Reduction reactions Samarium iodide

The amides derived from /3-hydroxy-a-amino acids, obtained from the reaction of the latter with resin-bound hydroxylamine, have been cyclized under the Mitsunobu conditions to afford 3-aminoazetidin-2-ones. The free azetidin-2-ones were cleaved from the resin by reduction with samarium iodide <20010L337>. 

When 1,2-dihydroquinazolines are actually desired as the reaction product, they can often be contaminated with their conjugated analogs due to spontaneous dehydrogenation <2000JME4479>, but this can be avoided under reductive conditions, as demonstrated by the preparation of 2-substituted-l,2-dihydroquinazolines 815 by the reductive condensation of 2-nitrobenzamides 814 with aldehydes in the presence of samarium iodide <2002JHC1271>. 

Barbier reaction Samarium(II) iodide, 270 Benzoannelation Chromium carbene complexes, 82 Dicarbonylcyclopentadienylcobalt, 96 Ethyl (Z)-3-bromoacryIate, 130 Grignard reagents, 138 Methyl acrylate, 183 Methyllithium, 188 Ruthenium(III) chloride, 268 Benzoin condensation Benzyltriethylammonium chloride, 239 3-EthyIbenzothiazolium bromide, 130 Benzoylation (see also Acylation) Cadmium, 60 Dibutyltin oxide, 95 Birch reduction Birch reduction, 32... 

A large number of radical reactions proceed by redox mechanisms. These all require electron transfer (ET), often termed single electron transfer (SET), between two species and electrochemical methods are very useful to determine details of the reactions (see Chapter 6). We shall consider two examples here - reduction with samarium di-iodide (Sml2) and SRN1 (substitution, radical-nucleophilic, unimolecular) reactions. The SET steps can proceed by inner-sphere or outer-sphere mechanisms as defined in Marcus theory [19,20]. 

Samarium iodide catalyzes the reduction of halides in damp THF120-122 and yields may be significantly improved if HMPA is added to the reaction mixture121,123. a-Halocarbonyl compounds are readily hydrodehalogenated by the use of this and similar methods124-126. Bis-cyclopentadiene complexes of samarium catalyze the reduction of benzylic and ally-lie halides via an organosamarium complex intermediate127-129. This reaction may be controlled so that monodeuteration occurs if the reaction is carried out under dry aprotic conditions followed by addition of D20 (equation 12). 

TeruaKi Mukalyama, Shu Kobayashi The [2,3] - Wittig Reaction Takeshi Nakal, Koichl Mikaml Reductions with Samarium (II) Iodide... 

Fluoro- and chloro-substituted tricarbonyl chromium arene complexes can be reductively coupled with ketones, in the presence of samarium iodide, to give tertiary alcohols (Scheme 109). A related reaction of a tethered alkoxyimine furnished a tricyclic compound (Scheme 110). Samarium also promotes the formation of a benzyhc ketyl... 

Samarium iodide is a reagent capable of highly selective reduction of epoxy ketones and esters to the corresponding alcohols (Table 12). Diene monoepoxides are converted with high regio- and stereo-selectivity to the ( )-allylic alcohols, and the reaction can be carried out at -90 C under neutral conditions. As a result functional groups such as alkoxycarbonyl, carbonyl and cyano survive. 

Finally, it can be stated that many reactivity patterns of free radical ions are equally found in oxidative and reductive transformations involving initial inner-sphere ET, such as in reactions with samarium iodide [389], low valent titanium [390] and titanocene complexes [391], manganese(III) [392], and CAN [393]. 

Samarium iodide has been used to bring about reductive photo-dehalogenation of 1,1-dichlorocyclopropane. The results and the efficiency of the reaction are shown in Scheme 5. The process, a Barbier reaction, is brought about using visible light. The yields of product are enhanced by the addition PhSH as a hydrogen donor. 

Reduction of cyano groups under radical conditions is carried out employing tin hydrides such as /-IJu3SnH.286 Unfortunately, the reaction is so far restricted to malonitriles. Samarium iodide is a valid alternative to tin hydrides since in the presence of HMPA it promotes the reductive decyanation of malononitriles and a-cyanoesters in high yields (Eq. 165).287 -289... 

The chromium-complexed benzylic radicals are also known and were employed in a variety of useful organic reactions. One electron reductive coupling of the tricarbonylchromium complexes of o-substituted benzaldehydes and benzaldi-mines with samarium iodide gave 1,2-diols and diamines, respectively, in good yields with extremely high threo diastereoselectivity (Eq. 7) [7]. Therefore, enantiomerically pure 1,2-diols and diamines were easily obtained by using the planar chiral chromium complexes of benzaldehyde and benzaldimine. 

Tishchenko Reduction of Carbonyl Derivatives. The samarium iodide-catalyzed Tishchenko reaction has been used quite extensively in synthesis. Interesting examples include the diastereoselective synthesis of anri-l,3-diols (eq 66) and 5-lactones (eq 67). ... 

The synthesis of sphingosine from 2,4- -benzylidene-E>-threose was hampered by ftilure to achieve ara /no-selectivity in the addition of tetradecosylmagnesium bromide as well as in the oxidation/reduction of the resulting mixed alcohols by all methods tried except the samarium iodide-assisted Tishchenko reaction. ... 

The projected free radical cyclization proceeded as planned to give 172. Ozonolysis of the vinyl group, oxidation of the resulting aldehyde to an acid, and alkylation with diazomethane provided projected intermediate 162. Reduction of the lactone provided 173. Treatment of 173 with 6-methoxytryptamine and pivalic acid then provided a nearly equal mixture of lactams 174 (isoreserpine stereochemistry at Cg) and 175 (reserpine stereochemistry at C3). The correct C3 stereoisomer was moved forward to 176 (protection of the tertiary alcohol followed by reduction of the lactam). The silyl ethers were removed, the secondary ether was re-protected, and reaction with samarium iodide accomplished reduction of the a-hydroxy ester to provide 177. Removal of the TBS group and esterification of the alcohol completed the synthesis of reserpine. 

Scheme 3.6. Samarium(ll)iodide-promoted domino reductive fragmentation/aldol reaction.

Samarium(II) iodide also allows the reductive coupling of sulfur-substituted aromatic lactams such as 7-166 with carbonyl compounds to afford a-hydroxyalkylated lactams 7-167 with a high anti-selectivity [74]. The substituted lactams can easily be prepared from imides 7-165. The reaction is initiated by a reductive desulfuration with samarium(ll) iodide to give a radical, which can be intercepted by the added aldehyde to give the desired products 7-167. Ketones can be used as the carbonyl moiety instead of aldehydes, with good - albeit slightly lower - yields. 

Reduction of nitroalkanes RNO2 with samarium(II) iodide, obtained from samarium and 1,2-diiodoethane, yields either alkylhydroxylamines RNHOH or alkylamines RNH2, depending on the amount of the reagent434. The base-catalysed reaction of nitroalkanes with phenyl(vinyl) sulphoxide (399) yields the conjugate adducts 400, which fragment to allylic nitro compounds 401 on thermolysis435. 

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