Triisopropyl borate

Solutions of 7.5 g (40 mmol) of triisopropyl borate in 10 mL of dry diethyl ether and 40 mmol of 0.87 M allylmagnesium bromide in diethyl ether arc added dropwisc separately to 10 mL of diethyl ether at — 78 °C. This mixture is stirred for 0.5 h at —78 JC, then is allowed to warm to r.t. and stirred for 3 h. The slurry is recooled to 0 C. and then 40 mmol or 1 N aq hydrochloric acid saturated with NaCl are added dropwise over 15 min. The mixture is warmed to r.t., and stirring is continued for 10 min. The organic layer is separated and directly treated with 9.4 g (40 mmol) of diisopropyl (/ ,/ )-tartrate (DIPT). The aqueous phase is extracted with three 50-mL portions of diethyl elher/CH.CI, 5 1. The combined organic layers are dried over anhyd MgS04 for 2.5 h, then filtered under argon. The filtrate is concentrated in vacuo and toluene is added to give a final volume of 50 mL. The concentration of reactive allylboronate is determined by treatment of a 1 mL aliquot of this solution with a known excess of cyclohexanecarboxaldehyde. This... 

Z)-2-(2-hulenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-i,3,2-dioxaborolane-, yield 78% isomeric purity via fluorodimethoxyborane route4 97% isomeric purity via the triisopropyl borate route16 >99%. 

To a —78 C solution of 23.1 mL (100 mmol) of triisopropyl borate and 8.15 mL (110 mmol) of 3-chloro-l-propene in 100 inL of dry THF is added dropwisc via a cannula over 0.5 h a solution of LDA (110 mmol prepared in 200 mL of THF from 110 mmol of diisopropylamine and 47.9 mL of 2.3 M butyllithium in hexane), This mixture is stirred for an additional 0.5 h at — 78 "C then a solution of 75.9 ntL of 2.9 M anhyd hydrogen chloride in diethyl ether is added and the mixture is allowed to warm to 25 °C. The mixture is concentrated in vacuo (20 Torr) and the residue extracted with three 100-mL portions of pentane, Filtration under nitrogen followed by distillation under reduced pressure provides 18.0 g (88%) of diisopropyl l-chloro-2-propenylboronate bp 95-96 "C/25 Torr. Transesterification of this intermediate with 1.3-propanediol provides the title compound in almost quantitative yield bp 110-112°C/20Torr. 

Racemic l-methyl-2-butenylboronates (E)- and (Z)-3 may be prepared selectively via reactions of the l-methyl-2-butenyl Grignard reagent with the appropriate borate ester. Use of triisopropyl borate provides a 96 4 mixture of (E)-3l(Z)-3 on a 0.36 mol scale15. Use of a bulkier borylating agent, such as 2-isopropyloxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-l,3,2-dioxaborolane, reverses the selectivity, enabling a 91 9 mixture of (Z)-3/( )-3 to be obtained on a 0.5 mol scale. The diastereomeric purity of this mixture may be enhanced to 95 5 by treatment with 0.15 equivalents of benzaldehyde, since ( )-l-mcthyl-2-butenylboronatc ( )-3 is more reactive than (Z)-3. Repetition of this process provides (Z)-3 that is 98% isomerically pure. 

Triisopropyl borate was purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. 3-Bromopyridine was purchased from Lancaster Synthesis. Both compounds were used without further purification. 

Care should be taken that the triisopropyl borate drops directly into the solution and does not run down the side of the flask, as this will cause the triisopropyl borate to precipitate from the reaction mixture. 

As first described by Krizan and Martin,6 the in situ trapping protocol, i.e., having the base and electrophile present in solution simultaneously, makes it possible to lithiate substrates that are not applicable in classical ortho-lithiation reactions.7 Later, Caron and Hawkins utilized the compatibility of lithium diisopropylamide and triisopropyl borate to synthesize arylboronic acid derivatives of bulky, electron deficient neopentyl benzoic acid esters.8 As this preparation illustrates, the use of lithium tetramethylpiperidide instead of lithium diisopropylamide broadens the scope of the reaction, and makes it possible to functionalize a simple alkyl benzoate.2... 

An alternative approach to reduce the levels of impurity (VII) would be to have a "transient" existence of the lithio species, so that it reacts instantaneously with trialkyl borate to form the aryl boronate, prior to being quenched by any extraneous proton source to form (VII). Thus, the preparation of boronic acid (II) was improved by changing the order of the reagents. The slow addition of n-butvl lithium also controls the exotherm of the reaction. There was no reaction observed between n-butyl lithium and triisopropyl borate (to form any butyl boronic acid), nor was there any formation of 2-butyl derivative of (VII) formed by reaction between butyl bromide and the lithio species. The reaction is veiy fast and as soon as the addition of n-butyl lithium is completed the reaction is finished. This indicates a rapid transmetallation and instantaneous boronation of the lithio species. The reaction is very much a... 

The synthesis of losartan potassium (1) by the process research chemists at Merck is outlined in the following (Griffiths et ak, 1999 Larsen et al., 1994). Phenyltetrazole (8) is protected as the trityl phenyltetrazole 9 (Scheme 9.3). Ortho-lithiation of 9 followed by quenching with triisopropyl borate afforded boronic acid 10 after treatment with aqueous ammonium chloride. Reaction of glycine (11) with methyl pentanimidate (12) in a methanol/water mixture yielded (pentanimidoylamino) acetic acid (13), which underwent a Vilsmeier reaction with phosphorous oxychloride in DMF followed by hydrolysis to give imidazole-4-carbaldehyde 14 in moderate yield. 

The synthesis of L-ribose required two significant innovations for its completion. The first was an efficient synthesis of diisopropyl (chloromethyl)boronate (1) via the in situ preparation of (chloromethyl)lithium by addition of butyllithium to a mixture of chloroiodomethane and triisopropyl borate in THF at — 78°C 18. 

Finally, compound (iv) is condensed with either trimethyl(6-methyl-3-pyridyl)tin or the boronate ester by means of Pd(PPh3)4 to afford etoricoxib. The metallated pyridine (vii) is obtained by esterification of 3-hydroxy-2-methylpyridine with triflic anhydride to give the corresponding triflate, which is treated with a tin reagent to yield the target tin intermediate. The boron lithium salt (viii) is prepared by treatment of 5-bromo-2-methylpyridine with butyllithium followed by addition of triisopropyl borate. 

An alternate synthesis is outlined in Scheme 2.1 2 Diisopropyl dichloromethylboronate (6) is readily prepared by reacting triisopropyl borate with dichloromethyllithium prepared in situ. 20 Transesterification with a suitable C2 symmetric diol gives an ester 7 that can be treated with an alkylmagnesium bromide to yield chloride 8 and then, after transesterification with pinanediol (see Section 15.1.7.2) a product 9 which is analogous to 3. 

To determine the diastereoselectivity of the above bora-ene reaction, boronate 193 derived from a-pinene was synthesized. Reaction of a-pinene 192 with Schlosser s base (BunLi + KOBu ) furnishes the allyl carbanion, which upon treatment with triisopropyl borate and subsequent transesterification with pinacol yields a-pinanyl pinacol boronate 193. Bora-ene reaction with this allyl boronate and S02 at — 78 °C in CH2CI2 yields the mixed anhydride 194 as a 2.3 1 mixture of diastereomers upon removal of excess S02. Treatment of this mixture of anhydrides with aryl Grignard led to the formation of two diastereomers of aryl sulfoxides 195 in 3.2 1 ratio (Scheme 33) <2006TL2783>. 

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