With Bismuth Ylides

C-C Bond Forming Reactions with Bismuth Ylides... 

Carbon functional groups, attachment to polysilanes, 3, 585 Carbon-heteroatom bond formation via antimony(III) compounds, 9, 428 via antimony(V) compounds, 9, 432 via bismuth(III) compounds characteristics, 9, 440 with copper catalysts, 9, 442 non-catalyzed reactions, 9, 443 with bismuth(V) compounds, 9, 450 with bismuthonium salts, 9, 449 with bismuth ylides, 9, 450 Carbon-heteroatom ligands in tetraosmium clusters, 6, 967 in tetraruthenium clusters, 6, 960... 

In a marked contrast to the lighter pnictogen (P, As, Sb) elements, this class of bismuth ylides readily undergoes Corey-Chaycovsky-type epoxidations with aromatic, aliphatic, and ot,(3-unsaturated aldehydes to afford the corresponding... 

Scheme 9 Reaction of bismuth ylides with aldehydes [45, 46]...

Scheme 11 Reactions of bismuth ylides with a-dicarbonyl compounds [46, 67-70]...

The bismuth ylides, Ph3Bi=CHCOR, do not react with simple ketones and electron-rich olefins probably because of their relatively low electrophilic character. However, Ph3Bi=CHCOR reacts with a-keto esters [46, 67, 68], benzils [46, 67-69], orf/to-quinones [46, 67, 68], and acenaphthenequinone [70] to give epoxides, (9-arovl enolates, 3-hydroxytropones, and 3-hydroxyphenalenones, respectively, accompanied by the formation of Ph3Bi (Scheme 11). In particular, transposition and ring expansion reactions are of interest from a mechanistic point of view, since these reaction modes are unprecedented in ylide chemistry. 

Scheme 15 Reaction of bismuth ylide with organic acids [45]...

In a few cases this reaction gives ylides of PhaP and PhsAs, albeit in relatively low yield. In combination with isothiocyanates, some bismuth ylides yield complicated addition products, although the fate of the bismuth atom in these reactions is not determined. Likewise, bismuthonium compounds are finding a growing utility in organic synthesis d. 

The ylides and imides are present as monomers, and the bismuth center adopts a distorted tetrahedral geometry. In contrast, the structural properties of the bismuth oxides vary widely depending on the aryl ligands attached to the bismuth center the oxides exist as hydrates, dimers, or polymers in solution and in the solid state. X-ray structural analysis of an oxide dimer revealed that the bismuth center has a distorted, trigonal bipyramidal geometry with the two oxygen atoms at the apical and equatorial positions [47, 48]. 

Stabilized bismuthonium ylides have also been made from compounds having reactive methylene groups, CH2CXY, X, Y = RCO or RSO2, either by making their sodium salts and letting the latter react with dichlorotriphenylbismuth, or by reaction with triphenyl-bismuth oxide 1 181. 

The bismuthonium acyl- and sulphonyl-ylides have a completely different appearance and electronic spectra, all of them being yellowish in colour. This is because in their cases, as in those of similar arsonium and stibonium ylides, interaction between an oxygen atom and the bismuth atom is possible, leading to structures such as 48 in accord with this... 

The first bismuthonium ylide reported by Lloyd is a thermally stable colored substance, but the literature lacks details of its characterization. Several bismuthonium ylides containing a cyclic a,a -dicarbonyl or a,a -disulfonyl framework have been isolated as stable crystalline solids, and 4,4-dimethyl-2,6-dioxo-l-triphenylbismuthoniocyclohexane has been characterized structurally by X-ray crystallographic analysis, where the bismuth atom possesses a distorted tetrahedral geometry and interacts with one of the carbonyl oxygen atoms [90JCS(P1)3367]. The Bi-Cyude bond (2.156 A) is a bit shorter than the Bi-Cph bond (2.21-2.22 A), suggesting little or no double bond nature of the bismuth and ylidic carbon bond (Fig. 3.5). The ylidic carbon of this class of stabilized ylide appears at 8 100-113. 

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