With pyridinium dichromate

The avermectins also possess a number of aUyflc positions that are susceptible to oxidative modification. In particular the 8a-methylene group, which is both aUyflc and alpha to an ether oxygen, is susceptible to radical oxidation. The primary product is the 8a-hydroperoxide, which has been isolated occasionally as an impurity of an avermectin B reaction (such as the catalytic hydrogenation of avermectin B with Wilkinson s rhodium chloride-triphenylphosphine catalyst to obtain ivermectin). An 8a-hydroxy derivative can also be detected occasionally as a metaboUte (42) or as an impurity arising presumably by air oxidation. An 8a-oxo-derivative can be obtained by oxidizing 5-0-protected avermectins with pyridinium dichromate (43). This also can arise by treating the 8a-hydroperoxide with base. 

Spirothiopyrans 45b including a benzopyrylium ring have been prepared in one step by condensation of 2-aminovinyl-3-formyl chromone-4-thione 47 with 1,2,3,3-tetramethylindolinium salts in ethanol (Scheme 25).90 The precursor 47 is prepared from 3-carboxymethylene-2-methyl-chromone-4-thione 48. First, oxidation of 48 with pyridinium dichromate in CH2C12, and then condensation with dimethyl formamide dimethyl acetal in benzene gave compound 47. 

A simple two-step protocol for the generation of a terminal diene is to add allyl magnesium bromide to an aldehyde or a ketone and subsequent acid or base catalysed dehydration (equation 34)72. Cheng and coworkers used this sequence for the synthesis of some indole natural products (equation 35)72a. Regiospecific dienones can be prepared by 1,2-addition of vinyllithium to a,/l-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and oxidative rearrangement of the resulting dienols with pyridinium dichromate (equation 36)73. 

Using KX rX), yields in parentheses relate to catalysis with pyridinium dichromate. 

Kinetic studies of the oxidation of some a-hydroxy acids with pyridinium dichromate (PDC) are consistent with a mechanism involving the loss of H2O from the pro-tonated substrate in the rate-determining step. The oxidation of 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) by PDC has been studied. The intermediacy of an acetochromate ion in the oxidation of some acetophenone oximes with PDC is suggested. 

Upon hydrogenation of 24 a 1,2-rearrangement of the epoxide occurred generating aldehyde 25 as a mixture of diastereoisomers. After reaction with methyl lithium, the diastereomeric alcohols 26 and 27 were separated and isolated in yields of 23% and 71%. While alcohol 26 as the minor diastereo-isomer could be oxidized with pyridinium dichromate (PDC) and methyle-nated to give the enantiomer of kelsoene (cnM), its diastereoisomer 27 with the inverse configuration at C-7 required a supplementary epimerization step with sodium methanolate. The enantiomerically pure ent- allowed for the determination of the absolute configuration of natural kelsoene (1) [9, 10]. The previously reported assignment based on NMR-correlation experiments [5] was corrected. 

Compared to the anodic oxidation of Z-4-octene-l,8-diol (80%, Table 8) its oxidation with pyridinium dichromate in dimethyl formamide gave as the best chemical alternative only 65 % diacid Nickel peroxide oxidation under mild conditions (1.3 eq. peroxide, 25 °C, 1 M NaOH) led to 45% hydroxy acid 75, whereas under more vigorous conditions (3 eq. peroxide, 80 °C, 1 M NaOH) maleic acid was formed ... 

General Procedure for Oxidation of Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones with Pyridinium Dichromate (PDC)... 

Mithramycin shows a completely P-linked chain of D-conflgurated saccharides. This requires a totally different approach for the synthesis which is also done by application of the DBE method. The previously obtained disaccharide 180 is P-glycosylated with the monosaccharide precursor 176 to give the trisaccharide 185. After reductive debromination (Bu3SnH), an acid deformylation deblocked the C-3" position which is oxidized with pyridinium dichromate. Nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl group by methyl lithium affords a 1 1.2 mixture of 186 and 187 none of which is the desired compound [93]. Obviously, the methyl branch is formed exclusively in the axial way. 

The secondary alcohol was smoothly oxidized to a ketone in high yield with pyridinium dichromate in dimethylformamide (cf 36). The IR spectrum indicated the presence of a ketone group bonded to the a-carbon of a thiophene (absorption at 1660 cm 1). The 200 MHz XH NMR spectrum showed all the features expected of this structure (cf Figure 12) as did the mass spectrum (cf. 1). 

Another illustration is the chemistry developed from MSMA amides where oxidation with pyridinium dichromate (PDC) of a methylene unit, LAH or sodium borohydride reduction of an ester moiety is performed without affecting the SMA s framework.301... 

The first issue confronted by Myers was preparation of homochiral epoxide 7, the key intermediate needed for his intended nucleophilic addition reaction to enone 6. Its synthesis began with the addition of lithium trimethylsilylacetylide to (R)-glyceraldehyde acetonide (Scheme 8.6).8 This afforded a mixture of propargylic alcohols that underwent oxidation to alkynone 10 with pyridinium dichromate (PDC). A Wittig reaction next ensued to complete installation of the enediyne unit within 11. A 3 1 level of selectivity was observed in favour of the desired olefin isomer. After selective desilylation of the more labile trimethylsilyl group from the product mixture, deacetalation with IN HC1 in tetrahydrofuran (THF) enabled both alkene components to be separated, and compound 12 isolated pure. 

Fused 2//-pyran-2-ones are formed in excellent yields and under mild conditions through a Ni-catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition of diynes and C02 <02JA15188>. Oxidative demetalation of 0i3-allyl)Mo complexes of pyran with pyridinium dichromate (PDC) introduces a carbonyl function at the allylic terminus offering access to dihydropyranones of high enantiopurity <02JOC5773>. 

Primary trialkylboranes were directly converted into carboxylic acids by the oxidation with pyridinium dichromate in dimethylformamide, sodium dichromate in aqueous sulfuric acid, or chromium trioxide in 90% aqueous acetic acid (Equation (106)).509... 

Mitsunobu reaction as well as by mesylation and subsequent base treatment failed, the secondary alcohol was inverted by oxidation with pyridinium dichromate and successive reduction with sodium borohydride. The inverted alcohol 454 was protected as an acetate and the acetonide was removed by acid treatment to enable conformational flexibility. Persilylation of triol 455 was succeeded by acetate cleavage with guanidine. Alcohol 456 was deprotonated to assist lactonization. Mild and short treatment with aqueous hydrogen fluoride allowed selective cleavage of the secondary silyl ether. Dehydration of the alcohol 457 was achieved by Tshugaejf vesLCtion. The final steps toward corianin (21) were deprotection of the tertiary alcohols of 458 and epoxidation with peracid. This alternative corianin synthesis needed 34 steps in 0.13% overall yield. 

Primary alcohol groups can be exclusively oxidized to aldehyde groups with pyridinium dichromate [149,150] and to carboxyl groups with the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidine oxoammonium ion (TEMPO) [151]. The aldehydes can then be reduced to primary alcohols by reaction with NaB H4 [150,152], giving radiolabeled H-starch and the carboxyl group can be inverted by the action of Azotobacter vinlandii poly- 8-D-marmuronic acid C-5-epimerase to give L-iduronic acid [153]. 

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