Phenacyl halide

The sulfur atom can be used to initiate C—C bond formation. 2-Thio- and 4-thio-6,7-diphenyllumazine (166) react with phenacyl halides to give the phenacylthio derivatives (167), which on heating in DMF in the presence of triphenylphosphine extrude sulfur to form the benzoylmethyl derivative (168) in its tautomeric vinylogous amide form (169 equation 51). 

The rearrangement of arylsubstituted 1,4-dithiadienes, obtained from the Buntes salts derived from phenacyl halides,offers a... 

With highly reactive alkyl halides, like allylic, benzylic or phenacyl halides, the ZjA-alkylation can be a serious side-reaction. Because of a SNl-like mechanism in those cases, the effect of enolate concentration on the reaction rate is low, and the resulting monoalkylester 5 may be more acidic than the unsubstituted starting material ... 

Displacement of bromine on phenacyl halide with imidazole gives Reduction with sodium borohydride followed by displacement with 2,6-dichloro-benzyl alcohol in HMPA then produces antifungal orconazole (37). ... 

For an alternative method for phenacyl halides, see Clark, J.FI. Miller, J.M. Tetrahedron Lett., 1977, 599. 

Substituted phenacyl anthranilates were prepared by reaction of sodium anthranilate with substituted phenacyl halides in DMF. The phenacyl esters were cyclized in polyphosphoric add or by heating to give the respective substituted 2-aryl-3-hydroxyquinoline-4(l. -ones in high yield <95CCC(60)1357>. 

Treatment of 1-chlorophthalazine 228 with alkoxide or sec-amines gave 229, whose reaction with phenacyl halides afforded 230. Cyclocondensation of the latter with hydrazine gave 231. Aromatization of 231 with tetrachlorobenzoquinone (TCBQ) gave (89FES29) the triazinophthalazine... 

Alternatively, 232 was obtained by cyclocondensation of 233 with phenacyl halides in the presence of acetic acid and subsequent reaction of the formed triazinophthalazine with alkoxides or sec-amines (89FES29). 

The synthesis of the triazinotriazines 519 was achieved (87MI5) by reaction of 3-hydrazino-5,6-diphenyl[l,2,4]triazine 518 with 4-substituted phenacyl halides. These triazinotriazines were screened against P-388 lymphocytic leukemia in mice and were inactive. 

Condensation of 592 with phenacyl halides gave the imidazotriazino-indoles 594. However, the reaction with formamidine derivative 593 afforded isomeric derivative 595 (87MI5). 

When a solution of phenacyl halide 258 and excess tosyl hydrazide in methanol is heated to reflux, l-(tosylamido)-4-aryltriazole 261 is formed. The reaction proceeds presumably via dihydrazide derivative 259 that subsequently undergoes intramolecular cyclocondensation to triazoline 260. In the following step, the triazoline must be oxidized to the final triazole product 261. Mechanism of the oxidation is not quite clear, but the probable oxidant is the starting phenacyl halide, as a half of it is converted to the corresponding acetophenone tosylhydrazone that is isolated as the main side product of the reaction (Scheme 37) <2004H(63)1175>. 

Electronic effects. Nucleophilic attack is favoured by electron-withdrawing groups on the amide and the acyloxyl side chains. Interpolated bimolecular rate constants at 308 K for the series of para-substituted /V-acetoxy-/V-butoxybenzamides 25c, 26b-g and 26i (Table 5) gave a weak but positive Hammett correlation with a constants ip = 0.13, r = 0.86).42,43 These Sn2 reactions are analogous to those of aniline and substituted pyridines with phenacyl bromides, which have similar Arrhenius activation energies and entropies of activation in methanol (EA= 14-16 kcal mol-1, AS = — 27 to —31 calK-1 mol-1) and 4-substituted phenacyl halides afforded a similar Hammett correlation with pyridine in methanol (cr, p — 0.25).175... 

Early work on the asymmetric Darzens reaction involved the condensation of aromatic aldehydes with phenacyl halides in the presence of a catalytic amount of bovine serum albumin. The reaction gave the corresponding epoxyketone with up to 62% ee.67 Ohkata et al.68 reported the asymmetric Darzens reaction of symmetric and dissymmetric ketones with (-)-8-phenylmenthyl a-chloroacetate as examples of a reagent-controlled asymmetric reaction (Scheme 8-29). When this (-)-8-phenyl menthol derivative was employed as a chiral auxiliary, Darzens reactions of acetone, pentan-3-one, cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, or benzophenone with 86 in the presence of t-BuOK provided dia-stereomers of (2J ,3J )-glycidic ester 87 with diastereoselectivity ranging from 77% to 96%. 

An alternative route to sulphones utilizes the reaction of the appropriate activated halide with sodium dithionite or sodium hydroxymethanesulphinite [6], This procedure is limited to the preparation of symmetrical dialkyl sulphones and, although as a one-step reaction from the alkyl halide it is superior to the two-step oxidative route from the dialkyl sulphides, the overall yields tend to be moderately low (the best yield of 62% for dibenzyl sulphoxide using sodium dithionite is obtained after 20 hours at 120°C). The mechanism proposed for the reaction of sodium hydroxymethanesulphinite is shown in Scheme 4.20. The reaction is promoted by the addition of base and the best yield is obtained using Aliquat in the presence of potassium carbonate. It is noteworthy, however, that a comparable yield can be obtained in the absence of the catalyst. The reaction of phenacyl halides with sodium hydroxy-methane sulphinite leads to reductive dehalogenation [7]. 

Asymmetric induction using catalytic amounts of quininium or A-methyl-ephedrinium salts for the Darzen s reaction of aldehydes and ketones with phenacyl halides and chloromethylsulphones produces oxiranes of low optical purity [3, 24, 25]. The chiral catalyst appears to have little more effect than non-chiral catalysts (Section 12.1). Similarly, the catalysed reaction of sodium cyanide with a-bromo-ketones produces epoxynitriles of only low optical purity [3]. The claimed 67% ee for the phenyloxirane derived from the reaction of benzaldehyde with trimethylsul-phonium iodide under basic conditions [26] in the presence of A,A-dimethyle-phedrinium chloride was later retracted [27] the product was contaminated with the 2-methyl-3-phenyloxirane from the degradation of the catalyst. 

Displacement of bromine on phenacyl halide with imidazole gives Reduction with sodium borohydride followed by... 

Nucleophilic attack by iV-methylaniline is favoured by electron-withdrawing groups on the amide and acyloxyl side chains. A series of / ara-substituted Af-acetoxy-Af-butoxy-benzamides (138) (Table 6) gave a weak but positive Hammett correlation with a constants (p = 0.13, r = 0.86) °. The analogous reactions of pyridine with para-substituted phenacyl halides in methanol afforded a similar Hammett correlation a, p = 0.25) . The bimolecular rate constants for the limited series of Ai-benzoyloxy-A-benzyloxybenzamides (139) in Table 6 correlated strongly with Hammett a constants (p = 1.7, r = 0.97) °. Stabilization of developing carboxylate character supported the computed charge redistribution in the transition state ... 

Alkylation of saturated 5(4//)-oxazolones at C-4 is a well-known reaction that can be achieved under a wide variety of conditions. Numerous articles have described this reaction as a means to prepare 4,4-dialkyl-5(477)-oxazolones 147 that are valuable intermediates to prepare ot,ot-disubstituted a-amino acids. For instance,2-phenyl-5(4//)-oxazolone 146 readily obtained from hippuric acid and A,A -dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), is alkylated at C-4 with allyl, benzyl, or phenacyl halides if the reaction is conducted in dipolar aprotic solvents in the presence of weak bases. Hydrolysis of the resulting 5(477)-oxazolones leads to a,a-dialkylglycines 148 (Scheme 7.43). 

Cyanopyrroles, formed from malononitrile and phenacyl halides, offer another route to the synthesis of pyrrolo[2,3-3]pyridines <2004MI15>. Treatment of the cyanopyrroles with ethyl acetoacetate leads to propenylamino-pyrroles which undergo further cyclization to form highly functionalized pyrtolo[2,3-3]pyridine derivatives. 

Quaternization of TP, e.g., by alkyl halide and tosylate or phenacyl halide, always attacks N-3 [79UP1 85JCS(P1)2333] as demonstrated by degradation (68JHC691). 

Compounds, eg, phenacyl halides, benzyl halides, alkyl iodides, or alkyl esters of sulfonic acids, react with DMSO at 100—120°C to give aldehydes (qv) and ketones (qv) in 50—85% yields (eq. 8) (41) ... 

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... 

Some variations on the above scheme have also been successfully adapted to the synthesis of other related quinolizines. One of these involves the condensation ofpyridine-2-aldehyde with deoxybenzoin13 followed by quatemization with phenacyl halides and cyclization by treatment with dibutylamine [Eq. (4)]. 

Ring synthesis from non-heterocycles by closure y to the heteroatom are reported. Sulfonium ylides (135) with active methylene compounds such as malononitrile give a C-phenacyl product (136) however, when reacted with /3-diketones and /3-ketonic esters they produce furans quantitatively (74CL101). In these cases O-phenacylation takes place followed by cyclization to give the 3-hydroxydihydrofuran (137), which is dehydrated to the furan (138) (Scheme 30). These furans differ from those formed by the reaction of the diketone or ketonic esters with phenacyl halides. The latter reaction takes place by C-phenacylation, yielding the isomeric furans (139). 

Alkylation of 251, having a 2-amino group, with a phenacyl halide gave the triazolopyrimidinium salts 252 (80KGS1695), which upon treatment with base gave the mesoionic imidazotriazolopyrimidines 253 (86UKZ200) (Scheme 47). 

Ethanolic solutions of para-substituted phenacyl halides (Formula 221) give on irradiation the corresponding acetophenone (Formula 222)... 

If the heterocyclic base contains several pyridine-type nitrogens select can also be observed. Indeno[l,2-b]quinoxalines, for example, are quaternized at the N-10 atom.110 The alkylation of heterocycles conta one pyrrole-type nitrogen and several pyridine-type nitrogens is appar selective (e.g., indolo[2,3-b]quinoxaline).201 The yields of quaternary however, are extremely low,201 even if phenacyl halides or a-halo ester used.207 Perhaps the resultant quaternary salts are dealkylated.200,207... 

Quaternary salts (90) from azalenes obtained from heterocyclic bases and phenacyl halides or derivatives of a-halo carbon acids also contain an acidic exocyclic CH2 group. Therefore, during the deprotonation, mixtures of pseudoazulenes 91 and ylides 98 can be formed, especially if Y = CH. °5 Quaternary salts (90) containing one pyrrole-type nitrogen (Y = N) de-protonate exclusively to pseudoazulenes166 (Scheme 6). Analogous behavior... 

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