T-Butanol

The intervention of ion pairs, more important in t-butanol than in methanol, can increase the substitution reaction in such cases as the 4-and 5-halogenothiazoles, which are poorly activated by the aza substituent. 

Cycloadditions of diazaquinones with unsaturated compounds yield diazacyc-lobutanes, from which N-substituted 3-hydroxypyridazin-6(l/f)-ones are formed after addition of water, t-butanol or acetic acid (Scheme 56). The same types of compound are also obtained from enamines. 

The gas approximates plug flow except in wide columns, but the liqiiid undergoes considerable oa mixiug. The latter effect can be reduced with packing or perforated plates. The effect on selectivity may become important. In the oxidation of hquid /i-butane, for instance, the ratio of methyl ethyl ketone to acetic acid is much higher in plug flow than in mixed. Similarly, in the air oxidation of isobutane to tei t-huty hydroperoxide, where te/ t-butanol also is obtained, plug flow is more desirable. 

Of the many methods which have been published so far for the substitution of existing crowns, probably the most straightforward are Friedel-Crafts alkylation or acylation reactions. Cygan, Biernat and Chadzynski have reported the successful di-t-butylation of dibenzo-24-crown-8 using t-butanol as alkylating agent s . The crown was heated at 100° for 4 h in the presence of excess t-butanol and 85% phosphoric acid. The product was obtained as a crystalline (mp 52—74°) solid in 93% yield. The alkylated crowns are presumably a mixture of isomers substituted once in each ring as illustrated in Eq. (3.14). 

The chloranil dehydrogenation of A -3-ketones offers a convenient direct conversion to A -ketones. t-Butanol and xylene are the most suitable solvents. Slightly higher yields have been claimed with mixed organic acid-inert solvent systems, although somewhat lower yields (50-60%) are... 

Reactions with selenium dioxide appear to be sensitive to the medium employed. Refluxing t-butanol is the usual solvent, often with small amounts of acid present, although pyridine has been introduced with acid labile substrates. 

The addition proceeds most smoothly with highly functionalized (more polar) steroids as seen in examples by Bernstein and others. The polar reaction conditions pose solubility problems for lipophilic androstane, cholestane and pregnane derivatives. Improved yields can be obtained in some cases by using dimethyl sulfoxide or t-butanol " as solvents and by using sodium A-bromobenzenesulfonamide or l,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethyl hydantoin (available from Arapahoe Chemicals) as a source of positive bromine. The addition of bromo acetate and bromo formate to steroid olefins has been studied to a limited extent. ... 

Ethynylation of the totally synthetic racemic 18-methyl-17-ketone (63) with acetylene and potassium t-butoxide in t-butanol-toluene or with alkali metal acetylide in liquid ammonia gives a low yield of rac-18-methyl-17a-ethynyl-3-methoxyestra-l,3,5(10)-trien-17/ -ol (64). 

The direct base-catalyzed alkylation of 3-keto steroids is generally not a very satisfactory method for the preparation of monoalkylated products. However, under optimum conditions (short reaction time with methyl iodide, a Modest excess of potassium t-butoxide in boiling t-butanol) modest yields of... 

Subsequently, several laboratories developed improvements in the early procedures. It was first recommended that the reaction be carried out at a low temperature ca. —T) for better results. A more notable improvement is the use of dimethylformamide-t-butanol as the solvent system, a temperature range of —20 to —25°, and the presence of triethyl phosphite during the reaction to reduce the hydroperoxide as it is formed. The triethyl phosphate which is produced is water soluble and overall yields are generally in the range of 60-70 %. 

A solution of 0.3 g of the foregoing crude acid dissolved in 7 ml of t-butanol and 0.4 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid is refluxed for 20 min. The cooled reaction mixture is diluted with benzene, washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution, and with water, dried and evaporated under reduced pressure. The neutral residue (0.21 g) dissolved in benzene is adsorbed on a column of 2.5 g of neutral alumina. Elution with ether-petroleum ether gives 0.18 g of 19-norprogesterone mp 141-142°, after two crystallizations. 

Irradiations of Testosterone Acetate (114), —In t-Butanol. 1.25 g of (114) in 250 ml t-butanol is irradiated for 32 hr at 30° under nitrogen with a Hanau Q81 high-pressure mercury lamp placed in a central water-cooled Pyrex immersion well with acetone filter. The solvent is evaporated in vacuo and the residue chromatographed on 125 g silica gel with benzene-ethyl acetate (4 1) to yield 0.29 g 17 -hydroxy-la,5 -cyclo-10a-androstan-2-one acetate [(118) 23%] mp 164-165°, after crystallization from acetone-hexane [a]i3 37 (CHCI3) 0.14 g cyclopentanone (120) (11%) mp 106-107° [aJo 38° (CHCI3) and 0.58 g starting material [(114) 46%]. Ratio (118) (120) - 2 1. 

Both types of processes, 7r -assisted y, -bond cleavage and P -bonding, have been invoked to operate in the phototransformations of the aldehyde-ketone (153) to products (155), (156) and (158). The conversions have been observed at room temperature in dioxane, t-butanol, ethanol and benzene using light of wavelengths 2537 A or above 3100 A or sensitization by acetophenone. The phosphorescing excited triple state of (153) is very similar to that of testosterone acetate (114), but its reactions are too rapid... 

Potassium /-butoxide is prepared by dissolving potassium metal in t-butanol followed by removal of the excess of -butanol by distillation under reduced pressure. The resultant cake is powdered and used directly in the dibromocarbene additions. 

Hydroxycortisone BMD) (48) A solution of 4 g of 17a,20 20,21-bis-methylenedioxypregn-4-ene-3,l 1-dione (cortisone BMD) (46) dissolved in 300 ml of t-butanol and 5 ml of water is treated with 34 ml of 35 % hydrogen peroxide and 0.45 g of osmium tetroxide predissolved in 36 ml of /-butanol. The resulting mixture is allowed to stand at room temperature for 2 days. Diol (47) which crystallizes during the reaction is collected by filtration and washed with /-butanol and water. The filtrate is diluted with ethyl acetate and washed sequentially with aqueous sodium chloride, aqueous 10% sodium bisulfite, aqueous 10% sodium bicarbonate and finally with water to neutrality. The solvent is evaporated and a second crop of the diol (47) is collected, providing a total of about 3.8 g. 

A solution of ketone (85) in t-butanol and excess potassium -butoxide and potassium hydroxide is heated at refluxjinder an atmosphere of oxygen for 8 hr to give the C-norpregnane acid (87), in about 46% yield. Yields tend... 

The extent of coupling is also influenced by the solvent. In the hydrogenation of aniline over ruthenium oxide, coupling decreased with solvent in the order methanol > ethanol > isopropanol > t-butanol. The rate was also lower in the lower alcohols, probably owing to the inhibiting effect of greater concentrations of ammonia (44). Carboxylic acid solvents increase the amount of coupling (42). 

A mixture of 290 mg of the 16,21-diacetate of 6a,9a-difluoro-16o --hYdroxY-hYdrocortisone, 30 cc of t-butanol, 0.5 cc of pyridine and 150 mg of selenium dioxide was refluxed for 53 hours under an atmosphere of nitrogen and cooled ethyl acetate was added and filtered through celite the solvent was evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure, the residue... 

A mixture of 1.759 g of 2a.3a-epithio-5Q -endrostan-17 3-ol, 2.3 ml of 1-methoxycyclopen-tene, 20 mg of pyridine salt of p-toluenesulfonic acid and 20 ml of t-butanol is stirred for 4 hours at room temperature. The reaction mixture is poured into an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate and the whole extracted with dichloromethane. The extract is dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and evaporated to remove solvent. Purification of the residue by chromatography over alumina gives 1.487 g of 17/3-(1-methoxycyclopentyl)oxy-2a,3a-epi-thio-50 -androstane. Yield68.2%. MP98°Cto 101°C. 

The next major obstacle is the successful deprotection of the fully protected palytoxin carboxylic acid. With 42 protected functional groups and eight different protecting devices, this task is by no means trivial. After much experimentation, the following sequence and conditions proved successful in liberating palytoxin carboxylic acid 32 from its progenitor 31 (see Scheme 10) (a) treatment with excess 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in ie/t-butanol/methylene chloride/phosphate buffer pH 7.0 (1 8 1) under sonication conditions, followed by peracetylation (for convenience of isolation) (b) exposure to perchloric acid in aqueous tetrahydrofuran for eight days (c) reaction with dilute lithium hydroxide in H20-MeOH-THF (1 2 8) (d) treatment with tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (TBAF) in tetrahydrofuran first, and then in THF-DMF and (e) exposure to dilute acetic acid in water (1 350) at 22 °C. The overall yield for the deprotection sequence (31 —>32) is ca. 35 %. 

Barnard and Hargrave90 reduced sulphoxides in glacial acetic acid (or t-butanol, or benzene) with excess titanium(III) by heating for 1 h at 80 °C. They then extracted the... 

A second paper161 describes the use of the same base in either THF or t-butanol for the elimination of a-acetoxy phenyl sulphones as outlined in equation (68), in essence a reaction sequence very similar to the Julia olefin synthesis (Section III.B.3) except in the method by which the sulphonyl group is finally removed. 

The common names of 2-methyl-2-propanol are tertiary-butanol and tertiary-butyl alcohol (commonly shortened to tert-butanol and tert-butyl alcohol or even t-butanol and t-butyl alcohol). 

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