Wittig reaction Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons

For the synthesis of alkenes, the Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions have become important tools. Triphenylphosphine that is used in the Wittig reaction can be immobilized either on the polymer or can be used in solution for solid-phase chemistry (Scheme 3.18). The Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction for example is used for the synthesis of aldehyde building blocks [261]. 

P-nucleophiles (— precursors for Wittig or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction)... 

Oxaphosphetane Fragmentation, Last Step of Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reactions... 

Scheme 1. Schematic representation of the Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions. LG = leaving group.

Related reactions Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination, Homer-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination - Still-Gennari modification, Julia-Lithgoe olefination, Takai-Utimoto olefination, Tebbe oiefination, Wittig reaction, Wittig reaction - Schiosser modification ... 

The past year has seen continued interest in the structural nature of phosphorus ylides with the aim of gaining greater insight into their stabilities, electronic distributions and conformations, which ultimately affect the reactivities of these species. However, there have been fewer mechanistic studies of the Wittig reaction itself although several studies into the closely related aza-Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons modifications have appeared. 

Others they made by Wittig or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions such as the methoxyketone 45 from the phosphonate ester 44. The 78% yield is of pure E-enone 45. 

Introduction The extended enolate problem Kinetic and thermodynamic control Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reactions Extended Aza-Enolates Extended Lithium Enolates of Aldehydes Summary a-Alkylation of Extended Enolates Reaction in the y-Position Extended Enolates from Unsaturated Ketones Diels-Alder Reactions Extended Enolates from Birch Reductions The Baylis-Hillman Reaction The Synthesis of Mniopetal F... 

Formation of C-N bond has raised of interest in the scientific community in the last 10 years. In this context, the formation of enamides is a valuable protocol. In addition to conventional approaches that include condensation of amides and aldehydes, addition of amides to alkynes, acylation of imines, Curtius rearrangement of a,jS-unsaturated acyl azides, amide Peterson olefination, and Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions, several transition metal-catalyzed methods have been developed that allow the synthesis of enamides.Inspired by the analogous arylation of amines catalyzed by palladium or copper complexes (Buchwald-Hartwig reaction), a new approach for the synthesis of enamides has been published recently, which allows to prepare enamides from readily available starting materials (amides and vinyl halides) proceeding under very mild conditions. Thus, we decided to test the Porco-Buchwald amidation of vinyl halides in our synthesis [144-146]. 

In 1990, Gorgues and coworkers [60,61] reported the earliest studies of extended TTFs by acetylene scaffolding 61, in order to decrease on-site Coulomb repulsion. The symmetrically substituted acetylenic analog 61 was prepared from a very reactive aldehyde (58) [62] by Wittig or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions (Scheme 8.8). The CV of 61 exhibited reversible one two-electron redox pan-corresponding to 61/61 . This behavior is different from the TTFVs series of 2, which is linked by an ethylene spacer, due to lack of electronic communication through the acetylenic bond in 61 ". ... 

HORNER - WADSWORTH - EMMONS Olelination Wittig type reaction of ptwsptionale stabilized carbanions with aldehydes or ketones to form olefins... 

Important and widely used variants of the Wittig reaction are based on carbanionic organophosphorus reagents, and are known as the Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, Wittig-Horner reaction or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. As first reported by Horner, carbanionic phosphine oxides can be used today carbanions from alkyl phosphonates 13 are most often used. The latter are easily prepared by application of the Arbuzov reaction. The reactive carbanionic species—e.g. 14 —is generated by treatment of the appropriate phosphonate with base, e.g. with sodium hydride ... 

The (Horner-)Wadsworth-Emmons reaction generally is superior to the Wittig reaction, and has found application in many cases for the synthesis of a ,/3-unsaturated esters, a ,/3-unsaturated ketones and other conjugated systems. Yields are often better then with the original Wittig procedure. However the Wadsworth-Emmons method is not suitable for the preparation of alkenes with simple, non-stabilizing alkyl substituents. 

A tandem enzymatic aldol-intramolecular Homer-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction has been used in the synthesis of a cyclitol.310 The key steps are illustrated in Scheme 8.33. The phosphonate aldehyde was condensed with dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) in water with FDP aldolase to give the aldol adduct, which cyclizes with an intramolecular Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction to give the cyclo-pentene product. The one-pot reaction takes place in aqueous solution at slightly acidic (pH 6.1-6.8) conditions. The aqueous Wittig-type reaction has also been investigated in DNA-templated synthesis.311... 

Syntheses follow a kind of bio-mimetic approach [283, 284] in building up the chain during a sequence of Wittig-type reactions or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination, adding two carbons to the chain at a time with either methyl- or ethyl-branches. As the final products need to be highly pure (E)-stereoisomers, reaction steps and purification need to be carefully controlled. 

This variation of the Wittig reaction uses ylides prepared from phosphonates.12 The Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons method has several advantages over the use of phosphoranes. These ylides are more reactive than the corresponding phosphoranes, especially when substituted with an electron withdrawing group. In addition the phosphorus product is a phosphate ester and soluble in water - unlike the Ph3PO product of the Wittig reaction - which makes it easy to separate from the olefin product. Phosphonates are also cheaper than phosphonium salts and can easily be prepared by the Arbuzov reaction from phosphanes and halides. 

The protected methyl glycoside 3 is converted to the corresponding aldehyde by Swern oxidation using oxalyl chloride activated DMSO. Further reaction with triethyl phosphonoacetate and sodium hydride -known as the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction - provides selectively the trans et /Tun saturated ester 4 in 72 % yield. This valuable alternative to the Wittig olefination protocol uses phosphonate esters as substrates which are readily available from alkyl halides and trialkyl phosphites via the Arbuzov rearrangement.9 co2Et Reaction of the phosphonate with a suitable base gives the... 

Step 1 (3-keto phosphonates often are used for olefmation of ketones (Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons modification of the Wittig reaction). Steps 2 + 3 The cuprate-mediated 1,4-addition and subsequent Lemieux-Johnson oxidation of a vinyl group are excellent procedures for the introduction of the p-formyl group. 

Although the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction is not an ylide reaction, it represents methodologically such an important supplement to the Wittig reaction discussed in Figure 9.3 that we include its discussion here. 

Phosphonate esters can be deprotonated with sodium hydride or alkoxide anions to give enolate-type anions that react well with aldehydes or ketones to give -alkenes. Alkene-forming reactions with phosphonates are called Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (or Horner-Emmons, Wadsworth-Emmons, or even Horner-Wittig) reactions. This example is a reaction that was used by some Japanese chemists in the synthesis of polyzonimine, a natural insect repellent produced by millipedes. 

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reaction There is a close relationship between the original Wittig alkenation and its phosphonate ester modification which is known as... 

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reactions of Phosphonate Anions. - As with the Horner modification of the Wittig reaction, the principal focus of papers that mention the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction relate to synthetic applications. The use of pressure to induce the synthesis of P-amino esters, p-thioesters and P-thionitriles via tandem Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons and Michael reactions has been reported. The reagent (l-tritylimidazol-4-yl)methylphosphonate (99) has been prepared and, when treated with aldehydes and ketones, affords (E)-vinylimidazoles in high yields. ... 

Starting from (+)-diethyl tartrate (2), bromobutenolide 18 was obtained in nine steps. Three of the four C=C double bonds were built up using a Wittig reaction (11—>12), an Ando- y Q Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction (13— 15) and (3-elimination (16 18). From (-)-actinol (3) stannane 23 and sulfone 24 were synthesized in 9 and 13 steps, respectively. Their common intermediate, alkyne 22, was synthesized using methoxycarbonylation. Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation and Ci-elongation with lithio trimethylsilyldiazomethane. Stannane 23 was obtained upon hydrostannylation and TBS deprotection. Sulfone 24 was obtained after addition to methyl tetrolate, reduction, Mukaiyama redox condensation, acetylation and catalytic oxidation. 

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