2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine A -oxide TEMPO

Figure 13.15 Synthesis of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine A-oxide (TEMPO) functionalized dendrimers.

Figure 13.16 Stackplot of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine A -oxide (TEMPO)-functionalized dendrimers with 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 95% TEMPO.

Figure 13.17 Graph of line-broadening effects for 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine A -oxide (TEMPO) and R-4-isothiocyanato (R-NCS) functionalized dendrimers from Figure 13.15. NCS-TEMPO was added first half of the time and R-NCS was added first half of the time.

Figure 13.19 Affinity chromatography with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine A-oxide (TEMPO)-/mannose-functionalized dendrimers. Electron paramagnetic resonance spectra for one TEMPO/mannose experiment are shown.

First, one had to check that the mechanism of action was correct. The product of co-ozonlysis of O-methyl-2-adamantanone oxime with 1,4-cyclohexanedione afforded on treatment with ferrous acetate a secondary carbon-centered free radical that was trapped with the usual spin trap, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-Ar-oxide (TEMPO), and involved a /3-scission of the adamantane fragment, thus proving that the attack of the Fe(ll) species occurred on the less-hindered peroxide bond oxygen atom (Scheme 85) <2004NAT900, 2005JOC513>. 

Tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxide(Tempo) traps R but not the Co(IT) unit in a Costa-type model B12 system, and has been used by Finke s group to obtain kinetic parameters for reaction (17) for R = PhCH2 and Mc3CH2 (see Table 11.2). (Further data on the saloph, cobalamin, and... 

In other cases, organic modification of the sol gel cages markedly protects the entrapped molecular dopant from degradation by external reactants, as shown for instance by the entrapment of the radical 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO). This is a highly active catalyst which in the NaOCl oxidation of alcohols to carbonyls in a CH2CI2-H20 biphasic system becomes highly stabilized upon sol gel entrapment in an ORMOSIL matrix it progressively loses it activity when entrapped at the external surface of commercial silica.25... 

A convenient procedure for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols was reported by Anelli and co-workers (8,9). The oxidation was carried out in CH2CI2 with an aqueous buffer at pH 8.5-9.5 utilizing 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO, 1) as the catalyst and KBr as a co-catalyst. The terminal oxidant in this system was NaOCl. The major disadvantage of using sodium hypochlorite or any other hypohalite as a stoichiometric oxidant is that for each mole of alcohol oxidized during the reaction one mole of halogenated salt is formed. Furthermore,... 

We wish to report here on a new and highly efficient catalyst composition for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl derivatives (Scheme 1). The catalyst system is based on 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine N-oxyl (TEMPO), Mg(N03)2 (MNT) and N-Bromosuccinimide (NBS), utilizes ecologically friendly solvents and does not require any transition metal co-catalyst. It has been shown, that the described process represents a highly effective catalytic oxidation protocol that can easily and safely be scaled up and transferred to technical scale. 

As peracids react very sluggishly with alcohols, it was apparent that the presence of a nitroxide was playing an important role in the oxidation of the alcohol into a ketone. This seminal serendipitous observation led to the development of the first description of the oxidation of alcohols mediated by catalytic 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO) (55), published almost simultaneously by Celia et al and Ganem.3 These authors presented two papers with remarkably similar contents, in which alcohols were oxidized by treatment with MCPBA in CH2CI2 at room temperature in the presence of a catalytic amount of TEMPO (55). In both papers, a plausible mechanism is presented, whereby m-chloroperbenzoic acid oxidizes TEMPO (55) to an oxoammonium salt 56. This oxoammonium salt 56, as detailed in Ganem s paper, can react with the alcohol producing an intermediate 57, which can deliver a carbonyl compound by a Cope-like elimination. 

Our group have developed 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO)-functionalized PEG for biomimetic oxidation of alcohols together with CuCl in compressed C02, through a so-called mono-phase reaction, two-phase separation process to recover the catalyst, thus leading to conducting a homogeneous catalysis in a continuous mode [62]. 

The primary alcohol of the diol 309 was selectively oxidized to the corresponding hydroxyaldehyde through a 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO)-catalyzed oxidation. The remaining secondary hydroxyl functionality was protected as an acetoxy group and the aldehyde was further oxidized to the acetate carboxylic acid. Treatment of... 

Osa and coworkers [405,466] developed a graphite felt electrode modified with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-l-yloxyl (TEMPO) and applied it to enantioselective, electro-catalytic oxidative coupling of naphthol, naphthyl ether, and phenanthrol in the presence of (—)-sparteine as a base. The enantioselectivity of the coupling products were as high as 98%. 

As mentioned at the beginning of this section, Kirmse and coworkers (Bunse et al., 1992) found the first clear case of a homolytic aliphatic dediazoniation As shown in Scheme 7>24, the aqueous diazotization of 2>amino>2>methylpropane" nitrile (7.59) with two equivalents of NaN02 (or N2O4) yields products that are likely to be formed from the carbocation 7.60, namely 2>hydroxy-2-methylpropane-nitrile (7.62) and 2-methylprop-2-enenitrile (7.61), but also 2-methyl-2-nitropropane-nitrile (7.64), and the 7V,A-disubstituted 2>amino-2>methylpropanenitrile (7.66). The two last-mentioned products are probably formed via the radical 7.63. Direct evidence for this radical was found by experiments conducted in the presence of the radical scavenger 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-l-oxyl (TEMPO) to give 7.65 in good yield. In other experiments, dimerization and oxidation products of the radical 7.63 were identified. 

The stable, commercially available nitroxyl radical 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl (TEMPO) 51 is an excellent catalyst, in conjunction with a co-oxidant, for the oxidation of alcohols. The most popular co-oxidant is buffered sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). Oxidation of the nitroxyl radical gives the oxoammonium ion 52, which acts as the oxidant for the alcohol to form the carbonyl product. Primary alcohols are oxidized faster than secondary and it is often possible to obtain high chemoselectivity for the former. For example, oxidation of the triol 53 gave the aldehyde 54, with no oxidation of the secondary alcohols (6.44). The use of TEMPO is particularly convenient for the oxidation of primary alcohols in carbohydrates, avoiding the need for protection of the secondary alcohols. 

A good method for the direct conversion of alcohols to carboxylic acid uses 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-l-oxyl (TEMPO) 51, in conjunction with the co-oxidant sodium chlorite (NaC102) and sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) as a catalyst. See M. Zhao, J. Li, E. Mano, Z. Song, D. M. Tschaen, E. J. J. Grabowski and P. J. Reider, J. Org. Chem., 64 (1999), 2564. 

At this juncture, the stereochemistry of the amine-substituted carbon required inversion to the correct configuration of the natural product. Toward this end, lactone 354 was treated with tetramethylguanidine and 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl (TEMPO) under an air atmosphere in THE. These conditions led to oxidation to yield enamine 355, which was subsequendy reduced with sodium cyanoborohydride to complete the epimerization process. These conditions were also sufficiently hydridic to reduce the ketone carbonyl. Heating in ethyl acetate then led to cycHza-tion to yield lactam 356. Oxidation using IBX next provided ketone 357, which was employed as a coupling partner for 2-iodoanihne in the key indolization step (Scheme 51). 

It was shown that the NFC may be obtained using an efficient process, where 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO) oxidation was utilized as a pretreatment step prior to mechanical treatment (Lavoine et al., 2012 Saito et al.,... 

Highly efficient rhodium-catalyzed direct arylations were accomplished through the use of 2,2, 6,6 -tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl (TEMPO) as terminal oxidant [17]. Thereby, a variety of pyridine-substituted arenes was regioselectively functionalized with aromatic boronic acids (Scheme 9.5). However, in order for efficient catalysis to proceed, 4equiv. of TEMPO were required. The use of molecular oxygen as terminal oxidant yielded, unfortunately, only unsatisfactory results under otherwise identical reaction conditions. However, a variety of easily available boronic acids could be employed as arylating reagents. 

Oxidation of 50 (Scheme 10.8) with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl (TEMPO) and bis[acetoxy(iodo)]benzene (BAIB) in a 1 1 mixture of acetonitrile and water [66], afforded acid 47 in good yields. The two amines 45 and 46 were synthesized from 49 and 50, respectively, via the corresponding azides (Scheme 10.8). Functionalization of44-47 with the m-alkyne linkers (Scheme 10.10) yielded the 11 linker-armed Gal fragments 54-64 used in the library. 

A chemical method of extraction of nanofibers from never-dried native cellulose was developed by Saito et al. (2006) by oxidizing the surface of the nanofibers by a 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-l-oxyl (TEMPO)-radical-catalyzed process, that requires just a posterior mechanical agitation by a Waring blender to individualize the original fibers into nanofibers of 3—5 nm in diameter. Another chemical extraction is acid hydrolysis, which ultimately produces smaller elements called cellulose... 

On the other hand, however, trimethylsilyl-protected catalyst 18 was suitable for the asymmetric bromination of aldehydes, and the resulting a-bromoaldehydes can be diastereoselectively transformed into the corresponding bromohydrin in one-pot (Scheme 7.31) (54). An additional utility of catalyst 18 was highlighted by application to the development of the direct aminoxylation of aldehydes with an oxoammonium salt generated from 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl (TEMPO) by in situ oxidation with benzoyl peroxide, allowing for the highly enantioselective synthesis of stable a-aminoxy aldehydes, which could subsequently be reduced to the corresponding alcohol (55). 

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