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External trapping of halomethyllithium enabled by flow microreactors
Degennaro, Leonardo,Fanelli, Flavio,Giovine, Arianna,Luisi, Renzo
, p. 21 - 27 (2015)
This work demonstrates that the accurate control of the reaction parameters realized within microreactor systems allowed for a taming of the reactivity of thermally unstable intermediates such as haloalkyllithiums. The first example of effective external trapping of a reactive carbenoid such as the chloromethyllithium is described. By using microreactor systems, a continuous flow synthesis of chloro alcohols and chloro amines could be achieved with high yields. By controlling the residence time the highly reactive chloromethyllithium could be generated and reacted with electrophiles at temperatures much higher than in batch-mode and without internal quenching. The developed continuous-flow process matches the requirements for sustainability.
Organomagnesium Based Flash Chemistry: Continuous Flow Generation and Utilization of Halomethylmagnesium Intermediates
Von Keutz, Timo,Cantillo, David,Kappe, C. Oliver
supporting information, p. 7537 - 7541 (2020/10/12)
The generation of highly unstable chloromethylmagnesium chloride in a continuous flow reactor and its reaction with aldehydes and ketones is reported. With this strategy, chlorohydrins and epoxides were synthesized within a total residence time of only 2.6 s. The outcome of the reaction can be tuned by simply using either a basic or an acidic quench. Very good to excellent isolated yields, up to 97%, have been obtained for most cases (30 examples).
