Oxidations lithium /-butoxide

Cleavage and resolution of epoxides.1 The aluminum reagent obtained by reaction of (R)-l with diethyl- or dimethylaluminum chloride shows slight reactivity in reactions with epoxides, but the ate complex (2), prepared from 1, (C2H5)2A1C1, and lithium butoxide, converts cyclohexene oxide into the chlorohydrin (3) in 40% ee. 

Color reactions Boric acid (hydroxyquinones). Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (pyrroles). Ferric chloride (enols, phenols). Haloform test. Phenylhydrazine (Porter-Silber reaction). Sulfoacetic acid (Liebermann-Burchard test). Tetranitromethane (unsaturation). Condensation catalysts /3-Alanine. Ammonium acetate (formate). Ammonium nitrate. Benzyltrimethylammonium chloride. Boric acid. Boron trilluoride. Calcium hydride. Cesium fluoride. Glycine. Ion-exchange resins. Lead oxide. Lithium amide. Mercuric cyanide. 3-Methyl-l-ethyl-2-phosphoiene-l-oxlde. 3-Methyl-1-phenyi-3-phoipholene-1-oxide. Oxalic acid. Perchloric acid. Piperidine. Potaiaium r-butoxIde. Potassium fluoride. Potassium... 

The oxidations involving lithium ferf-butoxide reach completion (3 minutes for fluorenol, 12 minutes for xanthenol) much sooner than the corresponding reactions utilizing potassium terf-butoxide as base (35 minutes for fluorenol, 27 minutes for xanthenol). This behavior obviously involves Reaction 20 since the initial rates of oxidation were all approximately the same for the lithium- and potassium ferf-butoxide-catalyzed reactions. 

Iodine-Mercury(II) oxide, 149 Lithium diisopropylamide-Potassium /-butoxide, 164 Molybdenum carbonyl, 194 Phenyliodine(III) diacetate, 242 Sulfuryl chloride, 284 Conjugate addition reactions Michael reactions Alumina, 14... 

Pinocarveol has been prepared by the autoxidation of a-pinene,5 by the oxidation of /S-pinene with lead tetraacetate,6 and by isomerization of a-pinene oxide with diisobutylalumi-num,7 lithium aluminum hydride,8 activated alumina,9 potassium ferf-butoxide in dimethylsulfoxide,10 and lithium diethylamide.11 The present method is preferred for the preparation of pinocarveol, since the others give mixtures of products. It also illustrates a general method for converting 1-methylcy-cloalkene oxides into the corresponding exocyclic methylene alcohols.11 The reaction is easy to perform, and the yields are generally high. 

Further studies were directed to examine different SCBs and the effect of different counterions. Potassium counterions provide improved efficiency as compared to lithium or sodium counterions. The most efficient system in terms of formation of carbanions was achieved with diphenylsilacyclobutane in combination with potassium tert-butoxide and diphenylethylene <2004MI856>. Di-block copolymers from ethylene oxide and methyl methacrylate (or styrene) were synthesized by this method with 85% efficiency (Scheme 14) <2004MI856>. 

The nucleophilic addition of the a-lithiated alkyldiphenylphosphine oxide B to the carbonyl group of an aldehyde at the beginning of a Wittig-Horner reaction results in the phos-phorylated lithium alkoxide D. If the alkene synthesis is carried out in a single step, the Li of the intermediate D is, without workup, reversibly replaced by K by adding potassium-ferf-butoxide. In this way, the phosphorylated potassium alkoxide F is made available. Only in F... 

Horner-Wittig modification Alternatively, phosphine oxide reacts with aldehydes in the presence of a base (sodium amide, sodium hydride or potassium t-butoxide) to give an alkene. The phosphine oxide can be prepared by the thermal decomposition of alkyl-triphenylphosphonium hydroxide. Deprotonation of phosphine oxide with a base followed by addition to aldehyde yields salt of (3-hydroxy phosphineoxide, which undergoes further syn-elimination of the anion Ph2P02. The lithium salt of (3-hydroxy phosphineoxide can be isolated, but Na and K salt of (3-hydroxy phosphine oxide undergoes in situ elimination to give alkene (Scheme 4.26). 

Raney nickel hydrogenation, produced an epimeric mixture of hydroxy-esters (446 R = C02Et) and diols (446 R = CH2OH). Treatment of the corresponding hydroxy-acids (446 R = CO2H) with methyl-lithium, followed by Jones oxidation, yielded the two epimeric diketones (447) in the ratio 9 1. Aldoliza-tion of (447 / -Me) with potassium t-butoxide gave epipatchoulenone (448 R = H, R = Me) while similar treatment of (447 a-Me) afforded patch-oulenone (448 R = Me, R = H). 

Treatment of either cis- or franx-2,4-diphenylthietane-l oxide (stereochemical notation refers to arrangement of phenyl groups) with potassium t-butoxide in dimethylformamide gives mainly the cw-l,2-diphenylcyclopropane derivatives, 124 and 125, via the anion 123. ° Stereospecific cyclopropane formation occurs on treatment of 3- -hexylthietane 1-oxide with lithium cyclohexylisopropyl amide. ... 

In Homer s original work, phosphine oxides (202) were treated with potassium r-butoxide or sodamide and allowed to react with an aldehyde or ketone to form the alkene (203) directly (Scheme 28). Homer observed that the use of a lithium anion resulted in the isolation of Ae p-hydroxyphosphine oxide (204). In addition, he found that the intermediate hydroxyphosphine oxide could be obtained by LAH reduction of the ketophosphine oxide. Warren and coworkers t ve utilized and expanded upon these techniques by isolating and separating the diastereomeric, frequently crystalline, p-hydroxyphosphine... 

DEHYDROHALOGENATION Amidines, bicyclic. N-Bromosuccinimide. 1,5-Dia-zabicyclo[4.3.01 nonene-5. Diethylamine. Dimethyl sulfoxide. Hexamethylphosphoric triamide. Lithium bromide. Potassium r-butoxide. Sodium amidc-Sodium r-but-oxide. Tetra-n-butylammonium bromide. Triethylamine. 

Dehydrohalogenation Benzyltrimethylammonium mcsitoate. r-Butylamine. Calcium carbonate. j Uidine. Diazabicyclo[3.4.0]nonene-5. N.N-Dimethylaniline (see also Ethoxy-acetylene, preparation). N,N-Dimelhylformamide. Dimethyl sulfoxide-Potassium r-but-oxide. Dimethyl sulfoxide-Sodium bicarbonate. 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine. Ethoxy-carbonylhydrazine. Ethyldicyclohexylamine. Ethyidiisopropylamine. Ion-exchange resins. Lithium. Lithium carbonate. Lithium carbonate-Lithium bromide. Lithium chloride. Methanolic KOH (see DimethylTormamide). N-PhenylmorphoKne. Potassium amide. Potassium r-butoxide. Pyridine. Quinoline. Rhodium-Alumina. Silver oxide. Sodium acetate-Acetonitrile (see Tetrachlorocyclopentadienone, preparation). Sodium amide. Sodium 2-butylcyclohexoxide. Sodium ethoxide (see l-Ethoxybutene-l-yne-3, preparation). Sodium hydride. Sodium iodide in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (see Tetrachlorocyclopentadienone, alternative preparation) Tetraethylammonium chloride. Tri-n-butylamine. Triethylamine. Tri-methyiamine (see Boron trichloride). Trimethyl phosphite. 

Cod binone and 1-bromocodeinone [xix, R = H] and [xix, R = Br] have been prepared by the Oppenauer oxidation of codeine [xx, R = H] and 1-bromocodeine [xx, R = Br] respectively using potassium if-butoxide and benzophenone. On reduction with lithium aluminium hydride these two ketones are converted into codeine [3]. 

Dehydrohalogenation Alumina, see Sulfur tetrafluoride. Alumina-Potassium hydroxide. Cesium fluoride. l,5-Diazabicyclo[4.3.0]nonene-5. l,4-Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane. 1,5-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undecene-5. Dimethylaminotrimethylstannane. Dimethyl sulfoxide. Hexamethylphosphoric triamide. Lithium chloride. Lithium dicyclohexylamide. Magnesium oxide. Potassium r-butoxide. Potassium fluoride. Potassium triethylmethoxide. Pyridine, see Nitrosyl chloride. Silver fluoride. Silver nitrate. Sodium amide. Sodium bicarbonate, see Nitryl iodide. Sodium isopropoxide. Triethylamine, see Sulfur dioxide. 

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