Silicon nucleophiles 1,6-addition

Hydrolysis of diphenyl phosphorochloridate (DPPC) in 2.0 M aqueous sodium carbonate is also believed to be a two-phase process. DPPC is quite insoluble in water and forms an insoluble second phase at the concentration employed (i.e. 0.10 M). It seems highly significant that the hydrophobic silicon-substituted pyridine 1-oxides (4,6,7) are much more effective catalysts than hydrophilic 8 and 9. In fact, 4 is clearly the most effective catalyst we have examined for this reaction (ti/2 < 10 min). Since derivatives of phosphoric acids are known to undergo substitution reactions via nucleophilic addition-elimination sequences 1201 (Equation 5), we believe that the initial step in hydrolysis of DPPC occurs in the organic phase. Moreover, the... 

For the addition of silicon nucleophiles to activated enynes, silyl cuprates can be utilized. For example, treatment of ethyl 5-phenyl-2-penten-4-ynoate with (MejSi CuLi gave the 1,4-addition product with 76% yield (equation 77)38. 

Most of the reactions of silicon or germanium organic compounds proceed photochemically via a radical mechanism or via a cycloaddition mechanism (Chapters 4 and 6). There are few examples of nucleophilic addition of RSi or RGe to Cgo [118,119]. Reaction of silyUithium derivatives RjSili or germyllithium derivatives RjGeLi with different alkyl- and aryl-substituents R yields mainly the 1,2-adduct 28 or the 1,16-adduct 29 1,4-addition and dimerization of two fullerene-units was also found as a minor pathway. One example is given in Scheme 3.15. 

Silicon nucleophiles have also been investigated with uracil derivatives, and thus the addition of dimethylphe-nylsilyllithium to 5-substituted 1,3-dimethyluracils 459 was found to give stable products of addition at the 6-position 460, although products arising from addition at the 5-position were also observed with some 6-substituted derivatives <1998H(48)2601>. 

The results in Table 3 were explained as shown in Scheme 4. From the fact that no kinetic isotope effect was observed in the reaction of phenyl-substituted disilenes with alcohols (Table 1), it is assumed that the addition reactions of alcohols to phenyltrimethyl-disilene proceed by an initial attack of the alcoholic oxygen on silicon (nucleophilic attack at silicon), followed by fast proton transfer via a four-membered transition state. As shown in Scheme 4, the regioselectivity is explained in terms of the four-membered intermediate, where stabilization of the incipient silyl anion by the phenyl group is the major factor favoring the formation of 26 over 27. It is well known that a silyl anion is stabilized by aryl group(s)443. Thus, the product 26 predominates over 27. However, it should be mentioned that steric effects also favor attack at the less hindered SiMe2 end of the disilene, thus leading to 26. 

The 1,2-migration of a silicon moiety to the oxygen anion of a carbon-oxygen single bond produced by nucleophilic addition to a carbonyl group (Brook... 

Boron—nitrogen coordination polymers, with ferrocene, 6, 208 Boron nucleophiles, in conjugate additions asymmetric 1,4-additions, 10, 388 mechanisms, 10, 384 to nitroolehns, 10, 388 to a,/3-unsaturated amides, 10, 386 to a,/3-unsaturated esters, 10, 386 to a,/3-unsaturated ketones, 10, 384 Boron-silicon bonds, addition to alkenes, 10, 760 to alkynes, 10, 758 to allenes, 10, 760 to carbenoids, 10, 766 to 1,3-dienes, 10, 762 to isocyanides, 10, 765... 

The regioselectivity of the double nucleophilic addition of ketene silyl acetals to a,/3-unsaturated imines has been found to be highly dependent on the subtle difference in the reactivities of the ketene silyl acetals the factors are mainly derived from the ability of the ketene silyl acetals to undergo the silicon-aluminium exchange reaction, where the aluminium enolate preferentially undergoes 1,4-addition.209... 

Nucleophilic addition to vinylsilanes is facilitated by the fact that it leads to the formation of an anion which is a to silicon the anion is thus relatively stable. The reaction should be compared to the Michael addition, in which the anion generated is stabilized by an adjacent carbonyl group (Figure Si5.13). 

The other group of reactions proceeds with attack of a nucleophilic reagent at a silicon atom of silica surface. They include the processes of nucleophilic substitution or nucleophilic addition (SNi or Adn). For example, methanolysis of chlorinated silica is a typical process for Swi mechanism ... 

A nucleophile adds, forming a trigonal bipyramidal pentacovaient intermediate that then ejects the leaving group in the microscopic reverse of the nucleophilic addition reaction. The pentacovaient intermediate is often short-lived, and this is shown by enclosing it in brackets. The pentacovaient intermediate bonds that are colinear are called axial (or apical) bonds, whereas the three bonds that lie in the plane perpendicular are called equatorial. Three common elements that can react by this pathway are silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur. Hydrolysis of phosphate esters like RNA occurs by this path. 

The successive reaction of (dibromomethyl)silanes with LDA (hthium diisopropyl-amide) and two equivalents of benzaldehyde gives 1,3-diol monosilyl ethers in good yield (Scheme 10.221) [574]. This tandem reaction would proceed via anionic 1,3-silyl migration of /l-lithioxyalkylsilane intermediate 152 and addition of the resulting lithium carbenoid to benzaldehyde. Thus, internal activation of the silicon-lithium alkoxide promotes nucleophilic addition of a-haloalkylsilanes. Similar tandem reactions of 2-trimethylsilyl-l,3-dithiane with aldehydes [575] and epoxides [576] have been reported. 

Lentsch, L.M., and Wiemer, D.R, Nucleophilic additions to P-keto phosphonates. Phosphorus, Sulfur Silicon Relat. Elem., 144, 573, 1999. 

Nucleophilic addition of the trifluoromethyl group to aldehydes, ketones and other carbonyl compounds leads primarily to the corresponding trimethylsilyl ether this must subsequently be hydrolyzed to the alcohol. Because typical reaction conditions are very mild, the method is widely applicable, even for sensitive substrates. In contrast with most other methods, fluoride-induced perfluoroalkylation via silicon compounds also works for enolizable carbonyl compounds. With c(, -un-saturated substrates 1,2-addition directly to the carbonyl group is strongly preferred [64b]. If the oxygen is coordinated to a bulky Lewis acid, for example aluminum tri(2,6-bis(tert-butyl)phenoxide (ATPH), the 1,4-addition products are obtained selectively [73f] (Scheme 2.128). 

Although the mechanism of the Mukaiyama reaction is not yet fully understood, several points have now been firmly established (a) a Lewis acid enolate is not involved (b) the Lewis acid activates the carbonyl group for the nucleophilic addition and (c) the Si—O bond is cleaved by nucleophilic attack of the anionic species, generally halide, on silicon. Point (a) has been established by the use of INEPT- Si NMR spectroscopy. Moreover, trichlorotitanium enolates have been synthesized, characterized and shown to give a completely different stereochemical outcome than the TiCU-mediated reactions of silyl enol ethers. Complexes between Lewis acids and carbonyl compounds have been isolated and characterized by X-ray crystallography and recently by NMR spectrometry. On the basis of these observations closed transition structures will not be considered here open transition structures with no intimate involvement between the silyl enol ether and the Lewis acid offer the best rationale for the after the fact interpretation of the stereochemical results and the best model for stereochemical predictions. 

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