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Novel ortho-Alkoxy-Substituted Phosphorus Ylides and Their Stereoselectivity in Wittig Reactions
Jeganathan, Suruliappa,Tsukamoto, Masamitsu,Schlosser, Manfred
, p. 109 - 111 (2007/10/02)
The stereochemistry of the reactions between tris(2-methoxymethoxypheny)phosphonioethanide (1f), -butanide (2f), and -phenyl-methanide (3f) and a variety of aldehydes was investigated.Ylides having a β-unbranched aliphatic sidechain, such as 2f, and saturated straight-chain aldehydes give olefins with unprecedented cis-selectivity (cis/trans ca. 200:1).
FORMATION OF α-SILYLVINYLLITHIUM REAGENTS: REACTIONS OF α-SILYL- AND α-STANNYL-VINYLLITHIUMS WITH ALDEHYDES AND KETONES
Mitchell, Terence N.,Reimann, Werner
, p. 163 - 172 (2007/10/02)
The formation of α-trimethylsilylvinyllithium compounds from 1-trimethylsilyl-1-trimethylstannyl-1-alkenes have been studied and their stabilities investigated. α-Trimethylsilyl- and α-trimethylstannyl-vinyllithiums undergo 1,2-addition to aldehydes and non-enolisable ketones, to give silyl- or stannyl-substituted allylic alcohols; α,β-unsaturated ketones, however, undergo 1,4-addition to give homoallylic ketones.
Mechanism, regiochemistry, and stereochemistry of the insertion reaction of alkynes with methyl(2,4-pentanedionato)(triphenylphosphine)nickel. A cis insertion that leads to trans kinetic products
Huggins, John M.,Bergman, Robert G.
, p. 3002 - 3011 (2007/10/02)
This study reports the rapid reaction under mild conditions of internal and terminal alkynes with methyl(2,4-pentanedionato)(triphenylphosphine)nickel (1) in aromatic and ethereal solvents. In all cases vinylnickel products (2) are formed by insertion of the alkyne into the nickel-methyl bond. The regiochemistry is unusual; unsymmetrical alkynes give selectively the one regioisomer with the sterically largest substituent next to the nickel atom. So that the stereochemistry of the initial insertion could be investigated, an X-ray diffraction study of the reaction of 1 and diphenylacetylene was carried out. This showed that the vinylnickel complex formed by overall trans insertion was the product of the reaction. Furthermore, subsequent slow isomerization of this complex, to a mixture of it and the corresponding cis isomer, demonstrated that this trans addition product is the kinetic product of the reaction. In studies with other alkynes, the product of trans addition was not always exclusively (or even predominantly) formed, but the ratio of the stereoisomers formed kinetically was substantially different from the thermodynamic ratio. Isotope labeling, added phosphine, and other experiments have allowed us to conclude that the mechanism of this reaction does involve cis addition. However, a coordinatively unsaturated vinylnickel intermediate is initially formed, which can undergo rapid, phosphine-catalyzed cis-trans isomerization in competition with its conversion to the isolable phosphine-substituted products.
Low-temperature characterization of the intermediates in the Wittig reaction
Vedejs,Meier,Snoble
, p. 2823 - 2831 (2007/10/02)
Nonstabilized salt-free ylides react with aldehydes and nonhindered or strained ketones at -78°C to give oxaphosphetanes. The Wittig intermediates can be observed by 31P and 1H NMR techniques. In the presence of LiBr, betaine-lithium bromide adducts often precipitate from solution. The oxaphosphetane from PhCHO + CH2=PPh3 reacts rapidly with LiBr to give a betaine·LiBr adduct, and the corresponding salt Ph3P+CH2CHOHPh Br- reacts with KH at -40°C to form the oxaphosphetane. No salt-free betaine has been detected. Lithium bromide is shown to decrease cis selectivity (CH3CH=PPh3 + PhCH2CH2CHO) in the condensation step and not by oxaphosphetane equilibration. Oxaphosphetane reversal to ylide + aldehyde is confirmed for aryl aldehydes but not for aliphatic aldehydes or ketones according to three types of crossover experiments. Rationales for cis selectivity of aldehyde-ylide reactions are discussed. A "crisscrossed" cycloaddition rationale is proposed, aldehyde and ylide planes tilted toward an orthogonal arrangement to minimize steric interactions, to explain cis-alkene formation. Other transition-state geometries having carbonyl and ylide planes roughly parallel are considered more likely for trans-olefin formation or for Wittig reactions of ketones.
