Lewis acids, weak

Iron(III) bromide is a weak Lewis acid It combines with bromine to form a Lewis acid Lewis base complex... 

Metal Alibis and Alkoxides. Metal alkyls (eg, aluminum boron, sine alkyls) are fairly active catalysts. Hyperconjugation with the electron-deficient metal atom, however, tends to decrease the electron deficiency. The effect is even stronger in alkoxides which are, therefore, fairly weak Lewis acids. The present discussion does not encompass catalyst systems of the Ziegler-Natta type (such as AIR. -H TiCl, although certain similarities with Friedel-Crafts systems are apparent. 

IF7 has been shown to act as a weak Lewis acid towards CsF and NOF, and the compounds CsIFg and NOIFg have been characterized by X-ray powder patterns and by Raman spectroscopy they are believed to contain the IFg anion. 

Bromine oxide trifluoride, p3BrO, is made by reaction of K[p4BrO] with a weak Lewis acid ... 

Fig. 8.7 The different transition-state shapes for the carbo-Diels-Alder reaction in the pressence of a strong Lewis acid (left) - a three center interaction - and a weak Lewis acid (right) [12]...

Essentially all allylsilanes (M = SiR3, Section D.l.3.3.3.5.) with the exception of fluorosil-iconates11 and most of the trialkyl(allyl)stannancs (Section D.l. 3.3.3.6.), which have only very weak Lewis acidic properties, require a strong Lewis acid to trigger the reaction with a carbonyl compound by the preceding formation of an x-oxycarbenium ion, which attacks the allylic compound in an ionic open-chain pathway. These Lewis acid catalyzed carbonyl additions offer new possibilities for the control of the simple and induced diastereoselectivity12. 

Titanium enolates, which are weak Lewis acids, add to 2-alkoxyaldehydes with remarkable stereoselectivity under nonchelation control 1. Thus, 2-benzyloxypropanal is attacked by the tris(isopropyloxy)titanium enolate 7 preferably from the 57-face, to give a 87 13 mixture of adducts with complete simple diastereoselectivity3,1. 

The tetraorganotin compounds, R4Sn, show no tendency to increase their coordination number, owing to their weak, Lewis acidity conferred by the four electron-releasing alkyl groups. It has, however, been claimed (353) that trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)tin forms a 1 1 adduct with hexamethylphosphoric triamide, and that this may be isolated in the solid state. 

Aromatic thioureas were more active than alkyl (octyl, cyclohexyl) derivatives. Thioureas with trilluoromethyl substituents were even more effective. The same group also showed that these organocatalysts can act as weak Lewis acids and are thus able to alter the stereochemistry of the Diels-Alder reaction between cyclopentadiene and chiral acrylamide derivatives (Scheme 49) [167]. 

Katsuki et al. have reported that high enantioselectivity can be obtained in the oxidation of nonconjugated cyclic enol ethers by using Mn(salen) (34) as the catalyst.138 The reactions were performed in an alcoholic solvent to obtain a-hydroxy acetals as the products, because a-hydroxy acetals are tolerant to a weak Lewis acid like Mn(salen) and do not racemize during the reaction and the isolation procedure (Scheme 29). 

Sulfur dioxide can function as a very weak Lewis acid or a Lewis base and thereby form a variety of solvates ... 

Infrared spectra of pyridine adsorbed on dehydrated TS-1 and Ti-MCM-41 of comparable Ti content indicated the presence of only Lewis acid sites (Fig. 13). The infrared absorptions at 1595 and 1445 cm-1 are attributed to hydrogen-bonded pyridine (Si/Ti-OH—pyridine) and those at 1580 and 1485 cm-1 to pyridine bonded to weak Lewis acid sites (Fig. 12). Brpnsted sites, if present,... 

Acid catalysis by titanium silicate molecular sieves another area characterized by recent major progress. Whereas only two categories of acid-catalyzed reactions (the Beckmann rearrangement and MTBE synthesis) were included in the review by Notari in 1996 (33), the list has grown significantly since then. In view of the presence of weak Lewis acid sites on the surfaces of these catalysts, they can be used for reactions that require such weak acidity. 

Aromatic polycarbonates are currently manufactured either by the interfacial polycondensation of the sodium salt of diphenols such as bisphenol A with phosgene (Reaction 1, Scheme 22) or by transesterification of diphenyl carbonate (DPC) with diphenols in the presence of homogeneous catalysts (Reaction 2, Scheme 22). DPC is made by the oxidative carbonylation of dimethyl carbonate. If DPC can be made from cyclic carbonates by transesterification with solid catalysts, then an environmentally friendlier route to polycarbonates using C02 (instead of COCl2/CO) can be established. Transesterifications are catalyzed by a variety of materials K2C03, KOH, Mg-containing smectites, and oxides supported on silica (250). Recently, Ma et al. (251) reported the transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenol catalyzed by Sn-TS-1 samples calcined at various temperatures. The activity was related to the weak Lewis acidity of Sn-TS-1 (251). 

A Weak Lewis Acid Cleaves the C-F Bond. How Was the Glycosyl Fluoride Method Discovered 36... 

Mild promoter with weak Lewis acidity... 

It is noteworthy that the addition of strong Lewis acids is not necessary to promote the glycosylation the use of relatively weak Lewis acids like SnCl2 is sufficient to activate the considerably strong C—F bond of glycosyl fluorides. All of these results... 

Oki and his co-workers (177) also found that these halogenated compounds (107) exhibited enormous differences in reactivity when they were treated with Lewis acids. The sc form undergoes a Friedel-Crafts type cyclization in the presence of titanium tetrachloride, which is a weak Lewis acid, whereas the ap form survives these conditions. The latter reacts in the presence of the stronger Lewis acid antimony pentachloride. This difference is apparently caused by a chloro group in proximity to the site where a cationic center develops during the reaction (Scheme 12). 

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