Acetals from orthoesters

Cyclic orthoesters derived from gem-diols offer a further route to alkenes. As part of a three-step conversion, they may be ring opened with hydrobromic acid to give O-acyl bromodeoxy compounds that undergo reductive elimination with copper-zinc. In this way, unsaturated nucleosides have been made by way of mixed 2y3,-bromo-2y3,-deoxy-3,/2, carboxyl-ates.174 A more direct route to alkenes from cyclic orthoesters involves heating in acetic anhydride together with zirconium oxide.175... 

One can also acetalize carbonyl compounds completely without using the alcohol in excess. This is the case when one prepares dimethyl or diethyl acetals from carbonyl compounds with the help of the ortho formic acid esters trimethyl ortho formate HC(OCH3)3 or triethyl ortho formate HC(OC2H5)3, respectively. In order to understand these reactions, one must first clearly understand the mechanism for the hydrolysis of an orthoester to a normal ester (Figure 9.13). ft corresponds nearly step by step to the mechanism of hydrolysis of 0,0-acetals, which was detailed in Figure 9.12. The fact that the individual steps are analogous becomes very clear (see Figure 9.13) when one takes successive looks at... 

All the foregoing syntheses of 0,0,0-orthoesters required at least two steps because 0,0,0-orthoesters cannot usually be prepared directly from esters by reaction with alcohols under add conditions analogous to the preparation of acetals from aldehydes and ketones. There are some exceptions.237 -239 For example. reaction of the racemic mixture of cis- and fraftf-lactones in Scheme 2.115 with (/ ,/ )-butane-2,3-diol in refluxing benzene afforded a mixture of four diastereoisomeric orthoesters (99%) in the ratio 6 6 1 1 that could be sepa-... 

Pinner synthesis of orthoesters starting from alkoxymethyleneiminium salts (410 equation 192) (imino ester hydrohalides) is a standard procedure, which has been reviewed several times.For some more recent results see ref. 7. Closely related to this reaction is the alcoholysis of IV-alkyl- and NJ -di-alkyl-alkoxymethyleneiminium salts or acid amide-acid halide adducts. Orthoesters are formed via N//-dialkylalkoxymethyleneiminium salts when amide acetals (411 Scheme 74) are alcoholyzed in the presence of acetic acid. - ... 

Cyclic carbonates have been reviewed, and so will not be included here. Acyclic acetals, cyclic phosphates, sulfites, boronates, and orthoesters, together with the acetals from trichloroacetaldehyde, are omitted. 

The synthesis of block copolymers by sequential polymerization requires a living polymer prepared from the less nucleophilic monomer (first block) and the addition of a more nucleophilic monomer to the active species located on this first block. The general order of nucleophilicities of heterocyclic monomers is as follows Siloxanes orthoesters < acetals < ethers < sulfides < oxazolines < amines. Depending on substitution and ring strain some changes may occur in these positions. 

An efficient and stereoselective synthesis of 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-ot-D-glucopyranose 1,2-exo-alkyl ortho-acetates (67) has been achieved using DMF dialkyl acetals (68) and tetrabutyl ammonium bromide on acetobromoglucose. The DMF acetal from 1,2 3,4-di-0-isopropylidene bC-D-galactopyranose (69) was also prepared and used to synthesize the mixed sugar orthoester (70). 

Achieving selective acetylation by standard methods tends to be unreliable and reagent specific (as exemplified in Figure 2.34) [49], however, reliable selectivity can be achieved via the prior preparation of stannylene acetal intermediates (see section 2.3.2, Allyl ethers) or, complementarily, via orthoesters derived from 1,2-cis-dio pairings (Figure 2.35) [50]. 

The selective acylation of myo-inositol orthoformate 108 at the equatorial site with vinyl acetate and a lipoprotein lipase has been reported as a method for preparing enantiomerically pure myo-inositol derivatives. " Orthoesters derived from jcv//o-inositol have been transformed into enterobactin (a siderophore) analogues with hydrophilic properties 109(R= H, X= Ph) or lipophilic properties 109 (R= C,oHj X= Ph). " ... 

The most commonly used protected derivatives of aldehydes and ketones are 1,3-dioxolanes and 1,3-oxathiolanes. They are obtained from the carbonyl compounds and 1,2-ethanediol or 2-mercaptoethanol, respectively, in aprotic solvents and in the presence of catalysts, e.g. BF, (L.F. Fieser, 1954 G.E. Wilson, Jr., 1968), and water scavengers, e.g. orthoesters (P. Doyle. 1965). Acid-catalyzed exchange dioxolanation with dioxolanes of low boiling ketones, e.g. acetone, which are distilled during the reaction, can also be applied (H. J. Dauben, Jr., 1954). Selective monoketalization of diketones is often used with good success (C. Mercier, 1973). Even from diketones with two keto groups of very similar reactivity monoketals may be obtained by repeated acid-catalyzed equilibration (W.S. Johnson, 1962 A.G. Hortmann, 1969). Most aldehydes are easily converted into acetals. The ketalization of ketones is more difficult for sterical reasons and often requires long reaction times at elevated temperatures. a, -Unsaturated ketones react more slowly than saturated ketones. 2-Mercaptoethanol is more reactive than 1,2-ethanediol (J. Romo, 1951 C. Djerassi, 1952 G.E. Wilson, Jr., 1968). 

Orthoesters. The value of cycHc orthoesters as intermediates for selective acylation of carbohydrates has been demonstrated (73). Treatment of sucrose with trimethylorthoacetate and DMF in the presence of toluene-/)-sulfonic acid followed by acid hydrolysis gave the 6-0-acetylsucrose as the major and the 4-0-acetylsucrose [63648-80-6] as the minor component. The latter compound underwent acetyl migration from C-4 to C-6 when treated with an organic base, such as / fZ-butylamine, in DMF to give sucrose 6-acetate in >90% yield (74). When the kinetic reagent 2,2-dimethoxyethene was used,... 

The fact that reaction can be made to go with (25), but not with the simple R OH, is due to the ASe (c/ p. 36) value for the former being more favourable than that for the latter, which involves a decrease in the number of molecules on going from starting material to product. Both aldehydes and ketones that are otherwise difficult to convert into acetals may often be transformed by use of orthoesters, e.g. HC(OEt)3, triethoxymethane ( ethyl orthoformate ), with NH Cl as catalyst. 

Hydroformylation of unsaturated amines offer a convenient synthetic access to cyclic AT.O-hemiacetals. If performed in the presence of alcohols or orthoesters AT,O-acetals are formed. With additional N-nucleophiles N,N-acetals are obtained. These compounds are synthetically attractive building blocks and were therefore used as a key step in the synthesis of various natural products [27,35]. Thus the synthesis of (+)-prosopinine starting from enantiopure (T)-scrinc leads to a cyclic N,O-acetal functionality with the required functionality for the attachment of the side chain (Scheme 6) [36]. 

Figure 2. Synthesis of orthoesters from ketene acetals and diols.

The different structures and seven-membered-r1ng orthoesters the C-n.m.r. chemical shift of atom as a probe for the assignment the now we 1 1 -e s t aii 1 i shed criteria references cited therein). Table T range- , for ethyl i dene acetals ( 13), (67), and o r t h OG n t f. r. As ex pec terl observed in goi rig from acetals to p.p.m. from isopropv1idene acetal derivatives). 

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