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Iodomethoxylation of Alkenes with Reagent 4 and Iodine in
MS (EI): m/z (%) = 290 [M]+ (6), 131 [C10H11]+ (100), 115 [C9H7]+
(5), 105 [C8H9]+ (6), 91 [C7H7]+ (44), 77 [C6H5]+ (3), 65 (8), 45
[C2H5O]+ (11).
MeOH; General Procedure
Iodine (0.27 g, 1.05 mmol) was added to the solution of reagent 4
(0.35 g, 1 mmol) in MeOH (4.0 mL) and the mixture was stirred for
5 min at r.t. The resulting mixture was added to a solution of alkene
(2.0 mmol) in MeOH (2.0 mL) and stirred at r.t. for 10 min. The re-
action mixture was added to 5% aq NaHCO3 (30 mL), treated with
5% aq Na2S2O3 (20 mL), extracted by Et2O (2 × 30 mL), the Et2O
extract was washed with water and sat. solution of NaCl, and dried
with Na2SO4. The aqueous solution that was left after extraction,
was acidified with HNO3 and the white precipitate of sodium salt of
3-iodobenzoic acid was separated by filtration and used for regen-
eration of reagent 4. The Et2O solution was concentrated and the
residue was dissolved in hexane (3.0 mL) and separated by column
chromatography on silica gel using hexane as the eluent. The isolat-
ed compounds 7a,b,d were identified by comparison of their spectra
with literature data.4
Anal. Calcd for C11H15IO: C, 45.54; H, 5.21; I, 43.74. Found: C,
45.35; H, 5.34; I, 43.47.
2-Chloro-1-iodo-4-phenylbutane (11)
1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3): d = 1.97 (m, 2 H, 3-CH2), 2.68 (m, 2
H, 4-CH2), 3.36 (m, 2 H, 1-CH2), 3.80 (m, 1 H, 2-CH), 7.15–7.18
(m, 5 Harom.).
MS (EI): m/z (%) = 294, 296 [M]+ (11), 167, 169 [M – I]+ (3), 131
[C10H11]+ (58), 91 [C7H7]+ (100), 65 [C5H5]+ (10).
Anal. Calcd for C10H12ClI: C, 40.78; H, 4.11; Cl, 12.04; I, 43.08.
Found: C, 40.54; H, 4.34; Cl, 12.83, I, 42.97.
1-Chloro-2-iodo-4-phenylbutane (12)
1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3): d = 2.32 (m, 2 H, 3-CH2), 2.84 (m, 2
H, 4-CH2), 3.49 (m, 1 H, 2-CH), 4.07 (m, 2 H, 1-CH2), 7.15–7.18
(m, 5 Harom.).
Acknowledgment
MS (EI): m/z (%) = 294/296 [M]+ (15), 167, 169 [M – I]+ (7), 131
MSY thanks Ministry of Education (grant N E02-5.0-176) for the fi-
nancial support of this work. VVZ is thankful to the National Sci-
ence Foundation (NSF/CHE-0353541) for partial support of this
research.
[C10H11]+ (32), 91 [C7H7]+ (100), 65 [C5H5]+ (8).
Anal. Calcd for C10H12ClI: C, 40.78; H, 4.11; Cl, 12.04, I, 43.08.
Found: C, 40.54; H, 4.34; Cl, 12.83; I, 42.97.
1-Iodo-2-methoxy-1-phenylpropane (7e)
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(s, 3 H, OCH3), 4.19 (d, J = 4.8 Hz, 1 H, CHOCH3), 4.25 (m, 1 H,
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IR (film): 1107 (COCH3), 599 (CI) cm–1.
1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3): d = 0.45 (ddd, J1 = 9.9 Hz, J2 = 8.3 Hz,
J3 = 0.7 Hz, 1 H, 6-H), 0.71 (ddd, J1 = 10.1 Hz, J2 = 9.9 Hz, J3 = 4.4
Hz, 1 H, 1-H), 0.86, 0.93 (2 × s, 6 H, 8-H, 9-H), 1.19 (d, J = 0.7 Hz,
3 H, 10-H), 1.31 (ddq, J1 = 14.2 Hz, J2 = 4.4 Hz, J3 = 0.7 Hz, 1 H,
2-H), 2.01 (dd, J1 = 14.2 Hz, J2 = 10.1 Hz, 1 H, 2-H), 2.37 (ddd,
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13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): d = 15.10 (8-C); 17.45 (7-C); 19.56
(1-C), 19.62 (6-C), 21.98 (10-C), 26.90 (5-C), 28.43 (9-C), 33.86
(2-C), 41.08 (4-C), 48.28 (OCH3), 73.88 (3-C).
MS (EI): m/z (%) = 294 [M]+ (< 1), 167 [M – I]+ (6), 166 [M – HI]+
(19), 151 (22), 142 (41), 135 (26), 106 (53), 119 (44), 93 (100), 85
(39), 67 (33), 59 (23), 55 (24), 43 (68).
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HRMS (EI): m/z [M
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