Standard reaction conditions

Several variations of the Feist-Benary reaction furnish substituted furans as products. The following three examples provide synthetically useful alternatives to the standard reaction conditions. One method is based on the reaction of a sulfonium salt with a P-dicarbonyl compound. For example, reaction of acetylacetone (39) with sulfonium salt 38 in the presence of sodium ethoxide yields 81% of trisubstituted furan 40. This strategy provides a flexible method for the preparation of 2,3,4-trisubstituted furans. 

Initially, preparation of 41 was not an easy task and it very unexpectedly seems to be more difficult than the following key asymmetric acetylide addition. N-Mono alkylation of 36 with pMBCl 42 under various standard reaction conditions did not proceed as expected. It was found that the desired 41 was formed when 36 and chloride 42 were co-spotted on the TLC. So we turned our attention to reaction of... 

The initial screening of the resin catalysts was done in a batch reactor at supercritical for butene-1 conditions of temperature 155 °C, pressure of 1000 psig and at molar ratio of 1-butene water of 5.5. The reaction was stopped after predetermined period of time and the products analyzed. It was found that under the standard reaction conditions, for all of the catalysts studied, a constant concentration in the sec-butanol concentration was achieved within a 1-2 hour reaction time. Using only the linear section of the concentration-time plot, the one hour result was used to evaluate the catalyst activity, which was normalized as mmol of SBA/ per proton/ per hour (a), as mmol of product/ per gram of dry catalyst/ per hour (b) and mmol of product/ per ml of wet catalyst/ per hour (c). 

In order to have a consistent basis for comparing different reactions and to permit the tabulation of thermochemical data for various reaction systems, it is convenient to define enthalpy and Gibbs free energy changes for standard reaction conditions. These conditions involve the use of stoichiometric amounts of the various reactants (each in its standard state at some temperature T). The reaction proceeds by some unspecified path to end up with complete conversion of reactants to the various products (each in its standard state at the same temperature T). 

As in the reductive ring-opening, titanocene—oxygen bonds have to be protonated. Here, a titanium enolate, which is generated after reductive trapping of an enol radical, has to be protonated, in addition to a simple titanocene alkoxide. As before, 2,4,6-collidine hydrochloride constitutes a suitable acid to achieve catalytic turnover, but here zinc dust turned out to be the reductant of choice [31c], The features of the stoichiometric reaction are preserved under our conditions. Acrylates and acrylonitriles are excellent radical acceptors in these reactions. Methyl vinyl ketone did not yield the desired addition product. Under the standard reaction conditions, a-substituted acceptors are readily tolerated, but (3-substitution gives the products only in low yields. 

A wide range of a,P-unsaturated acceptors work well under standard reaction conditions with pre-catalyst 75c (Table 7). Acceptors include a,P-unsaturated esters, amides, alkyl ketones, and phosphine oxides, many of which provide the products in greater than 90% ee [68, 69], a,P-Unsaturated phenyl ketones, nitriles, and thioesters also work, albeit with lower enantioselectivity. The scope has been extended to include a variety of vinyl phosphonate precursors providing good chemical yields and moderate to high enantioselectivity (entries 9 and 10). 

The geometry of the Michael acceptor has been shown to play an important role in the intramolecnlar Stetter reaction [70,72], In the case of salicylaldehyde derived substrate 90, which contains a c -l,2-disubstituted aUcene, no reaction occurs under standard reaction conditions. The same is not true with trisubstituted olefin acceptors. Cychzation of p,p-disubstituted substrate E)-9 provides cyclized product in high yield and 91% ee Eq. 7. The corresponding (Z)-isomer gives a similar yield although the enantioselectivity is decreased to 86%. 

In the process of developing the Stetter reaction in ionic liquids, Gree and coworkers applied their methodology to the synthesis of haloperidol (Scheme 25) [101], A variety of aromatic aldehydes react with methyl acrylate 160 when butyl-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [bmim][BF ] is used as solvent. In the synthesis of haloperidol, electron-deficient aldehyde 153 was subjected to standard reaction conditions with 160 to provide 161 in good yield. 

The reaction conditions are mild and generally tolerant of epimerizable stereocenters. For instance, the use of (5)-ethyl lactate 181 under the reaction conditions produces desired ester 182 in 94% ee Eq. 17a. The subjection of racemic ethyl lactate 181 to standard reaction conditions with chiral pre-catalyst 183 provides ester 182 in 32% ee Eq. 17b. This result suggests that the catalyst is intimately involved in the acylation event. 

In 2005, Rovis and Reynolds reported the synthesis of a-chloroesters from a,a-dichloroaldehydes using chiral, enantioenriched not chirald pre-catalyst 75c [115], As shown in Table 14, the reaction scope includes a variety of dichloroaldehydes 201 that afford desired esters 202 in good yields and enantioselectivities. The reaction is compatible with various phenols, including electron-rich and electron-poor nucleophiles. Standard reaction conditions accommodate a variety of aldehydes, although substrates containing P-branching inhibit reactivity. 

When 2,2-dichloro-3-phenylpropanal 203 is subjected to standard reaction conditions with chiral triazolium salt 75c, the desired amide is produced in 80% ee and 62% yield Eq. 20. This experiment suggests that the catalyst is involved in an enantioselec-tive protonation event. With this evidence in hand, the proposed mechanism begins with carbene addition to the a-reducible aldehyde followed by formation of activated car-boxylate XLII (Scheme 32). Acyl transfer occurs with HOAt, presumably due to its higher kinetic nucleophilicity under these conditions, thus regenerating the carbene. In turn, intermediate XLin then undergoes nucleophilic attack by the amine and releases the co-catalyst back into the catalytic cycle. 

The authors describe a control experiment in which CTOss-benzoin product 245 was subjected to standard reaction conditions with achiral triazolium pre-catalyst 191 yielding retro-benzoin products, as well as cyclopentene product 247 Eq. 24. This result additionally demonstrates the reversibility of the benzoin reaction. When trimethylsilyl-protected 245 is treated under the same reaction conditions with ethanol as a nucleophile, ketoester 248 is formed along with retro silyl-benzoin and Stetter products. This result provides enough evidence that the cross-benzoin/oxy-Cope mechanism cannot be dismissed. 

Movassaghi and Schmidt reported that amidation of unactivated esters also occurs in the presence of carbene 3 when 1,2-amino alcohols are nsed [138], A representative sample of the range of esters 277 and amino alcohols 278 is shown in Table 24. A few snbstrates proved problematic under standard reaction conditions. 

In an attempt to use an acyl anion equivalent to open an aziridine, Wu and co-workers isolated an unexpected ring opened product 316 (Eq. 31) [158], The authors found that the presence of oxygen was the determining factor between benzoin formation and ester formation. No desired ketones were ever formed. Various aromatic substituted aldehydes were treated under standard reaction conditions to afford esters in good yields. 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde provided product in only 40% yield, presumably due to the ease of aldehyde oxidation. 

The relative importance of the planar and central elements of chirality within the Josi-phos skeleton has also been established. Diastereomeric ligands 13 and 22 bear the same R) central chirality but have the opposite planar chirality (Fig. 9.4). Under standard reaction conditions with methanol as the nucleophile, the (R),(S)-ligand 13 gives 100% conversion after approximately 7 min. Conversely, the (i ),(i )-diastereomer 22 gives incom-... 

Treatment of the enantiomerically enriched acyclic allylic carbonate (S)-l (97% ee) under the standard reaction conditions furnished the allylic alkylation product (S)-14 (95% ee) in 86% yield, with net retention of absolute configuration (Eq. 3). This result implies that the displacement occurs via a classical double inversion process, albeit through a configurationally stable distorted u-allyl or enyl ff+n) organorhodium intermediate. This is supported by the fact that the achiral ff-spedes iii would undoubtedly have afforded the racemate of 14 (Scheme 10.3). Additionally, the enyl (a+n) organo-metallic intermediate provides a model for the regio- and enantiospedfidty observed in the reaction. 

Concentration Dependence Studies. The variation of the product distribution as a function of total metal concentration, at a fixed ruthenium rhodiumrtriethylamine ratio of 10 1 10, under the standard reaction conditions of 1000 atm and 230°C is illustrated in Figure U. Thus the rate of product formation increases linearly with respect to increasing concentration up to ca 2.5 mmoles total metal above which the rate levels off. A plot of turnover (total carbon monoxide... 

Standard reaction conditions and standard materials of construction available in multipurpose plants are usually ... 

An homologous series of advancement reactions was synthesized using standard reaction conditions on a 300 gram scale. The branch concentration was increased from zero to 0.677 branches/molecule. Viscosity and gel permeation (GPC) data were obtained. Table II summarizes the results. 

We could now show that the asymmetric 1,2-addition using dialkylzinc reagents and chiral N,0-ligands with a paracyclophane backbone is also applicable on solid supports [36], Therefore, we immobilized ortho-carboxybenzaldehyde 32 on Mer-rifield resin 31 under standard reaction conditions. 

Presently, data on about 40 reactions are known for Ni-Cu alloys. If the activity (defined as the relative rate with regard to Ni, measured at standard reaction conditions for both metals and all alloys) is plotted as a function of the Cu bulk concentration, all available data for various reactions are split into two groups, characterized as follows (245) (see Fig. 13) ... 

This method can also be applied to the formation of heteroarylzinc compounds in DMF-pyridine in the standard reaction conditions. Results are reported in Table 7. 

Under these standard reaction conditions, the acetonitrile/pyridine mixture can replace the DMF/pyridine one. This solvent mixture is also quite convenient for running the preparation of arylzinc halides. Yields are good to excellent (60-90%) and even higher than those obtained in DMF. However, with bromophenol, no organozinc species was formed in acetonitrile as observed in DMF. The formation of arylzinc species is also effective in a mixture of solvents of acetonitrile-DMF-pyridine (8/1/1) in the presence of C0CI2 (13%) as the catalyst precursor and zinc bromide (30%). This method has also been applied to the formation of organozinc halides from alkyl and alkenyl halides. So far, only low yields have been obtained using the standard reaction conditions in DMF-pyridine. Results are reported in Table 8. 

Monomers 111 (a -d), were prepared from the common starting material 15 by a potassium phenate displacement of the aromatic nitro group. The yields of the keto-ether amine products ranged from 90 to 100% and were of sufficient purity after extractive work up to be utilized directly in the synthesis of the various maleimide monomers. Imidization of the aminobenzocyclobutenes was accomplished using standard reaction conditions (maleic anhydride to form the amic acid followed by cyclodehydration with acetic anhydride and triethyla-mine) and provided the maleimide products in yields ranging from 60 to 90%. 

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