Unsaturated carbon

Carbon atoms can also form cyclic compounds. Aromatic hydrocarbons (arenes), of which benzene is the parent, consist of a cyclic arrangement of formally unsaturated carbons, which, however, give a stabilized (in contrast to their hypothetical cyclopolyenes), delocalized system. 

C—H bonds are polarized by attached unsaturated carbon substituents. Such groups "activate" the neighbouring CHj, CHp or CH groups in the following order CR=NR > COR > CN > COOR > CR = NR > Ph > CR=CRj. Two activating substituents reinforce each other. 

Cyclohexadienyl- (the unsaturated carbons are given numbers as low as possible, numbering from the carbon atom with the free valence given the number 1)... 

Halogenation. Halogens and halogen acids add readily to the unsaturated carbon linkages of the cyclopentadiene molecule. By such additions a series of halogenated derivatives range, in the case of the chloride, from 3-chlotocydopentene to tetrachlorocyclopentane. Of all the possible chloto derivatives of CPD, only hexachlorocyclopentadiene [77-47-4] ever reached commercial status. It was used as an insecticide, but this use has been discontinued because of its toxicity (see Chlorocarbons and chlorohydrocarbons, toxic aromatics). It can be prepared by a Hquid phase chlorination of CPD below 50°C (29). 

Fig. 10. Pharmacophores for angiotension-converting enzyme. Distances in nm. (a) The stmcture of a semirigid inhibitor and distances between essential atoms from which one pharmacophore was derived (79). (b) In another pharmacophore, atom 1 is a potential zinc ligand (sulfhydryl or carboxylate oxygen), atom 2 is a neutral hydrogen bond acceptor, atom 3 is an anion (deprotonated sulfur or charged oxygen), atom 4 indicates the direction of a hydrogen bond to atom two, and atom 5 is the central atom of a carboxylate, sulfate, or phosphate of which atom 3 is an oxygen, or atom 5 is an unsaturated carbon when atom 3 is a deprotonated sulfur. The angle 1- -2- -3- -4 is —135 to —180° or 135 to 180°, and 1- -2- -3- -5 is —90 to 90°.

The two oxidoreductase systems most frequentiy used for preparation of chiral synthons include baker s yeast and horse hver alcohol dehydrogenase (HLAD). The use of baker s yeast has been recendy reviewed in great detail (6,163) and therefore will not be coveted here. The emphasis here is on dehydrogenase-catalyzed oxidation and reduction of alcohols, ketones, and keto acid, oxidations at unsaturated carbon, and Bayer-Vidiger oxidations. 

When a Br nsted base functions catalytically by sharing an electron pair with a proton, it is acting as a general base catalyst, but when it shares the electron with an atom other than the proton it is (by definition) acting as a nucleophile. This other atom (electrophilic site) is usually carbon, but in organic chemistry it might also be, for example, phosphorus or silicon, whereas in inorganic chemistry it could be the central metal ion in a coordination complex. Here we consider nucleophilic reactions at unsaturated carbon, primarily at carbonyl carbon. Nucleophilic reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives have been well studied. These acyl transfer reactions can be represented by... 

Cychc nitroalkenes are prepared from cychc ketones via nitradon of vinylstarmanes v/ith tetranitrmnethane in DMSO, as shown in Eq 2 36, where DMSO is a cridcal choice of solvent for replacing dn by nitre at the unsaturated carbon The conversion of ketones to vinylstarmanes... 

I Ozonolysis of alkenes yields ketones if one of the unsaturated carbon atoms is disubstituted (Section 7.9). 

Likewise, amine functions on the azepine ring at an unsaturated carbon center behave as enamines and undergo hydrolysis under both acid and alkaline conditions to the benzazepinones.15,64 8084 However, hydrolysis of dimethyl l-acetyl-5-piperidino-l//-l-benz-azepine-3,4-dicarboxylate(18) yields not the benzazepinone but the tautomeric 5-hydroxy derivative 19.13 Presumably, the enol form is stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding. 

A part of the mechanistic spectrum is supported by the [2+2] cycloaddition reactions between the unsaturated carbon bonds and carbonyl compounds [24]. 

Four-membered ring formation between unsaturated carbon bonds and carbonyl compounds is a photochemical reaction [25], This is an excited-state reaction in the delocalization band (Scheme 6). 

The nonequivalent n orbital extension or the higher electron density in the exo face pyramidizes the unsaturated carbons The -H bonds are bent in the endo face. 

The evidence presented includes the observed solvent isotope effect of kHjSO./ DjSO =2.2-3.9, the high negative rho of -4.21, and the high negative entropies of activation (-27 e.u. to -35 e.u.). The negative entropy of activation is in line with values observed for other rate-limiting transfers to unsaturated carbons (29). 

The vinyl cation analog of an allylic carbonium ion is an allenyl cation 242, where the empty p orbital on the unsaturated carbon overlaps with the perpendicular n bond of the allenyl system. Allenyl cation 242 is of course a resonance form of the well known alkynylcarbonium ion,... 

A similar pre-orientation involving unsaturated carbon chains was operative on generating twelve-membered enediyne 23 and arenediyne lactams 24 [7]. The seco methylesters 21 and 22 were cleaved with LiOH, the corresponding carboxylic acids underwent cyclizations after activation with 2-fluoro-pyridinium tosylate 25 [8]. Dimerization products were found as by-products (<10%). It should be pointed out, that the lactamization succeeded in a single step in about 75% yield by treating the seco-methylesters 21 and 22 with Me3Al in refluxing methylene chloride. Obviously, the latter route was more convenient (Scheme 5). 

Wipke, WT, Gund P. Congestion. Conformation-dependent measure of steric environment. Derivation and application in stereoselective addition to unsaturated carbon./Am Chem Soc 1974 96 299-301. 

Catalytic Hydroamination of Unsaturated Carbon-Carbon Bonds... 

Hydroaminomethylahon of alkenes [path (c)j wiU not be considered [12]. This review deals exclusively with the hydroaminahon reaction [path (d)], i.e. the direct addition of the N-H bond of NH3 or amines across unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds. It is devoted to the state of the art for the catalytic hydroamination of alkenes and styrenes but also of alkynes, 1,3-dienes and allenes, with no mention of activated substrates (such as Michael acceptors) for which the hydroamination occurs without catalysts. Similarly, the reachon of the N-H bond of amine derivatives such as carboxamides, tosylamides, ureas, etc. will not be considered. 

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