Phosphonium salts, ylides from

Reaction of the ylide, generated from the phosphonium salt 578 (from the alcohol 577 and phosphine hydrobromide 504), with the polyene aldehyde 542 gives aleuria-xanthin acetate 579218). The methyl ester of the naturally occurring bixin 586 is formed by a combination of some carbonyl olefinations 279). The acetoxyaldehyde 580 is olefinated with methoxycarbonylmethylene-triphenylphosphorane 67 to the ( )-unsaturated ester 581. The latter is converted into the phosphonium salt 582 upon treatment with triphenylphosphine hydrobromide 504. The corresponding ylide of 582 is reacted with the dialdehyde 539 to the polyene aldehyde ester 583. The latter is reduced and converted into phosphonium salt 584. The corresponding ylide is now reacted in a third carbonyl olefination with 585 to give the methyl ester 586 279> (Scheme 98). 

Another ylide synthesis avoiding basic conditions starts from phosphonium fluorides. " Fluoride ions are basic enough to play the role of the usually added external base, giving rise to the formation of a phosphonium salt/ylide equilibrium (equation 16). 

The nature of the phosphonium salts obtained from the addition of ylidestofluoro-alkenes depends upon whether or not the ylide has an a-hydrogen atom (Scheme 6). ... 

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Wittig condensation of the ylide from the phosphonium salt, 19, with the hydroxymethylene ketone, 20, affords the product,... 

Since electron-donating substituents at the phosphorus atom favor addition reactions over olefination reactions, addition of 9 to aldehydes leads to the exclusive formation of the silyl-pro-tected allylic alcohols 10. No reaction products arising from Wittig alkenylation could be detected. The ylides (R,S)-9 and (S.S)-9 and their enantiomers were prepared from the corresponding optically pure l-[2-(diphenylphosphino)ferrocenyl]-A,A -dimethylethanamine diastereomers 7 via the phosphonium salts 8. 

Wittig reactions are versatile and useful for preparing alkenes, under mild conditions, where the position of the double bond is known unambiguously. The reaction involves the facile formation of a phosphonium salt from an alkyl halide and a phosphine. In the presence of base this loses HX to form an ylide (Scheme 1.15). This highly polar ylide reacts with a carbonyl compound to give an alkene and a stoichiometric amount of a phosphine oxide, usually triphenylphosphine oxide. 

Silyl migrations readily occur in silylated ylides to give the ylides of optimum stability. Thus, deprotonation of the salts (21) and (23) gave the ylides (22) and (24), respectively. Intermolecular silyl transfers, from one ylide (or the corresponding phosphonium salt) to another, also lead to maximum stabilization. Silyl transfer does not occur in the product (26) from methylenetrimethylphosphorane and the chlorodisilane (25), pre-... 

The ylide obtained from (methyl)triphenylphosphonium bromide reacts with morpholine derivatives 597 to give phosphonium salts 598 which upon treatment with -butyllithium are converted to new ylides 599. In a reaction with aldehydes, ylides 599 form iV-(l,3-disubstituted allyl)-morpholines 602 (Scheme 94) <1996AQ138>. Another less common nucleophile that can be used for substitution of the benzotriazolyl moiety in Af-(a-aminoalkyl)benzotriazoles is an adduct of iV-benzylthiazolium salt to an aldehyde which reacts with compounds 597 to produce adducts 600. Under the reaction conditions, refluxing in acetonitrile, salts 600 decompose to liberate aminoketones 601 <1996H(42)273>. 

Preparation.—It has been shown that the stability of the ylide solution formed from the reaction of dihalogenodifluoromethanes with tertiary phosphines is due to a dynamic equilibrium which lies on the side of phosphine and phosphonium salt (Scheme 1). Ylide solutions generated from chlorodifluoroacetate are unstable since no such equilibrium is possible.1... 

Heterocycles.—The phosphonium salt (59) is an effective three-carbon synthon, as demonstrated by its reaction with enolates of /9-keto-esters (Scheme 20) to give cyclopentenyl sulphides via an intramolecular Wittig reaction.63 Ylides are also intermediates in the synthesis of dihydrofurans (60) from the cyclopropylphos-phonium salt (61) and sodium carboxylates (Scheme 21).64 Cumulated ylides are very useful for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, e.g. (62), from molecules which contain both an acidic Y—H bond and a carbonyl or nitroso-function, as shown in Scheme 22.65... 

A series of conjugated polyenes capped with chromophores and containing an androstane spacer were synthesized by Wittig or Wittig-type olefinations from epi-androsterone 5150. For example, vinyl carboxaldehyde 52, prepared from 51 in 60% yield as shown in equation 32, was treated with 9-anthrylmethylphosphonium bromide and n-butyllithium to give diene 53. Exocyclic diene 53 was subsequently oxidized to vinyl carboxaldehyde 54. The androsterone vinyl aldehyde intermediate could either be treated with a tetraphenylporphyrinpolyenyl phosphonium ylide, or, as shown below, the phosphonium salt of the androsterone (55) could be reacted with TPP polyeneal 56. The desired all-(E) isomer, 57, was obtained from the ( )/(Z)-isomeric mixture by chromatographic purification. 

The formation of the heterocycle 1 from the xylylene-bis-phosphonium salt 2 and PCI3 proceeds via a detectable intermediate 3 in a cascade of condensation reactions that is terminated by spontaneous heterolysis of the last remaining P-Cl bond in a cyclic bis-ylide-substituted chlorophosphine formed (Scheme 1) [15]. The reaction scheme is applicable to an arsenic analogue of 1 [15] and to bis-phosphonio-benzophospholides with different triaryl-, aryl-alkyl- and aryl-vinyl-phosphonio groups [16, 18, 19], but failed for trialkylphosphonio-substituted cations here, insufficient acidity prohibited obviously quantitative deprotonation of the phosphonium salts, and only mixtures of products with unreacted starting materials were obtained [19]. The cations were isolated as chloride or bromide salts, but conversion of the anions by complexation with Lewis-acids or metathesis was easily feasible [16, 18, 19] and even salts with organometallic anions ([Co(CO)4] , [CpM(CO)3] (M=Mo, W) were accessible [20]. 

Scheme 23 Different orthoplatination reactions from ylide and phosphonium salts...

After these results had established the feasibility of generating and utilizing a carbohydrate phosphorane, the two systems that had been reported earlier were examined in order to determine if similar conditions would allow them to undergo the Wittig reaction. The ylide derived from phosphonium salt I condensed with both benz-aldehyde and U-chlorobenzaldehyde to produce good yields of olefinic products Villa and Vlllb. The ylide derived from phosphonium salt II also was successfully condensed with benzaldehyde, but the yield of IX was only 30 , presumably because of its extremely poor solubility even in an HMPA-THF solvent mixture. Both of these systems supported the tenet that it was possible to use unstabilized carbohydrate phosphoranes if the conditions are proper and if the g-oxygen is attached to the carbohydrate through another set of bonds. 

The phosphonium salt X derived from 1,2 3,A-di-0-isopropylidene-a-D-galactopyranose was readily prepared ( ), and the ylide derived from it was condensed effectively with both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. The products all had the a-D-galacto configuration, and the aliphatic aldehydes afforded only the Z-isomers. The less constrained permethylated phosphonium salt XI was also prepared, and... 

As an example of a o-arabino phosphonium salt, XVIa was prepared. Simple Wittig reactions with the ylide derived from XVIa did not proceed as smoothly as with the other ylides, and for that reason salt XVIb, which proved to be much better behaved (results not shown), was also prepared. 

The Wittig reaction is one of the most important reactions in organic chemistry for synthesizing alkenes with unambiguous positioning of the double bond. The process involves a reaction between a phosphonium ylide and an aldehyde or ketone 150). The reacting ylide is formed from a phosphonium salt in a solution of a base such as NaH, t-BuOK, or NaOH 151) (Scheme 19). 

The difluoromethylene ylides react with carbonyl derivatives (aldehyde, lactone) to afford gem-difluoromethylene compounds.They are generated starting from halogenodifluoromethane with triphenylphosphine (or trisaminophosphine) or starting from zinc and a phosphonium salt (or a phosphine oxide)." ° ... 

The preparation of norbomadiene-fused thiophene (17) involved a double-Wittig reaction of 1,2-dione 15 with the bis-ylide derived from phosphonium salt 16 <99BCSJ1597>. The effect of the fused heteroaromatic ring of 17 (neighboring group participation) on electrophilic substitution of the norbomadiene ring was examined. 

The enantioselective synthesis of a somewhat more complex renin inhibitor starts with the reduction of the ester group in the chiral amino-ester (19-1) by means of diisobutyl aluminum hydride in the cold. The aldehyde product (19-2) is then reacted with prior isolation with the ylide from phosphonium salt (19-3) and a strong base... 

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