32933-86-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Lewis Base Catalysis Enables the Activation of Alcohols by means of Chloroformates as Phosgene Substitutes
Zoller, Ben,Stach, Tanja,Huy, Peter H.
, p. 5637 - 5643 (2020/09/21)
Nucleophilic substitutions (SN) are typically promoted by acid chlorides as sacrificial reagents to improve the thermodynamic driving force and lower kinetic barriers. However, the cheapest acid chloride phosgene (COCl2) is a highly toxic gas. Against this background, phenyl chloroformate (PCF) was discovered as inherently safer phosgene substitute for the SN-type formation of C?Cl and C?Br bonds using alcohols. Thereby, application of the Lewis bases 1-formylpyrroldine (FPyr) and diethylcyclopropenone (DEC) as catalysts turned out to be pivotal to shift the chemoselectivity in favor of halo alkane generation. Primary, secondary and tertiary, benzylic, allylic and aliphatic alcohols are appropriate starting materials. A variety of functional groups are tolerated, which includes even acid labile moieties such as tert-butyl esters and acetals. Since the by-product phenol can be isolated, a recycling to PCF with inexpensive phosgene would be feasible on a technical scale. Eventually, a thorough competitive study demonstrated that PCF is indeed superior to phosgene and other substitutes.
A General Catalytic Method for Highly Cost- and Atom-Efficient Nucleophilic Substitutions
Huy, Peter H.,Filbrich, Isabel
supporting information, p. 7410 - 7416 (2018/04/30)
A general formamide-catalyzed protocol for the efficient transformation of alcohols into alkyl chlorides, which is promoted by substoichiometric amounts (down to 34 mol %) of inexpensive trichlorotriazine (TCT), is introduced. This is the first example of a TCT-mediated dihydroxychlorination of an OH-containing substrate (e.g., alcohols and carboxylic acids) in which all three chlorine atoms of TCT are transferred to the starting material. The consequently enhanced atom economy facilitates a significantly improved waste balance (E-factors down to 4), cost efficiency, and scalability (>50 g). Furthermore, the current procedure is distinguished by high levels of functional-group compatibility and stereoselectivity, as only weakly acidic cyanuric acid is released as exclusive byproduct. Finally, a one-pot protocol for the preparation of amines, azides, ethers, and sulfides enabled the synthesis of the drug rivastigmine with twofold SN2 inversion, which demonstrates the high practical value of the presented method.
METHOD OF CONVERTING ALCOHOL TO HALIDE
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Page/Page column 51; 172, (2017/01/02)
The present invention relates to a method of converting an alcohol into a corresponding halide. This method comprises reacting the alcohol with an optionally substituted aromatic carboxylic acid halide in presence of an N-substituted formamide to replace a hydroxyl group of the alcohol by a halogen atom. The present invention also relates to a method of converting an alcohol into a corresponding substitution product. The second method comprises: (a) performing the method of the invention of converting an alcohol into the corresponding halide; and (b) reacting the corresponding halide with a nucleophile to convert the halide into the nucleophilic substitution product.
Formamides as Lewis Base Catalysts in SNReactions—Efficient Transformation of Alcohols into Chlorides, Amines, and Ethers
Huy, Peter H.,Motsch, Sebastian,Kappler, Sarah M.
supporting information, p. 10145 - 10149 (2016/08/16)
A simple formamide catalyst facilitates the efficient transformation of alcohols into alkyl chlorides with benzoyl chloride as the sole reagent. These nucleophilic substitutions proceed through iminium-activated alcohols as intermediates. The novel method, which can be even performed under solvent-free conditions, is distinguished by an excellent functional group tolerance, scalability (>100 g) and waste-balance (E-factor down to 2). Chiral substrates are converted with excellent levels of stereochemical inversion (99 %→≥95 % ee). In a practical one-pot procedure, the primary formed chlorides can be further transformed into amines, azides, ethers, sulfides, and nitriles. The value of the method was demonstrated in straightforward syntheses of the drugs rac-Clopidogrel and S-Fendiline.
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
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, (2008/06/13)
Indole derivatives of the general formula (I) are disclosed: where R1 is H or an alkyl or alkenyl group, R2 is H, or an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl or cycloalkyl group; R3 is H or an alkyl group; R4 and R5 are independently H or an alkyl or propenyl group or together form an aralkylidene group; and Alk is an optionally substituted alkylene chain; and their physiologically acceptable salts and solutes. These compounds are potentially useful for the treatment of migraine and may be formulated as pharmaceutical compositions in conventional manner. Various methods for the production of the compounds are disclosed including a Fischer-indole cyclization process
HOMOLYTIC DISPLACEMENT AT CARBON. X. TOLUENESULPHONYL IODIDE AS A SOURCE OF TOLUENESULPHONYL RADICALS FOR THE FORMATION OF ALLYL-, BENZYL-, CYCLOPROPYLCARBINYL-, SPIROCYCLOPROPYLCYCLOALKYL-, BICYCLOALKYL-, AND BICYCLOALKYL-4-TOLYLSULPHONES FROM ORGANOCOBALOXIMES
Ashcroft, Martyn R.,Bougeard, Peter,Bury, Adrian,Cooksey, Christopher J.,Johnson, Michael D.
, p. 403 - 416 (2007/10/02)
4-Toluenesulphonyl iodide reacts thermally at alkylsulphone.Spiro- and bicyclo-alkyl compounds are also formed with other free radical precursors.The reactions are believed to take place through a chain mechanism in which cobaloxime(II), present adventitiously or formed by partial homolysis of the substrate, abstracts iodine from the toluenesulphonyl iodide to give the toluenesulphonyl radical, which attacks the organic ligand of the cobaloxime, preferably at the terminal olefinic carbon, thereby displacing cobaloxime(II) and giving the observed organic product.
