Phenylation of aldehyde

This chemistry was extended to a catalytic enantioselective alkenylation and phenylation of aldehydes and a-ketoesters. Using CuF-DTBM-SEGPHOS complex, products were obtained with excellent enantioselectivity from a wide range of aldehydes including aromatic and aliphatic aldehdyes, [Eq. (13.26)]. Previously catalytic enantioselective vinylation and phenylation are restricted using the corresponding zinc reagents. The active nucleophile is proposed to be an alkenyl or phenyl copper, based on NMR studies. The chiral CuF catalyst can also be applied to a catalytic enantioselective aldol reaction to ketones... 

Enantioselective alkenylation and phenylation of aldehydes has been carried out using a chiral CuF complex.200... 

A BINOL-dicarboxamide catalyses the enantioselective phenylation of aldehydes by ethylphenylzinc.244... 

Reduction, Alkylation, Allylation, Cyanation, and Phenylation of Aldehydes and Ketones... 

Thiazolecarboxaldehydes exhibit many reactions typical of aldehydes. However, they give no aldolization reaction (no a-hydrogen), but they do react with different compounds such as acetic anhydride, hippuric acid, acetylglycine, and so for (37, 101, 102). Thus 2-phenyl-4-fonnylthiazole (31) mixed with hippuric acid and treated with AcOa and anhydrous NaOAc gives the azalactone (32) (Scheme 32). 

The nucleophilic alkenoylation of a-phenyl-substituted aldehydes and ketones with (methyl-substituted) [l-cyano-l-(trimethylsilyloxy)-2-propenyl]lithium proceeds with good 1,2-induction to afford the j> i-hydroxy ketones109. 

Tanaka and coworkers337 reported successful syntheses of aldehydes and ketones using (l-ethoxyethoxy)methyl phenyl sulfone 258 and 1-(1-ethoxyethoxy)ethyl phenyl sulfone 259, as shown in the following scheme. 

Highly enantioselective hydrosilylation of aliphatic and aromatic carbonyl compounds such as acetophenone, methyl phenethyl ketone 1813, or deuterobenz-aldehyde 1815 can be readily achieved with stericaUy hindered silanes such as o-tolyl2SiH2 or phenyl mesityl silane 1810 in the presence of the rhodium-ferrocene catalyst 1811 to give alcohols such as 1812, 1814, and 1816 in high chemical and optical yield [47] (Scheme 12.14). More recently, hydrosilylations of aldehydes... 

Conversion of sulfones such as 1955 into their a-sulfonyl anions by treatment with n-BuIi at -78°C in THF then addition of bis(trimethylsilyl)peroxide (BTSP) 1949 afford, via intermediates such as 1956, aldehydes or ketones such as cyclohexanone and HMDSO 7 [146]. This reaction has subsequently been applied to the synthesis of aldehydes [147]. After hthiation with -BuLi thioethers such as phenyl benzyl sulfide 1957 react with BTSP 1949 to give mixtures of the O-silyl 1958 and C-silyl 1959 products [148]. On treatment with -BuLi at -30°C the a,a-bis-(trimethylsilyl)dimethylsulfide 1960 is, hkewise, converted into its anion, which reacts with 1949 to give the a-trimethylsilyloxy sulfide 1961 and MesSiOLi 98 [149] (Scheme 12.41). 

A cross-coupling reaction of aldehydes with a-diketones proceeded in the presence of water to give the corresponding adducts in moderate to good yield. It is possible to use the substrates such as phenyl-glyoxal monohydrate, aqueous methylglyoxal, formalin, and aqueous a-chloroacetaldehyde for this reaction.330... 

The disilanickela complex 21 was also found to be a good catalyst for the dehydrogenative double silylation of aldehydes. The nickel-catalyzed reactions of 1,2-bis(dimethylsilyl)carborane 11 with aldehydes such as isobutyraldehyde, trimethylacetaldehyde, hexanal, and benzaldehyde afforded 5,6-carboranylene-2-oxa-l,4-disilacyclohexane.32 34 36 The dehydrogenative 1,4-double silylation of methacrolein and tram-4-phenyl-3-buten-2-one in the presence of a catalytic amount ofNi(PEt3)4 also took place under similar conditions. In contrast, the reaction of 11 with a-methyl-tran.s-cinnamaldehyde and irans-cinnamaldehyde under... 

Although the Capdevielle reaction for one-pot conversion of aldehydes to nitriles is a very convenient and widely applicable synthetic procedure, 3-substituted furoxans appear to be susceptible to rearrangement when substitutions with amine nucleophiles are attempted, even under relatively mild conditions (Scheme 29) <1999JOC8748>. The formation of the final product 107 in this reaction was explained via phenyl abstraction by carbamoyl radical cation from the second molecule of intermediate product 106 < 1999JOC8748>. 

In another study (102), a triarylphosphine with a sulfonyl group on each phenyl was prepared and used with rhodium in a buffered aqueous system. The hydroformylation of propylene was conducted at 80°C and 50 atm of synthesis gas. The yield of aldehydes was 98% on converted propylene with an n iso ratio of 6.7 1. 

Nucleophilic addition of metal alkyls to carbonyl compounds in the presence of a chiral catalyst has been one of the most extensively explored reactions in asymmetric synthesis. Various chiral amino alcohols as well as diamines with C2 symmetry have been developed as excellent chiral ligands in the enantiose-lective catalytic alkylation of aldehydes with organozincs. Although dialkylzinc compounds are inert to ordinary carbonyl substrates, certain additives can be used to enhance their reactivity. Particularly noteworthy is the finding by Oguni and Omi103 that a small amount of (S)-leucinol catalyzes the reaction of diethylzinc to form (R)-l-phenyl-1 -propanol in 49% ee. This is a case where the... 

Raney nickel hydrogenation of aromatic and aliphatic nitriles in ethanol containing 4 equivalents of phenyl hydrazine gives 90% of aldehydes. 

Alkyl- and aryl-hydrazones of aldehydes and ketones readily peroxidise in solution and rearrange to azo hydroperoxides [1], some of which are explosively unstable [2], Dry samples of the p-bromo- and p-fluoro-hydroperoxybenzylazobenzenes, prepared by oxygenation of benzene solutions of the phenylhydrazones, exploded while on filter paper in the dark, initiated by vibration of the table or tapping the paper. Samples were later stored moist with benzene at —60°C to prevent explosion [3], A series of a-phenylazo hydroperoxides derived from the phenyl-or p-bromophcnyl-hydrazones of acetone, acetophenone or cyclohexanone, and useful for epoxidation of alkenes, are all explosive [4], The stability of several substituted phenylazo hydroperoxides was found to be strongly controlled by novel substituent effects [5],... 

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