Unsymmetrically substituted

Figure 10.3-2. The reaction ofa mono-substiluted hydrazine v/ilh an unsymmetrically substituted 1,3-dicarboiiyl compound can lead to two regioisomeric pyrazole products.

Unsymmetrically substituted dipyrromethanes are obtained from n-unsubstitued pyrroles and fl(-(bromomethyl)pyiToIes in hot acetic acid within a few minutes. These reaction conditions are relatively mild and the o-unsubstituted pyrrole may even bear an electron withdrawing carboxylic ester function. It is still sufficiently nucleophilic to substitute bromine or acetoxy groups on an a-pyrrolic methyl group. Hetero atoms in this position are extremely reactive leaving groups since the a-pyrrolylmethenium( = azafulvenium ) cation formed as an intermediate is highly resonance-stabilized. 

A mild procedure which does not involve strong adds, has to be used in the synthesis of pure isomers of unsymmetrically substituted porphyrins from dipyrromethanes. The best procedure having been applied, e.g. in unequivocal syntheses of uroporphyrins II, III, and IV (see p. 251f.), is the condensation of 5,5 -diformyldipyrromethanes with 5,5 -unsubstituted dipyrromethanes in a very dilute solution of hydriodic add in acetic acid (A.H. Jackson, 1973). The electron-withdrawing formyl groups disfavor protonation of the pyrrole and therefore isomerization. The porphodimethene that is formed during short reaction times isomerizes only very slowly, since the pyrrole units are part of a dipyrromethene chromophore (see below). Furthermore, it can be oxidized immediately after its synthesis to give stable porphyrins. 

The facile insertion of CO takes place. The 2-aryl-3-indazolone 484 is obtained in high yields from the azobenzene complex 463 in alcohol or waterf442]. For unsymmetrically substituted 4-methyl, 4-chloro-, and 4-meth-... 

Furthermore, the regioselective hydrogenolysis can be extended to internal allylic systems. In this case, clean differentiation of a tertiary carbon from a secondary carbon in an allylic system is a problem. The regioselectivity in the hydrogenolysis of unsymmetrically substituted internal allylic compounds depends on the nature and size of the substituents. The less substituted alkene 596 was obtained from 595 as the main product, but the selectivity was only... 

TABI.a 2124A. UNSYMMETRICAL SUBSTITUTED TRIMEUHNE CYANINES... 

Focants of substituents of symmetrically substituted derivatives of symmetrical amines are distinguished by primes or else the names of the complete substituted radicals are enclosed in parentheses. Unsymmetrically substituted derivatives are named similarly or as A-substituted products of a primary amine (after choosing the most senior of the radicals to be the parent amine). For example. 

V-Nitrosamines typically are light yellow volatile soHds or oils. The electron delocalization in the NNO functionaUty sufficiendy restricts rotation around the N—N bond that the E (4) and Z (5) isomers of unsymmetrically substituted examples can often be separated (43). 

The steric effects in isocyanates are best demonstrated by the formation of flexible foams from TDI. In the 2,4-isomer (4), the initial reaction occurs at the nonhindered isocyanate group in the 4-position. The unsymmetrically substituted ureas formed in the subsequent reaction with water are more soluble in the developing polymer matrix. Low density flexible foams are not readily produced from MDI or PMDI enrichment of PMDI with the 2,4 -isomer of MDI (5) affords a steric environment similar to the one in TDI, which allows the production of low density flexible foams that have good physical properties. The use of high performance polyols based on a copolymer polyol allows production of high resiHency (HR) slabstock foam from either TDI or MDI (2). 

Both symmetrically and unsymmetrically substituted diborylamines can be prepared using steticaHy demanding /V-1ithioaminoboranes (52). 

With unsymmetrically substituted cyclopropenes, isomeric cycloadducts (177) and (178) and pyridazines are formed (Scheme 99) (80LA590). 

Nitrobenzofuroxan (355) undergoes a rearrangement (recognizable as an isomerization in unsymmetrically substituted derivatives) which is an example of this general rearrangement (Scheme 45) (64AG(E)693) see Table 10. 

Nelson and Scliut investigated the reaction of 5a-cholestanone (lb) with diazomethane in a search for a direct, one-step preparation of A-homo ketones. Using a large excess of diazomethane generated in situ from A-methyl-nitrosourea with potassium hydroxide in ether-methanol at 0°, 5a-cholestanone (lb) is converted into the 7-membered ring homolog (3b) as the predominant product. Both theoretically possible A-homo ketones can be expected with an unsymmetrically-substituted cyclohexanone such as 5a-cholestanone (lb). 

Tn general. Nelson and Schut s procedure is recommended for expansion of an unsymmetrically substituted cyclohexanone (for example, the A ring of a steroid 3-ketone). The yield is satisfactory in most instances and the precursors are readily available. However, the relative proportions of the two possible ketones may change as substituents are varied. The procedure is applicable to systems with additional ketones protected as ketals, double bonds, ethers and hydroxyl groups. 

The Gabriel-Colman reaction can be used to prepare isoquinoline-1,4-diols regioselectively by the use of unsymmetrically substituted phthalimides. Reaction of phthalimide 32 with sodium ethoxide in ethanol provides a 1 7 mixture of 33 34. It was rationalized that attack at carbon b is preferred because of its greater steric accessibility and diminished electron density compared to carbon a. In spite of the reasonable regioselectivity observed m this reaction, the Gabriel-Colman reaction has not been substantially investigated in the preparation of non-symmetrically substituted isoquinolines. 

The isolation of unsymmetrically-substituted murexides in two forms, e.g., 115 and 116, has been claimed (see reference 175 and... 

All triazoles, tetrazoles, and unsymmetrically substituted imidazoles and pyrazoles can exist in two tautomeric forms, e.g., 1 2 and 3 4. However, attempts to isolate the individual tautomers have been unsuccessful, always leading to one isomer (for summaries of this aspect of the tautomerism of imidazoles, see references 1 and 2). Although the isolation of both tautomers of a number of com-... 

Tautomerism in tetrahydrotetrazines (also known as leucoverdazyls) has been studied by NMR spectroscopy, which showed that unsymmetrically substituted aryl leucoverdazyls 132 exist in solution in a tautomeric equilibrium of two stable forms (Scheme 38) (85KGS1425). 

Tautomeric equilibrium in the symmetrical phenoxy-substituted derivative 136 (R = Ph, r = R = OPh) is fast at ambient temperature on the NMR time scale however, at —84°C the proton exchange becomes frozen and both annular tautomers 136a and 136b can be observed (Scheme 40). The similar exchange was also found for P-aryl-substituted 136 (R = Me, Ft, Ph R = R = Ph). In these cases, the equilibrium is very slow, even at ambient temperature, which was attributed to increased steric demands of four phenyl substituents. Unsymmetrically substituted azaphosphorinanes (R R ) provide even more interesting examples. These compounds (R = Ph R = Me, -Pr R = MeO, -PrO) were found to... 

When a mixture of alkenes 1 and 2 or an unsymmetrically substituted alkene 3 is treated with an appropriate transition-metal catalyst, a mixture of products (including fi/Z-isomers) from apparent interchange of alkylidene moieties is obtained by a process called alkene metathesis. With the development of new catalysts in recent years, alkene metathesis has become a useful synthetic method. Special synthetic applications are, for example, ring-closing metathesis (RCM) and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROM) (see below). 

From reaction of an unsymmetrically substituted diene 11a, b and dienophile 12, different regioisomeric products 13a, b and 14a, b can be formed. The so-called ortho and the para isomer 13a, resp. 13b, is formed preferentially. 

Many dihydropyridines that are of therapeutic interest are unsymmetrically substituted at C-3 and C-5. The synthesis of such compounds is possible from separately prepared Knoevenagel condensation products 6, as is outlined in the following scheme for nitrendipine 8, which is used in the medical treatment of high blood pressure." ... 

Look carefully at the reactions shown in the previous section. In each case, an unsymmetrically substituted alkene has given a single addition product, rather than the mixture that might have been expected. As another example, 1-pentene might react with HC1 to give both 1-chloropentane and 2-chloropentane, but it doesn t. Instead, the reaction gives only 2-chloropentane as the sole product. We say that such reactions are regiospecific (ree-jee-oh-specific) when only one of two possible orientations of addition occurs. 

U Electrophilic addition to an unsymmetrically substituted alkene gives the more highly substituted carbocation intermediate. A more highly substituted carbocation forms faster than a less highly substituted one and, once formed, rapidly goes on to give the final product. 

Aikene chemistry is dominated by electrophilic addition reactions. When HX reacts with an unsymmetrically substituted aikene, Markovnikov s rule predicts that the H will add to the carbon having fewer alky) substituents and the X group will add to the carbon having more alkyl substituents. Electrophilic additions to alkenes take place through carbocation intermediates formed by reaction of the nucleophilic aikene tt bond with electrophilic H+. Carbocation stability follows the order... 

When an unsymmetrically substituted vinyl monomer such as propylene or styrene is polymerized, the radical addition steps can take place at either end of the double bond to yield either a primary radical intermediate (RCH2-) or a secondary radical (R2CH-). Just as in electrophilic addition reactions, however, we find that only the more highly substituted, secondary radical is formed. 

A mixture of both possible ketones results when an unsymmetrically substituted internal alkyne (RC=CR ) is hydrated. The reaction is therefore most useful when applied to a terminal alkyne (RC=CH) because only a methyl ketone is formed. 

Unsymmetrically substituted secondary and tertiary amines are named as iV-substituted primary amines. The largest alkyl group is chosen as the parent name, and the other alkyl groups are N-substituents on the parent (jY because they re attached to nitrogen). 

Strychnine, the most celebrated member of the Strychnos alkaloids, possesses a complex polycyclic structure which is assembled from only twenty-four skeletal atoms. In addition to its obvious architectural complexity, strychnine s structure contains a contiguous array of six unsymmetrically substituted tetrahedral (asymmetric) carbon atoms of which five are included within one saturated six-membered ring. The intimidating structure of the strychnine molecule elicited the following remark by Sir Robert Robinson in 1952 For its molecular size it is the most complex substance known. 5... 

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