kettle the reactions and products remain the same. 

Examples of the protection of acetylenes, carboxylic acids, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, amides, amines, esters, ketones, and olefins are also indexed... 

Classification and Organization of Reactions Forming Difunctional Compounds. This chapter considers all possible difunctional compounds formed from the groups acetylene, carboxylic acid, alcohol, thiol, aldehyde, amide, amine, ester, ether, epoxide, thioether, halide, ketone, nitrile, and olefin. Reactions that form difunctional compounds are classified into sections on the basis of the two functional groups of the product. The relative positions... 

The hydroboration of acetylenes (3) with diisopinocampheylborane (IpC)2BH in THF led after refunctionalisation and transesterification to the olefins (4a, b, c) isolated in good yields. Monooxidation with mCpBA led to the sulfoxide (4d) whereas the sulfone (4e) was obtained with two equivalents of mCpBA. The same sulfone (4e) could also be obtained in an excellent overall yield by radical addition of phenylsulfonyl iodide to the pinacol ester of vinylboronic acid followed by a dehydroiodination in the presence of Et2N (87 % overall yield). The carboxylic ester (4a) could be transformed into the corresponding carboxylic acid (4f) (79 % yield) 11 which led to the acid chloride (4g) by treatment with freshly distilled thionyl chloride at 0°C (91 % yield), p-keto vinylboronates are easily accessible by oxidation of the corresponding protected allylic alcohol according to the following scheme ... 

A similar approach had been reported earlier by Bestmann and coworkers" in their synthesis of hexadeuteriated leukotriene A4 methyl ester. C-alkylation of the tetrahy-dropyranyl ether of 3-butyn-l-ol with 2,2,3,3-tetradeuterio-l-iodopentane, prepared in 4 steps from propargyl alcohol, and subsequent protective group removal afforded the tetradeuteriated acetylenic alcohol 46 (equation 30). Semideuteriation of the alkynol and further transformation by known methods produced the labeled key reagent 3,4,6,6,7,7-hexadeuterio-(Z)-(3-nonen-l-yl)triphenylphosphonium iodide (47). Wittig olefination of epoxy dienal 45 with the labeled ylide generated from 47 completed the synthesis of... 

Carboxylic Acids and Esters. The literature on German methods for the preparation of unsaturated acids and their esters via acetylene, carbon monoxide, and water or alcohol, as well as the application of this reaction to olefins, carbon monoxide, and water or alcohol to give saturated acids and esters, is to be found in references (27, 44, 4, 3,94)- Other references on these methods are Blair-McGuffie (7) and Natta... 

The steric course of additions of amines and alcohols to acetylene dicarboxylic ester was studied under various conditions. Secondary amines gave stereospecifically cis addition product. Nitrosyl formate can be generated in situ in the presence of an olefin to yield the nitrosoformate which on hydrolysis affords the hydroxynitroso compound in high yield. Transoximination gave the a-hydroxy ketone. Phosphorous tribromide can be added to olefins to yield 1 1 adducts with uv irradiation, peroxides, or heat as initiators ... 

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