Tertiary amines, nucleophilic additions

Alkyltitanium(IV) complexes having N -dialkylamino ligand systems, RTi(NR 2)3, fail to give nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds (Section 1.5.3.1.1). Their reaction with aldehydes leads instead to tertiary amines by addition of both the alkyl moiety of the reagent and one of the N, -dialkylamino ligands (equation 59). The synthetic interest of the reaction is restricted to noneno-lizable aldehydes, since enolizable carbonyl compounds lead to enamines. ... 

Scheme 7.5 Chiral tertiary amine catalyzed addition of heteroatomic nucleophiles on ketenes.

Ketenes undergo rapid addition by nucleophilic attack at the sp-carbon atom. The reaction of tertiary amines and acyl halides, in the absence of nucleophiles, is a general preparation for ketenes. ... 

Fluoride ion produced from the nucleophilic addition-elimination reactions of fluoroolefins can cataly7e isomerizations and rearrangements The reaction of per fluoro-3-methyl-l-butene with dimethylamine gives as products 1-/V,/Vdimeth-ylamino-1,1,2,2,4,4,4-heptafluoro-3-trifluoromethylbutane, N,W-dimetliyl-2,2,4,4,4-pentafluoro 3 trifluoromethylbutyramide, and approximately 3% of an unidentified olefin [10] The butylamide results from hydrolysis of the observed tertiary amine, and thus they share a common intermediate, l-Al,A -dimethylamino-l,l 24 44-hexafluoro-3-trifluoromethyl-2-butene, the product from the initial addition-elimination reaction (equation 4) The expected product from simple addition was not found... 

The reaction starts with the nucleophilic addition of a tertiary amine 4 to the alkene 2 bearing an electron-withdrawing group. The zwitterionic intermediate 5 thus formed, has an activated carbon center a to the carbonyl group, as represented by the resonance structure 5a. The activated a-carbon acts as a nucleophilic center in a reaction with the electrophilic carbonyl carbon of the aldehyde or ketone 1 ... 

Together with a shift of the proton from the a-carbon to the alkoxide oxygen, the tertiary amine is eliminated from the addition product to yield the unsaturated product 3. Early examples of the Baylis-Hillman reaction posed the problem of low conversions and slow reaction kinetics, which could not be improved with the use of simple tertiary amines. The search for catalytically active substances led to more properly adjusted, often highly specific compounds, with shorter reaction times." Suitable catalysts are, for example, the nucleophilic, sterically less hindered bases diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) 6, quinuclidin-3-one 7 and quinuclidin-3-ol (3-QDL) 8. The latter compound can stabilize the zwitterionic intermediate through hydrogen bonding. ... 

The electrophilic character of sulfur dioxide does not only enable addition to reactive nucleophiles, but also to electrons forming sulfur dioxide radical anions which possess the requirements of a captodative" stabilization (equation 83). This electron transfer occurs electrochemically or chemically under Leuckart-Wallach conditions (formic acid/tertiary amine - , by reduction of sulfur dioxide with l-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide or with Rongalite The radical anion behaves as an efficient nucleophile and affords the generation of sulfones with alkyl halides " and Michael-acceptor olefins (equations 84 and 85). 

In summary, the reaction of osmium tetroxide with alkenes is a reliable and selective transformation. Chiral diamines and cinchona alkakoid are most frequently used as chiral auxiliaries. Complexes derived from osmium tetroxide with diamines do not undergo catalytic turnover, whereas dihydroquinidine and dihydroquinine derivatives have been found to be very effective catalysts for the oxidation of a variety of alkenes. OsC>4 can be used catalytically in the presence of a secondary oxygen donor (e.g., H202, TBHP, A -methylmorpholine-/V-oxide, sodium periodate, 02, sodium hypochlorite, potassium ferricyanide). Furthermore, a remarkable rate enhancement occurs with the addition of a nucleophilic ligand such as pyridine or a tertiary amine. Table 4-11 lists the preferred chiral ligands for the dihydroxylation of a variety of olefins.61 Table 4-12 lists the recommended ligands for each class of olefins. 

Based on nucleophilic addition, racemic allenyl sulfones were partially resolved by reaction with a deficiency of optically active primary or secondary amines [243]. The reversible nucleophilic addition of tertiary amines or phosphanes to acceptor-substituted allenes can lead to the inversion of the configuration of chiral allenes. For example, an optically active diester 177 with achiral groups R can undergo a racemization (Scheme 7.29). A 4 5 mixture of (M)- and (P)-177 with R = (-)-l-menthyl, obtained through synthesis of the allene from dimenthyl 1,3-acetonedicar-boxylate (cf. Scheme 7.18) [159], furnishes (M)-177 in high diastereomeric purity in 90% yield after repeated crystallization from pentane in the presence of catalytic amounts of triethylamine [158], Another example of a highly elegant epimerization of an optically active allene based on reversible nucleophilic addition was published by Marshall and Liao, who were successful in the transformation 179 — 180 [35], Recently, Lu et al. published a very informative review on the reactions of electron-deficient allenes under phosphane catalysis [244]. 

The first evidence that an elimination-addition mechanism could be important in nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkanesulfonyl derivatives was provided by the observation (Truce et al., 1964 Truce and Campbell, 1966 King and Durst, 1964, 1965) that when alkanesulfonyl chlorides RCH2S02C1 were treated in the presence of an alcohol R OD with a tertiary amine (usually Et3N) the product was a sulfonate ester RCHDS020R with exactly one atom of deuterium on the carbon alpha to the sulfonyl group. Had the ester been formed by a base-catalysed direct substitution reaction of R OD with the sulfonyl chloride there would have been no deuterium at the er-position. Had the deuterium been incorporated by a separate exchange reaction, either of the sulfonyl chloride before its reaction to form the ester, or of the ester subsequent to its formation, then the amount of deuterium incorporated would not have been uniformly one atom of D per molecule. The observed results are only consistent with the elimination-addition mechanism involving a sulfene intermediate shown in (201). Subsequent kinetic studies... 

The two functional groups implicated in a coupling require attention to effect the reaction. The ammonium group of the C02H-substituted component must be converted into a nucleophile by deprotonaton (Figure 1.7). This can be done in situ by the addition of a tertiary amine to the derivative dissolved in the reaction solvent, or by addition of tertiary amine to the derivative in a two-phase system that allows removal of the salts that are soluble in water. The carboxy-containing component is... 

Method 1 addition of a coupling reagent (carbodiimide, EEDQ, phosphonium and carbenium salts, trisubstituted phosphates, etc.) and tertiary amine, if necessary, to a mixture of the acid and the amine nucleophile that are to... 

Preliminary mechanistic studies show no polymerization of the unsaturated aldehydes under Cinchona alkaloid catalysis, thereby indicating that the chiral tertiary amine catalyst does not act as a nucleophilic promoter, similar to Baylis-Hilhnan type reactions (Scheme 1). Rather, the quinuclidine nitrogen acts in a Brpnsted basic deprotonation-activation of various cychc and acyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl donors. The conjugate addition of the 1,3-dicarbonyl donors to a,(3-unsaturated aldehydes generated substrates with aU-carbon quaternary centers in excellent yields and stereoselectivities (Scheme 2) Utility of these aU-carbon quaternary adducts was demonstrated in the seven-step synthesis of (H-)-tanikolide 14, an antifungal metabolite. 

Chen and co-workers utilized the chiral bifunctional catalysts to directly access vinylogous carbon-carbon bonds via the asymmetric Michael addition of a,a-dicy-ano-olefms to nitro-olefms [102]. The scope of the reaction was explored with a variety of substituted a,a-dicyano-olefins and P-substituted nitro-olefms (Scheme 50). The authors propose the catalysf s tertiary amine functionality depro-tonates the cyano-olefm, activating the nucleophile to add to the -face of the pre-coordinated nitro-olefm. 

Primary and secondary amines can add to Cjq as nucleophiles (Section 3.3). Tertiary amines can not form similar addition products, rather an electron transfer imder formation of zwitterions is often observed (Section 3.3). However, a photochemical reaction of tertiary amines with Cjq is possible and leads to complex mixtures of addition products [52-62]. The product distribution strongly depends on conditions such as temperature and the presence of either light or oxygen. If oxygen is thoroughly excluded, 9 is the major product (Figrue 6.8) in the photoaddition of triethylamine [56, 59]. It can be isolated in low yields. 

This polarimetric method was made even more general by utilizing chiral HPLC techniques. The L-UNCAwas dissolved in the solvent at a concentration of 0.33 M at 20 °C. The tertiary amine (1.5 equiv) was added at time zero. The solution was allowed to stand for an experimentally determined delay time, during which the only process that can occur was epimerization, since there is no nucleophile present. The delay time was determined after carrying out several experiments with different delay times and chosen so as to fall within or just after the first half-life for racemization. At the end of the delay period, benzylamine was added. Benzylamine is a very powerful nucleophile that reacts virtually instantly (regardless of the type of activation) with the resulting mixture of l- and d-UNCAs to form the benzyl amides and quench the epimerization process. Thus, a snapshot of the ratio of l/d activated intermediates at the instant of benzylamine addition was obtained by measurement of the l/d ratio of the benzyl amide products. 

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