- FLP-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Silyl Enol Ethers
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Herein we report the first catalytic transfer hydrogenation of silyl enol ethers. This metal free approach employs tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane and 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine (TMP) as a commercially available FLP catalyst system and naturally occurring γ-terpinene as a dihydrogen surrogate. A variety of silyl enol ethers undergo efficient hydrogenation, with the reduced products isolated in excellent yields (29 examples, 82 % average yield).
- Khan, Imtiaz,Reed-Berendt, Benjamin G.,Melen, Rebecca L.,Morrill, Louis C.
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p. 12356 - 12359
(2018/09/18)
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- Ru(II)-arene complexes with N-substituted 3,4-dihydroquinazoline ligands and catalytic activity for transfer hydrogenation reaction
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In this study, N-coordinated 3,4-dihydroquinazoline ruthenium(II) complexes were synthesized by the cleavage reaction of [RuCl2(p-cymene)] 2 with N-substituted 3,4-dihydroquinazolines. In addition, the X-ray crystal structure of 2,4,6-trimethylbenzyl substituted 3,4-dihydroquinazoline Ru(II) complex (1a) is reported. Furthermore, the resulting piano-stool complexes were evaluated as transfer hydrogenation catalysts for reduction of acetophenone in the presence of 2-propanol and KOH at 82°C. All the complexes showed good to excellent performance after 1 h in the conversion of acetophenone to alcohol and the reaction rate was found to be sensitive to changes on the N-substituent. Additionally, the most active catalyst 1a was used in transfer hydrogenation of different ketones to investigate the effect of substituents on ketones.
- Mercan, Deniz,?etinkaya, Engin,?ahin, Ertan
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- Dynamic path bifurcation in the Beckmann reaction: Support from kinetic analyses
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The reactions of oximes to amides, known as the Beckmann rearrangement, may undergo fragmentation to form carbocations + nitriles when the migrating groups have reasonable stability as cations. The reactions of oxime sulfonates of 1-substituted-phenyl-2-propanone derivatives (7-X) and related substrates (8-X, 9a-X) in aqueous CH3CN gave both rearrangement products (amides) and fragmentation products (alcohols), the ratio of which depends on the system; the reactions of 7-X gave amides predominantly, whereas 9a-X yielded alcohols as the major product. The logk-logk plots between the systems gave excellent linear correlations with slopes of near unity. The results support the occurrence of path bifurcation after the rate-determining TS of the Beckmann rearrangement/fragmentation reaction, which has previously been proposed on the basis of molecular dynamics simulations. It was concluded that path-bifurcation phenomenon could be more common than thought and that a reactivity-selectivity argument based on the traditional TS theory may not always be applicable even to a well-known textbook organic reaction.
- Yamamoto, Yutaro,Hasegawa, Hiroto,Yamataka, Hiroshi
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p. 4652 - 4660
(2011/07/29)
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- Retinobenzoic acids. 3. Structure-activity relationships of retinoidal azobenzene-4-carboxylic acids and stilbene-4-carboxylic acids
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Alkyl-substituted azobenzene-4-carboxylic acids are potent differentiation inducers of human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 to mature granulocytes. Their structure-activity relationships are very similar to those of other retinoidal benzoic acids which are generally represented by 4 and named retinobenzoic acids. The structure-activity relationships of azobenzenecarboxylic acids can also be applied to the known retinoid TTNPB (3). Thus, (E)-4-[2-(3,4-diisopropylphenyl)-1-propenyl]benzoic acid (St30 (28)), and (E)-4-[2-(3-tert-butylphenyl)ethenyl]benzoic acid (St40) (29)), the acyclic alkyl analogues of TTNPB, are nearly as active as retinoic acid. Among the oxidatively derived compounds (Az90, Ep series and Ox series) of azobenzene- or stilbenecarboxylic acids, Az90 (71) and Ep80 (61) have strong activities. However, all the bishydroxylated derivatives of TTNPB are inactive, while a diketo analogue Ox580 (69) has only weak potency. The activities of conformationally restricted compounds of TTNPB offer some information on the stereochemistry of the active form of these retinoidal compounds.
- Kagechika,Himi,Namikawa,Kawachi,Hashimoto,Shudo
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p. 1098 - 1108
(2007/10/02)
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- Preparation of chiral 1-phenylethanols and bromides
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A fast, convenient procedure for preparing and resolving moderate to large quantities of chiral secondary alcohols is described.The general procedure involves a one-pot conversion of the ketone (various acetophenones) to the half-ester of a diacid (succinic, phthalic...) and resolution with (+)- and (-)-1-phenylethylamines.Overall yields of the enantiomeric alcohols, the variously substituted 1-phenylethanols, are generally 65-85percent with optical purities of approximately 90percent.Properties and optical rotations of a number of chiral 1-phenylethanols and of the bromides made from them are tabulated.A discussion of optical purity determinations using nmr methods is included and absolute configurations are reported.
- Stein, Allan R.,Dawe, Robert D.,Sweet, James R.
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p. 3442 - 3448
(2007/10/02)
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