Vinyl sulfones reaction

The organolithium reagent (1) also reacts with a wide variety of other electrophiles, including silyl chlorides to provide bis(silyl)methane derivatives, and nitriles to provide -sUyl amines after in situ reduction of the intermediate imine derivative. a-Silyl epoxides are opened to provide the substituted vinylsilane. Reaction of (1) with arenesulfonyl fluorides provides a-silyl sulfones, key intermediates for the preparation of vinyl sulfones. Reaction of the lithium reagent (1) with alu-... 

Ethyl /m s -2-butenyl sulfone (86) together with some ethyl vinyl sulfone are obtained by the reaction of ethylene and. SO2 in wet benzene using PdCl2. SO2 behaves mechanistically similarly to CO in this reaction[66]. Hydrosulfination of alkenes with SO2 and H2 is catalyzed by the Pd(dppp) complex. The sulfinic acid 87 is a primary product, which reacts further to give the. S-alkyl alkanethiosulfonates 88 as the major product, and 89 and the sulfonic acid 90 as minor products[67]. 

Reaction conditions depend on the reactants and usually involve acid or base catalysis. Examples of X include sulfate, acid sulfate, alkane- or arenesulfonate, chloride, bromide, hydroxyl, alkoxide, perchlorate, etc. RX can also be an alkyl orthoformate or alkyl carboxylate. The reaction of cycHc alkylating agents, eg, epoxides and a2iridines, with sodium or potassium salts of alkyl hydroperoxides also promotes formation of dialkyl peroxides (44,66). Olefinic alkylating agents include acycHc and cycHc olefinic hydrocarbons, vinyl and isopropenyl ethers, enamines, A[-vinylamides, vinyl sulfonates, divinyl sulfone, and a, P-unsaturated compounds, eg, methyl acrylate, mesityl oxide, acrylamide, and acrylonitrile (44,66). 

Fiber-Reactive Dyes. These dyes can enter iato chemical reaction with the fiber and form a covalent bond to become an iategral part of the fiber polymer. They therefore have exceptional wetfastness. Thein main use is on ceUulosic fibers where they are appHed neutral and then chemical reaction is initiated by the addition of alkaH. Reaction with the ceUulose can be by either nucleophilic substitution, using, for example, dyes containing activated halogen substituents, or by addition to the double bond in, for example, vinyl sulfone, —S02CH=CH2, groups. 

However, when the bulky substituent is no longer present at the electrophilic carbon atom, the addition of the olefin to the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone leads largely to the tetrasubstituted isomer. For instance the reaction of this enamine with phenyl vinyl sulfone gave a 1 3 mixture of... 

Reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with phenyl vinyl sulfone afforded a 9 1 mixture of the tri- and tetrasubstituted isomers (2(5). The preference of the less substituted isomer in this case is in keeping with the greater overlap requirement between the n electrons of the double bond and the electron pair on the nitrogen atom, since the double bond exo to the five-membered ring is much more favored than the double bond exo to the six-membered ring. It is, however, hard to explain the formation of largely the trisubstituted isomer with the piperidine enamine of cyclohexanone, where both of the rings involved are six-membered. 

Similar cycloaddition reactions were observed with methyl vinyl sulfone (48) and )3-nitrostyrene (48,51). Methyl vinyl ketone, on the other hand, is reported to give dihydropyrans as the initial products (50,52,53). Thus (16) on reaction with methyl vinyl ketone at room temperature for 12 hr gave a 60% yield of 2-dimethylamino-3,3,6-trimethyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran (59). 

The enamines derived from cyclic ketones give the normal alkylated products, although there is some evidence that unstable cycloadducts are initially formed (55b). Thus the enamine (28) derived from cyclohexanone and pyrrolidine on reaction with acrylonitrile, acrylate esters, or phenyl vinyl sulfone gave the 2-alkylated cyclohexanones (63) on hydrolysis of the intermediates (31,32,55,56). These additions are sensitive to the polarity of the solvent. Thus (28) in benzene or dioxane gave an 80% yield of the... 

The addition reactions of alkyllithium-lithium bromide complexes to a-trimethylsilyl vinyl sulfones that have as a chiral auxiliary a y-mono-thioacetal moiety derived from ( + )-camphor are highly diastereoselective. A transition state that involves chelation of the organolithium reagent to the oxygen of the thioacetal moiety has been invoked. The adducts are readily converted via hydrolysis, to chiral a-substituted aldehydes22. 

Base-induced eliminative ring fission, in which both the double bond and the sulfone function take part, has been observed in thiete dioxides253. The reaction can be rationalized in terms of initial Michael-type addition to the double bond of the ring vinyl sulfone, followed by a reverse aldol condensation with ring opening. The isolation of the ether 270c in the treatment of 6c with potassium ethoxide (since the transformation 267 -> 268 is not possible in this case) is in agreement with the reaction mechanism outlined in equation 101253. 

Similarly, enamino vinyl sulfones (345) can undergo a thermally allowed electrocyclic reaction between the termini of the enaminic double bond and the allyl sulfonyl portion in the intermediate anion (346) to afford a, /1-unsaturated thiene dioxides (348) as shown in equation 126335. 

When the reaction between a-trifluoromethyl sulfone 286 and paraformaldehyde was carried out in the presence of potassium carbonate, the vinyl sulfone was obtained quantitatively upon elimination of triflate anion368. Such a deacylative methylenation was observed in the reaction between /J-ketosulfones 287 and 288 and paraformaldehyde3 69 3 71. 

Ueno and coworkers10 have found that the facile displacement of sulfonyl group from a-alkylated allyl p-tolyl sulfones 18 by tri-n-butyltin radical in the presence of 2,2 -azobis[2-methylpropanenitrile] (AIBN) occurs smoothly in refluxing benzene (equation 11). In contrast, vinyl sulfones undergo the radical substitution reaction to give vinylstannanes in the presence of AIBN at a higher temperature11. 

TABLE 3. Cross-coupling reaction of vinyl sulfones with Grignard reagents12 ... 

Since the first demonstration of a cycloaddition reaction of a, /f-unsaturated sulfones in 1938 by Alder and coworkers85, a variety of a, /3-unsaturated sulfones have been prepared and used as dienophiles. For example, when a mixture of p-tolyl vinyl sulfone and 2,3-dimethylbutadiene in benzene is heated at 145-150 °C for 10 h in a sealed tube, crystals of the cycloadduct (134) are obtained (equation 102). Other examples of this intermolecular cycloaddition reaction are given in Table 12. 

Symmetrical 1,4-diketones (249) can be prepared by the reaction of phenyl vinyl sulfones (53) or divinyl sulfone with aldehydes in the presence of 3-benzyl-5-(2-hydroxymethyl)-4-methylthiazolium chloride as a catalyst (equations 148 and 149)142. 

Vinyl sulfones such as 262 are smoothly converted to a,) -unsaturated nitriles such as 263 on treatment with KCN in the presence of dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 in refluxing t-butyl alcohol (equation 155)148. The reaction conditions are compatible with base-labile functionalities such as a methoxycarbonyl group (equation 156)148. This method can be used in the preparation of the sesquiterpene aldehyde nuciferal from allyl phenyl sulfones. 

Radical-mediated silyldesulfonylation of various vinyl and (a-fluoro)vinyl sulfones 21 with (TMSlsSiH (Reaction 25) provide access to vinyl and (a-fluoro)vinyl silanes 22. These reactions presumably occur via a radical addition of (TMSlsSi radical followed by /)-scission with the ejection of PhS02 radical. Hydrogen abstraction from (TMSlsSiH by PhS02 radical completes the cycle of these chain reactions. Such silyldesulfonylation provides a flexible alternative to the hydrosilylation of alkynes with (TMSlsSiH (see below). On oxidative treatment with hydrogen peroxide in basic aqueous solution, compound 22 undergoes Pd-catalyzed cross-couplings with aryl halides. 

It is evident from the foregoing sections that simple alkylvinyl halides do not react via an Sn 1 mechanism, if at all, even under extreme solvolytic conditions (146,149). More reactive leaving groups, such as arylsulfonates, were clearly needed to investigate the possible solvolytic behavior of simple alkylvinyl systems, but the preparation of vinyl sulfonates until recently was unknown. Peterson and Indelicato (154) were the first to report the preparation of vinyl arylsulfonates via reaction of the appropriate disulfonate with potassium t-butoxide in refluxing f-butanol. They prepared and investigated the solvolysis of 1-cyclohexenyl tosylate 169 and c/s-2-buten-2-yl tosylate 170 and the corresponding p-bromobenzenesulfonates (brosylates). Reaction... 

The nucleophilic vinylic substitution reaction of ( )-a-haloenyne sulfones with sodium alkoxides proceeds regioselectively to give ( )-a-alkoxyenyne sulfones. These conqioimds are versatile intermediates for the preparation of iiirans (Scheme 15, <96TL7381>). 

The aziridine aldehyde 56 undergoes a facile Baylis-Hillman reaction with methyl or ethyl acrylate, acrylonitrile, methyl vinyl ketone, and vinyl sulfone [60]. The adducts 57 were obtained as mixtures of syn- and anfz-diastereomers. The synthetic utility of the Baylis-Hillman adducts was also investigated. With acetic anhydride in pyridine an SN2 -type substitution of the initially formed allylic acetate by an acetoxy group takes place to give product 58. Nucleophilic reactions of this product with, e. g., morpholine, thiol/Et3N, or sodium azide in DMSO resulted in an apparent displacement of the acetoxy group. Tentatively, this result may be explained by invoking the initial formation of an ionic intermediate 59, which is then followed by the reaction with the nucleophile as shown in Scheme 43. 

As a consequence of facile homolytic cleavages, sulfonyl halides (I > Br > Cl F unsuitable) are able to add to unsaturated C—C systems. To prevent (or reduce) competing polymerizations, the additions of sulfonyl chlorides have been recommended to be carried out in the presence of copper(I/II) salts (Asscher-Vofsi reaction ). Comprehensive surveys have been published on the resulting j8-halogeno sulfones (or their vinyloguous compounds) as well as on their dehalogenation products (vinyl sulfones, 1-sulfonyl-l, 3-dienes, etc.). Table 5 reviews a series of sulfonyl halide additions and facile hydrogen halide eliminations. 

Carbanion 239 derived from vinyl sulfone 238 was shown to be alkylated regiospecifi-cally at the a-carbon atom The carbanions 240 and 241 derived from <5-ketosulfones were shown to be alkylated at both a- and y-carbons . Alkylation of 240 gave a-alkylated products predominantly, while the a/y ratio varied markedly by change of the alkylating agent in the reaction with 241. For example, methylation with methyl iodide gave the products in the a/y ratio of 72 28, while the a/y ratio was 27 73 in the ethylation with ethyl bromide ... 

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