17206-54-1Relevant articles and documents
Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Studies of the Hydroxide-Mediated Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon Bonds in Ketones
Mazziotta, Andrea,Makarov, Ilya S.,Fristrup, Peter,Madsen, Robert
, p. 5890 - 5897 (2017/06/07)
The hydroxide-mediated cleavage of ketones into alkanes and carboxylic acids has been reinvestigated and the substrate scope extended to benzyl carbonyl compounds. The transformation is performed with a 0.05 M ketone solution in refluxing xylene in the presence of 10 equiv of potassium hydroxide. The reaction constitutes a straightforward protocol for the synthesis of certain phenyl-substituted carboxylic acids from 2-phenylcycloalkanones. The mechanism was investigated by kinetic experiments which indicated a first order reaction in hydroxide and a full negative charge in the rate-determining step. The studies were complemented by a theoretical investigation where two possible pathways were characterized by DFT/M06-2X. The calculations showed that the scission takes place by nucleophilic attack of hydroxide on the ketone followed by fragmentation of the resulting oxyanion into the carboxylic acid and a benzyl anion.
Mg-promoted mixed pinacol coupling
Maekawa, Hirofumi,Yamamoto, Yoshimasa,Shimada, Hisashi,Yonemura, Kazuaki,Nishiguchi, Ikuzo
, p. 3869 - 3872 (2007/10/03)
Mg-promoted reduction of a mixture of aromatic ketones (or imines) and aliphatic carbonyl compounds in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) brought about unique mixed pinacol type of cross coupling to give unsymmetrical vicinal diols (or amino alcohols) or α-hydroxyketones in good to moderate yields. The reaction may be initiated by electron transfer from magnesium metal to an aromatic carbonyl compound possessing a less negative reduction potential. The difference of reduction potential between aromatic ketones (or imines) and aliphatic carbonyl compounds was found to be one of the important key factors in this selective cross coupling.
Direct and Regiocontrolled Synthesis of α-Phenyl Ketones from Silyl Enol Ethers and Diphenyliodonium Fluoride
Chen, Kuanchiang,Koser, Gerald F.
, p. 5764 - 5767 (2007/10/02)
The efficiacy of diphenyliodonium fluoride (1, DIF) for the phenylation of silyl enol ethers was investigated.When the silyl enol ethers of cyclopentanone, 2-methylcyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, 2-methylcyclohexanone, acetophenone, 2-pentanone, diisopropyl ketone, and pinacolone were mixed with DIF in tetrahydrofuran, either α-phenyl or α,α-diphenyl ketones were produced and isolated in yields ranging from 20 to 88percent.That the regiochemistry of α-phenylation can be controlled by an appropriate choice of silyl enol ether was demonstrated with the kinetic and thermodynamic silyl enol ethers of 2-methylcyclohexanone, the thermodynamic silyl enol ether of 2-methylcyclopentanone, and the kinetic silyl enol ether of 2-pentanone. 3,3-Dimethyl-2-(silyloxy)-1-butene gave a dehydro dimer of pinacolone with DIF in addition to α-phenylpinacolone, thus suggesting that phenylations of silyl enol ethers with DIF may proceed via radical intermediates.
