Tert isocyanide

Cyclization takes place when tert-butylisocyanide, benzaldehyde, anilinium chloride, and carbonyl(dicyano)cyclopentadienyl ferrate are reacted, the carbene complex 42 being the result (95JOM(491)135). /50-butyraldehyde, tert-butyl isocyanide, ammonium hexafluorophosphate, and [(T -Cp)Fe(CO)(CN)2] give the cationic bis-carbene 43. 

R)j 2S) is >100 1 when the reaction is carried out at — 78 C. f Phenyl isocyanide was used instead of tert-butyl isocyanide. 

A low stereoselection is also reported for an Ugi reaction which is the central step in the total synthesis of the antibiotic ( + )-furanomycin80. The carbohydrate-derived intermediate, formed from the following acetal and (+ )-a-methyIbenzylamine, reacts with benzoic acid and tert-butyl isocyanide to deliver the precursor 2 of the antibiotic and its diastcreomer 3 in equal amounts80. 

In the total synthesis of the protein kinase C inhibitors calphostins 146, the orf/zo-substituted intermediates, which are either obtained from photolysis or from reaction of the dienyl carbene complex 144 with tert-butyl isocyanide, were oxidised to yield the 1,2-benzoquinone 145 as a common product [81] (Scheme 61). 

Yields higher than about 70% for any of these isonitrile preparations generally indicate incomplete fractionation. The purity of the product may be conveniently checked by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The characteristic 1 1 1 triplet for tert-butyl isocyanide appears at <5 1.45 (chloroform-d). A small upheld peak usually indicates the presence of unreacted amine. Other common contaminants are dichloromethane and chloroform The purity may be determined more accurately by gas chromatographic analysis on a 230 cm. by 0.6 cm. column packed with 10%SE30 on Chromosorb G, 60-80 mesh, at 80°. 

Benzopyran-3-one, l,4-dihydro-6,7-dimethoxy-], 55, 45 Isocyamde, benzyl-, 55, 98 Isocyanide, butyl-, 55, 98 ISOCYANIDE, tert-butyl- [Isocyamde, 1,1-dimethylethyl-], 55, 96 Isocyamde, cyclohexyl-, 55, 98 Isocyamde, dodecanyl-, 55, 98 Isocyamde, ethyl, 55,98 Isocyamde, methyl, 55, 98 Isocyamde, phenyl-, 55, 98 (-)-2,3 4,6-Di-0-isopropylidene-2-keto-L-gulomc acid, hydrate [L-jcy/o-2-Hex-ulosomc acid, bis-<9-( 1 -mcthylcthyl-ldene)-], 55,80, 81 ISOXAZOl F, 3-(4-chlorophenv1)-5-(4-methoxyphenyl)-, 55, 39 Isoxazole,5 -(4-chloropheny l)-3-(4-me th-oxyphenyl)-, 55,42... 

Yamamoto and Yamazaki also suggest that the higher steric requirements of tert-h xty and 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanides determine the lack of an acylimino-nickel complex in their reactions with C5H5Ni(PPhj)CH3 (166). 

Yamamoto and Yamazaki 171) carried out reactions of Pt(PEt3)2CHjI and Pt(PPhMe2)(CH2CjH5)I with tert-butyl and cyclohexyl isocyanides. These reactions gave small yields of the ionic intermediate species, which readily reverted to the appropriate iminoacyl complexes. In reactions of analogous chloride complexes the intermediate species was not isolated. It is suggested on the basis of PMR data that these iminoacyl complexes are five-coordinate (see above). 

Reactions with Diphenyldiazomethane, Isocyanides, Benzonitrile, and tert-Butylphosphaacetylene... 

Other interesting multicomponent sequences utilizing isocyanides have been elaborated by Nair and coworkers. In a recent example, this group exploited the nucleophilic nature of the isocyanide carbon, which allows addition to the triple bond of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) (9-90) in a Michael-type reaction (Scheme 9.19) [59]. As a result, the 1,3-dipole 9-91 is formed, which reacts with N-tosylimines as 9-92 present in the reaction vessel to give the unstable iminolactam 9-93. Subsequently, this undergoes a [1,5] hydride shift to yield the isolable aminopyrroles 9-94. In addition to N-tosylimine 9-92 and cyclohexyl isocyanide (9-89), substituted phenyl tosylimines and tert-butyl isocyanide could also be used here. 

A more complex reaction is involved in the cooligomerization of acetylenes and tert-butyl isocyanide using nickel acetate as the catalyst (Scheme 20)43 the nature of intermediate complexes leading to the formation of 2-cyano-5-terf-butylaminopyrroles has not been established. Cocyclization of tert-butyl isocyanide with coordinated hexafluoro-2-butyne gives rise to coordinated cyclopentadienone anils for molybdenum systems,44 hence the nature of acetylene substitutents and of the organometallic catalyst play crucial roles in these processes. The pyrrole products from the former reaction can be decomposed by sulfuric acid and the overall sequence provides a simple synthesis of 5-amino-2-cyanopyrroles (Scheme 20). 

A3-Pyrrolinones have also been obtained from metal-mediated cyclooligomerization processes in which concomitant hydrolytic or carbonyl insertion occurs. For example, tert-butyl isocyanide is converted in aqueous methanol by zerovalent nickel compounds e.g., Ni(t-BuNC)4, Ni(CO)4, into a di(alkylamino)-A3-pyrrolinone in moderate yield (Scheme 34). The reaction takes a different course in anhydrous methanol in which a di-tert-butylamino)ethylene derivative is formed, albeit in poor yield (Scheme 34).62... 

The silver cyanide-catalyzed reaction of difunctional nucleophiles with tert-butyl isocyanide has been described in earlier sections on azoles (see Scheme 105 in Section IV,D,6). An example of the use of this simple approach... 

The tert-butyl cluster Ni4(CNR)7 also catalyzed slowly the selective H2 reduction of the isocyanide to ferf-butylmethylamine (394). A problem arose in that the excess isocyanide resulted in formation of Ni(CNR)4, which is relatively inactive, but this was circumvented by using for the isocyanide source a buffered solution containing Ni4(CNR)7 and Ni(CNR)4 in a 1 10 ratio ... 

Addition of disilanes to isocyanides is catalyzed by palladium complexes, giving A-substituted bis(silyl)imino-methanes (Equation (53)).132 A wide range of isocyanides including aryl isocyanides and alkyl isocyanides can take part in the reaction. However, it is important to note that tert-alkyl isocyanides hardly undergo the bis-silylation reaction. This low reactivity of / r/-alkyl isocyanides allows their use as spectator ligands in the catalytic bis-silylations. 

The addition of the neutral silylborane to carbon-carbon triple bonds, in which both the boron and silicon groups were retained in the products, was achieved in 1996 by using palladium catalysts.217 Although, in the preliminary report, tert-alkyl isocyanide was used as the ligand on palladium, it was later reported that conventional phosphine... 

Potassium amide in conversion of o-acetoacetochloroanilide to 3-acetyloxindole, 40, 1 Potassium tert-butoxide, 41, 101 in dehydration of formamides to isocyanides, 41, 101... 

The only carbene-like reaction reported so far is the low-temperature addition of tert-butyl isocyanide to carbenes 2d and 2u.78 From the P-hydrogenophosphonio carbene 2d, the heterocycle 89 was isolated in high yield. It is believed that the initial coupling product 87d rapidly inserts a further equivalent of isocyanide into the P-H bond, leading to the intermediate 88, which then undergoes rapid elimination of diisopropylamine. When the same reaction was performed with the P-chloro(phosphonio)car-bene 2u, a 1/1 mixture of keteneimine 90 and phosphinonitrile was obtained. This result can be explained by the cleavage of the carbene-isocyanide coupling product 87u by residual HCN, inherently present in the f-BuNC. 

Bassett, J.-M., Green, M., Howard, J.A.K. and Stone, F.G.A. (1978) Formation of nona(ethyl isocyanide)diiron from penta(ethyl isocyanide)iron and reaction of penta(tert-butyl isocyanide)iron with diphenylacetylene X-ray crystal structures of nona(ethyl isocyanide)diiron and tris(tert-butyl isocyanide) l,4-bis-(tert-butylimino)-2,3-diphenylbuta-l,3-diene ... 

Unlike CO, it is possible to polymerize isocyanides (R—N=C), isoelectronic analogs to CO. When R is a bulky group, such as tert-Bu, the polymer forms a stable helical structure. Asymmetric catalytic polymerization has been reported for t-Bu-NC using [Ni(T 3-allyl)(iV-trifluoroacetyl-proline)]2 providing (M)-helical polymer with 69% ee. The more stable helical polymer was prepared from 1,2-diisocya-nobenzene derivative initiated by a chiral Pd complex. (See Scheme 4.19.)... 

Nikulnikov M, Tsirulnikov S, Kysil V, Ivachtchenko A, K-Rasavin M (2009) tert-Butyl isocyanide as a convertible reagent in Ugi reaction microwave-assisted preparation of 5,6-dihydropyrazolo[l,5-a]pyrazine-4,7-diones. Synlett 260-262... 

Dihydropyrazolo[l,5-a]pyrazine-4,7-diones 205 were synthesized by Nikulnikov et al. using tcrt-butyl isocyanide 209 as a convertible isocyanide [62]. The Ugi reaction of tert-butyl isocyanide and pyrazole-3-carboxylic acids 208 with various aldehydes 206 and amines 207 yields tert-butyl amides 210, which undergo cycli-zation into glacial acetic acid under microwave irradiation (Scheme 37). 

Scheme 6 DKP synthesis by UAC with tert-butyl isocyanide as convertible reagent The amide is activated by acid and microwave heating...

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