Phenylmagnesium bromide, conversion

Phenyl isocyanate, conversion to di-phenylcarbodiimide, 43,31 Phenyl isocyanide, 41,103 Phenyllithium, reaction with allyltri-phenyltin, 41, 30 standardization of, 41, 32 Phenylmagnesium bromide, 41, 91 reaction with ( r(-butyl perbenzoate, 41,91... 

The (R)-(+)-chiral 1,4-diol 17b was easily prepared from L-(+)-dimethyl tartrate. Dimethyl tartrate was converted to the corresponding phenylethylidene derivative by treatment with 1,1-dimethoxy-l-phenylethane and cat. p-toluenesulfonic acid in refluxing benzene, followed by conversion to the diol 17b with excess phenylmagnesium bromide. The diol was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (hexane ethyl acetate =5 1), and recrystalization from a mixture of hexane and 2-propanol. 

Hydroxypyrrolidine (14), a colorless oil, is readily obtained from 1-ethylpyrrolidine by conversion to the 1-oxide and then heating to split out ethylene. Direct oxidation of pyrrolidine by performic acid gave only a 1% conversion (59CB1748). Oxidation of 14 with mercuric oxide now gave 1-pyrroline 1-oxide 15 as a distillable liquid. Phenylmagnesium bromide added across the dipolarophilic system of 15 yielded l-hydroxy-2-... 

The Kumada coupling of aryl halides with phenylmagnesium bromide, in the presence of palladium or nickel, showed high catalyst activity. TON up to 800 was observed for the conversion of chlorobenzene into biphenyl (Table 14.5) [182]. 

The first application of the alkyltrifluoroborate salts was the conversion into alkyldihaloboranes by silyl hahdes and subsequent reaction with alkyl azides [77]. An example of a usefid synthesis was the preparation of (S)-2-phenylpyrrolidine (141) (Scheme 8.32). (S)-DICHED (3-bromopropyl)boronate (13S) was converted into the 3-azido derivative 136 at reflux temperature under phase-transfer conditions. The usual reaction with (dichloromethyl)lithium followed by phenylmagnesium bromide to form DICHED ester 137 was followed by treatment with potassium bifluoride in aqueous methanol to provide the alkyltrifluoroborate salt 138. Neither boronic esters nor alkyltrifluoroborate salts react with alkyl azides. Reaction of 138 with trimethylsi-lyl chloride yielded (S)-2-phenylpyrrolidine (141), but reaction with silicon tetrachloride proved much faster and more efficient. At first it was thought that the intermediates 139 and 140 were probably difluoroboranes in accord with literature precedent [76], but careftil reinvestigation has revealed that reaction of alkyltrifluoroborate salts with silicon tetrachloride in coordinating solvents yields alkyldichloroboranes [78]. 

Step conversion. A slight excess of ethereal phenylmagnesium bromide added to a soln. of 3,4-dichloro-6-methylcoumarin in benzene 3-chloro-6-methyl-flavone. Y 70%. M. S. Newman and J. L. Ferrari, Tetrah. Let. 1962, 199. 

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