Sodium, acetylide benzyl

ESTANO (Spanish) (7440-31-5) Finely divided material is combustible and forms explosive mixture with air. Contact with moisture in air forms tin dioxide. Violent reaction with strong acids, strong oxidizers, ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, bis-o-azido benzoyl peroxide, bromates, bromine, bromine pentafluoride, bromine trifluoride, bromine azide, cadmium, carbon tetrachloride, chlorine, chlorine monofluoride, chlorine nitrate, chlorine pentafluoride, chlorites, copper(II) nitrate, fluorine, hydriodic acid, dimethylarsinic acid, ni-trosyl fluoride, oxygen difluoride, perchlorates, perchloroethylene, potassium dioxide, phosphorus pentoxide, sulfur, sulfur dichloride. Reacts with alkalis, forming flammable hydrogen gas. Incompatible with arsenic compounds, azochloramide, benzene diazonium-4-sulfonate, benzyl chloride, chloric acid, cobalt chloride, copper oxide, 3,3 -dichloro-4,4 -diamin-odiphenylmethane, hexafluorobenzene, hydrazinium nitrate, glicidol, iodine heptafluoride, iodine monochloride, iodine pentafluoride, lead monoxide, mercuric oxide, nitryl fluoride, peroxyformic acid, phosphorus, phosphorus trichloride, tellurium, turpentine, sodium acetylide, sodium peroxide, titanium dioxide. Contact with acetaldehyde may cause polymerization. May form explosive compounds with hexachloroethane, pentachloroethane, picric acid, potassium iodate, potassium peroxide, 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene-1,3,5-triol. 

Le Goffic et al. (258, 259) used an approach which built almost all the ring carbons in one step by reaction of the piperidone enamine of N-benzyl-4-piperidone (630) and a-methylgramine (631) in refluxing diox-ane. Reaction of 632 with sodium acetylide in liquid ammonia gave the... 

Alkali-metal hydi oearbon derivatives react with fonnaldeh i de in the same manner as the Grignard compounds. Schlenk and Ochs report the formation of triphenylmethylcarbinol by reaction of formaldehyde and sodium triphenylmethane. The allyhe reaiTangement also takes place when lithium benzyl is reacted with formaldehyde gas, orfcho-tolylcarbinol being obtained. Sodium acetylides react normally giving acetylenic... 

The free base 13 is obtained by stirring with sodium acetate in MTBE. Benzylation by treatment with a mild acid and p-methoxybenzyl alcohol provides 14 (Emert et al., 1977 Henneus et al., 1996). The initial conditions for the asymmetric addition of the lithium acetylide to the trifluoroketone appear in an earlier Merck paper (Thompson et al., 1993, 1996). Optimization of these conditions, which include some elaborate NMR studies (Thompson et al., 1998) and key scale-up experiments, provides a reliable and scaleable procedure to install the stereocenter in high yield, purity, and enantioselectivity (Scheme 6.3). n-Butyllithium (or w-hexyllithium, minimum four equivalents) is added to a solution of (lR,25)-A-pyrrolidinylnorephedrine (Corey and Cimrich, 1994) (two equivalents) and cyclopropylacetylene (two equivalents) at — 10°C and the reaction is allowed to warm to 0°C. These conditions are critical to establish the chiral complex that is responsible for the high enantioselectivity. This solution is cooled below — 50°C, and trifluoroketone 14 in THE is added and stirred for about 1 h at this temperature before... 

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