Potassium enolates nitration

Nitradon of the potassium enolates of cycloalkanones with pentyl n silyl enol ethers with nitroniiim tetraflnoroborate " provides a method for the preparadon of cydic ct-nitro ketones. Tnflnoroacetyl nitrate generated from tnflnoroacedc anhydnde and ammonium nitrate is a mild and effecdve nitradug reagent for enol acetates fEq. 2.411. ... 

Alkylation of potassium enolates is not always fruitful, and so counterion exchange with lithium bromide prior to addition of the electrophile has been recommended. Reduction of aromatic esters instead of acids provides a number of potential advantages. The esters tend to be more soluble than carboxylate salts, hydrogenolysis of 2-alkoxy substituents does not appear to present the s me problem, and the products are more stable. This can be important when enol ether functions are generated, allowing the necessarily acidic work-up procedures for carboxylic acids to be avoided. Indeed, the hydrolysis of enol ether functions may be very slow in aqueous acid and is best achieved through catalysis by mercury(II) nitrate. ... 

Generating the enolates of substituted cyclic ketones by using potassium hydride leads to the thermodynamic mixture of enolates, and therefore nitration of potassium enolates often does not allow for a re-... 

The popularity of the Nef reaction is due in part to the ready availability of nitro compounds. Primary and secondary halides react with sodium nitrite in dimeAyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or dimethylform-amide (DMF) to give useful yields of nitro compounds. Primary amines can be oxidized to nitro compounds with potassium permanganate, m-chloroperbenzoic acitP or ozone. Chlorination of oximes with hypochlorous acid and reduction with magnesium, zinc or hydrogen/lpalladium gives secondary nitro compounds. Stabilized carbanions can be nitrated by treauitent with a nitrate ester, and enol acetates are nitrated by acetyl nitrate to give nitro ketones. ... 

Color reactions Boric acid (hydroxyquinones). Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (pyrroles). Ferric chloride (enols, phenols). Haloform test. Phenylhydrazine (Porter-Silber reaction). Sulfoacetic acid (Liebermann-Burchard test). Tetranitromethane (unsaturation). Condensation catalysts /3-Alanine. Ammonium acetate (formate). Ammonium nitrate. Benzyltrimethylammonium chloride. Boric acid. Boron trilluoride. Calcium hydride. Cesium fluoride. Glycine. Ion-exchange resins. Lead oxide. Lithium amide. Mercuric cyanide. 3-Methyl-l-ethyl-2-phosphoiene-l-oxlde. 3-Methyl-1-phenyi-3-phoipholene-1-oxide. Oxalic acid. Perchloric acid. Piperidine. Potaiaium r-butoxIde. Potassium fluoride. Potassium... 

SINOMENINONE AND ITS DERIVATIVES Sinomenine is an a /3-unsaturated-a-methoxyketone and thus contains a hydrolysable enol ether system and can be hydrolysed to an a-diketone. Indeed sinomenine itself possesses some of the properties of an a-diketone e.g. it can reduce cold potassium permanganate solution, Eehling s solution, and ammoniacal silver nitrate [6],... 

For fast reactions of the type represented by reaction 13.2, carried out under the conditions stated earlier, micromixing becomes the dominant consideration. However, studies on the effect of micromixing in such reactions are sparse. Some examples are as follows nitration of aromatic componds in general (Schofield, 1980), potassium metal-provoked reactions of aryl halides with amide and acetone enolate ions (Tremelling and Bunnett, 1980X coupling of 1-naphthol with diazotized sulfanilic acid (Bourne et al., 1981, 1985), reactions of o-(3-butenyl)-halobenzenes and 6-bromo-1-hexene with alkali metals in ammonia/terr-butyl alcohol solution (Meijs et al., 1986), and monoacylation of symmetrical diamines (Jacobson et al., 1987). In some fast reactions, hydrogen ions are produced. 

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