Rearrangement with base

Phenylcyclobutenediones and enamines give 1 1 adducts that rearrange with bases to 3-hydroxy-2-pyridones (XII-33S). ... 

Diallylsulfonium salts undergo intramolecular allylic rearrangement with strong bases to yield 1,5-dienes after reductive desulfurization. The straight-chain 1,5-dienes may be obtained by double sulfur extrusion with concomitant allylic rearrangements from diallyl disulfides. The first step is achieved with phosphines or phosphites, the second with benzyne. This procedure is especially suitable for the synthesis of acid sensitive olefins and has been used in oligoisoprene synthesis (G.M. Blackburn, 1969). 

Carboxylic acids react with butadiene as alkali metal carboxylates. A mixture of isomeric 1- and 3-acetoxyoctadienes (39 and 40) is formed by the reaction of acetic acid[13]. The reaction is very slow in acetic acid alone. It is accelerated by forming acetate by the addition of a base[40]. Addition of an equal amount of triethylamine achieved complete conversion at 80 C after 2 h. AcONa or AcOK also can be used as a base. Trimethylolpropane phosphite (TMPP) completely eliminates the formation of 1,3,7-octatriene, and the acetoxyocta-dienes 39 and 40 are obtained in 81% and 9% yields by using N.N.N M -tetramethyl-l,3-diaminobutane at 50 in a 2 h reaction. These two isomers undergo Pd-catalyzed allylic rearrangement with each other. 

Electrochemical fluorination leads to fragmentation, coupling, and rearrangement reactions as well as giving the perfluorinated product. In addition, small amounts of hydrogen can be retained in the cmde product. The products are purified by treatment with base to remove the hydrogen-containing species and subsequently distilled. 

Introduction of a 3-bromosubstituent onto thiophene is accompHshed by initial tribromination, followed by reduction of the a-bromines by treatment with zinc/acetic acid, thereby utilizing only one of three bromines introduced. The so-called halogen dance sequence of reactions, whereby bromothiophenes are treated with base, causing proton abstraction and rearrangement of bromine to the produce the most-stable anion, has also been used to introduce a bromine atom at position 3. The formation of 3-bromotbiopbene [872-31-1] from this sequence of reactions (17) is an efficient use of bromine. Vapor-phase techniques have also been proposed to achieve this halogen migration (18), but with less specificity. Table 3 summarizes properties of some brominated thiophenes. 

Triazoles are acylated with acyl halides, usually initially at the 1-position, but the acyl group may migrate to the 2-position on heating or on treatment with base. Thus acetylation with acetyl chloride often gives 1-acetyl derivatives, which rearrange to the 2-isomers above 120 °C (74AHCil6)33). 

Treatment of 7V-benzyl-l,2-benzisoxazolin-3-one with base produced a benzoxazine-4-one (see Scheme 88). The base catalyzed rearrangement of the 2-methyl-3-phenyl-l,2-benzoisoxolium salt to an oxazine is believed to proceed via a similar intermediate (67AHC(8)277). A number of other decompositions could possibly proced via this proposed route (74HCA376, 67AHC(8)277), which has also been postulated for the rearrangement of a variety of isoxazolium salts, e.g. the conversion of (200) into (202) (Section 4.16.3.3.2(i)(b)). 

Several 3-acylamino-l,2-benzisoxazoles such as (278) underwent rearrangement to 3-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-l,2,4-oxadiazoles (279) on heating with base. It has been questioned whether the same mechanism is operative in these last rearrangements (8lAHC(29)l4l, p. 150). 

Addition of trichloromethide ion to azirine (210) generates aziridine (230). When this aziridine was treated with base, cyclization and rearrangement occurred and the azetidine (233) was isolated (73JA2982). 

Ring expansions of suitable /3-lactams can also be achieved on treatment with base rearrangement of the Af-substituted azetidin-2-ones (133) occurs in the presence of LDA to give (134) (72JA9261). Aminolysis of the /3-lactam epoxide (135) and the aldehyde (137) affords (136) and (138) respectively (81JHC1239). 

Rearrangement of 0-acyi hydroxarrac acxl derivatives with base or heat to amines or urea derivatives (via isocyanates) or rearrangement of carboxylic acids via their hydroxamic acxis to amines... 

A similar sequence of reactions has been shown to take place with the dienamine derived from isophorone and morpholine (77). Reaction of this enamine with trichloroacetic acid gave a trichloromethyl derivative which was not isolated but which undergoes rearrangement and hydrolysis with base to give the diene acid (210). 

An interesting variation of this theme starts with the a-chlorination of dicyclohexylketone (58). Treatment of the halo-genated intermediate with base leads to the acid, 60, by the Favorski rearrangement. Esterification of the acid with 2(1-pyrolidino)ethanol yields dihexyrevine (61). Both this agent and its earlier congener are recommended for use in GI spasms. 

Benzodiazepine 4-oxide 1 rearranges to the 1,5-diazocine 5-oxide 2 upon treatment with base sodium hydroxide, ammonia or a basic ion-exchange resin can be employed.53 - 56... 

The catalytic system used in the Pacol process is either platinum or platinum/ rhenium-doped aluminum oxide which is partially poisoned with tin or sulfur and alkalinized with an alkali base. The latter modification of the catalyst system hinders the formation of large quantities of diolefins and aromatics. The activities of the UOP in the area of catalyst development led to the documentation of 29 patents between 1970 and 1987 (Table 6). Contact DeH-5, used between 1970 and 1982, already produced good results. The reaction product consisted of about 90% /z-monoolefins. On account of the not inconsiderable content of byproducts (4% diolefins and 3% aromatics) and the relatively short lifetime, the economics of the contact had to be improved. Each diolefin molecule binds in the alkylation two benzene molecules to form di-phenylalkanes or rearranges with the benzene to indane and tetralin derivatives the aromatics, formed during the dehydrogenation, also rearrange to form undesirable byproducts. 

The 0-acyl derivatives of hydroxamic acids give isocyanates when treated with bases or sometimes even just on heating, in a reaction known as the Lossen rearrangement. The mechanism is similar to that of 18-13 and 18-14 ... 

Based on extensive studies associated with the Ramberg-Backlund rearrangement s and its mechanism , including the treatment of thiirane oxides with bases, the following conclusions emerge ... 

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