Subject reaction with carbonyl compounds

Activated olefins can also be subjected to cathodic C—C cross coupling reactions with carbonyl compounds. An example of this is the synthesis of y-hydroxynitriles from acrylonitrile and aliphatic aldehydes 353 > ... 

Chiral salen chromium and cobalt complexes have been shown by Jacobsen et al. to catalyze an enantioselective cycloaddition reaction of carbonyl compounds with dienes [22]. The cycloaddition reaction of different aldehydes 1 containing aromatic, aliphatic, and conjugated substituents with Danishefsky s diene 2a catalyzed by the chiral salen-chromium(III) complexes 14a,b proceeds in up to 98% yield and with moderate to high ee (Scheme 4.14). It was found that the presence of oven-dried powdered 4 A molecular sieves led to increased yield and enantioselectivity. The lowest ee (62% ee, catalyst 14b) was obtained for hexanal and the highest (93% ee, catalyst 14a) was obtained for cyclohexyl aldehyde. The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction was investigated in terms of a traditional cycloaddition, or formation of the cycloaddition product via a Mukaiyama aldol-reaction path. In the presence of the chiral salen-chromium(III) catalyst system NMR spectroscopy of the crude reaction mixture of the reaction of benzaldehyde with Danishefsky s diene revealed the exclusive presence of the cycloaddition-pathway product. The Mukaiyama aldol condensation product was prepared independently and subjected to the conditions of the chiral salen-chromium(III)-catalyzed reactions. No detectable cycloaddition product could be observed. These results point towards a [2-i-4]-cydoaddition mechanism. 

The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of activated butadienes with carbonyl compounds is a convenient method for the preparation of precursors of sugars. Up to three chiral centers are created simultaneously. The high-pressure [4 + 2]cycloaddition of l-methoxybuta-1,3-diene 32 to N-mono- and N,N-diprotected alaninals was investigated [42-45]. The Eu(fod)3-mediated reaction of 32 with alaninal 25 gave a mixture of four diastereoisomers, which was then subjected to acidic isomerization, leading to the thermodynamically more stable pair of adducts syn-33 and anti-34, with predominance of the latter isomer (Scheme 12). The N-monoprotected alaninals reacted with a moderate ryn-diastereoselectivity. This method was used in the synthesis of purpurosamines (see Sec. DI.C). 

The reaction of carbonyl compounds with P(III) acid chlorides has been widely discussed in the literature. The most complete information on this subject was compiled in the review [42]. As far as the carbonyl derivatives of indole in such reactions are concerned the information here is sparse. 

These are very facile processes, and here this subject is divided into reaction of halides with (i) organometallic compounds, (ii) reaction with carbonyl stabilized anions and (iii) reaction with other carbanions. 

The C-H bond cleavage of active methylene compounds with a transition metal catalyst is another method for the functionalization of these C-H bonds. To date, several reactions have been developed. In particular, the asymmetric version of this type of catalytic reaction provides a new route to the enantioselective construction of quaternary carbon centers. One of the most attractive research subjects is the catalytic addition of active methylene C-H bonds to acetylenes, allenes, conjugate ene-ynes, and nitrile C-N triple bonds. The mthenium-catalyzed reaction active methylene compounds with carbonyl compounds involving aldehyde, ketones, and a,y3-unsatu-rated ketones and esters is described in this section. 

Another variation of the Wittig reaction is the Wittig-Horner reaction, in which the anion generated ot- to phosphine oxide is used as a nucleophile to react with carbonyl compounds. The intermediate formed in this reaction, -hydroxyphosphine oxide, is isolable particularly when bases with lithium counterion are used for deprotonation. Since the j6-hydroxyphosphine oxides are diastereomers, they can be separated and subjected to elimination to form the corresponding alkenes. Since the elimination of phosphonate moiety is syn, stereospecific alkenes are obtained from the elimination step. As expected, the generation of erythro and threo isomers is dependent on the solvent and the reaction conditions. 

Condensation with carbonyl compounds. Formation of epoxides from aldehydes by reaction with sulfonium ylides is subject to asymmetric induction. The latter species have been generated from 91, 92, and 93, and also those derived from monoterpenes, e.g., 94 " and 95.- Of course the ylides can be obtained in situ by deprotonation of sulfonium salts or copper-catalyzed decomposition of diazoalkanes (with the carbenoids trapped by the sulfides). 

The reactions of 2-aminobenzimidazoles have been reviewed <83S86l>. The compounds form Schiffs bases with carbonyl compounds, with isocyanates and isothiocyanates they give ureas and thioureas, they are subject to 1,3-dipolar addition reactions, and to the formation of carbamates on acylation and aroylation. When aminoimidazoles are acylated there is frequently competition between the annular and exocyclic nitrogen (see above). Add chlorides and anhydrides (soft) acylate the amino group chlorocarbonic acid esters (hard) are specific for the heteroatom <84CHE204>. When heated, the A -acyl products isomerize (Scheme 91). 

Thus far, discussion has centered around the reaction of alkenes with a source of electrophilic oxygen as a route to epoxides [the C=C + O protocol]. However, a second general approach is represented by the reaction of carbonyl compounds with amphophilic carbon centers [the C=0 + C protocol]. For example, sulfonium yhdes are known to convert aldehydes and ketones to epoxides much recent work has focused on asymmetric induction using this methodology, a topic which has been the subject of a concise review in the past year <04ACR611>. As an illustration, the D-mannitol derived chiral sulfide 42 serves as a useful chiral auxiliary in the sulfonium methylide epoxidation of aldehydes to provide terminal monosubstituted oxiranes (e.g., 44) in fair to excellent yield and good enantiomeric excess <04CC1076>. 

More recently, it has been discovered that metallation of the alkyl heterocycle with a strong base such as Bu"Li followed by reaction of the intermediate anion with carbonyl compounds leads to the formation in high yields of adducts, which may either be isolated or subjected to chemical transformations (Schemes 35-37). -65... 

Although the main subject of this review is reactions of Grignard reagents with carbonylic compounds, live examples ot reactions will be... 

The fourth part of the book is devoted to catalysis. The role of metals in their reactions with organic compounds can be stoichiometric or catalytic. The student will have carefully taken this important distinction into account. Chemists, especially those from industry, will seek transformation processes that involve metals in catalytic quantities, i.e. in small amounts (metal-to-substrate molar ratios much lower than one). These efforts are obviously driven by problems of cost, toxicity and sometimes corrosion. Catalytic processes mostly use transition metals, which makes this class of metals particularly important. Catalytic processes are numerous and very common in biology, industry and every-day operations in the laboratory. We will study the most important catalytic cycles with emphasis placed on homogeneous catalysis, because it is in this area that the mechanisms are mostly firmly established in this area. Emphasis is now placed not only on classic hydrogenation and carbonylation processes, but also on progress in the challenging catalytic activation of hydrocarbons that is the subject of a new chapter. Another new specific... 

Hydrazine itself may be subjected to a variety of facile substitution reactions because of its great nucleophilic character. It may react with alkyl halides and activated aryl halides to yield substituted hydrazines. With acyl halides, esters, and amides it may form hydrazides. With carbonyl compounds, hydrazones form. Since hydrazine is bifunctional in nature, both amino groups may undergo reaction. In the case of the reaction of hydrazine with two moles of a carbonyl compound, the products are termed azines. ... 

Johnson et al have used the availability of the above reaction to study further the overall mechanism of the reaction of sulphonium and oxysul-phonium ylides with carbonyl compounds and a 3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. The contrasts between these two types of ylides are well known and can be exemplified as follows (i) in reactions with cyclic carbonyl compounds, sulphonium ylides attack from the axial position while sulphoxonium ylides attack from the equatorial position (ii) in reactions with a/3-unsaturated ketones, sulphonium ylides react at the carbonyl group to form oxirans while sulphoxonium ylides react at the olefinic group to form cyclopropanes. These results can be explained by considering the reversibility of the initial step of each ylide reaction and whether the reaction is subject to kinetic or thermodynamic control. 

Carbonyl reactions are extremely important in chemistry and biochemistry, yet they are often given short shrift in textbooks on physical organic chemistry, partly because the subject was historically developed by the study of nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon, and partly because carbonyl reactions are often more difhcult to study. They are generally reversible under usual conditions and involve complicated multistep mechanisms and general acid/base catalysis. In thinking about carbonyl reactions, 1 find it helpful to consider the carbonyl group as a (very) stabilized carbenium ion, with an O substituent. Then one can immediately draw on everything one has learned about carbenium ion reactivity and see that the reactivity order for carbonyl compounds ... 

Et2Zn also participates in the reductive coupling as a formal hydride source. Results for the Ni-catalyzed, Et2Zn-promoted homoallylation of carbonyl compounds with isoprene are summarized in Table 7 [30]. Et2Zn is so reactive that for the reaction with reactive aromatic aldehydes it causes direct ethylation of aldehydes, and the yields of homoallylation are diminished (runs 1 and 2). Unsaturated aldehydes seem to be subject to the Michael addition of Et2Zn. Accordingly, for the reaction with cinnamaldehyde, none of the expected homoallylation product is produced instead, the 1,4-addition product of Et2Zn, 3-phenylpentanal is produced exclusively (run 3). 

Another advantage of this method is that no catalyst is needed for the addition reaction this means that the base-catalyzed polymerization of the electrophilic olefin (i.e., a,j8-unsaturated ketones, esters, etc.) is not normally a factor to contend with, as it is in the usual base-catalyzed reactions of the Michael typCi It also means that the carbonyl compound is not subject to aldol condensation which often is the predominant reaction in base-catalyzed reactions. An unsaturated aldehyde can be used only in a Michael addition reaction when the enamine method is employed. 

Whilst reactions of a, -unsaturated carbonyl compounds with 2 have been the subject of a number of studies, the corresponding reactions of their enolic tautomers have received little attention. Reaction of the /S-hydroxy-a, /i-unsaturated ketones... 

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