Unsaturated functionality

Reactions of the halogen iluorides with other unsaturated functional groups are generally reported only with highly fluorinated substrates Hexafluorobenzene and denvatives [118] and octaflvoronaphthalene [119] react with mixtures of bromine and bromine trifluoride by 1,4 addition of fluorine followed by addition of bromine fluoride across a reniatning double bond (equation 22)... 

Depending on the types of unsaturated functional units involved in the metathesis process, the reactions can be classified into three major categories diene, enyne, and diyne metathesis (Figs. 1-3). Another mode of classification... 

Stereoisomerism Substituents Parent Unsaturation Functional group... 

Since aromatic substitutions, aliphatic substitutions, additions and conjugate additions to carbonyl compounds, cycloadditions, and ring expansion reactions catalyzed by Fe salts have recently been summarized [17], this section will focus on reactions in which iron salts produce a critical activation on unsaturated functional groups provided by the Lewis-acid character of these salts. 

As described in the previous section for unsaturated functional groups, Schwartz s reagent (1) and most zirconocene(IV) hydrides readily deprotonate acidic moieties [183, 218]. 

Application of the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction to the functionalization of dendrimers allows one to prepare amino acid terminated macromolecules. Such a reaction conducted with dendrimers 10-[G ], 10-[G 3], lO-fG ] and phosphonates unsubstituted at the carbon a to the phosphoryl group affords in moderate yield dendrimers bearing various a, / unsaturated functional groups on the surface [18]. (Schemes 17 and 18). 

The quantitative bulk conversion of unsaturated functional groups in PHAs to epoxides has been achieved by reaction with m-chloroperbenzoic acid as the chemical reagent [107]. No chain scission of the macromolecular chain was observed. Epoxy-modified PHAs are chemically even more reactive than unsaturated PHAs and therefore could be useful in further chemical reactions (e.g. grafting of therapeutic important substances) [108]. 

Reaction of the stannylborane 9 with an allenyne gives a cyclization product, in which the boryl and stannyl groups are introduced to the acetylenic terminus and the allenic central carbon, respectively (Equation (104)).159 Based on the assumption that an unsaturated functionality initially inserts into the Pd-B bond of (boryl)(stannyl)palladium(n) species, it seems likely that the alkyne moiety is more reactive than the allene moiety in this reaction. 

Halogen atom transfer reactions involve homolysis ofaC-XoraX-X bond in a neutral molecule and transfer of both radical components to unsaturated functional groups. There is atom economy in such processes and they provide functionality for further transformations [73]. 

A direct connection between the allene group and another unsaturated functional group is no prerequisite for interesting chemical behavior, as illustrated for hydrocarbons 28-31 in Scheme 5.3, in which the allene unit and the above four substituents are connected either by a methylene group or by an ethano bridge, as for allenes 32-35. 

In comparison to the above diastereospecific reactions of cyclic polyene complexes, the reaction of acyclic (diene)Fe(CO)3 complexes (221) with pendant unsaturated functionality has been found to occur in a diastereoselective fashion. The diastereoselectivity in... 

The potential application of this catalytic system was illustrated by Takemoto in the application to a tandem conjugate addition towards the asymmetric synthesis of (-)-epibatidine, a biologically active natural product [100, 101], The authors designed an enantioselective double Michael addition of an unsaturated functionalized P-ketoester to a p-aryl nitro-olefm. The asymmetric synthesis of the 4-nitro-cyclohexanones was achieved in both high diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity, with the natural product precursor synthesized in 90% yield and 87.5 12.5 er (Scheme 49). The target (-)-epibatidine was subsequently achieved in six steps. 

Early electrochemical processes for the oxidation of alcohols to ketones or carboxylic acids used platinum or lead dioxide anodes, usually with dilute sulphuric acid as electrolyte. A divided cell is only necessary in the oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids if (he substrate possesses an unsaturated function, which could be reduced at the cathode [1,2]. Lead dioxide is the better anode material and satisfactory yields of the carboxylic acid have been obtained from oxidation of primary alcohols up to hexanol [3]. Aldehydes are intermediates in these reactions. Volatile aldehydes can be removed from the electrochemical cell in a... 

The Alder-ene reaction of these substrates occurs with little or no interference from the additional unsaturated functionality appended to the tether, based on the excellent yields and fast reaction times (Scheme 8.6). 

So far, only multi-hapto-bonded groups have been considered that contain a cyclic unsaturated functionality. It appeared that linear conjugated unsaturated functionalities are also capable of being involved in such multi-hapto interactions. 

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