Oxidized intermediates

TbF4 (TbF, -f F, at 3(WC) and Cs,Tbp7 are known and Tb oxides intermediate between Tb, , and TbO, are formed by healing Tb compounds in air. These higher oxides liberate oxygen from water. Tb, , and TbCl (TbCl, plus Tb) have metal-metal bonding. 

Phenolic compounds are commonplace natural products Figure 24 2 presents a sampling of some naturally occurring phenols Phenolic natural products can arise by a number of different biosynthetic pathways In animals aromatic rings are hydroxylated by way of arene oxide intermediates formed by the enzyme catalyzed reaction between an aromatic ring and molecular oxygen... 

Oxidation. As a 7t-excessive heterocycle, indole is susceptible to oxidation a variety of oxidation intermediates and products have been observed. With oxygen as the oxidant, the key intermediate is normally a 3-hydroperoxy-3ff-indole. These intermediates ate observable for 2,3-disubstituted indoles but are unstable for less substituted derivatives. Figure 1 indicates typical reactivity patterns toward oxygen. 

Oxidation of 1 -aminobenzotriazole also yields benzyne under mild conditions. An oxidized intermediate decomposes with loss of two molecules of nitrogen. ... 

Oxaziranes are rapidly decomposed by the further action of peracids. As shpwn by Emmons and Krimm the oxazirane is converted into a carbonyl compound and a nitroso compound dimer. The reaction can be formulated via an oxazirane A -oxide intermediate [Eq. (30)]. 

In related work, the reactions of hydrogen peroxide with iron(II) complexes, including Feu(edta), were examined.3 Some experiments were carried out with added 5.5"-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) as a trapping reagent fa so-called spin trap) for HO. These experiments were done to learn whether HO was truly as free as it is when generated photochemically. The hydroxyl radical adduct was indeed detected. but for some (not all) iron complexes evidence was obtained for an additional oxidizing intermediate, presumably an oxo-iron complex. 

In the complicated reaction networks involved in fuel decomposition and oxidation, intermediate species indicate the presence of different pathways that may be important under specific combustion conditions. While the final products of hydrocarbon/air or oxygenate/air combustion, commonly water and carbon dioxide, are of increasing importance with respect to combustion efficiency—with the perception of carbon dioxide as a... 

The versatility of the INOC reaction is evident from the synthesis of tetrahy-drofurans fused to an isoxazoline 22a-f (Eq. 3) [181. a-Allyloxyaldoximes 21, formed by the reduction of jS-nitrostyrenes 19 with SnCl2 2H2O in the presence of an unsaturated alcohol 20, are transformed to isoxazolines 22 in high yield on treatment with NaOCl via stereoselective ring closure of a nitrile oxide intermediate (Table 2). 

In the seven-step stereoselective total synthesis of ptilocaulin 44 [21 ], a potent antileukemic and antimicrobial agent isolated [22] from marine sponges, the oxime 36 was treated with NaOCl providing the tricyclic isoxazoline 38 in 89% yield without isolation of the nitrile oxide intermediate 37 (Scheme 5) [23]. Isoxazoline 38 was obtained as a mixture of four diastereomers and their ratio was... 

The above methodology has been extremely useful for the synthesis of a variety of INOC precursors. For instance, treatment of 0-trimethylsilyl a-bro-moaldoximes 52b, e, f with F ion in presence of unsaturated alcohols 57 produces oximino ethers 58 which can be readily oxidized using NaOCl (Scheme 8) [29]. The transient nitrile oxide intermediates formed undergo spontaneous cyclization to fused isoxazolines 59. The preferred stereoisomer in the formation of the five-membered ring ethers is trans whereas in the six-membered ring ethers the cis isomer predominates (see Table 5). MM2 calculations helped rationalize the experimentally observed stereoselectivites (see Table 5). 

A one pot synthesis of isoxazolines 78a-f involves base mediated 1,4-addition of malonate or alcohol 76 possessing an allylic substituent, conversion of the resulting nitronate to the a-chloroaldoxime (hydroxymoyl chloride 77) and its subsequent dehydrohalogenation to the nitrile oxide intermediate which cyclizes to isoxazoline 78 (Eq. 7, Table 6) [32]. 

On treatment of trialkylsilyl nitronates 1043 with MeLi, LiBr, or BuLi in THF the resulting nitrile oxide intermediates 1044 afford, in dilute THF solution (R=Me) the ketoximes 1045 in ca 50-60% yield, whereas in concentrated THF solution the O-silylated hydroxamic acids 1046 are obtained as major products [144] (Scheme 7.35). Analogously, the silyl nitronate 1047 reacts with the 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-/ -D-glucopyranosyl thiol/triethylamine mixture to afford, via the thiohydroxi-mate 1048, in high yield, a mixture of oximes 1049 which are intermediates in the synthesis of glucosinolate [145] (Scheme 7.35). 

Fig. 4.13 Electrodeposition of Cd nanoparticles on the graphite surface is followed by electrochemical oxidation and conversion of the oxidized intermediate to CdS or core-shell sulfur-CdS particles. (Reproduced from [125])...

We have also investigated adsorption of acetate on a polycrystalline Pt electrode, which is of interest in the context of catalysts for ethanol oxidation, where acetate is an unwanted oxidation intermediate, and have demonstrated the capacity of the BB-SFG method to examine Pt nanoparticles. 

Oxazolium oxides, which can be generated by cyclization of a-amido acids, give pyrroles on reaction with acetylenic dipolarophiles.144 These reactions proceed by formation of oxazolium oxide intermediates. The bicyclic adduct can then undergo a concerted (retro 4 + 2) decarboxylation. 

FIGURE 6.4 Reactions and products of the primary oxidation intermediates of a-tocopherol (1), the tocopheroxyl radical 2, ortho-quinone methide 3, and chromanoxylium cation 4. 

It was shown that complexes 19 of the zwitterionic precursors of ortho-quinone methides and a bis(sulfonium ylide) derived from 2,5-di hydroxyl 1,4 benzoquinone46 were even more stable than those with amine N-oxides. The bis(sulfonium ylide) complexes were formed in a strict 2 1 ratio (o-QM/ylide) and were unaltered at —78 °C for 10 h and stable at room temperature under inert conditions for as long as 15—30 min (Fig. 6.18).47 The o-QM precursor was produced from a-tocopherol (1), its truncated model compound (la), or a respective ortho-methylphenol in general by Ag20 oxidation in a solution containing 0.50-0.55 equivalents of bis(sulfonium ylide) at —78 °C. Although the species interacting with the ylide was actually the zwitterionic oxidation intermediate 3a and not the o-QM itself, the term stabilized o-QM was introduced for the complexes, since these reacted similar to the o-QMs themselves but in a well defined way without dimerization reactions. 

While tocopherylacetic aicd (51), the lower Crhomologue of 3-(5-tocopheryl)-propionic acid (50) showed a changed redox behavior (see Section 6.5.1), compound 50 displayed the usual redox behavior of tocopherol derivatives, that is, formation of both ortho- and para-quinoid oxidation intermediates and products depending on the respective reaction conditions. Evidently, the electronic substituent effects that... 

FIGURE 6.44 Oxidation of 3-oxa-chromanol 67, having no protons at position C-4a able to undergo rearrangements by analogy to 3-oxa-chromanol 59 with its oxidation intermediates 63 and 64. Due to this blocking at C-4/C-4a, the oxidation behavior of 67 resembles that of a-tocopherol (1). 

Rosenau, T. Kloser, E. Gille, L. Mazzini, F. Netscher, T. Vitamin E. Chemistry studies into initial oxidation intermediates of a-tocopherol disproving the involvement of 5a-C-centered Chromanol Methide radicals.. /. Org. Chem. 2007, 72(9), 3268-3281. 

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