Protonation, consecutive

Orthoboric acid, B(OH)3, is the normal end product of hydrolysis of most boron compounds and is usually made ( 160 000 tonnes pa) by acidification of aqueous solutions of borax. Price depends on quality, being 805 per tonne for technical grade and about twice that for refined material (1990). It forms flaky, white, transparent crystals in which a planar array of BO3 units is joined by unsymmetrical H bonds as shown in Fig. 6.25. In contrast to the short O—H O distance of 272 pm within the plane, the distance between consecutive layers in the ciystal is 318 pm, thus accounting for the pronounced basal cleavage of the waxy, plate-like ciystals, and their low density (1.48 g cm ). B(OH)3 is a very weak monobasic acid and acts exclusively by hydroxyl-ion acceptance rather than proton donation ... 

However, deprotonation of rc-rf-butyldimethylsilyl-protected products 2 (prepared according to the classical Henry conditions )22, and consecutive reprotonation, provides the silylated nitroaldols 2 with high (R, R ) selectivity. Deprotonation of 2 by treatment with lithium diisopropylamide in tetrahydrofuran at — 78 C furnishes nitronates which are stable against / -elimination at that temperature. Protonation of these intermediates is achieved with an acetic acid/tetrahydrofuran (1 1) solution at —100 C. To achieve maximum yields, the mixture should be warmed up slowly before aqueous workup. 

At this point, special mention37 should be made of the behaviour of highly conjugated ethylenic sulphones in weakly acidic media. For example, in the case when R1 =Ph (Z isomer), a fairly stable anion radical was obtained in dry DMF. However, either in aprotic (consecutive two one-electron transfer) or in protic media (ECE process, occurrence of the protonation step on anion radical), C—S bond cleavage is observed. The formation of the corresponding olefins by C—S bond cleavage may occur in high yield, and is nearly quantitative when R1 = H and R2 = Ph for an electrolysis conducted in... 

Furthermore, while no significant difference in the product distribution, with the exception of the trans-decalin/cis-decalin ratio, is observed for the tested proton-form zeolites, dissimilarity between Pt/H-Y on one hand and both Pt/H-Beta zeolites on the other hand is found (Figure 6). More ROP and CP, accompanied by less Iso, are formed on Pt/H-Y than on Pt/H-Beta zeolites. This implies that the consecutive ring opening and cracking are faster over Y-zeolite than over Beta-zeolites resulting in lower concentration of isomers and higher concentrations of ROP and CP. 

As explained above, these experiments have to be performed under continuous proton decoupling. The usual method is inversion-recovery29 (Figure 6) which would require, between consecutive experiments or consecutive scans, a waiting time of 5T unless one has recourse to a variant dubbed "Fast Inversion-Recovery".30... 

Ester 324 is hydrolyzed to acid 325 by refluxing in 10% NaOH. In a reaction with thionyl chloride, acid 325 is converted to acid chloride 326, which is isolated as a solid in 96% yield and consecutively converted into amide 327 in 85% yield. Treatment of amide 327 with LDA extracts a proton from the methyl group. The generated anion is trapped by added benzonitrile. Subsequent cyclocondensation of the obtained imine anion with the amide group provides derivative 328 in 62% isolated yield (Scheme 50) <2003EJM983>. 

When treated with DBU at elevated temperature, l-[(benzotriazol-l-yl)methyl -2-aminopyridine salts 741 eliminate rather the N-H proton than the C-H one. Intermediates 742 can be trapped with aromatic aldehydes to create betaines 743. The consecutive cyclocondensation and elimination of benzotriazole results in formation of imidazolo[l,2-rz]pyridines 744 in good yields (Scheme 117) <2000JOC9201>. Aldehydes with enolizable a-protons fail to give bicyclic systems 744, producing corresponding enamines instead. 

The already known geissoschizol (7, C19H24N20, MP 224-226°C, [a]D -70°) 184) and its 10-hydroxy derivative (8, C19H24N202, MP 264°C) (184), were isolated from the roots of T. bufalina (Ervatamia hainanensis) (53). The detailed analysis of the H-NMR spectra of 7 and 8 diacetate were reported (Table III) and the assignment of all of the protons was made by application of consecutive double-resonance experiments. 

Methyl[l,2,3]diazaphospholo[l,5- ]pyridine 41 undergoes electrophilic attack at N-2 (Scheme 12). Dimethyl sulfate in the absence of nucleophile led to the salt 42, whereas upon treatment with water, protonation of the same atom was followed by nucleophilic attack at phosphorus and consecutive ring opening to produce 43 <1995S173>. 

The correlation between selectivity and intracrystalline free space can be readily accounted for in terms of the mechanisms of the reactions involved. The acid-catalyzed xylene isomerization occurs via 1,2-methyl shifts in protonated xylenes (Figure 3). A mechanism via two transalkylation steps as proposed for synthetic faujasite (8) can be ruled out in view of the strictly consecutive nature of the isomerization sequence o m p and the low activity for disproportionation. Disproportionation involves a large diphenylmethane-type intermediate (Figure 4). It is suggested that this intermediate can form readily in the large intracrystalline cavity (diameter. 1.3 nm) of faujasite, but is sterically inhibited in the smaller pores of mordenite and ZSM-4 (d -0.8 nm) and especially of ZSM-5 (d -0.6 nm). Thus, transition state selectivity rather than shape selective diffusion are responsible for the high xylene isomerization selectivity of ZSM-5. 

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