TMEDA tetramethylethylenediamine

Competitive metallation experiments with IV-methylpyrrole and thiophene and with IV-methylindole and benzo[6]thiophene indicate that the sulfur-containing heterocycles react more rapidly with H-butyllithium in ether. The comparative reactivity of thiophene and furan with butyllithium depends on the metallation conditions. In hexane, furan reacts more rapidly than thiophene but in ether, in the presence of tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), the order of reactivity is reversed (77JCS(P1)887). Competitive metallation experiments have established that dibenzofuran is more easily lithiated than dibenzothiophene, which in turn is more easily lithiated than A-ethylcarbazole. These compounds lose the proton bound to carbon 4 in dibenzofuran and dibenzothiophene and the equivalent proton (bound to carbon 1) in the carbazole (64JOM(2)304). 

V,7V,7V, 7V -Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA, TEMED) [110-18-9] M 116.2, b 122°, d 1.175, n 1.4153, pK 5.90, pKj 9.14. Partially dried with molecular sieves (Linde type 4A), and distd in vacuum from butyl lithium. This treatment removes all traces of primary and secondary amines and water. [Hay, McCabe and Robb J Chem Soc, Faraday Trans 1 68 1 1972.] Or, dried with KOH pellets. Refluxed for 2h with one-sixth its weight of n-butyric anhydride (to remove primary and secondary amines) and fractionally distd. Refluxed with fresh KOH, and distd under nitrogen. [Cram and Wilson 7 Am C/iem Soc 85 1245 796i.] Also distd from sodium. 

Several articles [7,8] have reported that a persulfate-amine system, particularly persulfate-triethanol amine and persulfate-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) can be used as redox initiators in aqueous solution polymerization of vinyl monomers. Recently, we studied the effect of various amines on the AAM aqueous solution polymerization and found that not only tertiary amine but also secondary and even primary aliphatic amine and their polyamines can promote the vinyl polymerization as shown in Table 6 [40-42]. 

Compounds which produce a complex with Li+ ions have been investigated. The compounds examined were N,N,N, N tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), eth-ylenediamine, crown ethers, cryptand [211], diglyme, triglyme, tetraglyme, eth-ylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) and EDTA-Li+ (n=l, 2, 3) complexes [59]. The cycling efficiency was improved by adding TMEDA, but the other additives did not show distinct effects. 

The easiest access to most benzyllithium, -sodium, or -potassium derivatives consists of the deprotonation of the corresponding carbon acids. Hydrocarbons, such as toluene, exhibit a remarkably low kinetic acidity. Excess toluene (without further solvent) is converted into benzyllithium by the action of butyllithium in the presence of complexing diamines such as A. Af.Af.jV -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) or l,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) at elevated temperatures1 a procedure is published in reference 2. 

As documented in detail for organolithium species, ligand and donor play a key role in determining the degree of aggregation. Methyllithium adopts a hexameric structure in hydrocarbon solvents.13,15 In the presence of monodentate, donors such as THF or diethyl ether tetramers are observed, while the increase in donor denticity to 2 (1,1-Dimethoxyethane (DME), N,N,N, N -Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA)) affords monomeric structures. Further documenting the differences between solution and solid states, [CH3Li]4 adopts a tetrameric structure in the latter.15,15a-15c... 

Dimethyl- and diethylzinc reacted with dimethylpyrrole- and mesityl-substituted cyclopentadiene ligands to give monocyclopentadienyl(methyl)zinc and -ethyl(zinc) compounds. These products then formed, Scheme 20, crystalline adducts with tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) such as 24, whose solid-state structure is shown in Figure 11. 

In this case, a moderately water-soluble amphiphilic N-vinylcaprolaclam (NVC1) played the role of a fl-unit, and a well-water-compatible N-vinyl-imidazole (NVIAz) served as a P-unil. The polymerization was carried out in a medium of 10% aqueous dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The addition of DMSO to the reaction solvent was necessary because of insufficient NVC1 solubility in pure water. It was also shown that in this solvent mixture, the NVCl-homopolymers and NVCl/NVIAz-copolymers retained their LCST-behaviour [26,28]. Hence, the DMSO in the reaction solvent did not significantly suppress the hydrophobic interactions of the NVC1 units. The polymerization was initiated by the redox system (N,N,N, N -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) + ammonium persulphate (APS)) and was carried out at 65 °C (1st step). This condition was very important, since admittedly the temperature was higher than the phase separation threshold of the reaction bulk when the polymeric products were formed that is, under these thermal conditions, hydrophobically-induced folding as the NVCl-blocks appear was ensured. After completion of the reaction, the... 

In order to gain more insight into this proposed mechanism, Montgomery and co-workers tried to isolate the intermediate metallacycle. This effort has also led to the development of a new [2 + 2 + 2]-reaction.226 It has been found that the presence of bipyridine (bpy) or tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) makes the isolation of the desired metallacycles possible, and these metallacycles are characterized by X-ray analysis (Scheme 56).227 Besides important mechanistic implications for enyne isomerizations or intramolecular [4 + 2]-cycloadditions,228 the TMEDA-stabilized seven-membered nickel enolates 224 have been further trapped in aldol reactions, opening an access to complex polycyclic compounds and notably triquinanes. Thus, up to three rings can be generated in the intramolecular version of the reaction, for example, spirocycle 223 was obtained in 49% yield as a single diastereomer from dialdehyde 222 (Scheme 56).229... 

Tetramethylene glycol. See Butanediol Tetramethylene sulfoxide (TMSO) as PVDC solvent, 25 705 Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), 25 163... 

With iV,iV,iV, iV -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), HSiCl3 forms the expected hexacoordinated complex (TMEDA)SiHCl3 858, whereas with A,iV,iV, iV -tetraethylethylenediamine (TEEDA), a facile redistribution reaction takes place, which gives rise to the formation of the hexacoordinated complex (TEEDA)SiH2Cl2 859 and SiCU... 

It is worth mentioning at this point that according to Normant et al. (1975) simple polyamines such as tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) are even more active than [2.2.2]-cryptand in the benzylation of acetates in acetonitrile under liquid-solid conditions. These authors suggested that the activity was due to salt solubilization by cation complexation and not to formation of a quaternary ammonium ion since the latter showed no activity. This statement, however, is not in line with the results of Cote and Bauer (1977), who were unable to detect any interaction between K+ and TMEDA in acetonitrile. Furthermore, Vander Zwan and Hartner (1978) found Aliquat 336 (tricaprylylmethylammonium chloride) to be almost as effective as TMEDA in this reaction (Table 30). It might well be, however, that in amine-catalysed benzylation reactions the quaternary salt formed in situ acts both as a reactant and as a phase-transfer catalyst, since Dou et al. (1977) have shown that the benzyltriethylammonium ion is a powerful benzylation agent. 

B. N,N-Diethyl-2-formyl-6-methoxybenzamide (3). An oven-dried, threenecked, 1-L flask equipped with a 100-mL pressure equalizing dropping funnel, nitrogen bubbler, internal low temperature thermometer pocket, and overhead stirrer is flamed under reduced pressure and allowed to cool under a stream of nitrogen. The flask is charged with 500 mL of THF (Note 6) and cooled to an internal temperature of -72°C. N,N,N, N -Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) (Note 8) (23.5 mL, 0.156 mol) followed by 128.7 mL (0.157 mmol) of 1.22 M sec-butyllithium in cyclohexane (Note 9) are then added. The internal temperature rises a little as the reagents are added. The fluorescent yellow solution is allowed to recool to an Internal temperature of -73°C. 

Since different reactivity is observed for both the stoichiometric and the catalytic version of the arene-promoted lithiation, different species should be involved in the electron-transfer process from the metal to the organic substrate. It has been well-established that in the case of the stoichiometric version an arene-radical anion [lithium naph-thalenide (LiCioHg) or lithium di-ferf-butylbiphenylide (LiDTBB) for using naphthalene or 4,4 -di-ferf-butylbiphenyl (DTBB) as arenes, respectively] is responsible for the reduction of the substrate, for instance for the transformation of an alkyl halide into an alkyllithium . For the catalytic process, using naphthalene as the arene, an arene-dianion 2 has been proposed which is formed by overreduction of the corresponding radical-anion 1 (Scheme 1). Actually, the dianionic species 2 has been prepared by a completely different approach, namely by double deprotonation of 1,4-dihydronaphthalene, and its X-ray structure determined as its complex with two molecules of N,N,N N tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). ... 

Experimental observations support these views. Photolysis of 1-naphthylazide in the presence of diethylamine and tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) yields azirine, but no ketenimine-derived adducts at ambient temperature. " In the presence of diethylamine but in the absence of TMEDA, good yields of 1-amino-naphthalene and 1,1 -azo-naphthalene, products attributable to the triplet nitrene are observed. Good yields of 46 are also achieved when the photolysis of 1-naphthylazide and diethylamine is performed at —60 °C in the absence of TMEDA. Presumably, lowering the temperature extends the hfetime of azirine 43 by reducing its rate of reversion to singlet 1-naphthylnitrene more than it retards the rate of its reaction with diethylamine. 

The use of tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) improves the yields which, however, remain low (37 and 20% of isolated alcohol yields in the presence of acetophenone and cyclohexanone, respectively). 

Recently several studies have focused on the nature of the active species in the polymerization of ethylene and conjugated dienes initiated by the chelate of butyllithium and N,N,N, N -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). 

Both fragranol and grandisol skeletons were obtained by treatment of racemic butyl 6,7-epoxygeranyl sulfide with butyllithium in 7V,7V,Ar, 7V -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). In addition to the trans-product trans-16 (fragranol skeleton) and the ra-product m-16 (grandisol skeleton), a cyclopentane derivative was also isolated.16... 

The reactivity of each of the phenols in homopolymerization was determined by following the rate of oxygen absorption in a closed system. In each case, a plot of oxygen absorption against time was linear over at least 80 of the total reaction. Measurements were made at 25°C with a cuprous chloride-pyridine catalyst ai d at 60°C with a more active catalyst, cuprous bromide-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). Relative rates, from the slope of the linear portion of the oxygen absorption curves, are summarized in Table I. DMP is about 30 times more reactive than DDP at 25° C and five times more reactive at 60° C. MPP is intermediate in reactivity (as expected from its structure) at both temperatures but is comparable at the lower temperature with DMP and at 60°C with DPP (about a third slower than DMP at 25°C and 50 faster than DPP at 60°C). 

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