2808-77-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Unsaturated aldehydes as alkene equivalents in the Diels-Alder reaction
Taarning, Esben,Madsen, Robert
supporting information; experimental part, p. 5638 - 5644 (2009/05/30)
A one-pot procedure is described for using α,β-unsaturated aldehydes as olefin equivalents in the Diels-Alder reaction. The method combines the normal electron demand cycloaddition with aldehyde dienophiles and the rhodium-catalyzed decarbonylation of aldehydes to afford cyclohexenes with no electron-with-drawing substituents. In this way, the aldehyde group serves as a traceless control element to direct the cycloaddition reaction. The Diels-Alder reactions are performed in a diglyme solution in the presence of a catalytic amount of boron trifluoride etherate. Subsequent quenching of the Lewis acid, addition of 0.3% of [Rh(dppp)2Cl] and heating to reflux achieves the ensuing decarbonylation to afford the product cyclohexenes. Under these conditions, acrolein, crotonaldehyde and cinnamaldehyde have been reacted with a variety of 1,3-dienes to afford cyclohexenes in overall yields between 53 and 88%. In these transformations, the three aldehydes serve as equivalents of ethylene, propylene and styrene, respectively.
Ionic-liquid-like copolymer stabilized nanocatalysts in ionic liquids: II. Rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation of arenes
Zhao, Chen,Wang, Han-zhi,Yan, Ning,Xiao, Chao-xian,Mu, Xin-dong,Dyson, Paul J.,Kou, Yuan
, p. 33 - 40 (2008/09/18)
Rhodium nanoparticles stabilized by the ionic-liquid-like copolymer poly[(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)-co-(1-vinyl-3-butylimidazolium chloride)] were used to catalyze the hydrogenation of benzene and other arenes in ILs. The nanoparticle catalysts can endure forcing conditions (75 °C, 40 bar H2), resulting in high reaction rates and high conversions compared with other nanoparticles that operate in ILs. The hydrogenation of benzene attained record total turnovers of 20,000, and the products were easily separated without being contaminated by the catalysts. Other substrates, including alkyl-substituted arenes, phenol, 4-n-propylphenol, 4-methoxylphenol, and phenyl-methanol, were studied and in most cases were found to afford partially hydrogenated products in addition to cyclohexanes. In-depth investigations on reaction optimization, including characterization of copolymers, transmission electron microscopy, and an infrared spectroscopic study of nanocatalysts, were also undertaken.
Composition of Mixtures of Hydrocarbons after BIRCH-Reduction of Substituted Benzenes and Acid Catalyzed Addition of Alcohols to Alkylsubstituted Cyclohexenes and Carbohexa-1,4-dienes
Beger, J.,Thomas, B.,Vogel, T.,Kirmse, K.,Lang, R.
, p. 481 - 488 (2007/10/02)
10 different benzene hydrocarbons 1, indane, tetraline, anisol and phenol are reduced by sodium in liquid ammonia in the presence of methanol to the BIRCH products 2.The product mixture compositions are determined through capillary GLC.On storage at +6 deg C some rearomatization of the 1,4-cyclohexadienes 2 occurs.Data of the 1H- and 13C-.n.m.r. spectra and also mass spectra of the BIRCH 1,4-dienes 2 are given.For comparison 4-alkoxycyclohexenes 4 and 1-alkoxy-1-methylcyclohexanes 8 are prepared and spectroscopically characterized.Acid-catalyzed addition of alcohols to the 1,4-cyclohexadienes systems is a slow process and gives the 4-alkoxy-4-alkylcyclohex-1-enes (4) only in moderate yields up to 30percent.Most of the products are dimers 5 and also oligomers 6 of the parent hydrocarbons 2.
A New Reducing System: Calcium Metal in Amines. Reduction of Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Benkeser, Robert A.,Belmonte, Frank G.,Kang, Jahyo
, p. 2796 - 2802 (2007/10/02)
A new reducing system consisting of calcium dissolved in a mixture of amines (methylamine-ethylenediamine) is described.Representative aromatic hydrocarbons have been reduced by this new reagent largely to monoalkenes.Hydrocarbons like tetralin, m- and p-xylene, and indan are reduced in excellent yields by the calcium system to a crude product containing 88percent or better of a single alkene.A new technique involving oxymercuration-demercuration is used to purify two of the monoalkene isomer mixtures obtained in these reductions.Unexpectedly, durene is reduced by the calcium reagent to 1,2,4,5-tetramethyl-1,4-cyclohexadiene in excellent yield.Likewise anthracene is reduced in one step to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10-decahydroanthracene.Experiments designed to elucidate why the calcium system does not reduce durene or anthracene to monoalkenes are described.Similarities and differences between the calcium-amine and the lithium-amine reducing systems are discussed.
