Saturated alcohols, reaction with

It has been shown that it is the vinyl group that is transferred in this reaction, not an alcoholic one as in acid- or alkali-catalyzed transesterification of esters with saturated alcoholic components. With 0-labeled acetic acid in the transvinylation of vinyl-propionate, the labeled oxygen remained completely in the acetate group [68]. 

A similar transposition can be applied to saturated ketones. For example, a ketone is treated with a vinyl organometallic reagent to generate a derivative of an aUylic alcohol. Reaction with benzenesulfenyl chloride then gives an aUylic sulfoxide by means of a [2,3] sigmatropic rearrangement. The remain-... 

Mixed vapors of acrolein and ethyl alcohol were passed over the catalyst in a heated stainless steel tube at atmospheric pressure. Products were condensed and fractionated in a 20-plate bubble tray column. Fractions taken were acetaldehyde, 20-36°, and acrolein-ethyl alcohol, 36-78.4°. At this point water was added to the distillation kettle and an ethyl alcohol-aUyl alcohol-water fraction, 78-95°, was taken overhead. Fractions were analyzed for aldehydes by the hydroxylamine hydrochloride method, for im-saturation by reaction with bromine in aqueous potassium bromide, for alcohol by the nitrite ester method, and for water with Fischer reagent. Propyl alcohol in the water-free allyl alcohol recovered from the azeotrope was calculated by difference from the total alcohol determined by reaction with acetyl chloride and the unsaturated alcohol determined by reaction with aqueous bromine solution. Fresh catalyst was used for each experiment. 

Lactone rings have also been constructed using carbonylation of appropriately functionalized compounds by the insertion of carbon monoxide. Ryu, Sonoda et al. have reported the synthesis of 8-lactones from saturated alcohols and carbon monoxide via remote carbonylation [110,111] (Scheme 64). Treatment of saturated alcohol 292 with lead tetraacetate led to oxygen-centered radical 293, which underwent a 1,5-hydrogen transfer reaction to produce carbon-centered radical 294. Trapping of this radical with carbon monoxide and oxidation followed by cyclization gave lactone 297. 

Ahyl alcohol undergoes reactions typical of saturated, aUphatic alcohols. Ahyl compounds derived from ahyl alcohol and used industriahy, are widely manufactured by these reactions. For example, reactions of ahyl alcohol with acid anhydrides, esters, and acid chlorides yield ahyl esters, such as diahyl phthalates and ahyl methacrylate reaction with chloroformate yields carbonates, such as diethylene glycol bis(ahyl carbonate) addition of ahyl alcohol to epoxy groups yields products used to produce ahyl glycidyl ether (33,34). 

Reaction with Organic Compounds. Aluminum is not attacked by saturated or unsaturated, aUphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons. Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons do not generally react with aluminum except in the presence of water, which leads to the forma tion of halogen acids. The chemical stabiUty of aluminum in the presence of alcohols is very good and stabiUty is excellent in the presence of aldehydes, ketones, and quinones. 

Aldol reaction of campholenic aldehyde with propionic aldehyde yields the intermediate conjugated aldehyde, which can be selectively reduced to the saturated alcohol with a sandalwood odor. If the double bond in the cyclopentene ring is also reduced, the resulting product does not have a sandalwood odor (161). Reaction of campholenic aldehyde with -butyraldehyde followed by reduction of the aldehyde group gives the aHyUc alcohol known commercially by one manufacturer as Bacdanol [28219-61 -6] (82). 

This reaction serves as a means of identification of estragol. If it be heated for twenty-four hours on the water-bath, with three times its volume of a saturated alcoholic solution of potash, it. is converted into anethol, which, after drying and recrystallisation from petroleum ether, melts at 22°, and boils at 232° to 233°. 

The reaction product with monoethanolamine acts as a thickening agent [41,101] and with alcohols as an emollient [40]. Also reaction products with amino acids and oligo- or polypeptides for use in cosmetic formulations are known [43]. Sorbitan esters from ether carboxylates are described as emulsifiers or mild surfactants in cosmetic formulations [39] and alkyl ether carboxylic acid taurides as nonirritant anionic surfactants for cosmetic cleaners in particular [44]. Using unsaturated ether carboxylates it is possible to make viscous formulations based on combinations of unsaturated and saturated ether carboxylates [111]. Highly purified alkyl ether carboxylates based on alcohol ethoxylates with low free alcohol content have also been described [112]. 

Clear, surface-active phosphate ester compositions were prepared by heating 1 mol P4O,0 with 2-4.5 mol of a linear or branched chain C6, 8 saturated alcohol, a C4 20 mono- or dialkylphenol, or a 2- to 14-mol ethylene oxide adduct of one of these alcohols or alkylphenols at 25-110°C, and hydrolyzing the reaction product at 60-110°C with 0.5-3.0% H20. The hydrolyzed mixture had a lower Klett color value than the phosphorylation reaction mixture [21]. 

The 1,2-hydrosilylation of a,/3-unsaturated ketones is possible and provides a convenient route to allyl alcohols. The standard conditions of Et3SiH/TFA lead to overreduction to the saturated alcohol with mesityl oxide 434,439 The combination of EtsSiH/AlCE/HCl with mesityl oxide gives a mixture of the 1,2-reduction product 4-methylbut-3-ene-2-ol and the fully reduced product, 2-methylpent-2-ene.136 The Ph2SiH2/RhH(PPh3)4 reduction of cyclohexenone gives reaction at... 

Oxidative Animation of Nitrones to a-Amino-Substituted Nitroxyl Radicals Similar to the oxidative methoxylation reaction, oxidative animation of 4H -imidazole TV-oxides, in amine saturated alcohol solutions, give stable nitroxyl (282), nitronyl nitroxyl (283), imino nitroxyl (284) and (285) radicals with the amino group at the a-carbon atom of the nitroxyl group (Scheme 2.107) (520, 521). The observed influence of substituents on the ratio of animation products at C2 and C5 atom is close to the ratio observed in the previously mentioned oxidative methoxylation reaction. It allows us to draw conclusions about the preference of the radical cation reaction route. 

In parallel investigations, Danishefsky and coworkers accomplished the preparation of the 16-membered lactone of a model epothilone system via an alternative C9,C10 disconnection [14] (Scheme 4). In this case, coupling of epoxy-alcohol 17 with acids 18a and 18b afforded trienes 19a and 19b respectively. RCM of 19a under the influence of ruthenium initiator 3 produced dienes 20a as a 1 1 mixture of Z -isomers. Under identical conditions, cyclization of 19b produced a single product 20b (tentatively assigned as the Z-isomer). The variable stereoselectivity observed in these reactions was inconsequential since the olefinic functionality could be reduced to afford the corresponding saturated macrolactones. Schrock s molybdenum initiator 1 promoted the cyclization of 19a and 19b with similar efficacy [14]. 

Reaction of saturated acylzirconocene chlorides with (CH3)2Cu(CN)Li2 gives the secondary alcohol (73%), and D20 work-up of the reaction mixture gives the a-deuterio alcohol. This observation suggests the formation of a ketone—zirconocene complex (Scheme 5.40 see also Section 5.3.2.1). Thus, for the reaction of a,p-unsaturated acylzirconocene chlorides with R2Cu(CN)Li2, initial formation of an unsaturated ketone—zirconocene complex followed by 1,3-rearrangement of the zirconocene moiety to an oxazirconacyclopentene, which is a ketone carbanion equivalent, has been proposed (Scheme 5.41). 

Adogen has been shown to be an excellent phase-transfer catalyst for the per-carbonate oxidation of alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds [1]. Generally, unsaturated alcohols are oxidized more readily than the saturated alcohols. The reaction is more effective when a catalytic amount of potassium dichromate is also added to the reaction mixture [ 1 ] comparable results have been obtained by the addition of catalytic amounts of pyridinium dichromate [2], The course of the corresponding oxidation of a-substituted benzylic alcohols is controlled by the nature of the a-substituent and the organic solvent. In addition to the expected ketones, cleavage of the a-substituent can occur with the formation of benzaldehyde, benzoic acid and benzoate esters. The cleavage products predominate when acetonitrile is used as the solvent [3]. 

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