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Unequivocal experimental evidence for a unified lithium salt-free wittig reaction mechanism for all phosphonium ylide types: Reactions with β-heteroatom-substituted aldehydes are consistently selective for cis-oxaphosphetane-derived products
Byrne, Peter A.,Gilheany, Declan G.
, p. 9225 - 9239 (2012/07/14)
The true course of the lithium salt-free Wittig reaction has long been a contentious issue in organic chemistry. Herein we report an experimental effect that is common to the Wittig reactions of all of the three major phosphonium ylide classes (non-stabilized, semi-stabilized, and stabilized): there is consistently increased selectivity for cis-oxaphosphetane and its derived products (Z-alkene and erythro-β-hydroxyphosphonium salt) in reactions involving aldehydes bearing heteroatom substituents in the β-position. The effect operates with both benzaldehydes and aliphatic aldehydes and is shown not to operate in the absence of the heteroatom substituent on the aldehyde. The discovery of an effect that is common to reactions of all ylide types strongly argues for the operation of a common mechanism in all Li salt-free Wittig reactions. In addition, the results are shown to be most easily explained by the [2+2] cycloaddition mechanism proposed by Vedejs and co-workers as supplemented by Aggarwal, Harvey, and co-workers, thus providing strong confirmatory evidence in support of that mechanism. Notably, a cooperative effect of ortho-substituents in the case of semi-stabilized ylides is confirmed and is accommodated by the cycloaddition mechanism. The effect is also shown to operate in reactions of triphenylphosphine-derived ylides and has previously been observed for reactions under aqueous conditions, thus for the first time providing evidence that kinetic control is in operation in both of these cases.
Co-operative ortho-effects on the Wittig reaction. Interpretation of stereoselectivity in the reaction of ortho-halo-substituted benzaldehydes and benzylidenetriphenylphosphoranes
Dunne, Eoin C,Coyne, éamonn J,Crowley, Peter B,Gilheany, Declan G
, p. 2449 - 2453 (2007/10/03)
The E/Z ratios of the stilbenes 1 formed in the Wittig reaction of ortho-halo substituted benzyltriphenylphosphonium salts 2 and benzaldehydes 3 were determined. It was found that there is a co-operative effect of one ortho-halo group on each of the two reacting partners which increases Z-selectivity, but two such groups on the same reactant gives high E-selectivity. The effects are strong enough to be preparatively significant in certain cases and can be interpreted within the modern framework of the Wittig mechanism established by Vedejs and co-workers.
(E)-(2-Bromoethenyl)dibromoborane. A New Precursor for (E)-1,2-Disubstituted Ethenes
Hyuga, Satoshi,Chiba, Yasumichi,Yamashina, Naoko,Hara, Shoji,Suzuki, Akira
, p. 1757 - 1760 (2007/10/02)
(E)-(2-Bromoethenyl)dibromoborane, prepared readily by the bromoboration of acetylene with tribromoborane, can be used as an effective precursor for the stereoselective synthesis of (E)-1,2-disubstituted ethenes.
