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Reactions of tert-Butyllithium with α,ω-Dihaloalkanes. Evidence for Single-Electron-Transfer-Mediated Metal-Halogen Interchange Involving Alkyl Radical-Halide Ion Adducts
Bailey, William F.,Gagnier, Paul R.,Patricia, Jeffrey J.
, p. 2098 - 2107 (1984)
The reactions of tert-butyllithium (t-BuLi) with primary α-iodo-ω-haloalkanes and α,ω-dibromoalkanes have been investigated in experiments conducted at -23 deg C in n-pentane-diethyl ether (3:2 by volume) solution.It has been found that production of an α-lithio-ω-haloalkane (1) by metal-halogen interchange at one end of a 1,3-, 1,4-, or 1,5-dihalide results in intramolecular coupling to give cycloalkanes in high yield.As the chain length of the dihalide is increased beyond five carbon atoms the production of an α,ω-dilithio species by interchange at bothends of the dihalide ceases to be excluded by cyclization of 1 and a precipitous drop in the yield of cycloalkane was found to occur in reactions of 1,6-diiodoalkanes with t-BuLi.Metal-halogen interchange was the exclusive process observed in reactions of α,ω-dihalides with t-BuLi provided at least one halogen of the substrate was an iodine.By contrast, similar treatment of α,ω-dibromoalkane provided only minor amounts of product attributable to metal-halogen interchange.Under conditions that provide an essentially quantitative yield of carboxylic product from reductive cyclization of 1 generated from 1,5-diiodo-3,3-dimethylpentane, the corresponding 1,5-dibromide was converted to a mixture composed of cycloalkane, products from Wurtz-type coupling with t-BuLi, and quantities of parent alkane from formal reduction of the dihalide.The mechanism of the metal-halogen interchange was further probed by using 6-halo-1-hexene substrates.Observation of cyclized product from the reaction of t-BuLi with 6-bromo- and 6-iodo-1-hexene demonstrated that the interchange between t-BuLi and primary alkyl bromides and iodides occurs predominantly via single-electron-tranfer (SET) process.Incorporation of alkyl radical-halide ion adducts with halogen dependent lifetimes as intermediates following SET from alkyllithium to alkyl halide serves to explain the disparate behavior of alkyl bromides and iodides when treated with t-BuLi.A unifield SET-mediated mechanism for metal-halogen interchange and Wurtz coupling is presented.
A five-membered enantiopure cyclic nitrone from malic acid by regioselective oxidation of cyclic hydroxylamine. Synthesis of (1S,7S,8aR)-octahydro-1,7-dihydroxyindolizine
Cicchi,Goti,Brandi
, p. 4743 - 4748 (2007/10/02)
The chiral optically pure five-membered 3-tert-butoxy-1-pyrroline N-oxide (1) was synthesized by a convenient five-step procedure from diethyl L-malate. The key step is the regioselective HgO dehydrogenation of the N-hydroxypyrrolidine 6 obtained by double-nucleophilic displacement of a (bis)mesylate with hydroxylamine. A rationalization of the observed regioselectivity of the oxidation by studying the oxidation of a deuterated N-hydroxypyrrolidine 20 is reported. Nitrone 1 has been applied to the synthesis of a new (1S,7S,8aR)-1,7-dihydroxyindolizidine (28) via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategies.
