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Peterson Olefination Reaction (Peterson Elimination, Silyl-Wittig Reaction) The Reaction ... 

Long before the silyl Wittig rearrangement was discovered, the base-catalyzed rearrangement of a-silylcarbinols to alkoxysilanes was known. This reaction, carefully studied by Brook and his students (4-6) takes place in exactly the opposite direction to the silyl Wittig reaction. In the... 

The phosphorus ylides of the Wittig reaction can be replaced by trimethylsilylmethyl-carbanions (Peterson reaction). These silylated carbanions add to carbonyl groups and can easily be eliminated with base to give olefins. The only by-products are volatile silanols. They are more easily removed than the phosphine oxides or phosphates of the more conventional Wittig or Homer reactions (D.J. Peterson, 1968). 

The Peterson reaction has two more advantages over the Wittig reaction 1. it is sometimes less vulnerable to sterical hindrance, and 2. groups, which are susceptible to nucleophilic substitution, are not attacked by silylated carbanions. The introduction of a methylene group into a sterically hindered ketone (R.K. Boeckman, Jr., 1973) and the syntheses of olefins with sulfur, selenium, silicon, or tin substituents (D. Seebach, 1973 B.T. Grdbel, 1974, 1977) illustrate useful applications. The reaction is, however, more limited and time consuming than the Wittig reaction, since metallated silicon derivatives are difficult to synthesize and their reactions are rarely stereoselective (T.H. Chan, 1974 ... 

Aryl and alkyl trimethylsilyl ethers can often be cleaved by refluxing in aqueous methanol, an advantage for acid- or base-sensitive substrates. The ethers are stable to Grignard and Wittig reactions and to reduction with lithium aluminum hydride at —15°. Aryl -butyldimethylsilyl ethers and other sterically more demanding silyl ethers require acid- or fluoride ion-catalyzed hydrolysis for removal. Increased steric bulk also improves their stability to a much harsher set of conditions. An excellent review of the selective deprotection of alkyl silyl ethers and aryl silyl ethers has been published. ... 

The Peterson olefination can be viewed as a silicon variant of the Wittig reaction, the well-known method for the formation of carbon-carbon double bonds. A ketone or aldehyde 1 can react with an a-silyl organometallic compound 2—e.g. with M = Li or Mg—to yield an alkene 3. 

It should be noted here that the lithium salt of hexamethyldisilazane li-HMDS 492 (and Na-HMDS-(486) and K-HMDS in Sections 5.1.2 and 5.1.3), which is readily obtained on treatment of a solution of HMDS 2 in hexane or THF with butyUithium at -78 °C, is not only a very useful and selective strong base, e.g. for Wittig reactions, but can also add to carbonyl groups to yield the silylated Schiff bases or nitriles (cf. Sections 4.7 and 5.1.3) or to nitriles to afford N-silylated ami-dines. Alkylation of the Li-HMDS 492, e.g. with allyl bromide, affords, furthermore, N,N-bis(trimethylsilylated) primary amines such as 43 [64]. The combina-... 

The Collins reagent in CH2CI2 oxidizes silylated primary alcohols in preference to the more hindered silylated secondary alcohols, as described for oxidation of the prostaglandin intermediate 2963 to the rather labile aldehyde 2964, which is immediately subjected to a Horner-Wittig-reaction to introduce the lower side chain [206] (Scheme 12.61). 

This section deals with reactions that correspond to Pathway C, defined earlier (p. 64), that lead to formation of alkenes. The reactions discussed include those of phosphorus-stabilized nucleophiles (Wittig and related reactions), a a-silyl (Peterson reaction) and a-sulfonyl (Julia olefination) with aldehydes and ketones. These important rections can be used to convert a carbonyl group to an alkene by reaction with a carbon nucleophile. In each case, the addition step is followed by an elimination. 

Boron-Wittig reaction (12, 12-13). The direct reaction of the anion of an alkyldimesitylborane at -78° with an aromatic aldehyde followed by oxidation results in an (E)-alkene in low yield. The intermediate adduct can be isolated in about 80% yield as the silyl ether of a iyn-l,2-diol by addition of CISi(CH,), to the reaction, and this product on desilylation (HF, CHjCN) affords (E)-alkenes with high selectivity. Somewhat lower (E)-selectivity obtains in a one-pot reaction. In contrast, addition of trifluoroacetic anhydride (slight excess) to the reaction at -78° to -110° results in a (Z)-alkene with almost comparable selectivity (Z/E 9 1). 

Phosphoniosilylotion. This combination reacts with acyclic or cyclic enones to give phosphonium salts, formed by addition of P(C6H,)3 to the p-position of the enone and silylation of the carbonyl group. The products can be converted into p-substituted enones by deprotonation (BuLi), a Wittig reaction, and hydrolysis. 

These P elimination reactions have been used in an olefine synthesis called the Peterson olefination reaction which is analogous (and sometimes superior) to the Wittig reaction. The Peterson olefination reaction involves the addition of an a-silyl carbanion to an aldehyde or ketone to give P-hydroxysilane, followed by P-elimination to give the olefine. 

Peterson olefination, a silicon variant of the Wittig reaction, has been used to convert a-silyl benzyl carbamates (78) into trisubstituted vinyl carbamates (79) in moderate-to-good yields and with some ii/Z-selectivity. ... 

Alkenes from a-silyl carbanion and carbonyl compounds. Also known as sila-Wittig reaction. 

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