Sodium borohydride-trifluoroacetic acid

Dicyclohexy Icarbod iimide p-Toluenesulfonic Acid Phenyl Chloroformate Sodium Hydroxide Ethyl Chloroformate Sodium Carbonate Diphenyl Carbonate Benzyl Bromide iV,A-Dimethylacetamide Benzyl Chloride Acetonitrile Sodium Borohydride Trifluoroacetic Acid Hydrogen Cyanide Sodium Cyanide Sodium Bisulfite... 

The Gribble reduction of diaryl ketones refers to the sodium borohydride-trifluoroacetic acid (NaBHVTFA) reduction of diaryl ketones (1) to diarylmethanes (2).1 The reaction is very general and is applicable to the reduction of diarylmethanols (3) and triarylmethanols (4) to the respective diarylmethanes (2) and triarylmethanes (5).2... 

A Parham cyclization strategy has been used to synthesize a wide variety of isoquinolines. For example, iodide 66 is smoothly converted to 67, which can be reduced (sodium borohydride/trifluoroacetic acid, 99%) or treated with nucleophiles and a Lewis acid to effect a-amidoalkylation. Likewise, imidazo[4,3-a]isoquinolinones (68), ° thiazolo[4,3-a]isoquinolinones (69), ° pyrrolo[2,l-a]isoquinolines (70), pyrrolo[ 1,2-6] isoquinolines (71), pyrrolo[l,2-6]acridinones (72), ° pyirolo[l,2-g]quinolones (73), ° thieno[3,2-y]indolizinones (74), ° and furo[3,2-/lindolizinones (75). ° It should be noted that the latter ring system 63 was prepared by deprotonation (LDA) rather than halogen-lithium exchange. °... 

In a similar vein, a sodium borohydride-trifluoroacetic acid combination has proved to be a useful reducing agent for the conversion of alkoximes (14) into... 

Gribble GW, Leese RM, Evans BE (1977) Reactions of Sodium Borohydride in Acidic Media IV. Reduction of Diarylmethanols and Triarylmethanols in Trifluoroacetic Acid. Synthesis 172... 

G. W. Gribble, W. J. Kelly, and S. E. Emery. Reactions of sodium borohydride in acidic media VII. Reduction of diaryl ketones in trifluoroacetic acid. Synthesis, 1978, 763. 

Fluoroalkjiations are frequentiy performed indirectly using tandem reactions. Arenes react with sodium borohydride in trifluoroacetic acid to afford otherwise difficult to obtain l,l,l-trifluoro-2,2-diarylethanes. Presumably sodium borohydride reacts initially with the trifluoroacetic acid to produce the trifluoroacetaldehyde or its equivalent, which rapidly undergoes Friedel-Crafts-type condensation to give an intermediate carbinol. The carbinol further alkylates ben2ene under the reaction conditions giving the observed product. The reaction with stericaHy crowded arenes such as mesitylene and durene... 

Unusual reducing properties can be obtained with borohydride derivatives formed in situ. A variety of reductions have been reported, including hydrogenolysis of carbonyls and alkylation of amines with sodium borohydride in carboxyHc acids such as acetic and trifluoroacetic (38), in which the acyloxyborohydride is the reducing agent. 

Catalytic reduction of folic acid to 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic acid (225) proceeds fast in trifluoroacetic acid (66HCA875), but a modified method using chemical reductants leads with sodium dithionite to 7,8-dihydrofolic acid (224). Further treatment with sodium borohydride gives (225) which has been converted into 5-formyl-(6i ,S)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-L-folic acid (leucovorin) (226) by reaction with methyl formate (equation 70) (80HCA2554). 

On heating with sodium borohydride in glacial acetic acid. 5//-dibenz[/t,/ azepine (5) undergoes sequential acylation and reduction to yield 5-ethyl-5/7-dibcnz[A,/ ]azepine (8, R = Et).192 Similarly, reduction in trifluoroacetic acid produces the trifluoroethyl derivative 8 (R = CF3CH2 61% mp 69-70 C).193... 

Although catalytic hydrogenation is the method most often used, double bonds can be reduced by other reagents, as well. Among these are sodium in ethanol, sodium and rerr-butyl alcohol in HMPA, lithium and aliphatic amines (see also 15-14), " zinc and acids, sodium hypophosphate and Pd-C, (EtO)3SiH—Pd(OAc)2, trifluoroacetic acid and triethylsilane (EtsSiH), and hydroxylamine and ethyl acetate.However, metallic hydrides, such as lithium aluminum hydride and sodium borohydride, do not in general reduce carbon-carbon double bonds, although this can be done in special cases where the double bond is polar, as in 1,1-diarylethenes and in enamines. " °... 

As a general rule, peracetylation is most useful for compounds below Mr 2000, particularly those that have been reduced with sodium borohydride and still contain some salt. The best procedure for peracetylation is based on the method of Bourne and coworkers. Samples are dissolved in 2 1 (v/v) trifluoroacetic anhydride-acetic acid and the solutions kept for 10 min at room temperature. Reagents are removed under a stream of nitrogen, and a solution of the product in chloroform is washed with water to remove salts, and dried the peracetylated sample is dissolved in methanol for the f.a.b. analysis. 

Reduction of the ketone carbonyl of cis-1, 2,3,4,4a,9b-hexahydro-8-hydroxydi-benzofuran-3-one with trifluoroacetic acid and triethylsilane at 0° produces a mixture of the a- and /3-isomers of the C3 alcohol with an u / ratio of 1 4 (Eq. 211).394 This result can be compared with the isomer ratio of 100 1 that results when sodium borohydride is used as the reducing agent.394 The same cis pair of alcohol isomers is formed in 77% combined yield, but in a reversed ratio of a /3 = 4 1, when the less saturated tetrahydrodibenzofuran analog is used as the substrate (Eq. 212).394... 

Dimethylformamide (DMF), dioxane, piperidine, methylene chloride, acetonitrile, trimethyl orthoformate (TMOF), sodium borohydride, diisopropylcarbodiimide, and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) were purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. and used without further purification. All of the diversity reagents were purchased from Aldrich except for Fmoc-glycine-OH, which was purchased from Novabiochem. 

DCM (anhydrous), DMSO (anhydrous), triethylamine (99 + %), sulfur trioxide-pyridine complex, DMA (anhydrous), potassium tert-butoxide (95%), DCE (anhydrous), 2-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethylamine (98 + %), sodium triacetoxy-borohydride (95%), A/A-diisopropylethylamine (99%), p-toluenesulfonyl chloride (99 + %), and trifluoroacetic acid (99 + %) were obtained from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. 4-Hydroxy-2-methoxybenzaldehyde (>98%) was obtained from Fluka Chemie, AG. 

Quinazoline was reduced by hydrogen over platinum oxide to 3,4-dihydro-quinazoline [489], and by sodium borohydride in trifluoroacetic acid to 1,2-dihydroquinazoline [490]. 

Reduction of carbonyl to methylene in aromatic ketones was also achieved by (dane prepared from lithium aluminum hydride and aluminum chloride [770], by soditim borohydride in triiluoroacetic acid [841 with triethylsilane in trifluoroacetic acid [555, 777], with sodium in refluxing ethanol [842], with zinc in hydrochloric acid [843] and with hydrogen iodide and phosphorus [227], geiibrally in good to high yields. 

High yields of amines have also been obtained by reduction of amides with an excess of magnesium aluminum hydride (yield 100%) [577], with lithium trimethoxyaluminohydride at 25° (yield 83%) [94] with sodium bis(2-methoxy-ethoxy)aluminum hydride at 80° (yield 84.5%) [544], with alane in tetra-hydrofuran at 0-25° (isolated yields 46-93%) [994, 1117], with sodium boro-hydride and triethoxyoxonium fluoroborates at room temperature (yields 81-94%) [1121], with sodium borohydride in the presence of acetic or trifluoroacetic acid on refluxing (yields 20-92.5%) [1118], with borane in tetrahydrofuran on refluxing (isolated yields 79-84%) [1119], with borane-dimethyl sulflde complex (5 mol) in tetrahydrofuran on refluxing (isolated yields 37-89%) [1064], and by electrolysis in dilute sulfuric acid at 5° using a lead cathode (yields 63-76%) [1120]. 

Miki and Hachiken reported a total synthesis of murrayaquinone A (107) using 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4fT-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854) as an indolo-2,3-quinodimethane equivalent for the Diels-Alder reaction with methyl acrylate (624). 4-Benzyl-3,4-dihydro-lfT-furo[3,4-f>]indol-l-one (853), the precursor for the 4H-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854), was prepared in five steps and 30% overall yield starting from dimethyl indole-2,3-dicarboxylate (851). Alkaline hydrolysis of 851 followed by N-benzylation of the dicarboxylic acid with benzyl bromide and sodium hydride in DMF, and treatment of the corresponding l-benzylindole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid with trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) gave the anhydride 852. Reduction of 852 with sodium borohydride, followed by lactonization of the intermediate 2-hydroxy-methylindole-3-carboxylic acid with l-methyl-2-chloropyridinium iodide, led to the lactone 853. The lactone 853 was transformed to 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4H-furo[3,4- 7]indole 854 by a base-induced silylation. Without isolation, the... 

Methylcryptaustoline iodide (14) was synthesized from phenylacetic acid 47 by Elliott (39) as shown in Scheme 7. Nitration of 47 to the 6-nitro compound 48 and reduction with sodium borohydride afforded lactone 49. Reduction of the aromatic nitro group with iron powder in acetic acid gave ami-nolactone 50, which was converted to tetracyclic lactam 51 with trifluoroacetic acid in dichloromethane. Reduction of the lactam by a borane-THF complex followed by treatment with methyl iodide afforded ( )-0-methylcryptaustoline iodide (14). 

Deoxy -2,3 - O - isopropylidene - a - l - lyxo - hexopyranosyl - 4 -ulose)thymine30 (45) was treated with sodium borohydride in methanol to give a 40% yield of l-(6-deoxy-2,3-0-isopropylidene-a-L-talopyrano-syl)thymine (88), which, on deacetonation with trifluoroacetic acid, gave l-(6-deoxy-a-L-talopyranosyl)thymine65 (89). This result indicates that,... 

Lithium aluminium hydride has also been used for the reduction of nitriles to amines a recommended procedure involves the slow addition of the nitrile to at least one molar proportion of the reducing agent in a cooled ethereal solution.205 The reduction of nitriles is also effected by the use of sodium trifluoro-acetoxyborohydride (from sodium borohydride and trifluoroacetic acid) in tetrahydrofuran solution.206... 

Deoxygenation of naphthalene-1,4-endoxides. A new method for conversion of these Diels-Alder adducts of benzynes with furanes to naphthalenes consists in reduction with sodium borohydride in trifluoroacetic acid.5 Excess acid is used when the substrate bears methyl groups at the bridgeheads. Substrates lacking such groups tend to undergo acid-catalyzed rearrangement to naphthols, but are reduced satisfactorily with THF as solvent and a limited amount of acid. 

The first McCasland s pseudo-sugar, pseudo-a-DL-talopyranose (P) was synthesized from 4-acetoxy-2,3-dihydroxy-5-oxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (6) as follows [13]. Reduction of the oxo acid 6 with sodium borohydride and subsequent esterification with methanol and trifluoroacetic acid, followed by acetylation gave methyl (1, 2, 3, 4/5)-2, 3, 4, 5-tetraacetoxycyclohexanecarboxylate (7). Hydrogenation of 7 with lithium aluminium hydride and successive acetylation yielded pseudo-a-DL-talopyranose pentaacetate (8). Hydrolysis of 8 in ethanolic hydrochloric acid gave pseudo-a-DL-talopyranose 9 in 23% overall yield from 6 [1] (Scheme 6). 

A mixture of 39.2 g (71.2 mmol) of (2S,3R,4R,5S)-2,5-bis-(N-(((benzyl)oxy)carbonyl)amino)-3,4-epoxy-l,6-diphenylhexane in 600 ml of THF was treated under N2 with 13 g (0.36 mol) of sodium borohydride. The resulting mixture was treated dropwise with 27.7 ml (0.36 mol) of trifluoroacetic acid. After being stirred for 3.5 h at ambient temperature, the resulting mixture was quenched with 1 N aqueous HCI, diluted with water, and stirred for 16 h. The resulting mixture was filtered, washed with water, and dried to provide 22.85 g (58%) of the hydroxide octahydrate in 400 ml of 1,4-dioxane and 400 ml desired compound as a white solid. 

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