Propargylic copper/zinc reagents

Propargylic copper/zinc reagents Reaction of alkynylcoppcrs with iodomcthyl-zinc iodide (Simmons-Smith reagent) provides propargylic copper/zinc reagents, which react with aldehydes or ketones to form homopropargylic alcohols in 80-95% yield. 

Replacing the palladium catalyst by copper cyanide gives a copper-zinc mixed reagent,i72 able to couple with allylic and propargylic halides. Modified amino acid derivatives were thus obtained. 

Alkynylation of Ketones. By combining catalytic amounts of copper(II) triflate and camphorsulfonamides an effective chiral catalyst system is produced, which is effective in the production of tertiary propargylic alcohols, with good to excellent enantioselectivities. These reactions represent a highly enan-tioselective catalytic addition of alkynyl zinc reagents to simple ketones (eq 43). 

The related zinc cuprates formed from diorganozinc reagents and copper(I) cyanide also undergo smooth SN2 substitution reactions with propargyl oxiranes in the presence of phosphines or phosphites (Scheme 2.12). These transformations can also be performed with catalytic amounts of the copper salt since no direct reaction between the organozinc reagent and the substrate interferes [31, 34], and therefore should also be applicable to functionalized organozinc compounds. 

Buynak et al. reported the synthesis of representative 7-vinylidenecephalosporine derivatives bearing an axial allene chirality (Scheme 4.5) [9]. A chiral allene 24 was prepared stereoselectively utilizing the reaction of an organocopper reagent with propargyl triflate 23, obtained by a diastereoselective ethynylation of the ketone 22 with ethynylmagnesium bromide. Terminally unsubstituted allene 26 was synthesized via bromination of the triflate 23 followed by reduction of the bromide 25 with a zinc-copper couple. 

ALKENES Allyl dimethyldithiocarbamate. Bis(t -cyclopentadienyl)niobium trihydride. Cyanogen bromide. Di-n-butylcopperlithium. a,o-Dichloromethyl methyl ether. 2,3-Dimethyl-2-butylborane. N,N-Dimethyl dichlorophosphoramide. Diphenyl diselenide. Di-n-propylcopperlithium. Ferric chloride. Grignard reagents. Iodine. Lithium phenylethynolate. Lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide. Methyl iodide. o-Nitro-phenyl selenocyanate. Propargyl bromide. rra s-l-Propenyllithium. Selenium. Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium. Titanium(IH) chloride. Titanium trichloride-Lithium aluminum hydride. p-Toluenesulfonylhydrazine. Triphenylphosphine. Vinyl-copper reagents. Vinyllithium. Zinc. 

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