Ring opening carbon nucleophiles

The oxathiadiazines (106) (73TL2783) and (107) (77ZC222) are ring opened by nucleophilic attack at the sp2 carbons indicated. The oxathiazine dioxide (108) is reduced to the 3,4-dihydro derivative by 0.5 equivalent LAH (72JOC196), although the isomeric chlorooxathiazine dioxide (109). behaves differently towards nucleophiles. Nucleophilic attack at C-6 followed by elimination of SO3 and chloride ion occurs as shown (80AG(E)131). 

The coordinated epoxide is ring-opened by nucleophilic attack on the carbonate species, which leads to an oxy-anion species, which yields the corresponding cyclic carbonate as a product. 

Methylene aziridines have some use as multi-functional synthons. They can be metallated on the ring carbon or ring opened with nucleophiles, giving enaminates that can be further transformed. ... 

The principal manner for organometallic reagents to react with activated aziridines and the 0-analogous oxiranes as well is ring opening through nucleophilic addition accompanied by heterolytic cleavage of the carbon-heteroatom bond (see below). Other favorite modes, in particular, a-metalation and P-elimination are evoked in later sections (pp. 3.5.1 and 3.5.2). 

The phenolate ion can serve as a nucleophile and attack epoxide 2 in a ring-opening reaction. Nucleophilic attack occurs at the benzylic position (the carbon atom attached to the benzene ring) to form an alkoxide intermediate, that is... 

The allylic esters 189 and 191 conjugated with cyclopropane undergo regio-selective reactions without opening the cyclopropane ring. The soft carbon nucleophiles are introduced at the terminal carbon to give 190, and phenylation with phenylzinc chloride takes place on the cyclopropane ring to form 192[120]. 

There is an important difference in the regiochemistry of ring opening reactions of epoxides depending on the reaction conditions Unsymmetncally substituted epoxides tend to react with anionic nucleophiles at the less hindered carbon of the ring Under conditions of acid catalysis however the more highly substituted carbon is attacked... 

Nucleophilic ring opening of epoxides has many of the features of an 8 2 reac tion Inversion of configuration is observed at the carbon at which substitution occurs... 

The experimental observations combine with the principles of nucleophilic substi tution to give the picture of epoxide ring opening shown m Figure 16 5 The nucleophile attacks the less crowded carbon from the side opposite the carbon-oxygen bond Bond... 

As we ve just seen nucleophilic ring opening of ethylene oxide yields 2 substituted derivatives of ethanol Those reactions involved nucleophilic attack on the carbon of the ring under neutral or basic conditions Other nucleophilic ring openings of epoxides like wise give 2 substituted derivatives of ethanol but either involve an acid as a reactant or occur under conditions of acid catalysis... 

Step 2 Nucleophilic attack by water on carbon of the oxonium ion The carbon-oxygen bond of the ring is broken in this step and the ring opens... 

Predict which carbon undergoes nucleophilic attack on acid catalyzed ring opening of cis 3 3 3 tnfluoro 2 3 epoxybutane Examine the C—O bond distances of the protonated form of the epoxide on Learning By Modeling How do these bond distances compare with your prediction" ... 

Nucleophilic Reactions. The strong electronegativity of fluorine results in the facile reaction of perfluoroepoxides with nucleophiles. These reactions comprise the majority of the reported reactions of this class of compounds. Nucleophilic attack on the epoxide ring takes place at the more highly substituted carbon atom to give ring-opened products. Fluorinated alkoxides are intermediates in these reactions and are in equiUbrium with fluoride ion and a perfluorocarbonyl compound. The process is illustrated by the reaction of methanol and HFPO to form methyl 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-methoxypropanoate (eq. 4). 

Nucleophilic Ring Opening. Opening of the ethyleneimine ring with acid catalysis can generally be accompHshed by the formation of an iatermediate ayiridinium salt, with subsequent nucleophilic substitution on the carbon atom which loses the amino group. In the foUowiag, R represents a Lewis acid, usually A = the nucleophile. 

In this section three main aspects will be considered. Firstly, the basic strengths of the principal heterocyclic systems under review and the effects of structural modification on this parameter will be discussed. For reference some pK values are collected in Table 3. Secondly, the position of protonation in these carbon-protonating systems will be considered. Thirdly, the reactivity aspects of protonation are mentioned. Protonation yields in most cases highly reactive electrophilic species. Under conditions in which both protonated and non-protonated base co-exist, polymerization frequently occurs. Further ipso protonation of substituted derivatives may induce rearrangement, and also the protonated heterocycles are found to be subject to ring-opening attack by nucleophilic reagents. 

Isoxazoles are also rather stable to nucleophilic attack by OH at carbon. For reactions with base at a ring hydrogen atom, leading, for example, to ring opening of isoxazoles, see Section 4.02.1.7.1. 

Very little is known about nucleophilic attack on an unsubstituted carbon atom of pyrazoles and their aromatic derivatives (pyrazolones, pyrazolium ions). The SwAr reaction of halogenopyrazoles will be discussed in Section 4.04.2.3.7. Sulfur nucleophiles do not attack the ring carbon atoms of pyrazolium salts but instead the substituent carbon linked to nitrogen with concomitant dequaternization (Section 4.04.2.3.lO(ii)). The ring opening of pyrazolium salts by hydroxide ion occurs only if carbon C-3 is unsubstituted the exact mechanism is unknown and perhaps involves an initial attack of OH on C-3. 

Onium ions of small and large heterocyclics are usually produced by electrophilic attack on a heteroatom. In three- and four-membered rings nucleophilic attack on an adjacent carbon follows immediately, in most cases, and ring opening stabilizes the molecule. In large rings the onium ion behaves as would its acyclic analog, except where aromaticity or transannular reactions come into play (each with its electronic and steric pre-conditions). A wide diversity of reactions is observed. 

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