Stereochemistry nucleophilic displacement reactions

Michalski, M., Mikolajczyk, M., and Omelanczuk, ]., Stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacement reaction at thiophosphoryl centre. An example of the Walden cycle involving phosphorus, Tetrahedron Lett., 1779, 1965. 

The most frequently encountered reactions in organic sulfur chemistry are nucleophilic displacement reactions. The mechanism and steric course of reactions have been the main points of interest of research groups all over the world, in particular, Andersen, Cram, Johnson, and Mislow in the United States Kobayashi and Oae in Japan Kjaer in Denmark and Fava and Montanari in Italy. The results of these investigators have been discussed exhaustively in many reviews on sulfur stereochemistry. In a recent report on nucleophilic substitution at tricoordinate sulfur, the literature was covered by Tillett (10) to the end of 1975. Therefore only some representative examples of nucleophilic substitution reactions at chiral sulfur are discussed here. However, recent results obtained in the authors laboratory are included. 

K. Mislow, Role of Pseudorotation in the Stereochemistry of Nucleophilic Displacement Reactions, Acc. Chem. Res. 1, 321 (1970). 

Sn2 reaction. This problem together with the associated stereochemical ambiguity was described in Chapter 23. In contrast, jt-aUyl cation complexes of palladium allow both the stereochemistry and regiochemistry of nucleophilic displacement reactions to be controlled. 

Effect of Ring Constraint on the Stereochemistry of Displacement Reactions by Intermolecular Nucleophilic Attack... 

The stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacement reactions of the di-O-sulphonate (33) by sodium benzoate in DMF during 6 h at reflux showed that... 

The use of ir-allyl complexes of palladium as intermediates in nucleophilic displacement reactions enables both the stereochemistry and regiochemistry of the reaction to be controlled. 

The stereochemistries of the reactions between 0-aryl 0-methyl phosphonochloridothioates and nucleophiles have been studied in relation to the synthesis of 1,3,2-oxazaphospholidines. No displacement of chlorine takes place on treatment of O-methyl 0-4-nitrophenyl phosphonochloridothioate with 2-methoxyethanol, and in the presence of 1-phenylethylamine, it is only the latter which reacts. In addition, when the same phosphonochloridothioate is treated with sodium ethoxide, it is the 4-nitrophenoxy group, rather than chlorine, which is displaced. Both displacements were shown to occur with inversion of configuration at phosphorus. The use of such an acid chloride as a two-step 1cyclophosphorylating1 agent of 2-aminoalcohols to give 1,3,2-oxazaphospholidines (209), is illustrated. ... 

Reactions.—Alkaline Hydrolysis. The first total resolution of a heterocyclic phosphonium salt containing an asymmetric phosphorus atom (128) has been reported, providing ready access to optically active phospholan derivatives of value for studies of the stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacement at phosphorus.124 Alkaline hydrolysis of (128) proceeds with retention of configuration at phosphorus to form the oxide (129). Stereochemical studies in the phospholan series have also been facilitated by the X-ray investigation125 of an isomer of l-iodomethyl-l-phenyl-3-methylphospholanium iodide, which is shown to have the structure (130). 

The limited extent of intramolecular rearrangements undergone by the chiral oxonium ions 35 and 36 at 720 torr and at 40 °C (Table 22) allows their use for probing the regio- and stereochemistry of the displacement reactions of Scheme 19. In this case, the allylic alcohol, precursor of the chiral oxonium ions 35 and 36, acts as the nucleophile NuH. The relevant results are condensed in Scheme 21. 

Contrary to the case of anionic reactions, the formation of a strong proton-bound dimer for alcohols suggests that nucleophilic displacement may actually involve a frontside attack. Recent experiments carried out at atmospheric pressure by Speranza and Angelini (1980) using radiolytic techniques with isolation and glc analysis of neutral products reveal some interesting stereochemistry. For example, the reaction of protonated epoxy-rra/is-but-2-ene with H20 results in 98% inversion of configuration, while a similar reaction with cis-1 -chloro-4-methylcyclohexane results in approximately 80% of tro/is-4-methylcyclohexanol. With the high pressures utilized and with the possible participation of cluster ions a likelihood in this case, the data are consistent with a Walden inversion for these cases. 

Oxidative Addition of Alkyl Halides to Palladium(0). The stereochemistry of the oxidative addition (31) of alkyl halides to the transition metals of group VIII can provide information as to which of the many possible mechanisms are operative. The addition of alkyl halides to d8-iridium complexes has been reported to proceed with retention (32), inversion (33), and racemization (34, 35) via a free radical mechanism at the asymmetric carbon center. The kinetics of this reaction are consistent with nucleophilic displacement by iridium on carbon (36). Oxi-... 

Displacement reactions must proceed either with retention or inversion of configuration at silicon. The change in stereochemistry is mainly a function of the nature of the leaving group and of the electronic character of the nucleophile. 

Stereochemistry is one of the most important characteristics of a reaction mechanism. In the nucleophilic displacement of iodide ion on. V luilyl bromide, Eq. (2). the reaction is known to occur with inversion. If one... 

After free existence of l-azetin-4-one had been demonstrated, it seems that the mechanism of the so-called nucleophilic substitution reactions of 4-substituted 2-azetidinone follows an elimination-addition pathway. The intermediacy of (1) in displacement reactions is fully consistent with the stereochemistry of the reaction (83CJC1899 91TL2265). 

Having established the three-dimentional structure of carbocations as planar, we can now study the stereochemical progression of Sk 1 reactions as compared to Sk2 reactions. As shown in Scheme 5.6, the stereochemical course of an Sk2 reaction is well defined because nucleophilic displacement of a leaving group proceeds with inversion of stereochemistry. Thus, the stereochemical outcome is defined by the stereochemistry of the starting material. As for SnI reactions, since the step required for initiation of these reactions involves formation of a planar species, incoming nucleophiles have equal access to both sides of the reactive carbocation. As shown in Scheme 5.7, this results in complete elimination of... 

He and his students developed C-alkylation with quaternary ammonium salts and nucleophilic displacements on such salts, including the stereochemistry. His name is immediately associated with important innovations in the use of polyphosphoric acid for inter- and intramolecular condensations, cyclizations, and functional conversions in organic chemistry. He pioneered the use of boron trifluoride as an efficient catalyst in the Fischer indole synthesis and discovered new reactions of anils, including Diels-Alder reactions. He and his students delineated the requirements for disproportionation of tertiary amines. He developed the synthesis and chemistry of arylboranic acids. One of his fundamental ideas was for the incorporation of sufficient boron into organ-specific drugs that they could then be... 

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