Thallium® acetate

Selectivity of propylene oxide from propylene has been reported as high as 97% (222). Use of a gas cathode where oxygen is the gas, reduces required voltage and eliminates the formation of hydrogen (223). Addition of carbonate and bicarbonate salts to the electrolyte enhances ceU performance and product selectivity (224). Reference 225 shows that use of alternating current results in reduced current efficiencies, especiaHy as the frequency is increased. Electrochemical epoxidation of propylene is also accompHshed by using anolyte-containing silver—pyridine complexes (226) or thallium acetate complexes (227,228). 

Isobutylene oxide is produced in a way similar to propylene oxide and butylene oxide by a chlorohydrination route followed by reaction with Ca(OH)2. Direct catalytic liquid-phase oxidation using stoichiometric amounts of thallium acetate catalyst in aqueous acetic acid solution has been reported. An isobutylene oxide yield of 82% could be obtained. 

In room temperature phosphorescence, a treatment of the paper substrate with sodium dodecyl sulfate in conjunction with thallium acetate enhances the results and the technique can be used in routine environmental analysis of organic pollutants [156]. 

The potassium derivatives obtained from the reaction mixture are typically not isolated in pure form, and the crude products are often converted directly to the thallium complexes by metathesis with either thallium nitrate or thallium acetate [Eqs. (1) and (2)]. 

Grigg expanded his Pd-catalyzed cascade cyclization reactions to include carbonylation as the termination step [427]. Thus, indoline 329 is obtained in excellent yield and the spiroindoline 330 is secured as a single diastereomer. Thallium acetate results in significant improvement in these reactions by allowing for low-pressure carbonylation. 

Mercuric acetate and thallic acetate have also been used for the oxidative cydiza-tion of vinylallenes (Eq. 13.24) [29]. Exposure of vinylallene 75 to stoichiometric mercuric acetate in acetic acid led to cydopentenone 76 in 75% yield. With thallium acetate as the oxidant, the yield of 76 was 60%. The presumed mechanism of the oxidative cyclization involves a Nazarov cyclization of acetoxymercury intermediate 77. 

The thallium benzoate and thallium 2-oxocarboxylates are available via the reaction of thallium acetate with benzoic acid or the 2-oxocarboxylic acids, due to the lower values of these acids (benzoic acid 4.22, benzoylformic acid 1.2, 2-oxoglutaric acid 31/5.14, pyruvic acid 2.49) compared to acetic acid (4.76) (167). The free acetic acid is distilled off with water as an azeotrope and the thallium carboxylates are obtained in high purity. 

A clean twofold Heck coupling of unsubstituted butadiene 46 (R = H) in the 1- and 4-positions has not been reported. However, the initial carbopalladation product from 46 (R = H) and an in situ formed arylpalladium halide, the cr-allylpalladium halide 47 equilibrating with the corresponding 7r-allylpalladium halide, can efficiently be trapped with the anion formed by arylation of malononitrile or cyanoacetate to give 48, a product of reductive 1,4-arylation-alkylation of 1,3-butadiene 46 (R = H)." /3-Hydride elimination from the intermediate 47 (R H) can be accomplished when the reaction is carried out in the presence of silver acetate or thallium acetate, leading to the... 

All these protocols allow us to form a new carbocycle in a bimolecular process. The cyclization involving two different molecules besides CO has been realized, involving carbapalladation of norbornene, migratory insertion of CO, and subsequent intramolecular Heck-like attack at thiophene residue. Thallium acetate is required as electrophilic co-catalyst (Scheme 18). ... 

Thallium acetate adds to olefins (58) also, but the stereochemistry of the addition has not been determined. 

Thallium acetate reacts with iodine and an alkene to give the trans-io do acetate derivatives in 90% yield (28) ... 

Access to the 1,3-benzazepinone 39 has been achieved from aryl iodide 38 with a Pd(0) catalyst, followed by cyclization of the intermediate palladium complex upon reaction with thallium acetate, thus providing a convenient approach to the fused seven-membered ring system (Equation 5) <1998ICA(270)123>. 

In the reaction of allyl acetate 217 with ketene silyl acetal 218 of methyl acetate, using a Pd catalyst coordinated to DPPP, cyclopropane 220 is formed in addition to the expected allylacetate 219 [104], The cyclopropanation becomes main reaction when TMEDA, as a ligand, and thallium acetate are added [105]. The cyclopropanation can be understood by the attack of the enolate ion at the central carbon of 7r-allylpalladium to form the palladacyclobutane 221, followed by reductive elimination. 

The cyclization of aryl iodide 322 with a Pd(0) catalyst and thallium acetate provides a convenient approach to the 1,3-benzazepinone system 323 (Scheme 174) <1998ICA123, CHEC-III(13.08.4.1.3)249>. 

Ring-opening reactions of cyclopropanes have been observed with a variety of metallic ions. Oullette has studied the kinetics of the reaction of thallium acetate with phenylcyclopropane 56,57) (Eq. (42)). 

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