Phosphites acyclic

An allylic sulfenate, like 199, is known to be in equilibrium with allylic sulfoxide, like 196, although its concentration is usually low . Various allylic sulfoxides can be prepared by treatment of allylic alcohols with arenesulfenyl chlorides . Evans and coworkers prepared various allylic alcohols by treating the corresponding allylic sulfoxides with trimethyl phosphite. For example, the carbanion from a cycloalkenyl sulfoxide 201 was readily alkylated at the a-position by treatment with alkyl halide. The resulting alkylated derivative 202 was then treated with trimethyl phosphite and 3-substituted cycloalkenol was obtained. Alkylation of acyclic allylic sulfoxide 204 gave... 

In a study of the reactions oi acyclic o-methoxyphenyl-phosphinites (45a), phosphonites (45b) and phosphites (45c) with halogens,the intermediate halogenophosphonium salts (46) are stabilised either by ligand exchange with starting material (not shown) or by elimination of methyl halides to form cyclic phosphoranes ( 47 ) 3 7. ... 

Phosphites, however, undergo a cheletropic reaction with acyclic ADC compounds to give 1,2,3,4-oxaphosphadiazoles (Eq. 15).139 Thiophosphites react similarly.140... 

A remarkable number of chiral phosphorus ligands (phosphoramidites, phosphites, and phosphines with modular structures) have been introduced into the copper-catalyzed conjugate addition of R2Zn reagents, and high enantio-selectivities (>90%) are now possible for all three different classes of substrates 2-cyclohexenones and larger ring enones, 2-cyclopentenones, and acyclic enones. 

The use of copper catalysts based on chiral phosphorus ligands to assist 1,4-additions of dialkylzinc reagents has in recent years produced major breakthroughs, with excellent enantioselectivities. A number of monodentate and bidentate phos-phoramidites, phosphites, phosphonites, and phosphines are now available as chiral ligands for alkyl transfer to a variety of cyclic and acyclic enones. So far. 

The asymmetric catalytic hydrophosphonylation is an attractive approach for the synthesis of optically active a-amino phosphonates [84]. The first example of this type of reaction was reported by the Shibasaki group in 1995 using heterobimetal-lie lanthanoid catalysts for the hydrophosphonylation of acyclic imines [85a]. This concept has been extended to the asymmetric synthesis of cyclic a-amino phosphonates [85b—d]. Very recently, the Jacobsen group developed the first organocatalytic asymmetric hydrophosphonylation of imines [86], In the presence of 10 mol% of thiourea-type organocatalyst 71, the reaction proceeds under formation of a-amino phosphonates 72 in high yield (up to 93%) and with enantioselectivity of up to 99% ee [86], A selected example is shown in Scheme 5.42. Di-o-nitrobenzyl phosphite 70 turned out to be the preferred nucleophile. 

Phosphite-pyridine ligands (191) derived from racemic biphenyl units and homochi-ral BINOL have been developed for enantioselective (<96% ee) Cu(I)-catalysed conjugate additions of Et2Zn to a variety of acyclic enones, such as ArCH=CHCOR.229 Ligand (192) was equally successful (90-99% ee).230... 

The scope of the transphosphoranylation reaction is enlarged by the availability of cyclic oxyphosphoranes (99) from the reaction of phosphites with certain dialkyl peroxides.14 Several cyclic and acyclic... 

Acyclic sugars behave similarly, thus, 2,3 4,5-di-0-isopropylidene-D-arabinose reacts with dialkyl phosphites affording (15)-2,3 4,5-di-0-isopropylidene-D-arabitol-l-phosphonates 11. The formation of the new stereogenic center is a fully stereoselective process. The phosphonates obtained can be hydrolyzed to give enantiomerically pure (lS)-D-arabitol-l-phosphonic acid32. 

The contribution by Roschenthaler to the Tallinn Conference involved a survey of the reactions of acyclic and cyclic phosphites, (RO)2 PX where X= Cl,OH,OMe,OSiMe3 or NCO with activated ketones (e.g. CF3COCF3) in order to study the influence of R and X on product formation. A new type of insertion, a 1,4 group migration and cycloaddition reactions yielding five-membered rings... 

Heterobimetallic catalysis mediated by LnMB complexes (Structures 2 and 22) represents the first highly efficient asymmetric catalytic approach to both a-hydro and c-amino phosphonates [112], The highly enantioselective hydrophosphonylation of aldehydes [170] and acyclic and cyclic imines [171] has been achieved. The proposed catalytic cycle for the hydrophosphonylation of acyclic imines is shown representatively in Scheme 10. Potassium dimethyl phosphite is initially generated by the deprotonation of dimethyl phosphite with LnPB and immediately coordinates to the rare earth metal center via the oxygen. This adduct then produces with the incoming imine an optically active potassium salt of the a-amino phosphonate, which leads via proton-exchange reaction to an a-amino phosphonate and LnPB. 

The reaction of 3,3-disubstituted cyclopropenes with mono- and 1,2-disubstituted alkenes proceeds only with difficulty and leads to low yields of cyclopropanes. In the case of but-l-ene, an 8% yield, with hex-1-ene and hept-l-ene between 5 and 10% yield, and with cyclooctene about 10% of the cyclopropane product is formed. In these cases, the major product is the formal dimer of the intermediate ethenylcarbene complex, i.e. the corresponding (fj-hexatriene. When copper(I) chloride is used as catalyst rather than the copper halide/phosphane or phosphite system, about half the yield of the [2-f-1] cycloadduct is obtained along with an increased amount of the hexatriene. Mechanistically, these acyclic trienes could also be formed from an (alk-l-enyl)bicyclo[1.1.0]butane intermediate without any carbene being involved. Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes are low yield (< 20%) byproducts of the thermal dimerization reaction of methyl 3,3-dimethylcyclopropenecarboxylate (1). On the other hand, bicyclo[l. 1. Ojbutanes, such as 3, are known to undergo isomerization to form 1,3-dienes. ... 

Attack on Oxygen. Cyclic phosphites or phosphonites (38) react with a-keto-acids to give cyclic acyloxyphosphoranes (39), which have previously been implicated as intermediates in the hydrolysis of phosphoenolpyruvate initial attack on keto-oxygen has been suggested, as shown. Acyclic phosphites gave the Michaelis-Arbusov product (40), presumably because they lack the five-membered ring to stabilize the phosphorane (39). 

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