Polyfunctional ketones

The PhSiH3/Mn(dpm)3 combination nicely reduces the conjugated C=C bond in a polyfunctional ketone without affecting the trityl group or causing reaction at the a-alkoxyketone function (Eq. 273).448... 

In general, copper-zinc compounds, unlike organolithium-derived organocopper reagents, undergo clean addition reactions to nitroolefins. After Michael addition, the resulting zinc nitronates can be oxidatively converted into polyfunctional ketones, such as 117 (Scheme 2.45) [96]. 

Enders, D., Knopp, M., Runsink, J., Raabe, G. Diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of polyfunctional ketones with adjacent quaternary and tertiary centers by asymmetric Carroll rearrangement. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1995, 34, 2278-2280. 

Betzemeier, B., Lhermitte, F., Knochel, P. Wacker oxidation of alkenes using a fluorous biphasic system. A mild preparation of polyfunctional ketones. Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 39, 6667-6670. 

In addition to their usefulness for the asymmetric addition of achiral aldehydes, it will be seen in the section 5.2.3 that the Paterson strategy is particularly useful for the aldol addition of chiral fragments such as the large, polyfunctional ketone and aldehyde fragments needed for convergent macrolide synthesis. 

Alternatively to Grignard reagents, diorganozinc compounds can also be introduced in iron-catalyzed coupling reactions with acyl chlorides to provide a wide range of polyfunctional ketones under mild reaction conditions. ... 

The ability of 1,2 (or l,6)-dihydropyridines to undergo a Diels-Alder reaction with dienophiles such as methyl vinyl ketone, methyl acrylate, and acrylonitrile has been utilized in the synthesis of polyfunctional isoquinuclidine as a key intermediate in the synthesis of aspidosperma- and iboga-type alkaloids (66JA3099). 

Although a polyfunctional organic molecule might contain several different functional groups, we must choose just one suffix for nomenclature purposes. It s not correct to use two suffixes. Thus, keto ester 1 must be named either as a ketone with an -one suffix or as an ester with an -oate suffix but can t be named as an -onoate. Similarly, amino alcohol 2 must be named either as an alcohol (-0/) or as an amine (-amine) but can t be named as an -olamine or -anritiol. 

The reactivity of these oxidants towards organic substrates depends in a rough manner upon their redox potentials. Ag(II) and Co(III) attack unactivated and only slightly activated C-H bonds in cyclohexane, toluene and benzene and Ce(IV) perchlorate attacks saturated alcohols much faster than do Ce(lV) sulphate, V(V) or Mn(III). The last three are sluggish in action towards all but the active C-H and C-C bonds in polyfunctional compounds such as glycols and hydroxy-acids. They are, however, more reactive towards ketones than the two-equivalent reagents Cr(VI) and Mn(VIII) and in some cases oxidise them at a rate exceeding that of enolisation. 

Types of compounds are arranged according to the following system hydrocarbons and basic heterocycles hydroxy compounds and their ethers mercapto compounds, sulfides, disulfides, sulfoxides and sulfones, sulfenic, sulfinic and sulfonic acids and their derivatives amines, hydroxylamines, hydrazines, hydrazo and azo compounds carbonyl compounds and their functional derivatives carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives and organometallics. In each chapter, halogen, nitroso, nitro, diazo and azido compounds follow the parent compounds as their substitution derivatives. More detail is indicated in the table of contents. In polyfunctional derivatives reduction of a particular function is mentioned in the place of the highest functionality. Reduction of acrylic acid, for example, is described in the chapter on acids rather than functionalized ethylene, and reduction of ethyl acetoacetate is discussed in the chapter on esters rather than in the chapter on ketones. 

In certain polyfunctional compounds, an aldehyde or ketone group can also be named as a substituent on a molecule with another functional group as its root. The aldehyde carbonyl is given the prefix formyl-, and the ketone group is named 0x0- with a number to show its position in the molecule. Compounds with both an aldehyde and ketone are named as aldehydes, because aldehydes have functional group priority over ketones. A ketone containing a benzene ring is named as a -phenone. 

In summary, the direct insertion of zinc dust to organic halides is an excellent method for preparing a broad range of polyfunctional organozinc halides bearing various functional groups like an ester" , an ether, an acetate" , a ketone, cyano", halide" , N,N-bis(trimethylsilyl)amino °, primary and secondary amino, amide, phthalimide , sulfide, sulfoxide and sulfone , boronic ester , enone " or a phosphonate . An alternative method is based on transmetalation reactions. 

The reaction with optically active hydrazones provided an access to optically active ketones. The butylzinc aza-enolate generated from the hydrazone 449 (derived from 4-heptanone and (,S )-1 -amino-2-(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine (SAMP)) reacted with the cyclopropenone ketal 78 and led to 450 after hydrolysis. The reaction proceeded with 100% of 1,2-diastereoselectivity at the newly formed carbon—carbon bond (mutual diastereo-selection) and 78% of substrate-induced diastereoselectivity (with respect to the chiral induction from the SAMP hydrazone). The latter level of diastereoselection was improved to 87% by the use of the ZnCl enolate derived from 449, at the expense of a slight decrease in yield. Finally, the resulting cyclopropanone ketal 450 could be transformed to the polyfunctional open-chain dicarbonyl compound 451 by removal of the hydrazone moiety and oxymercuration of the three-membered ring (equation 192). 

Reactions characterizing aziridinyl ketones as polyfunctional compounds are also described in the literature. An example is a widely studied [11, 15, 72, 73, 74] reaction of ketones 18 with phenylhydrazine in which the main products are pyrazole derivatives 55. 

Addition reaction of zinc-copper reagents to nitro olefins is a versatile method for preparing polyfunctional nitroalkanes.20 A direct ozonolysis of the intermediate zinc nitronate furnishes the corresponding ketone (Nef-reaction).20... 

Insertion of alkenes into Os3H2(CO)10 gives compounds of the type Os3H(alkyl)(CO)10 which are usually reactive toward /(-elimination to regenerate alkene (see Section V) or reductive elimination of alkane to allow oxidative addition of the alkene (161,162). Sometimes, however, if the alkene is bi- or polyfunctional, stable insertion products are formed. For example, CH2=CHOMe inserts to give a mixture of diastereomers 71 and 72. Ether coordination reduces the rate of /(-elimination (243). Similar stabilization occurs on inserting a,/(-unsaturated esters (51), although a,/(-unsaturated ketones RCH—CHCOMe (R = H, Me, or Ph) insert, then eliminate the... 

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