Staudinger intermediate

Since this transition state could yield an intermediate which in turn could conceivably produce the products observed, it cannot be ruled out at this point. Perhaps after more data have been collected concerning the existence of the analogous Staudinger intermediates (23) from olefin reactions, it will be possible to choose between the two reaction pathways. 

Thiocarboxylic acids react with phosphazenes (R -N=PPh3, Staudinger intermediate) generated from alkyl azides and electron-deficient triarylphos-... 

Early in the last century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Hermann Staudinger discovered a reaction between phosphines and azides, which became known as the Staudinger reaction (Staudinger and Meyer, 1919). Triphenylphosphine reacts with azides to form an intermediate iminophosphorane with the release of nitrogen gas. This intermediate quickly breaks down in aqueous environments to yield triphenylphosphine oxide and a primary amine (Figure 17.17). 

Figure 17.18 The Staudinger ligation reaction uses a modified phosphine derivative containing an electrophilic group that acts as a trap for the nucleophilic nitrogen in the intermediate aza-ylide. The resultant shift yields an amide bond derivative between the phosphine-containing molecule and the azide-containing molecule.

Figure 17.23 A traceless Staudinger ligation process involves the formation of an intermediate aza-ylide with subsequent attack of the nucleophilic nitrogen atom on the neighboring electrophilic group. The formation of an amide bond then occurs concomitant with the loss of the phosphine component, thus forming a zero-length crosslink between the two molecules.

These building blocks can be obtained either by the Miller cyclization of (5-hydroxy-ct-amino acids or by the Staudinger reaction7 ([2+2] ketene-imine cycloaddition). The procedure reported here follows the second route and has the advantages of being diastereospecific and to proceed in high yield. For a large scale preparation, the harmful and toxic N-methylhydrazine can be replaced by N,N-dlmethyl-1,3-propanediamine. Further transformations of the key intermediate have been reported elsewhere.7 9... 

Ring opening of oxiranes using azide is followed by Staudinger reduction of the intermediate azido alcohol to give aziridines. 

Imidazoles are synthesized from A-(2-azidoethyl)phthalimide (136) via the Staudinger reaction to obtain an initial intermediate iminophosphorane 137, which is then converted by an intramolecular aza-Wittig reaction and... 

Methyl 6-amino-6-deoxy-a-D-glucopyranoside derivatives 2c were synthesized in our laboratory by a somewhat different procedure [31]. 6-0-Sulfonyl or 6-bromo-6-deoxy derivatives of methyl a-o-glucopyranoside were substituted at C-6 by sodium azide. The 6-azido-6-deoxy intermediate was then treated by acyl chlorides in the presence of triphenylphosphine (Staudinger reaction) to afford amido derivatives which were finally de-O-acetylated to give 2c. The same reaction pathway allowed the preparation of 6-alkylamido-6-deoxy-D-glucopy-ranose derivatives, starting from o-glucose [31]. 

Historically, the first reactions involving thiocarbonyl ylides involve the preparation of thiiranes and 1,3-dithiolanes from diazomethane and thiocarbonyl compounds reported early in the last century by Staudinger and co-workers (12,13). Similar reactions have been smdied by Schonberg and co-workers (14—16) during the 1960s, but neither was the reaction mechanism understood nor have thiocarbonyl ylides been recognized as key intermediates. [For some remarks to this subject see (8) and (10) in (17).]... 

Azetidinones on a solid support 49 have been prepared in high yield by Staudinger reaction of a supported imine with an acid chloride in the presence of a base. The liberated p-lactams were of high purity <99TL1249>. Cycloaddition of a ketene intermediate, derived fi"om an azo compound, to an imine having an oxidatively cleavable chiral auxiliary N-substituent was used to obtain p-lactams 50. The trans. cis ratio which varied between 69 31 and 93 7, depended on the nature of the substituents R and R <99S650>. 

Another method for the preparation of the 1,2,4,5-tetrazine system from a diazo compound was reported by Staudinger and Meyer (19HCA619). They reacted diaryldiazomethanes (321) with triethylphosphine and isolated the phosphazines (322). In moist benzene or chloroform these compounds were transformed into 3,3,6,6-tetraaryl-l,2,3,6-tetrahydro-1,2,4,5-tetrazines (323). This result was only obtained when triethylphosphine was used. The intermediate formation of hydrazones seems unlikely, since these compounds are stable and do not dimerize. A reaction which has a certain similarity to the above was reported by Merrill and Shechter (75TL4527). They obtained 3,6-diphenyl-l,4-dihydro-l,2,4,5-tetrazine (80) when the phosphazine (324) was hydrolyzed. 

As we have indicated previously, the reaction between ketenes and (V-silyl imines was described by Pannunzio et al. [30-33] and constitutes an interesting version of the Staudinger reaction between ketenes and imines because of the isolation of the intermediate of silyloxyazadienes. Given its interest, this reaction has been studied by different groups [92-94],... 

In the first report on this famous reaction, Wittig expressed a clear preference for the cyclic phosphorane intermediate 22 such as had already been formulated by Staudinger and Meyer in their earlier work. This view became generally accepted onlv many years later35). In this respect, the Wittig reaction did indeed still reflect some prominent features of the underlying research program on penta-coordinated molecules, from which it now evolved rapidly to a very active life of its own 36). 

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