93727-20-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Preparation of alcohols from sulfones and trialkylboranes
Billaud, Célia,Goddard, Jean-Philippe,Le Gall, Thierry,Mioskowski, Charles
, p. 4451 - 4454 (2003)
The reaction of sulfone anions with trialkylboranes followed by thermal isomerization of the obtained boron compounds in the presence of excess borane-methyl sulfide complex and by alkaline hydroperoxide oxidation yields primary alcohols.
Synergistic Relay Reactions To Achieve Redox-Neutral α-Alkylations of Olefinic Alcohols with Ruthenium(II) Catalysis
Kan, Jian,Li, Chao-Jun,Li, Chen-Chen,Li, Jianbin,Lv, Leiyang,Qiu, Zihang
supporting information, p. 4544 - 4549 (2020/02/04)
Herein, we report a ruthenium-catalyzed redox-neutral α-alkylation of unsaturated alcohols based on a synergistic relay process involving olefin isomerization (chain walking) and umpolung hydrazone addition, which takes advantage of the interaction between the two rather inefficient individual reaction steps to enable an efficient overall process. This transformation shows the compatibility of hydrazone-type “carbanions” and active protons in a one-pot reaction, and at the same time achieves the first Grignard-type nucleophilic addition using olefinic alcohols as latent carbonyl groups, providing a higher yield of the corresponding secondary alcohol than the classical hydrazone addition to aldehydes does. A broad scope of unsaturated alcohols and hydrazones, including some complex structures, can be successfully employed in this reaction, which shows the versatility of this approach and its suitability as an alternative, efficient means for the generation of secondary and tertiary alcohols.
