Reductions halides, sodium borohydride

Displacement of bromine on phenacyl halide with imidazole gives Reduction with sodium borohydride followed by displacement with 2,6-dichloro-benzyl alcohol in HMPA then produces antifungal orconazole (37). ... 

Displacement of bromine on phenacyl halide with imidazole gives Reduction with sodium borohydride followed by... 

Alkyl mercury halides and alkyl mercury acetates are quite stable, but reduction with sodium borohydride leads to highly unstable alkyl mercury hydrides, which collapse at room temperature or in the presence of light to yield alkyl radicals. One other product is mercury metal and you might think you would get H as well but this is too unstable to be formed and is captured by something else (X)—you will see what X is in a moment. This initial decomposition of RHgH initiates the chain but its propagation is by the different mechanism shown below. 

Vinyl halides add to allylic amines in the presence of Ni(cod)2 where cod=l, 5-cyclooctodine, followed by reduction with sodium borohydride. Aryl iodides add to alkynes using a platinum complex in conjunction with a palladium catalyst. A palladium catalyst has been used alone for the same purpose, and the intramolecular addition of a arene to an aUcene was accomplished with a palladium or a GaCl3 catalyst, " AUcyl iodides add intramolecularly to aUcenes with a titanium catalyst, or to alkynes using indium metal and additives. The latter cyclization of aryl iodides to alkenes was accomplished with indium and iodine or with Sml2. " ... 

In a similar vein, the keto bridge in 5 can be replaced by oxygen with retention of activity. Reduction of acetophenone derivative 19 by means of sodium borohydride leads to the corresponding alcohol (20). Reaction with phosphorus tribromide with cyanide gives... 

In the reduction of dienes and polyenes, combinations of a metal hydride and transition metal halides can also be used. Sodium borohydride and cobalt(II) halides were applied in the selective reduction of unsaturated carbon-carbon double bonds93. LiAlH4, in the presence of Zrlv-, TiIV- or Vlv-halides, is a selective reducing agent of dienes94,95. The following reactions were carried out with sodium borohydride and iodine (equation 28)96. 

Attempts to directly iodinate quinoxaline failed, and the synthesis of 2,3-diphenyl-5,8-dibromoquinoxaline is somewhat more involved (Scheme 9) [61]. Starting from ort/zo-phenylenediamine, reaction with SOCI2 gives benzothia-diazole in high yield. Bromination in HBr furnishes 4,7-dibromobenzothiadi-azole, which can be alkynylated or directly reduced [62]. Reduction of the dibromide with sodium borohydride leaves the halide substituents unmolested but opens the ring to furnish l,4-dibromo-2,3-diaminobenzene. Reaction of this intermediate with a 1,2-dione furnishes a 2,3-disubstituted 5,8-dibromo-quinoxaline. Pd-catalyzed alkynylation finishes the sequence off and removal of the TMS groups yields the desired 5,8-diethynylquinoxaline monomers (Table 9, entries 13,14). 

A very active elemental rhodium is obtained by reduction of rhodium chloride with sodium borohydride [27]. Supported rhodium catalysts, usually 5% on carbon or alumina, are especially suited for hydrogenation of aromatic systems [iTj. A mixture of rhodium oxide and platinum oxide was also used for this purpose and proved better than platinum oxide alone [i5, 39]. Unsaturated halides containing vinylic halogens are reduced at the double bond without hydrogenolysis of the halogen [40]. 

Pyridine is difficult to reduce (as is benzene ), but pyridinium salts, e.g. alkylpyridinium halides, are partly reduced by hydride transfer reagents such as lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH ) and sodium borohydride (NaBH4). LiAlH, which must be used in anhydrous conditions, only gives the 1,2-dihydro derivative, but the less vigorous reductant NaBH in aqueous ethanol yields the 1,2,5,6-tetrahydro derivative (Scheme 2.30)1... 

The XeChlor process is a reductive dechlorination process for the treatment of a wide array of organic halides, including conversion of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into biphenyl or dioxins into simple dibenzofuran. The dechlorination catalyst is prepared in situ from titanocene dichloride sodium borohydride is the reducing agent. 

In general, alkylations as well as some acylations of enamines using halides as the leaving group occur predominantly on carbon (B-69MI20700). For example, treatment of A2-piperideine (115) with methyl bromoacetate followed by sodium borohydride reduction... 

Reduction of cobalticenium halides by sodium borohydride in aqueous ethanol or by lithium aluminium hydride in tetrahydrofuran gives the neutral diamagnetic complex [Co(CsHe)(C6H6)](XXIV) in which one ir-cyclopentadienyl anion has been converted into cyclopentadiene (99) ... 

Reduction of RCOCI to RCHO. Sodium borohydride and this cadmium salt reduce acyl chlorides to aldehydes, but only in solvents such as DMF, DMA, and HMPT. DMF is essential, but the amount of DMF in the salt is sufficient. For the most part, yields are 50-90%. Aryl, alkyl, and benzylic halides do not react. Other functional groups (nitrile, nitro, ester, C=C) are also inert. 

A one-pot PTC reaction procedure for the overall conversion of an alkyl halide into a primary amine via an azide is particularly illustrative.204 Thus the reduction of the azide is effected by the addition of sodium borohydride to a reaction mixture arising from the PTC displacement reaction of an alkyl halide with sodium azide (the preparation of 1-octylamine, Expt 5.193). The reaction appears to be applicable to primary and secondary alkyl halides, alkyl methane-sulphonates and benzylic halides. 

Reduction of halides and sulfonates.2 Sodium borohydride effects this reaction under phase-transfer conditions (aqueous C6H5CH3 or CH2C12). The more lipophilic salts hexadecyltributylphosphonium bromide or tetraoctylammonium bromide are the most effective catalysts. 

Nucleophilic displacement by hydride ion is an excellent method for the reduction of halides. In etheral solution a wide range of halides are reduced by LAH at room temperature66-79. In some cases sodium borohydride has been used as a milder reagent with sensitive substrates80,81. This reagent has also been used under phase-transfer conditions82,83. 

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