Reaction with cyclohexanone compounds

Formation of a 1,2-disubstituted hydrazine by acid hydrolysis of an appropriately substituted pyrazolidine has been noted (67HC(22)l), but the most interesting ring fission of pyrazolidines involves the N(l)—N(2) bond of 1-phenylpyrazolidines (421). If, instead of phenylhydrazone, compound (421) is used in the Fischer indole synthesis, N- aminopropylin-doles are formed (73T4045). Scheme 39 shows the reaction with cyclohexanone. 

Common reagents such as lithium diisopropylamide (LDA see Chapter 11, Problem 5) react with carbonyl compounds to yield lithium enolate salts and diisopropylamine, e.g., for reaction with cyclohexanone. 

A -Chloromethylamine attacks ketones in alkaline solution with formation of oxaziranes with cyclohexanone, compound 17 is produced in 50% yield. The reaction with aldehydes with zV-chloromethyl-amine yields predominantly acid amides. However, oxaziranes are also produced here as by-products. From benzaldehyde and A -chloro-methylamine, 2-raethyl-3-phenyloxazirane (15) was obtained in 10% yield. 

A new, direct route to 0,S-acetals is based in part on the ability of trimethylsilyl triflate to mediate synthesis of 0,0-acetals from carbonyl compounds and silyl ethers (10, 439). Thus reaction of 1 1 mixtures of a silyl ether and phenylthiotrimethylsilane with an aldehyde in the presence of catalytic to stoichiometric amounts of trimethylsilyl triflate can give 0,S-acetals in 37-93% yield. Acetone is amenable to this 0,S-ketalization, but reactions with cyclohexanone result mainly in 0,0-ketals. 

The triethylaluminum or triethylborane ate complexes (12) of the (isopropylthio)allyl carbanion react with carbonyl compounds at the a-position (equation 10). In the reactions with carbonyl compounds, very high regioselectivity (for example, butanal 95 5, 3-methylbutanal 99 1, cyclohexanone 92 8 and acetophenone 95 5) was achieved by using the aluminum ate complex. On the other hand, the a-regio-selectivity with ketones decreases if the boron ate complex is used (cyclohexanone 72 28, acetophenone 45 55). It is noteworthy that the stereoselectivity of the a-adduct from an aldehyde is low. Ihesumably the geometry of the double bond in the ate complex (12) is not homogeneous. ... 

The quasi-phosphonium ylides (60), which are generally unreactive towards carbonyl compounds, have been shown to undergo the Wittig reaction under photo-irradiation.35 Although acyclic ketones formed normal Wittig products, reactions with cyclohexanones gave allenes (61). 

LiC(0Me)2C02Me is a carbomethoxycarbonyl anion equivalent,whilst species (13) provides yet another approach to simple nucleophilic acylation. In the latter case intermediate trimethylsilyloxirans, e.g. (14) (from reaction with cyclohexanone), are converted into the carbonyl compounds by treatment with acid, but alternatively they may be converted into other compounds by appropriate choice of reagents. ... 

A variety of substituted sulphonium ylides have been used in the oxiran-forming reaction with carbonyl compounds. Diphenylsulphonium-allylide (6), generated from the salt with t-butyl-lithium, afforded the expected oxiran in 80% yield upon reaction with cyclohexanone. Use of n-butyl-lithium as the generating base resulted in lower yields and contamination by the oxiran formed from a butylide, the latter probably... 

In addition, B-alkynyl-9-BBN compounds exhibit high chemospecificity between less and more sterically hindered aldehydes. B-l-(3,3-dimethylbutynyl)-9-BBN reacts with propionaldehyde in less than 15 min, whereas its reaction with pivalaldehyde requires 5 days for completion under identical conditions. Similarly, its reaction with cyclohexanone is complete in 10 h at room temperature, whereas cyclopentanone requires 16 h at 65 °C. The introduction of Pitzer strain in going from sp to sp carbon center plays an important role in the rate of reaction ofB-alkynyl-9-BBN and cyclic ketones. Of special significance is the chemoselectivity of B-l-(3,3-dimethylbutynyl)-9-BBN with relatively reactive... 

PUtzing erReaction. Quinoline-4-carboxyhc acids are easily prepared by the condensation of isatin [91-56-5] (16) with carbonyl compounds (50). The products may be decarboxylated to the corresponding quinolines. The reaction of isatin with cycHc ketones has been reported, eg, the addition of cyclohexanone gives the tricycHc intermediate (17) [38186-54-8] which upon oxidation produces quinoline-2,3,4-tricarboxyhc acid [16880-83-4] (51). 

Reaction of hydroxylamine-0-sulfonic acid with cyclohexanone in alkaline solution can be shown to give pentamethyleneoxazirane (16). Compound 16 is an isomer of cyclohexanone oxime. It decomposes even at room temperature and thus cannot be prepared in a pure state. 

The net effect of the Stork reaction is the Michael addition of a ketone to an cn/3-unsaturated carbonyl compound. For example, cyclohexanone reacts with the. cyclic amine pyrrolidine to yield an enamine further reaction with an enone such as 3-buten-2-one yields a Michael adduct and aqueous hydrolysis completes the sequence to provide a 1,5-diketone (Figure 23.8). 

Corey and Chaykovsky were the first to investigate the reaction of dimethyl sulphoxide anion (dimsyl anion) with aldehydes and ketones400,401. They found that the reaction with non-enolizable carbonyl compounds results in the formation of /1-hydroxyalkyl sulphoxides in good yields (e.g. Ph2CO—86%, PhCHO—50%). However, with enolizable carbonyl compounds, particularly with cycloalkanones, poor yields of hydroxyalkyl products are observed (e.g. camphor—28%, cyclohexanone—17%, but... 

Optically pure (S)-benzyl methyl sulfoxide 139 can be converted to the corresponding a-lithio-derivative, which upon reaction with acetone gave a diastereomeric mixture (15 1) of the /S-hydroxysulfoxide 140. This addition reaction gave preferentially the product in which the configuration of the original carbanion is maintained. By this reaction, an optically active epoxy compound 142 was prepared from the cyclohexanone adduct 141181. Johnson and Schroeck188,189 succeeded in obtaining optically active styrene oxide by recrystallization of the condensation product of (+ )-(S)-n-butyl methyl sulfoxide 143 with benzaldehyde. 

Ono and coworkers have extended the radical elimination of v/c-dinitro compounds to P-nitro sulfones151 and P-nitro sulfides.138,152 As P-nitro sulfides are readily prepared by the Michael addition of thiols to nitroalkenes, radical elimination of P-nitrosulfides provides a useful method for olefin synthesis. For example, cyclohexanone is converted into allyl alcohol by the reaction shown in Eq. 7.110. Treatment of cyclohexanone with a mixture of nitromethane, PhSH, 35%-HCHO, TMG (0.1 equiv) in acetonitrile gives ahydroxymethylated-P-nitro sulfide in 68% yield, which is converted into the corresponding allyl alcohol in 86% yield by the reaction with Bu3SnH.138 Nitro-aldol and the Michael addition reactions take place sequentially to give the required P-nitro sulfides in one pot. 

Zirconium enolates of various carbonyl compounds have also been investigated for Mannich-type reactions with different electrophiles. According to Shibasaki s method,148 the coupling reaction between a 3-acetoxy-4-alkyl-/3-lactam and the in r(/ -generated zirconium enolate 96 of a cyclohexanone derivative was realized as a key step during the total synthesis of an anitibiotic (Scheme 42).117,149... 

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