STEREOSPECIFIC COUPLING WITH VINYLCOPPER REAGENTS

Alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium Tosylates Preparation and Stereospecific Coupling with Vinylcopper Reagents. Formation of Conjugated Enynes P. J. Stang and T. Kitamura, Department of Chemistry University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112... 

ALKYNYL(PHENYL)IODONIUM TOSYLATES PREPARATION AND STEREOSPECIFIC COUPLING WITH VINYLCOPPER REAGENTS. FORMATION OF CONJUGATED ENYNES. 

TOSYLATES PREPARATION AND STEREOSPECIFIC COUPLING WITH VINYLCOPPER REAGENTS. FORMATION OF CONJUGATED ENYNES. I-HEXYNYL(PHENYL)-lODONIUM TOSYLATE AND (E)-5-PHENYLDODEC-5-EN-7-YNE... 

Vinylcopper reagents react with a wide variety of electrophilic reagents such as halogens, alkyl halides, allylic halides, acid chlorides, epoxides, a,(3-unsaturated ketones, and a,p-acetylenic esters with complete retention of the double bond stereochemistry. To enhance the reactivity of vinylcopper intermediates toward carbon electrophiles, the coupling is often carried out in the presence of activators such as HMPT, DMPU, and/or P(OEt)3 (triethylphosphite). Some representative examples of stereospecific... 

Reaction of vinylcopper reagents, 62, with alkynyliodonium tosylates results in conjugated enyne 63, [53] [Eq. (24)]. The reaction is stereospecific with retention of olefin geometry. By appropriate order of addition, either of the two possible isomeric trisubstituted olefin isomers, 63, can be obtained in good isolated yields and excellent (>99%) stereoselectivity. Likewise, conjugated diynes, 65, are obtained [54] in the reaction of dialkynylcuprates, 64, with alkynyliodonium tosylates [Eq. (25)]. This method may be used for the preparation of unsym-metrical diynes. The mechanism of these coupling reactions is not understood at present. 

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