Reagents zinc compounds

The intermediate hydroperoxide is sufficiently stable to be isolated, and reduction with any one of a number of reagents (zinc-acetic acid is preferred) then gives the 17a-hydroxy-20-keto compound. 

In addition to the perfluoroalkylzinc compounds, the zinc reagent formed from 1,1,1-trifluorotrichloroethane has received considerable attention. This zinc compound was first reported as a stable ether complex [56]. Later, the DMF complex was isolated and the structure was determined by X-ray diffraction and shown to be monomeric [57] (equation 50). This zinc reagent undergoes a variety of functionalization reactions, and some typical examples are illustrated in Table 2 [47, 58, 59, 60, 61] The alcohol products (Table 2) can be converted to AiCF=CXCF3 (X = Cl, F) by further reaction with diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST) and l,8-diazabicyclo[5 4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) [60]... 

Zinc compounds have recently been used as pre-catalysts for the polymerization of lactides and the co-polymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide (see Sections 2.06.8-2.06.12). The active catalysts in these reactions are not organozinc compounds, but their protonolyzed products. A few well-defined organozinc compounds, however, have been used as co-catalysts and chain-transfer reagents in the transition metal-catalyzed polymerization of olefins. 

Both the palladium- and the nickel-catalysis enables the use of allylic acetate as starting reagent. In the two approaches a zinc compound is evoked as key intermediate, though its formation has been demonstrated only indirectly. In the two methods allylic transposition is observed. The authors have then concluded that these electrochemical allylation reactions closely parallel the chemical allylation reactions involving allylzinc intermediates. 

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]. 

Zinc oxide occurs in nature as mineral zincite. It is the most important zinc compound and has numerous industrial applications. Zinc oxide is the pigment in white paints. It is used to make enamels, white printing inks, white glue, opaque glasses, rubber products and floor tiles. It is used in cosmetics, soaps, pharmaceuticals, dental cements, storage batteries, electrical equipment, and piezoelectric devices. Other applications are as a flame retardant, as a UV absorber in plastics, and a reagent in analytical chemistry. A major application of zinc oxide is in the preparation of most zinc salts. In medicine, the compound is used as an antiseptic, an astringent and a topical protectant. 

In addition to their use as precursors for alkynylboron, tin or zinc compounds, alkynylmagnesium reagents show a moderate reactivity toward the coupling with haloarenes and haloalkenes. They are often commercially available, or easy to prepare. Their main drawback is their low chemoselectivity and high nucleophilicity, which implies incompatibilities with functional groups such as nitro and carbonyl. 

We use the zinc compound instead as these are less reactive and don t polymerise. We make them in the same way as Grignard reagents, and they react in the same way with ketones. 

Support-bound transition metal complexes have mainly been prepared as insoluble catalysts. Table 4.1 lists representative examples of such polymer-bound complexes. Polystyrene-bound molybdenum carbonyl complexes have been prepared for the study of ligand substitution reactions and oxidative eliminations [51], Moreover, well-defined molybdenum, rhodium, and iridium phosphine complexes have been prepared on copolymers of PEG and silica [52]. Several reviews have covered the preparation and application of support-bound reagents, including transition metal complexes [53-59]. Examples of the preparation and uses of organomercury and organo-zinc compounds are discussed in Section 4.1. 

Organovanadium reagents, 219 Phenylmagnesium bromide-Vanadi-um(III) chloride, 219 Vanadium(III) chloride, 219 Vanadyl acetylacetonate, 54 Vanadyl trichloride, 289 Zinc Compounds Bis(acetylacetonate)zinc(II), 33... 

Hydrometallation, enynes, 10, 331 Hydroperoxides, via zinc reagents, 9, 105 Hydrophobic amino acids, via zinc compounds, 9, 97 Hydroselenido ligands, in dirhodium complexes, 7, 147 Hydrosilanes... 

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