TMEDA stabilized

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... 

Equation 76) <1993OM3019>, which react as ester and ketone enolate equivalents, respectively. The latter reaction requires the use of fluoride ion activation (tetrabutylammonium fluoride, TBAF) to actuate the addition. Central carbon alkylation is less common for allylpalladium reactions despite this, nucleophilic alkylation of TMEDA-stabilized 1,3-diphenylallyl palladium complexes proceeds selectively to the central carbon (Equation 77) <1995AGE100>. 

Photolysis of aryl azides in amine solution, with a tertiary amine as cosolvent to promote stabilization of the singlet nitrene, has met with some success. For example, the yield of 2-piperidino-3 W-azepme. obtained by the photolysis of phenyl azide in piperidine, is increased from 35 to 58% in the presence of A A /V. /V -tetramethylethylenediamine (TMLDA).180 Also, an improved yield (36 to 60 %) of A,(V-diethyl-3W-azepin-2-amine (38, R = Et) can be obtained by irradiating phenyl azide in triethylamine, rather than in dicthylaminc, solution.181 Photolysis (or thermolysis) of phenyl azide in TMEDA produces, in each case, 38 (R = Et) in 40% yield.181 In contrast, irradiation of phenyl azide in aniline with trimethylamine as cosolvent furnishes jV-phenyl-377-azepin-2-amine (32, R = Ph) in only low yield (2%).35... 

Electrophile trapping of simple metalated epoxides (i. e., those not possessing an anion-stabilizing group) is possible. Treatment of epoxystannane 217 with n-BuLi (1 equiv.) in the presence of TMEDA gave epoxy alcohol 218 in 77% yield after trapping with acetone (Scheme 5.51) [76], In the absence of TMEDA, the non-stabilized epoxides underwent dimerization to give mixtures of enediols. 

Several reviews cover hetero-substituted allyllic anion reagents48-56. For the preparation of allylic anions, stabilized by M-substituents, potassium tm-butoxide57 in THF is recommended, since the liberated alcohol does not interfere with many metal exchange reagents. For the preparation of allylic anions from functionalized olefins of medium acidity (pKa 20-35) lithium diisopropylamide, dicyclohexylamide or bis(trimethylsilyl)amide applied in THF or diethyl ether are the standard bases with which to begin. Butyllithium may be applied advantageously after addition of one mole equivalent of TMEDA or 1,2-dimethoxyethane for activation when the functional groups permit it, and when the presence of secondary amines should be avoided. 

For the deprotonation of less acidic precursors, which do not lead to mesomerically stabilized anions, butyllithium/TMEDA in THF or diethyl ether, or the more reactive, but more expensive,. seobutyllithium under these conditions usually are the most promising bases. Het-eroatomic substitution on the allylic substrate, which docs not contribute to the mesomeric or inductive stabilization often facilitates lithiation dramatically 58. In lithiations, in contrast to most other metalations, the kinetic acidity, caused by complexing heteroatom substituents, may override the thermodynamic acidity, which is estimated from the stabilization of the competing anions. These directed lithiations59 should be performed in the least polar solvent possible, e.g.. diethyl ether, toluene, or even hexane. 

Oxidative addition of a silyl-protected 4-(bromomethyl)phenol precursor to (tme-da)Pd(II)Me2 (tmeda = tetramethylethylenediamine), followed by ethane reductive elimination, resulted in formation of the benzylic complex 16 (Scheme 3.10). Exchange of tmeda for a diphosphine ligand (which is better suited for stabilizing the ultimate Pd(0) QM complex), followed by removal of the protecting silyl group with fluoride anion, resulted in the expected p-QM Pd(0) complex, 17, via intermediacy of the zwitterionic Pd(II) benzyl complex. In this way a stable complex of p-BHT-QM, 17b, the very important metabolite of the widely used food antioxidant BHT20 (BHT = butylated hydroxytoluene) was prepared. Similarly, a Pd(0) complex of the elusive, simplest /)-QM, 17a, was obtained (Scheme 3.10). 

This TT-radical, characterized spectroscopically (ESR, UV-Vis, and IR), displayed remarkable stability. In an interesting side note, similar compounds were isolated by these workers by reaction of tetrakis[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]dialane with neopentyllithium or trimethylsilylmethyllithium in the presence of tetra-methylethylenediamine (TMEDA). Structural data were not reported for this interesting compound. 

Reviews covering the chemistry of group 2 metal complexes with phosphorus-stabilized carbanions,279 and of molecular clusters of magnesium dimetallated primary phosphanes, are available.2 u Magnesium phosphanes remain rare compounds.281 Lithiation of bromide 98 with BuLi in the presence of tmeda in pentane produces a lithium phosphine dimer subsequent treatment with MgCl2 in EtzO gives the phosphane 99 in 69% overall yield (Equation (19)). The centrosymmetric 99 has Mg-C = 2.217 A Mg-P = 2.77 A (av.).282... 

This Li-phenyl interaction is similar to the r/ -Ph contact observed in the silicon-stabilized carbanion complex [Li C(SiMe2Ph)3 (THF)] (140). Addition of tmeda to 49 yields the monomeric compound [Li C(SiMe2Ph)(PMe2)2 (tmeda)l in which the lithium is bound by the two P atoms of the phosphinomethanide ligand and the two N atoms of the tmeda in a distorted tetrahedral geometry (139). There... 

In a study of the methane complex [(diimine)Pt(CH3)(CH4)]+ (diimine = HN=C(H)-C(H)=NH), relevant to the diimine system experimentally investigated by Tilset et al. (28), theoretical calculations indicate preference for the oxidative addition pathway (30). When one water molecule was included in these calculations, the preference for oxidative addition increased due to the stabilization of Pt(IV) by coordinated water (30). The same preference for oxidative addition was previously calculated for the ethylenediamine (en) system [(en)Pt(CH3)(CH4)]+ (151). This model is relevant for the experimentally investigated tmeda system [(tmeda)Pt(CH3)(solv)]+ discussed above (Scheme 7, B) (27,152). For the bis-formate complex Pt(02CH)2, a a-bond metathesis was assumed and the energies of intermediates and transition states were calculated... 

Metalated vinyl ethers are configurational stable up to —20°C in tetrahydrofuran. H-NMR measurements of 1-ethoxy-1-lithioethene TMEDA did not show any coalescence of the signals for the vinyl protons until the onset of decomposition. Thus, there is no evidence of inversion in this case . Similar configurational stability is displayed by a-lithiated thioethers in tetrahydrofuran no inversion occurs up to 0°C. On the contrary, deprotonated vinyl sulfoxides and sulfones are configurationally less stable . ... 

Substituted dilithiated 2-butenes of type 13 were generated by a two-fold deprotonation, starting from disubstituted 2-butenes 12 using n-butyllithium in the presence of TMEDA (Scheme 5). Both systems described by Raston and coworkers carry trimethylsilyl substituents in 1,4-positions in order to increase the acidity of the starting compounds on the one hand as well as the stability of the dilithium compounds on the other (polarizability effects). Intensive NMR studies on the structure of the dilithiated butenes in solution were performed by the authors. 

The TMEDA complex of a-lithiobenzyl iV,iV-diisopropylcarbamate was found to be configurationally stable on the microscopical scale in the Hoffmann test . The (—)-sparteine complex 222 has moderate configurational stability on the macroscopic scale, which could not been brought to useful selectivities in substitution reactions . As... 

As was found in 1980 by Hoppe and coworkers, a A,iV-diisopropylcarbamoyloxy group in ally lie position not only facilitates the deprotonation reaction by n-BuLi/TMEDA, but also enhances the chemical stability of the lithium compounds ° ° . Moreover, it... 

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