Osmium tetroxide, reaction with

Osmium tetroxide, reaction with alkenes, 235-236 toxicity of, 235 Oxalic add, structure of, 753 Oxaloacetic acid, structure of, 753 Oxetane, reaction with Grignard reagents, 680 Oxidation, 233, 348 alcohols, 623-626 aldehydes, 700-701 aldoses, 992-994 alkenes, 233-236 biological, 625-626 phenols, 631 sulfides, 670 thiols, 668... 

Unfortunately, a serious problem with the osmium tetroxide reaction is that Os04 is both very expensive and very toxic. As a result, the reaction is usually carried out using only a small, catalytic amount of OsO, in the presence of a stoichiometric amount of a safe and inexpensive co-oxidant such as A -methylmorpholine N-oxide, abbreviated NMO. The initially formed osmate intermediate reacts rapidly with NMO to yield the product diol plus... 

Reaction with fluoride ion forms the adduct oxofluoro ion, [0s04F2]2. For example, osmium tetroxide reacts with sodium fluoride to form an oxofluoro salt of sodium ... 

Osmium tetroxide reacts with phenyl Grignard reagent to produce a reactive intermediate, serving as a synthetic route to prepare polyphenyl osmium complexes. For example, reaction with o-tolyl magnesium bromide, o-tolMgBr, forms a purple, tetracoordinated osmium ort/io-tolyl complex, Os(o-tol)4, which reacts with trimethylphosphine or carbon monoxide to yield osmium n-aryl complexes. 

In the currently preferred variant of this reaction, one introduces a mixture of dipotassium osmate dihydrate (K20s04 2Hd)) as a nonvolatile source of osmium (rather than osmium tetroxide), along with potassium hexaeyannferrate(III) (Ki[Fe(CN)6J) as cooxidizing... 

Alternatively and more conveniently this ds-hydroxylation process can be effected using only catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide together with hydrogen peroxide, which cleaves the first formed osmate ester to the diol and regenerates the osmium tetroxide. The reaction is carried out in t-butyl alcohol and is illustrated by the conversion of cyclohexene into ds-cyclohexane-l,2-diol (Expt 5.47). 

Two very important synthetic reactions cycloaddition of alkenes with osmium tetroxide and with ozone... 

In the absence of tertiary amines, osmium tetroxide reacts with alkenes via 1,3-dipolar addition to generate a monomeric Os(VI) ester such as 252,352 where L is a ligand that can be a solvent molecule or an added substrate such as pyridine. Sharpless et al. proposed that hydroxylation proceeds by an allowed [2-1-2]- cycloaddition reaction, producing an Os(VII) intermediate, followed by reductive insertion of the Os—C bond into an Os=0 bond.353 This complex can be decomposed in aqueous or alcoholic solution, but the hydrolysis is... 

Reacting ketone 37 with 0.01 M osmium tetroxide complex with diamine 45 in THF (1.1 eq) at -110 °C, followed by reductive hydrolysis of the resulting osmate, provided diol 38 in 95% yield and high (82-85%) enantiomeric excess (Scheme 9), albeit lower than that achieved with the same substrate using a-AD-mix [55] (98% ee [51,52]). Chromatography of the reaction mixture allowed the recovery of 95% diamine 45. Reduction of the benzyhc hydroxyl group and the carbonyl groups in 38, followed by oxidation of 46, yielded (R)-10 in 65% overall yield. Hydroxyketone (R)-IO was transformed by known procedures into 7-deoxyidarubicinone (47) (Scheme 9). 

Chemical fixation or hardening. Bulk samples are treated with chemical agents, mostly with chlorosulfonic acid and uranyl acetate or osmium tetroxide or with ruthenium oxide [7]. Several reactions cause a fixation or a hardening of the material. For the most part, these reactions are highly selective, therefore, a selective staining of structural details takes place as a positive secondary effect (cf. Figure 5). 

Dilute potassium permanganate and osmium tetroxide react with alkenes to give a manganate ester or an osmate ester, respectively. Both of these products are decomposed under the reaction conditions to give a vicinal (l,2)-cis-diol. 

Hydroboration of alkynes leads to an enol after treatment with NaOH/HgOg, and tautomerization gives an aldehyde from terminal alkynes, or a ketone from internal alkynes 44, 78, 83. Dilute potassium permanganate and osmium tetroxide react with alkenes to give a manganate ester or an osmate ester, respectively. Both of these products are decomposed under the reaction conditions to give a vicinal (l,2)-cis-diol 49, 50, 83, 96. 

Osmium tetroxide reacts with the carbon-carbon double bonds in unsaturated rubber phases enhancing the contrast in TEM by the increased electron scattering of the heavy metal in the rubber compared to the unstained matrix. The reaction is very important as it both fixes and stains the polymer. This fixation, as it is termed in biology, is a chemical crosslinking, or bridging, of the rubber which causes hardening and increased density. Staining is also known to take place by selective absorption in both semicrystalline and... 

Another method for the hydroxylation of the etliylenic linkage consists in treatment of the alkene with osmium tetroxide in an inert solvent (ether or dioxan) at room temperature for several days an osmic ester is formed which either precipitates from the reaction mixture or may be isolated by evaporation of the solvent. Hydrolysis of the osmic ester in a reducing medium (in the presence of alkaline formaldehyde or of aqueous-alcoholic sodium sulphite) gives the 1 2-glycol and osmium. The glycol has the cis structure it is probably derived from the cyclic osmic ester ... 

Chemical ingenuity in using the properties of the elements and their compounds has allowed analyses to be carried out by processes analogous to the generation of hydrides. Osmium tetroxide is very volatile and can be formed easily by oxidation of osmium compounds. Some metals form volatile acetylacetonates (acac), such as iron, zinc, cobalt, chromium, and manganese (Figure 15.4). Iodides can be oxidized easily to iodine (another volatile element in itself), and carbonates or bicarbonates can be examined as COj after reaction with acid. 

Oxidation. Maleic and fumaric acids are oxidized in aqueous solution by ozone [10028-15-6] (qv) (85). Products of the reaction include glyoxyhc acid [298-12-4], oxalic acid [144-62-7], and formic acid [64-18-6], Catalytic oxidation of aqueous maleic acid occurs with hydrogen peroxide [7722-84-1] in the presence of sodium tungstate(VI) [13472-45-2] (86) and sodium molybdate(VI) [7631-95-0] (87). Both catalyst systems avoid formation of tartaric acid [133-37-9] and produce i j -epoxysuccinic acid [16533-72-5] at pH values above 5. The reaction of maleic anhydride and hydrogen peroxide in an inert solvent (methylene chloride [75-09-2]) gives permaleic acid [4565-24-6], HOOC—CH=CH—CO H (88) which is useful in Baeyer-ViUiger reactions. Both maleate and fumarate [142-42-7] are hydroxylated to tartaric acid using an osmium tetroxide [20816-12-0]/io 2LX.e [15454-31 -6] catalyst system (89). 

The residue, which contains Ir, Ru, and Os, is fused with sodium peroxide at 500°C, forming soluble sodium mthenate and sodium osmate. Reaction of these salts with chlorine produces volatile tetroxides, which are separated from the reaction medium by distillation and absorbed into hydrochloric acid. The osmium can then be separated from the mthenium by boiling the chloride solution with nitric acid. Osmium forms volatile osmium tetroxide mthenium remains in solution. Ruthenium and osmium can thus be separately purified and reduced to give the metals. 

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