Reduction reactions with Raney nickel

Reaction of benzylideneaniline with optically active methyl p-tolyl sulphoxide 449 in the presence of lithium diethylamide produces the corresponding jS-anilinosulphoxide 450 with 100% asymmetric induction. Its reductive desulphurization with Raney nickel leads to the enantiomerically pure amine 451524 (equation 270). When the same optically active... 

Reductive desulfurization with Raney nickel is a reaction which requires but the simplest of techniques, is carried out under rather mild conditions and affords relatively good yields it is now. a standard and well-recognized reaction, having found use in practically all the various... 

Reductive desulfurization with Raney nickel of the mercaptolysis products of streptomycin has supplied one of the keys to the elucidation of the structure and configuration of that antibiotic. Since the chemistry of streptomycin has recently been reviewed37 the reactions discussed here will be considered solely as examples of hydrogenolysis and their bearing upon the problem of the structure and configuration of streptomycin will be ignored. 

Cyclizations by formation of carbon—selenium bonds represent a modern method with a high synthetic potential in the chemistry of cyclophanes. Selenocyanates such as 16 are accessible usually in excellent yields through the reaction of bromides with KSeCN [27], The reaction with benzylic bromides under reductive conditions using the dilution principle results in good to excellent yields of [3.3]di-selenacyclophanes which can be deselenized photochemically, pyrolytically (without previous oxidation), or by reaction with arynes, Stevens rearrangement and subsequent reaction with Raney nickel. [2.2]Metacyclophane (18), for example, is accessible in 47% total yield by using this sequence of reactions starting with... 

The skeletal structure of 3-hydroxy-l,2,5-thiadiazole was determined through reductive desulfurization with Raney nickel in ethanol which formed A, A-diethylaminoacetamide, Eq. (6). The same product was obtained by subjecting the proposed intermediate, glycinamide, to the same reaction conditions. The aryl-substituted thiadiazoles (64) were reduced to a-diamines with sodium and alcohol. 

Another ring-opening reaction of thiophene is the reductive desulfurization with Raney nickel in ethanol to give alkanes ... 

Oxidation of the alcohol 374, obtained by base-hydrolysis of the acetate 311 (3.4.3.), with Jones-reagent yielded the ketone 375. Unsubstituted 2,8-dioxa-homotwistbren-dane 377) was prepared by converting the ketone 375 to its thioketal 376, which on reductive desulfuration with raney-nickel gave 377. The enolacetate 378 was available by reaction of the ketone 375 with triphenylethylUthium as base followed by addition of acetic anhydride. Under acidic conditions only decomposition could be observed and with pyridine as base no reaction took place. 

F 4] Cycloaddition with Vinyl Isocyanates. Upon thermolysis in refluxing benzene, 2,5-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-5,5-bis-(propylthio)-l,3,4-oxadiazole yields the bis(propylthio)carbene precursor, which reacts as a 1,1-dipole equivalent in [1 -E 4] cycloaddition reactions with various vinyl isocyanate substrates leading to highly functionalized adducts such as hydroindolones (eq 1). Reductive desulfurization with Raney nickel yields the enamide or the fully reduced system (eq 2). Cyclohexyl isocyanide also behaves as a 1,1-dipole equivalent in [1 -E 4] cycloadditions with vinyl isocyanates, however the adducts are less functionahzed. ... 

The Gif group have used methyl radicals formed by photolysis of N-acetoxy-2-thiopyridone to generate 5 -radicals in nucleoside systems. The formation of the 5, 8-cyclopurine nucleoside (26) by this method is shown in Scheme 4, as is a similar reaction in the pyrimidine series. In this case (27) could be reductively desulfurized with Raney nickel. The tellurides used as radical precursors were formed by displacement of 5 -0-mesylates.27 Free-radical cyclization was also employed in a synthesis of 6,l -propanouridine (29) from the known anhydronucleoside (28) as indicated in outline in Scheme 5.28... 

The Gassman synthesis has been a particularly useful method for the synthesis of oxindolcs[lb,8]. Use of methylthioacetate esters in the reactions leads to 3-(methylthio)oxindoles which can be desulfurized with Raney nickel. Desulfurization can also be done by reduction with zinc or tin[10,ll]. 

Reduction. Just as aromatic amine oxides are resistant to the foregoing decomposition reactions, they are more resistant than ahphatic amine oxides to reduction. Ahphatic amine oxides are readily reduced to tertiary amines by sulfurous acid at room temperature in contrast, few aromatic amine oxides can be reduced under these conditions. The ahphatic amine oxides can also be reduced by catalytic hydrogenation (27), with 2inc in acid, or with staimous chloride (28). For the aromatic amine oxides, catalytic hydrogenation with Raney nickel is a fairly general means of deoxygenation (29). Iron in acetic acid (30), phosphoms trichloride (31), and titanium trichloride (32) are also widely used systems for deoxygenation of aromatic amine oxides. 

Reduction. Quinoline may be reduced rather selectively, depending on the reaction conditions. Raney nickel at 70—100°C and 6—7 MPa (60—70 atm) results in a 70% yield of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (32). Temperatures of 210—270°C produce only a slightly lower yield of decahydroquinoline [2051-28-7]. Catalytic reduction with platinum oxide in strongly acidic solution at ambient temperature and moderate pressure also gives a 70% yield of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline [10500-57-9] (33). Further reduction of this material with sodium—ethanol produces 90% of /ra/ j -decahydroquinoline [767-92-0] (34). Reductions of the quinoline heterocycHc ring accompanied by alkylation have been reported (35). Yields vary widely sodium borohydride—acetic acid gives 17% of l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l-(trifluoromethyl)quinoline [57928-03-7] and 79% of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l-isopropylquinoline [21863-25-2]. This latter compound is obtained in the presence of acetone the use of cyanoborohydride reduces the pyridine ring without alkylation. 

The majority of analgesics can be classified as either central or peripheral on the basis of their mode of action. Structural characteristics usually follow the same divisions the former show some relation to the opioids while the latter can be recognized as NSAlD s. The triamino pyridine 17 is an analgesic which does not seem to belong stmcturally to either class. Reaction of substituted pyridine 13 (obtainable from 12 by nitration ) with benzylamine 14 leads to the product from replacement of the methoxyl group (15). The reaction probably proceeds by the addition elimination sequence characteristic of heterocyclic nucleophilic displacements. Reduction of the nitro group with Raney nickel gives triamine 16. Acylation of the product with ethyl chlorofor-mate produces flupirtine (17) [4]. 

From 13.1 g of N-preduction with Raney-nickel and hydrogen, in which reaction the substance may be suspended in methanol or dissolved in methanol-ethyl acetate at normal pressure and at about 40°C with combination of the theoretical quantity of hydrogen, 12.2 g are obtained of o-emino-N-pfrom aqueous methanol hasaMPof90°C. 

Docosanedioic acid has been prepared by Wolff-Kishner reduction of 6,17-diketodocosanedioic acid, formed by reaction of the half-ester acid chloride of adipic acid with the a,co-cadmium derivative of decane (%26 overall yield).3 Reduction of Wolff-Kishner method, followed by simultaneous reduction and desulfurization with Raney nickel of the 2,5-bis(co-carboxyoctyl)thiophene pro-... 

The enantioselective hydrogenation of prochiral substances bearing an activated group, such as an ester, an acid or an amide, is often an important step in the industrial synthesis of fine and pharmaceutical products. In addition to the hydrogenation of /5-ketoesters into optically pure products with Raney nickel modified by tartaric acid [117], the asymmetric reduction of a-ketoesters on heterogeneous platinum catalysts modified by cinchona alkaloids (cinchonidine and cinchonine) was reported for the first time by Orito and coworkers [118-121]. Asymmetric catalysis on solid surfaces remains a very important research area for a better mechanistic understanding of the interaction between the substrate, the modifier and the catalyst [122-125], although excellent results in terms of enantiomeric excesses (up to 97%) have been obtained in the reduction of ethyl pyruvate under optimum reaction conditions with these Pt/cinchona systems [126-128],... 

The aforementioned deuterated derivatives were prepared by way of reduction of a ketone, aldehyde, or ester with sodium borodeu-teride, or by deuteroboration of an alkene. An interesting reaction, perhaps eventually applicable to direct deuteration of polysaccharides, was reported by Koch and Stuart413 and by them and their coworkers,41b who found that treatment of methyl a-D-glucopyranoside with Raney nickel catalyst in deuterium oxide results in exchange of protons attached to C-2, C-3, C-4, and C-6. In other compounds, some protons of CHOH groups are not replaced, but the spectra may nevertheless be interpreted with the aid of a- and /3-deuterium effects. 

Cyclododecene may be prepared from 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene by the catalytic reduction with Raney nickel and hydrogen diluted with nitrogen, with nickel sulfide on alumina, with cobalt, iron, or nickel in the presence of thiophene, with palladium on charcoal, with palladimn chloride in the presence of water, with palladium on barium sulfate, with cobalt acetate in the presence of cobalt carbonyl, and with cobalt carbonyl and tri- -butyl phosphine. It may also be obtained from the triene by reduction with lithium and ethylamine, by disproportionation, - by epoxidation followed by isomerization to a ketone and WoliT-Kishner reduction, and from cyclododecanone by the reaction of its hydrazone with sodium hydride. ... 

Complex 61 is also accessible from the 2-nitrophenyl isocyanide complex 68 by reduction of the nitro group with Sn/HCl. Incomplete reduction of the nitro group in 68 with Raney-Nickel/hydrazine yields, after intramolecular cyclization, the complex 70 with the NH,NOH-stabilized benzimidazolin-2-ylidene ligand. Complex 69 with the 2-hydoxylamin-substituted phenyl isocyanide ligand presumably occurs as an intermediate in this reaction. The alkylation of both the NH,NH- and the NH, NOH-stabilized NHC ligands in 67 and 70, respectively, proceeds readily (Fig. 23) [184, 185]. 

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