Oxygen Lewis acid-catalyzed reaction

Carreira and Kruger reported facile transmetallation of silicon enolates to other soft metal enolates including Gu derivatives.499 They reasoned that the use of soft metal fluoride complexes enabled silyl metal transmetallation with catalytic use of a soft metal source. The concept is illustrated in Scheme 103. Normal Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions of silicon enolates with aldehydes proceed via activation of aldehydes by carbonyl oxygen coordination to Lewis acids, as shown in the upper equation of Scheme 103. A key step for catalytic turnover is the desilyation of 233 by the... [Pg.474]

Hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions are of great importance in organic chemistry for the synthesis of six-membered heterocyclic ring systems. " In the past heterodienophiles and -dienes with one or more oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atoms have been examined in thermal and Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions. " ... [Pg.72]

Metal Lewis acid catalyzed reaction is the most studied area in modern carbonyl chemistry [26]. The lone pair of carbonyl oxygen coordinates to the Lewis acid. The coordination lowers both the electron density of carbonyl oxygen and the energy of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), the C=0 ti orbital, activating carbonyl towards nucleophilic attack. In general, hard and small Lewis acid is ideal in carbonyl activation because the lone pair of carbonyl oxygen is hard. Thus proton, which is the smallest and hardest Lewis acid, is one of the best for carbonyl activation [27]. [Pg.52]

The Mukaiyama aldol reaction refers to Lewis acid-catalyzed aldol addition reactions of silyl enol ethers, silyl ketene acetals, and similar enolate equivalents,48 Silyl enol ethers are not sufficiently nucleophilic to react directly with aldehydes or ketones. However, Lewis acids cause reaction to occur by coordination at the carbonyl oxygen, activating the carbonyl group to nucleophilic attack. [Pg.82]

Mascarenas developed a synthetic method to 1,5-oxygen-bridged medium-sized carbocycles through a sequential ruthenium-catalyzed alkyne-alkene coupling and a Lewis-acid-catalyzed Prins-type reaction (Eq. 3.45). The ruthenium-catalyzed reaction can be carried out in aqueous media (DMF/H20 = 10 1).181... [Pg.78]