Organic chemistry elimination reaction

This is reminiscent of the really quite ancient organic chemistry elimination reaction of an alkyl halide using a strong base (i.e., some alkali metal hydroxide) but now employing the metal half of the latter reagent. 

The migration reaction diminishes the total electron count of the complex by two, and creates a vacant site at the metal P-elimination does the opposite. P-Elimination requires a vacant site at the metal centre, and the electron count of the complex increases by two electrons during the process. The reaction resembles the P-elimination reaction occurring in many organic processes, but the difference lies in the intramolecular nature of the present process, as the eliminated alkene may be retained in the complex. In organic chemistry the reaction may well be a two-step process, e.g. proton elimination with a base followed by the leaving of the anion. In transition metal chemistry, however, it is the availability of d orbitals that greatly facilitates a concerted cis P-elimination. 

Other Syntheses. Acryhc acid and other unsaturated compounds can also be made by a number of classical elimination reactions. Acrylates have been obtained from the thermal dehydration of hydracryhc acid (3-hydroxypropanoic acid [503-66-2]) (84), from the dehydrohalogenation of 3-halopropionic acid derivatives (85), and from the reduction of dihalopropionates (2). These studies, together with the related characterization and chemical investigations, contributed significantly to the development of commercial organic chemistry. 

Quaternaiy ammonium salts, as we have seen, aie useful in synthetic organic chemistry as phase-transfer catalysts. In another, more direct application, quaternaiy ammonium hydroxides aie used as substrates in an elimination reaction to fonn alkenes. 

The preparation of an alkene 3 from an amine 1 by application of a /3-elimination reaction is an important method in organic chemistry. A common procedure is the Hofmann elimination where the amine is first converted into a quaternary ammonium salt by exhaustive methylation. Another route for the conversion of amines to alkenes is offered by the Cope elimination. 

Alkyl halides are encountered less frequently than their oxygen-containing relatives alcohols and ethers, but some of the kinds of reactions they undergo—nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations—are encountered frequently. Thus, alkyl halide chemistry acts as a relatively simple model for many mechanistically similar but structurally more complex reactions found in biornolecules. We ll begin in this chapter with a look at how to name and prepare alkyl halides, and we ll see several of their reactions. Then in the following chapter, we ll make a detailed study of the substitution and elimination reactions of alkyl halides—two of the most important and well-studied reaction types in organic chemistry. 

Nucleophilic substitution and base-induced elimination are two of the most widely occurring and versatile reaction types in organic chemistry, both in the laboratory and in biological pathways. We ll look at them closely in this chapter to see how they occur, what their characteristics are, and how they can be used. 

Organic halides play a fundamental role in organic chemistry. These compounds are important precursors for carbocations, carbanions, radicals, and carbenes and thus serve as an important platform for organic functional group transformations. Many classical reactions involve the reactions of organic halides. Examples of these reactions include the nucleophilic substitution reactions, elimination reactions, Grignard-type reactions, various transition-metal catalyzed coupling reactions, carbene-related cyclopropanations reactions, and radical cyclization reactions. All these reactions can be carried out in aqueous media. 

The elimination of hydrogen halide from organic halides under basic conditions generates alkenes and is a fundamental reaction in organic chemistry. It is sometimes carried out with a base in aqueous media.14 In contrast, the corresponding Hofmann-type eliminations of quaternary ammonium hydroxides are frequently carried out in aqueous media,15 which will be covered in Chapter 11. 

Nitroalkenes with potential leaving groups in (3-position such as a dialkylamino, an alkylthio, or a phenylsulfonyl group undergo addition-elimination reactions with nucleophiles. The chemistry of nitroenamines has been extensively investigated, and their potential utility in organic synthesis has been well established.2613 116 Severin and coworkers have developed the addition of elimination reactions of nitroenamines with carbon nucleophiles in 1960-1970, as exemplified in Eq. 4.94.117... 

Evidently, this approach is not limited to the formation of nitronates, nitroso acetals or enoximes. The rearrangements of these compounds by elimination reactions, the trapping of intermediates and finally their reactions with various reagents are of equal importance. It should be emphasized that silylation of AN as a process in organic chemistry is characterized by an unrivalled completeness and diversity of transformations. Hence, the silylation can be considered as a separate field of application of AN in organic synthesis. 

In organic chemistry, oxidation is defined as a reaction in which a carhon atom forms more bonds to oxygen, O, or less bonds to hydrogen, H. An oxidation that involves the formation of double C = O bonds may also be classified as an elimination reaction. 

RITCHIE, c. D. Physical Organic Chemistry (Dekker, 1975). SAUNDERS, w. H. and cocKERiLL, A, F, Mechanisms of Elimination Reactions (Wiley-Interscience, 1973). 

Cope, A. C. Foster, T. T. Towle, P. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1949, 71, 3929. Arthur Clay Cope (1909-1966) was born in Dunreith, Indiana. He was a professor at MIT when he discovered the Cope elimination reaction and the Cope rearrangement. The Arthur Cope Award is a prestigious award in organic chemistry from the American Chemical Society. 

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