Rearrangement reaction with alcohols

Nowhere, perhaps, is this phenomenon better illustrated than in the phenothiazine class. The earlier volume devoted a full chapter to the discussion of this important structural class, which was represented by both major tranquilizers and antihistamines. The lone phenothiazine below, flutiazin (130), in fact fails to show the activities characteristic of its class. Instead, the ring system is used as the aromatic nucleus for a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agent. Preparation of 130 starts with formylation of the rather complex aniline 123. Reaction with alcoholic sodium hydroxide results in net overall transformation to the phenothiazine by the Smiles rearrangement. The sequence begins with formation of the anion on the amide nitrogen addition to the carbon bearing sulfur affords the corresponding transient spiro intermediate 126. Rearomatization... 

The reaction is performed most simply by the addition of the propargylic alcohol to a solution of the phosphorus halide. Rearrangement of the phosphorus ester proceeds at ambient temperature or with mild heating. When phosphorus trihalides are used, the product can be isolated as the phosphonic dichloride.168169 Aqueous workup provides the phosphonic acid.162 In most instances, however, a dialkyl phosphorochloridite with only a single halogen on phosphorus available for reaction with alcohol has been used.165 170 174... 

In the case of the disilanyldiazoacetate 303, photolysis initially gives the carbene 304 that rearranges to the silaacrylate 305165, which then isomerizes to the bissilylketene 306 (equation 77). The trapping reaction with alcohols gives the products 307 and 308. The latter is obviously formed via ion pair intermediates like 309. The UV and IR spectra of irradiated matrices at 10 K have been measured. The band at 1670 cm-1 is tentatively assigned to the vc=o of 305 Xmax is at 288 nm. 

On warming above -30 C the mixture clears and a Pummerer rearrangement occurs to form (methyl-thio)methyl trifluoracetate (13). However the extent of this by-product formation is minimized at Ae lower temperature, and the reaction with alcohols gives high yields of carbonyl products over short reaction times. This makes trifluoroacetic anhydride one of the better activators for dimethyl sulfoxide oxidations. 

The isothiocyanates are transformed into thiocarbamates by reaction with alcohols or into the acetamides by reaction with acetic acid or anhydride and sodium acetate. These transformations have also been applied to the preparation of unsaturated aminosugars73,74. Thus, suprafa-cial rearrangement of ethyl 2.3,4-trideoxy-6-0-methanesulfonyl-4-thiocyan ato-a-D-t/ireo-hex-2-enopyranoside to the 2-isothiocyanatc occurs in refluxing toluene (1 h), whereas the erythro-epimer needs to be heated in dimethylformamide for 6 hours73. This difference in reactivity might be due to an unfavorable anomeric effect and C-6 in an axial orientation in the transition state of the errr/iro-epimer, respectively. 

Synthesis of trifluoromethylated compounds 152 has been achieved via ester-enolate [2,3]-Wittig and [3,3]-lreland-Claisen rearrangements. Perfluorocyclo-butane phosphonium ylides, e.g. 153, have been used as a masked fluoride anion source in their reactions with alcohols and carboxylic acids which lead to alkyl-and acyl-fluorides. Ylides 153 are also reported to cleave Si-C and Si-O bonds, cause dimerisation of fluoro-olefins, and also react with acid chlorides or other activated aromatic compounds under halogen exchange. ... 

The borane 5 also rearranged to a cyclopropene, either on reaction with alcohols or aldehydes. ... 

Allylic alcohols 218 can be converted into their acetates 227 by standard methods, e.g. AczO/pyridine or DMAP, without any allylic rearrangement. Reaction with Pd(0) gives initially a jr-complex 228 but this loses acetate as the Pd atom donates a pair of electrons to form an rf allyl cation complex 229 of Pd(II). 

Substitution of CO by phosphines 145 The Dotz reaction 149 Rearrangement reactions with loss of CO 151 Photochemical reactions 153 Reactions at the carbene carbon 158 General features 158 Amine nucleophiles 159 Phospine and phosphite nucleophiles 167 Alcohols and alkoxide ion nucleophiles 171 Thiol and thiolate ion nucleophiles 179 Intramolecular nucleophilic reactions 191 Hydroxide ion and water as nucleophiles 194 Insertion reactions initiated by nucleophilic attack Acid-base reactions at the a-carbon 207 General features and methods 207 Kinetic and thermodynamic acidities 209 Effect of structure on pKa values 210 Intrinsic rate constants for proton transfer 219 Thermodynamic acidities in organic solvents 223 Hydrolysis of ionizable carbene complexes 228 Acknowledgments 232 References 233... 

Retinyl halides are very unstable compounds. The tertiary alcohol (594) underwent an allyl rearrangement reaction with phosphorus tribromide or phosphorus trichloride at low temperatures to give the halide (595) (Surmatis and Thommen, 1969). 

Preparation of Isocyanates. Isocyanates are prepared by rearrang-ii azides in inert solvents such as ethers, chloroform, benzene and its homologs, malonic ester, mid ligroin. If the isocyanate is to be isolated, the solvent is removed by distillation, or, if the isocyanate is the lower boiling, it is distilled directly. In this operation, a safety shield is advisable to guard against a possible explosion of yet undecomposed azide. Isocyanates can be converted to sym-ureas by reaction with water, to urethans by reaction with alcohols, to os-ureas by reaction with amines, or to acylamines by reaction with anhydrous acids or acid anhydrides, or they can be hydrolyzed directly to amines. Acylamines can also be obtained. from isocyanates by reaction with Grignard re-... 

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