650598-42-8Relevant articles and documents
meta- rather than ortho-directed metalations: Buttressing effects prejudicing the proton abstraction from (2,6-dihalophenyl)silanes
Heiss, Christophe,Cottet, Fabrice,Schlosser, Manfred
, p. 5236 - 5241 (2007/10/03)
(2,6-Dichlorophenyl)trimethyl- and -triethylsilane exhibit untypical reactivity patterns toward strong bases. When treated at -100°C with lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide, they give rise to two, with sec- or tert-butyllithium even three, different organometallic intermediates which can be intercepted with standard electrophiles. The trialkylsilyl group intervenes in two respects. Exerting steric pressure on the neighboring chlorine atoms, it facilitates the permutational displacement of one of them against lithium, a side reaction which occurs whenever alkyllithium compounds are employed. At the same time it impedes the attack of hydrogen atoms by the base in the immediate vicinity of the halogens due to relay transmission of steric hindrance. As a consequence, deprotonation occurs preferentially or exclusively at the 5-("meta") rather than the 4-("ortho")position. 4-Lithiated species, generated as by-products or separately by permutational halogen/metal interconversion, eliminate lithium chloride at -75°C to set free didehydrobenzenes ("arynes") which are trapped by their aryllithium precursors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.
Buttressing Effects Rerouting the Deprotonation and Functionalization of 1,3-Dichloro- and 1,3-Dibromobenzene
Heiss, Christophe,Marzi, Elena,Schlosser, Manfred
, p. 4625 - 4629 (2007/10/03)
A systematic comparison between 1,3-difluorobenzene, 1,3-dichlorobenzene, and 1,3-dibromobenzene did not reveal major differences in their behavior towards strong bases such as lithium diisopropylamide or lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidide. Thus, all 2,6-dihalobenzoic acids 1 are directly accessible by consecutive treatment with a suitable base and dry ice. In contrast, (2,6-dichlorophenyl)- and (2,6-bromo-phenyl)triethylsilane (2a and 2b) were found to undergo deprotonation at the 5-position (affording acids 3 and, after deprotection, 4), whereas the 1,3-difluoro analog is known to react at the 4-position. The 2,4-dihalobenzoic acids 7 were selectively prepared from either the silanes 2 (by bromination at the 4-position, metalation and carboxylation of the neighboring position, followed by desilylation and debromination) or the 1,3-dihalo-2-iodobenzenes 8 (by base-promoted migration of iodine to the 4-position followed by iodine/magnesium permutation and subsequent carboxylation). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003.
