Oxygen alkoxides

Alkoxide ion (RO ) The oxygen atom of a metal alkoxide acts as a nucleophile to replace the halogen of an alkyl halide The product is an ether... 

A long standing method for the preparation of ethers is the Williamson ether synthesis Nucleophilic substitution of an alkyl halide by an alkoxide gives the carbon-oxygen bond of an ether... 

Next in what amounts to an intramolecular Williamson ether synthesis the alkoxide oxygen attacks the carbon that bears the halide leaving group giving an epoxide As m other nucleophilic substitutions the nucleophile approaches carbon from the side oppo site the bond to the leaving group... 

IS a two step process m which the first step is rate determining In step 1 the nucleophilic hydroxide ion attacks the carbonyl group forming a bond to carbon An alkoxide ion is the product of step 1 This alkoxide ion abstracts a proton from water m step 2 yielding the gemmal diol The second step like all other proton transfers between oxygen that we have seen is fast... 

Metal alkoxides are compounds in which a metal is attached to one or more alkyl groups by an oxygen atom. Alkoxides are derived from alcohols by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen by metal. 

Oxygen-Gontaining Organics. Neutral and anionic oxygen-containing organic molecules form complexes with thorium. Recent work has focused on alkoxides (72), aryloxides, and carboxylates however, complexes with alcohols, ethers, esters, ketones, aldehydes, ketoenolates, and carbamates are also well known. 

The hydrides can also be used to form primary alcohols from either terminal or internal olefins. The olefin and hydride form an alkenyl zirconium, Cp2ZrRCl, which is oxidized to the alcohol. Protonic oxidizing agents such as peroxides and peracids form the alcohol direcdy, but dry oxygen may also be used to form the alkoxide which can be hydrolyzed (234). 

Barium oxide, which can react directly with oxygen to give the peroxide (33), is soluble in methanol and ethanol forming the alkoxides (see... 

Nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine atom in 2-chloropyrazine and 2-chloroquinoxa-lines has been effected with a variety of nucleophiles, including ammonia and amines, oxygen nucleophiles such as alkoxides, sodium azide, hydrazine, sulfur containing nucleophiles, cyanide, etc., and reactions of this type are typical of the group (see Chapter 2.02). 

The pH of the solution is of overwhelming importance in determining the course of these hydrolyses. In basic solution, oxygen elimination is dominant. This is because the unprotonated nitrogen substituent is a very poor leaving group and is also more effective at facilitating the alkoxide elimination by electron donation ... 

The principal difference hes in the poorer ability of amide ions to act as leaving groups, compared to alkoxides. As a result, protonation at nitrogen is required for breakdown of the tetrahedral intermediate. Also, exchange between the carbonyl oxygen and water is extensive because reversal of the tetrahedral intermediate to reactants is faster than its decomposition to products. 

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