84812-13-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Role of the Through-Space 2p-3d Overlap Effect in the Wittig Reaction
McEwen, William E.,Cooney, John V.
, p. 983 - 987 (1983)
Reactions of the ylide derived from triphenyl(3-phthalimidopropyl)phosphonium bromide with aromatic aldehydes have been reported to give exclusively the Z alkenes.On the basis of the Bestmann mechanism for the Wittig reaction, and also because of the fact that a 2,6-dimethoxyphenyl group enters into a strong through-space 2p-3d overlap interaction with an adjacent phosphonio group, we postulated that the reactions of the ylide derived from (2,6-dimethoxyphenyl)diphenyl(3-phthalimidopropyl)phosphonium bromide with aromatic aldehydes would give substantial ratios of E:Z alkenes.This proved to be the case.
Synthetic efforts toward the Lycopodium alkaloids inspires a hydrogen iodide mediated method for the hydroamination and hydroetherification of olefins
Leger, Paul R.,Murphy, Rebecca A.,Pushkarskaya, Eugenia,Sarpong, Richmond
supporting information, p. 4377 - 4383 (2015/03/14)
Progress toward the total syntheses of a diverse set of fawcettimine-type Lycopodium alkaloids via a "Heathcock-type" 6-5-9 tricycle is disclosed. This route features an intermolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition to rapidly furnish the 6-5-fused bicycle and a highly chemoselective directed hydrogenation to build the azonane fragment. While conducting these synthetic studies, trimethylsilyl iodide was found to effect a hydroamination reaction to furnish the tetracyclic core of serratine and related natural products. This observation has been expanded into a general method for the room temperature hydroamination of unactivated olefins with tosylamides utilizing catalytic "anhydrous" HI (generated in situ from trimethylsilyl iodide and water). The presence of the iodide anion is critical to the success of this Bronsted acid catalyzed protocol, possibly due to its function as a weakly coordinating anion. These conditions also effect the analogous hydroetherification reaction of alcohols with unactivated olefins.
