Phase-transfer catalysis procedure

The N-chitobiosylasparagine peptides (22) have been synthesised as partial structures of N-glycopeptides, a new phase-transfer catalysis procedure being used... 

Phase transfer catalysis has been used with success to prepare N- substituted pyrazoles (78MI40403, 79MI40408, 70JHC1237, 80JOC3172) and this procedure can be considered the simplest and most efficient way to obtain these compounds. Experimental design methodology has been used to study the influence of the factors on the reaction between pyrazole and -butyl bromide under phase transfer conditions (79MI40408). 

The oxidation methods described previously are heterogeneous in nature since they involve chemical reactions between substances located partly in an organic phase and partly in an aqueous phase. Such reactions are usually slow, suffer from mixing problems, and often result in inhomogeneous reaction mixtures. On the other hand, using polar, aprotic solvents to achieve homogeneous solutions increases both cost and procedural difficulties. Recently, a technique that is commonly referred to as phase-transfer catalysis has come into prominence. This technique provides a powerful alternative to the usual methods for conducting these kinds of reactions. 

Various synthetic routes to isocyanides have been reported since their identification over 100 years ago.8 Until now, the useful synthetic procedures all required a dehydration reaction8-11 Although the carbylamine reaction involving the dichlorocarbene intermediate is one of the early methods,8 it had not been preparatively useful until the innovation of phase-transfer catalysis (PTC).4 5... 

The phase-transfer catalysis method has also been utilized effectively for addition of dichlorocarbene to olefins,4 as well as for substitution and elimination reactions, oxidations, and reductions.18 The preceding procedure in this volume is another example.13... 

The selection of the thirty procedures clearly reflects the current interest of synthetic organic chemistry. Thus seven of them illustrate uses of T1(I), T1 (III), Cu(I), and Li(I), and three examples elaborate on the process now termed phase-transfer catalysis. In addition, newly developed methods involving fragmentation, sulfide contraction, and synthetically useful free radical cyclization arc covered in five procedures. Inclusion of preparations and uses of five theoretically interesting compounds demonstrates the rapid expansion of this particular area in recent years and will render these compounds more readily and consistently available. 

The reaction between acyl halides and alcohols or phenols is the best general method for the preparation of carboxylic esters. It is believed to proceed by a 8 2 mechanism. As with 10-8, the mechanism can be S l or tetrahedral. Pyridine catalyzes the reaction by the nucleophilic catalysis route (see 10-9). The reaction is of wide scope, and many functional groups do not interfere. A base is frequently added to combine with the HX formed. When aqueous alkali is used, this is called the Schotten-Baumann procedure, but pyridine is also frequently used. Both R and R may be primary, secondary, or tertiary alkyl or aryl. Enolic esters can also be prepared by this method, though C-acylation competes in these cases. In difficult cases, especially with hindered acids or tertiary R, the alkoxide can be used instead of the alcohol. Activated alumina has also been used as a catalyst, for tertiary R. Thallium salts of phenols give very high yields of phenolic esters. Phase-transfer catalysis has been used for hindered phenols. Zinc has been used to couple... 

Transesterification has been carried out with phase-transfer catalysis, without an added solvent. In another procedure, RCOOR are converted to RCOOR" by treatment of the ester and an alcohol R OH with n-BuLi, which converts the R"OH to R"OLi. ... 

N-Tosylated P-hydroxy alkylamines (which can be easily hydrolyzed to P-hydroxyamines" ) can be prepared " by treatment of alkenes with the trihydrate of Chloramine-T and a catalytic amount of OSO4. In some cases yields can be improved by the use of phase-transfer catalysis." The reaction has been carried out enantioselectively." In another procedure, certain P-hydroxy secondary alkylamines can be prepared by treatment of alkenes with the osmium compounds... 

In phase transfer catalysis of the solid/liquid type, the organic phase (containing dissolved organic reactant and a small amount of the crown) is mixed directly with the solid inorganic salt. Such a procedure enables the reaction to proceed under anhydrous conditions this is a distinct advantage, for example, when hydrolysis is a possible competing reaction. Because of their open structure, crown ethers are readily able to abstract cations from a crystalline solid and are often the catalysts of choice for many solid/liquid phase transfer reactions. 

A number of other cryptand-bound polymers have been synthesized using similar procedures to those discussed previously for immobilization of crown molecules. Apart from their use in phase transfer catalysis, such polymers have been studied extensively as chromatography reagents for the separation of a range of metal-ion types (Blasius Janzen, 1982) in a number of instances quite useful separations have been achieved. 

It was a result of demand from industry in the mid-1960s for an alternative to be found for the expensive traditional synthetic procedures that led to the evolution of phase-transfer catalysis in which hydrophilic anions could be transferred into an organic medium. Several phase-transfer catalysts are available quaternary ammonium, phosphonium and arsonium salts, crown ethers, cryptands and polyethylene glycols. Of these, the quaternary ammonium salts are the most versatile and, compared with the crown ethers, which have many applications, they have the advantage of being relatively cheap, stable and non-toxic [1, 2]. Additionally, comparisons of the efficiencies of the various catalysts have shown that the ammonium salts are superior to the crown ethers and polyethylene glycols and comparable with the cryptands [e.g. 3, 4], which have fewer proven applications and require higher... 

The application of phase-transfer catalysis to the Williamson synthesis of ethers has been exploited widely and is far superior to any classical method for the synthesis of aliphatic ethers. Probably the first example of the use of a quaternary ammonium salt to promote a nucleophilic substitution reaction is the formation of a benzyl ether using a stoichiometric amount of tetraethylammonium hydroxide [1]. Starks mentions the potential value of the quaternary ammonium catalyst for Williamson synthesis of ethers [2] and its versatility in the synthesis of methyl ethers and other alkyl ethers was soon established [3-5]. The procedure has considerable advantages over the classical Williamson synthesis both in reaction time and yields and is certainly more convenient than the use of diazomethane for the preparation of methyl ethers. Under liquidrliquid two-phase conditions, tertiary and secondary alcohols react less readily than do primary alcohols, and secondary alkyl halides tend to be ineffective. However, reactions which one might expect to be sterically inhibited are successful under phase-transfer catalytic conditions [e.g. 6]. Microwave irradiation and solidrliquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions reduce reaction times considerably [7]. 

Sulphonic esters have been obtained from the sulphonyl chlorides in high yields under mild conditions for a range of alcohols and phenols [e.g. 18, 19]. Of particular value is the protection of glycosides possessing a free hydroxyl group and hydroxy-steroids, which are tosylated readily under phase-transfer conditions [20-22]. Alkyl sulphinites have been obtained in a similar manner [23]. Alternatively, preformed tetra-rt-butylammonium sulphonates or their alkali metal salts have also been alkylated with haloalkanes or alkyl fluorosulphonates [24,25]. In contrast with more classical procedures, tosylation of alcohols, which are susceptible to E/Z-isomerism, e.g. Z-alk-2-en-l-ols, occurs with retention of their stereochemistry under phase-transfer catalysis [26]. 

In the main, the original extractive alkylation procedures of the late 1960s, which used stoichiometric amounts of the quaternary ammonium salt, have now been superseded by solid-liquid phase-transfer catalytic processes [e.g. 9-13]. Combined soliddiquid phase-transfer catalysis and microwave irradiation [e.g. 14-17], or ultrasound [13], reduces reaction times while retaining the high yields. Polymer-supported catalysts have also been used [e.g. 18] and it has been noted that not only are such reactions slower but the order in which the reagents are added is important in order to promote diffusion into the polymer. 

A mechanistic study of acetophenone keto-enol tautomerism has been reported, and intramolecular and external factors determining the enol-enol equilibria in the cw-enol forms of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds have been analysed. The effects of substituents, solvents, concentration, and temperature on the tautomerization of ethyl 3-oxobutyrate and its 2-alkyl derivatives have been studied, and the keto-enol tautomerism of mono-substituted phenylpyruvic acids has been investigated. Equilibrium constants have been measured for the keto-enol tautomers of 2-, 3- and 4-phenylacetylpyridines in aqueous solution. A procedure has been developed for the acylation of phosphoryl- and thiophosphoryl-acetonitriles under phase-transfer catalysis conditions, and the keto-enol tautomerism of the resulting phosphoryl(thiophosphoryl)-substituted acylacetonitriles has been studied. The equilibrium (388) (389) has been catalysed by acid, base and by iron(III). Whereas... 

A recent literature report described a green procedure for the condensation of arylacetonitriles with cyclic ketones using phase-transfer catalysis. This process was applied to the synthesis of venlafaxine, which was realized in overall 30% yield in two steps from commercially available 14. The condensation step was run in aqueous sodium hydroxide in the presence of tetrabutylammonium sulfate, to provide quantitative yield of intermediate 15. Hydrogenation in a formalin-methanol mixture provided the final product venlafaxine (1) in 30% overall yield. This protocol did not necessitate intermediate purification steps, making it attractive from the commercial standpoint. 

Glycosyl halides (7a-e) were stereoselectively transformed into l,2-tra s-thio-glycoses by i) (8a-d, 8j) a two-step procedure via the pseudothiourea derivatives [9,10a] the substitution of halide by thiourea is mostly a S l-type reaction since acetylated 1-thio-a-D-mannose (8b) was obtained from acetobromoman-nose (7b) [9cj ii) (8e-i) using thiolates in protic and aprotic solvents [10], or under phase transfer catalysis conditions [11]. Another approach involved the reaction of thioacetic acid with 1,2-trans-per-O-acetylated glycoses catalyzed with zirconium chloride [12]. The 1,2-trans-peracetylated 1-thioglycoses (8e-h) were obtained in high yield. No anomerized products could be detected in these reactions (Fig. 1). 

Di Cesare and Gross175 introduced a procedure using phase-transfer catalysis to induce the action of dichlorocarbene on various protected sugars,176 and obtained the chloro derivative 162c from compound 161. Another, similar migration was observed,178 and confirmed,134,174 for the chlorination of methyl 2,3-anhydro-4,6-0-benzylidene-a-D-al-lopyranoside (166) with (chloromethylene)dimethyliminium chloride, which gave the rearranged chloro derivative 167. 

Sodium salts of carboxylic acids, including hindered acids such as mesitoic, rapidly react with primary and secondary bromides and iodides at room temperature in dipolar aprotic solvents, especially HMPA, to give high yields of carboxylic esters.679 The mechanism is Sn2. Another method uses phase transfer catalysis.680 With this method good yields of esters have been obtained from primary, secondary, benzylic, allylic, and phenacyl halides.681 In another procedure, which is applicable to long-chain primary halides, the dry carboxylate salt and the halide, impregnated on alumina as a solid support, are subjected to irradiation by microwaves in a commercial microwave oven.682 In still another method, carboxylic acids... 

Tris(l-pyrazolyl)methane was first prepared by Hiickel and Bretschneider by the reaction of sodium pyrazolate with chloroform.17 Trofimenko prepared the tris(3,5-dimethyl-l-pyrazolyl)methane by a similar method.2 More recent preparations have utilized both liquid-liquid18 and solid-liquid12 phase-transfer catalysis. The preparation of tris(l-pyrazolyl)methane (E) given below is a modification of the solid-liquid phase-transfer procedure.12... 

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