Electrochemical reductions of substituted pyridinium 2-pyridylcarbonylmethylides,their Pt(II) complexes,and substituted n-(2-pyridylcarbonyl)methylpyridinium perchlorates

The title pyridinium salts and pyridinium ylide-platinum(II) complexes have been reduced through a one-electron process at more positive potentials by 0.3 $\text{\$}\text{?}$0.6 V than the corresponding ylides. Both the reduced pyridinium salts and Pt(II)-ylide complexes reacted with dioxygen, followed by elimination of the N-methylene and ylide protons to form pyridinium ylides and Pt(II)-pyridinium ylide complexes containing the three-coordinate ylide carbon atom, respectively.     

On the mechanism of C ⇄ N migration of alkoxycarbonyl groups in reactions of pyridinium ylides with isocyanates

New examples of reversible C N migrations of alkoxycarbonyl groups, which occur in the reactions of pyridinium and 3-(diethylcarbamoyl)pyridinium ylides, viz., derivatives of dimethyl and diethyl malonates, with aryl isocyanates were studied. The mechanism of migration of the methoxycarbonyl group from the carbon atom to the nitrogen atom was considered on the basis of quantum-chemical calculations. The product of the primary attack of the isocyanate group by pyridinium ylide was established to be rearranged with low potential barriers to form carbamate without formation of cyclic intermediate compounds.     

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyridazines via cascade reactions of diazocarbonyl compounds with pyridinium ylides

Reactions of pyridinium ylides with diazocarbonyl compounds involve the formation of functionalized azine intermediates that can undergo intramolecular cyclocondensation into tetrasubstituted pyridazines provided the starting reagents contain carbonyl groups. Reactions of pyridinium ylides with diazo compounds were studied for various substituents in both the substrates. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1228–1232, June, 2008.     

Catalytic Wittig Reactions of Semi‐ and Nonstabilized Ylides Enabled by Ylide Tuning

The first examples of catalytic Wittig reactions with semistabilized and nonstabilized ylides are reported. These reactions were enabled by utilization of a masked base, sodium tert‐butyl carbonate, and/or ylide tuning. The acidity of the ylide‐forming proton was tuned by varying the electron density at the phosphorus center in the precatalyst, thus facilitating the use of relatively mild bases. Steric modification of the precatalyst structure resulted in significant enhancement of E selectivity up to >95:5, E/Z.     

Reversible C ⇆ N migration of the ethoxycarbonyl group in the reactions of pyridinium and isoquinolinium ylides derived from malonic ester with isocyanates

Pyridinium and isoquinolinium ylides ( 7 and 12 ) derived from malonic ester react in an unusual manner with isocyanates giving the new pyridinium ylide ( 9 ) and the new isoquinolinium ylide ( 14 ). C → N Migration of the COOEt group takes place at room temperature, but, at an elevated temperature, reverse N → C migration of the COOEt group proceeds and ylides 9 and 14 are reconverted into the starting ylides 7 and 12 , respectively. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 13:36–45, 2002; DOI 10.1002/hc.1104     

Vinyl Triphenylphosphonium Salt–Mediated Synthesis of Functionalized Alkenes

Deoxybenzoin undergoes a smooth reaction with acetylenic esters in the presence of triphenylphosphine to produce phosphorus ylides. Only the tert-butyl phosphorus ylide undergoes an intramolecular Wittig reaction to produce highly strained cyclobutenes in boiling toluene, which spontaneously undergoes ring-opening reactions to produce highly functionalized 1,3-dienes. The unstable ylides undergo a 1,2-proton transfer and the loss of PPh₃ to produce functionalized alkenes.     

Ylide Chemistry: An Account of Structural,Conformational and Redox Investigations

Abstract

Structural data of phosphorus ylides are summarized and discussed. Conformational preferences in solution and in the solid state, as followed by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, indicate a strong gauche effect for the lone pairs of electrons at the ylidic carbon atom. One- and two-electron oxydation of ylide carbanions is accomplished with copper(II) as the oxidant, leading to oxidative coupling or to halogenation, respectively.     

Synthesis and characterization of bromonium ylides and their unusual ligand transfer reactions with N-heterocycles

Stable aliphatic bromonium ylides (RfSO2)2C--Br+C6H4-p-CF3 (Rf = CF3, CF3(CF2)3) have been synthesized and structurally characterized for the first time. X-ray crystallographic analyses indicated a ylide structure with an sp2 hybridization of the ylide carbanions and with little double-bond character for the ylidic bond. The bromonium ylides selectively undergo transfer of the aryl group to nitrogen heterocycles, such as pyridines, yielding N-arylpyridinium salts. This is in a marked contrast to the reaction of the iodonium ylides, which produces pyridinium ylides through transylidations.     

Etude des reactions des diazoderives avec les cycloimmonium ylures-I : Action des sels de diazonium sur quelques pyridinium - ylures

The synthesis of cycloimmonium salts of the type $\text{7}$, $\text{8}$ and the corresponding cycloimmonium ylides $\text{9}$, $\text{10}$ are reported. In the reaction with diazonium salts $\text{11}$, $\text{12}$ the pyridinium monosubstituted carbanion ylides $\text{9}$, $\text{10}$ give the pyridinium disubstituted carbanion ylides $\text{17}$ – $\text{20}$. These are new types of isolable stable ylides. The synthesis involves the formation “in situ” of ylides $\text{9}$, $\text{10}$ which are bonded by their nucleophile ylide carbon atom to the nitrogen atom in diazonium salts. The intermediat formation of cycloimmonium salts $\text{13}$ – $\text{16}$ must be accepted. The structures of all compounds presented in this paper have been established by using elementary analysis, IR and ¹H-RMN spectra.     

Reactive Bis(cyclopentadienyl)niobium Moiety: Synthesis of the First Niobium Phosphorus Ylid Complexes

Abstract

Phosphorus ylides are known to form σ-metal-carbon bonds of unusual stability. Bis(cyclopentadienyl)niobium derivatives offer a general synthetic approach to niobium phosphorus ylide complexes, the first to be reported.     

Synthesis,thermal reactivity,and kinetics of stabilized phosphorus ylides,part 2: [(Arylcarbamoyl)(cyano)methylene]triphenylphosphoranes and their thiocarbamoyl analogues

A series of five cyano(arylcarbamoyl) phosphorus ylides 2 and five cyano(arylthiocarbamoyl) phosphorus ylides 3 are prepared and fully characterized. Pyrolytic reaction products of a representative example of each type obtained by flash vacuum pyrolysis technique show that they undergo thermal extrusion of Ph₃PO or Ph₃PS. Kinetic study of the gas‐phase pyrolysis of each ylide by static method shows that these reactions are unimolecular and first order with no significant substituent effect, but the thiocarbamoyl ylides 3 react 40–65 times more rapidly than their carbamoyl analogues 2 . © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 38: 496–502, 2006     

Simple Synthesis of Stable Phosphorus Ylides Derived from Imidazolidine-2-Thione. Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of α-Amino Esters with β-Phosphorus Substituents

Crystalline phosphorus ylides are obtained in nearly quantitative yields from the addition reaction between triphenylphosphine, dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates, and imidazolidine-2-thione. A dynamic NMR effect is observed in the ¹ H NMR spectrum of the stabilized ylide obtained from dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (Δ G ^≠ = 66.6 kJmol^?1 ) and is attributed to restricted rotation around the carbon–carbon partial double bond resulting from the conjugation of the ylide moiety with the adjacent carbonyl group.     

Structure of dicyano-pyridinium methylide and amidocyano-pyridinium methylide using ab initio and semi-empirical methods

Taking into account the X-ray diffraction patterns of dicyano-pyridinium methylide and amidocyano-pyridinium methylide, comparative ab initio and semi-empirical studies have been performed. The aim of this study is to elucidate some electronic and structural properties of the cycloimmonium ylides. In fact, we found that the positive charge of the ylide nitrogen atom is delocalized on the pyridine ring. The ylide carbon atom is found to be insignificantly charged. This proves that the formal negative charge often accepted for the ylidic carbanion is delocalized. Thus, we demonstrate the existence of the resonance interaction between the ylidic carbanion and the positive aromatic ring as a factor of stability for planar cycloimmonium ylides. The negative charges found for the cyclic carbon atoms adjacent to the ylide nitrogen atom precludes any nucleophilic addition on the α carbon atoms in the heterocyclic ring. This is in good agreement with the experiments, where no nucleophilic addition on such atoms has ever been observed. Among the six semi-empirical methods used in this paper, the AM1 method is the most appropriate in the study of planar cycloimmonium ylides. This method is found to reproduce the experimental values and ab initio results with good accuracy.     

Aqueous Wittig Reactions of Aldehydes with In Situ Formed Semistabilized Phosphorus Ylides

The Wittig reactions of three semistabilized phosphorus ylides generated in situ from the corresponding phosphonium salts with aldehydes in water without any organic cosolvent were investigated. Most of the olefination reactions completed within between 5 min and 4.5 h in refluxing water containing 1.5 equiv of LiOH and 1.4 M LiCl to afford the products in 65–100% yields. The E∶Z selectivity depended not only on the substituent attached to the benzene ring of the ylides but also on the substituent bound to the aromatic aldehydes. LiCl promotes the aqueous Wittig reactions and suppresses decomposition of the ylide or the corresponding phosphonium salt.     

An Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of 2,3-Dialkyl-1,1-Diethyl-1-(Acetylamino)-3-(1,1,1-Triphenylphosphanilidene)-1,1,2,3-Propanetetracarboxylates and Their Temperature-Dependent NMR Spectra

Abstract

Stable crystalline phosphorus ylides of 1,1-diethyl 2,3-dimethyl 1-(acetylamino)-3-(1,1,1-triphenylphosphanilidine)-1,1,2,3-propanetetracarboxylates were obtained in excellent yields from the 1:1:1 addition reaction between triphenylphosphine and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of diethyl acetamidomalonate as a CH-acid. These stable ylides exist in solution as a mixture of two geometrical isomers (E and Z) as a result of restricted rotation around the carbon–carbon partial double bond resulting from conjugation of the ylide moiety with the adjacent carbonyl group on the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) time scale at ambient temperature. The dynamic effects in the ylide moieties were investigated by ¹H NMR spectra.

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Triphenylphosphine Mediated Efficient Synthesis of 4-Substituted-1-methyl-2,5-dioxo-3-imidazolines

Summary.  Stable crystalline phosphorus ylides are obtained in excellent yields from the 1:1:1 addition reaction between 1-methylparabanic acid (1-methylimidazoline-2,4,5-trione) and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of triphenylphosphine. These ylides exist in solution as a mixture of two geometric isomers. This is due to the restricted rotation around the carbon–carbon partial double bond resulting from conjugation of the ylide moiety with the adjacent carbonyl group. These ylides undergo smooth intramolecular Wittig reaction followed by an electrocyclic ring opening to produce dialkyl (E)-2-(1-methyl-2,5-dioxo-3-imidazolin-4-yl)-but-2-enedioates in good yields. Corresponding author. E-mail: isayavar@yahoo.com Received March 26, 2002; accepted (revised) April 24, 2002     

The Mechanism of Phosphonium Ylide Alcoholysis and Hydrolysis: Concerted Addition of the O−H Bond Across the P=C Bond

The previous work on the hydrolysis and alcoholysis reactions of phosphonium ylides is summarized and reviewed in the context of their currently accepted mechanisms. Several experimental facts relating to ylide hydrolysis and to salt and ylide alcoholysis are shown to conflict with those mechanisms. In particular, we demonstrate that the pK_a values of water and alcohols are too high in organic media to bring about protonation of ylide. Therefore, we propose concerted addition of the water or alcohol O?H bond across the ylide P=C bond. In support of this, we provide NMR spectroscopic evidence for equilibrium between ylide and aclohol that does not require the involvement of phosphonium hydroxide. We report the first P‐alkoxyphosphorane to be characterised by NMR spectroscopy that does not undergo exchange on an NMR timescale. Two‐dimensional NMR spectroscopic techniques have been applied to the characterisation to P‐alkoxyphosphoranes for the first time.     

A Facile,One-Pot Synthesis of Azoic Compounds and Anthraquinone Derivatives Containing Dialkyl Phosphoryl Moieties in Multicomponent Reactions

Protonation of the reactive 1:1 intermediates produced in the reactions between triphenylphosphine and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates by 1-amino-anthraquinone or 1,5-diphenylcarbazone as a core dye leads to vinyl phosphonium salts, which undergo Michael addition with conjugate base of NH compounds to produce stable phosphorus ylides as novel dyes in fairly good yields. These ylides can exist in two geometrical isomers (Z) and (E) for 3, because the negative charge of the ylide moiety of these compounds are strongly conjugated with the adjacent carbonyl group. Rotation around the carbon–carbon double bond is slow in the (Z) and (E) geometrical isomers on the NMR time scale at ambient temperature. These compounds are assigned by their IR, ¹H, ¹³C NMR spectral data as well as their mass spectroscopic data.     

原位生成的烯丙基磷叶立德与醛的化学反应性研究

介绍了我们小组最近有关原位生成的烯丙基磷叶立德与醛的化学反应性研究结果.在化学计量叔膦作用下,烯丙基碳酸酯或联烯酸酯经原位生成的烯丙基磷叶立德活性中间体,与醛发生高度立体选择性的三组分Wittig烯化反应和vinylogous Wittig烯化反应,该类反应为合成多取代1,3-二烯衍生物提供了简单、高效的新方法;在催化量叔膦作用下,γ-甲基联烯酸酯经烯丙基磷叶立德关键中间体与醛发生多个膦催化的环化反应,为五元、六元含氧杂环化合物的合成提供了原子经济性的方法.通过氘代实验和核磁跟踪等方法,对上述反应机理进行了初步探索.