Annulative Allylic Alkylation Reactions between Dual Electrophiles and Dual Nucleophiles: Applications in Complex Molecule Synthesis

Metal-catalyzed allylic alkylation reactions between dual nucleophiles and dual electrophiles represent a powerful set of methods for the synthesis of small-, medium-, and even large-sized rings. Using this strategy, a handful of simple allylic diol derivatives can be transformed into a broad array of complex carbo- and heterocycles of varying ring sizes in just a single step. Because of their ability to rapidly generate complexity, annulative allylic alkylation reactions between dual nucleophiles and dual electrophiles have been extensively employed in the total synthesis of both natural products and pharmaceutical compounds.     

Substituent effects on the electrophilic activity of nitroarenes in reactions with carbanions

The effect on electrophilic activity of substituents located para, ortho, and meta to the nitro group of nitrobenzenes was determined by using vicarious nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen (VNS) with the carbanion of chloromethyl phenyl sulfone (1) as the model process. Values for the relative activities of substituted nitroarenes are given relative to nitrobenzene, which was taken as the standard. This process was chosen as a model reaction because it meets key criteria, such as the wide range of substituents that can be present on the nitrobenzene ring, a low sensitivity to steric hindrance, and in particular the possibility of ensuring conditions in which the overall relative rates of reaction in competitive experiments are equal to the relative rates of nucleophilic addition. The values of relative rates of addition, which were taken to be a measure of electrophilic activity, were determined by competitive experiments in which pairs of nitroarenes competed for the VNS reaction with carbanion of 1. A comprehensive set of data for effects of substituents on the electrophilic activity of nitroarenes is presented for the first time.     

Stereoselective Synthesis and Reactions of Secondary Alkyllithium Reagents Functionalized at the 3‐Position

Secondary alkyllithium reagents bearing an OTBS group (TBS=tert‐butyldimethylsilyl) at the 3‐position can be prepared stereoconvergently through an I/Li exchange from a diastereomeric mixture of the corresponding secondary alkyl iodides. These lithium reagents react with a range of electrophiles, including carbon electrophiles, with retention of configuration to yield various 1,3‐difunctionalized derivatives with good diastereoselectivities. Kinetic studies show that the 3‐siloxy group strongly accelerates the epimerization at the lithium‐substituted carbon atom. This method offers a new way to construct chiral open‐chain molecules with excellent stereoselectivity.     

Reactions of nitroheteroarenes with carbanions: bridging aromatic, heteroaromatic, and vinylic electrophilicity

The relative rate constants for the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of the anion of chloromethyl phenyl sulfone (1-) with a variety of nitroheteroarenes, for example, nitropyridines, nitropyrroles, nitroimidazoles, 2-nitrothiophene, and 4-nitropyrazole, have been determined by competition experiments. It was shown that nitropyridines are approximately four orders of magnitude more reactive than nitrobenzene. Among the five-membered heterocycles 2-nitrothiophene is the most active followed by nitroimidazoles and 4-nitropyrazole. Nitropyrroles are the least electrophilic nitroheteroarenes with reactivities comparable to nitrobenzene. Quantum chemically calculated methyl anion affinities (B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31G(d)) of the nitroarenes correlated only moderately with the partial relative rate constants. The correlation of these activities with the LUMO energies of nitroarenes is even worse. By measuring the second-order rate constants of the addition of 1- to nitroarenes and to diethyl arylidenemalonates 10, it was possible to link the electrophilic reactivities of nitroheteroarenes with the comprehensive electrophilicity scale based on the linear-free-energy-relationship log k(20 degrees C)=s(N+E).     

Chemical Reactions of Cationic Metallofullerenes: An Alternative Route for Exohedral Functionalization

The chemistry of cationic forms of clusterfullerenes remain less explored than that of the corresponding neutral or anionic species. In the present work, M₃N@I_h-C₈₀ (M=Sc or Lu) cations were generated by both electrochemical and chemical oxidation methods. The as-obtained cations successfully underwent the typical Bingel–Hirsch reaction that fails with neutral Sc₃N@I_h-C₈₀. Two isomeric Sc₃N@I_h-C₈₀ cation derivatives, [5,6]-open and [6,6]-open adducts, were synthesized, and the former has never been prepared by means of a Bingel–Hirsch reaction with neutral clusterfullerenes. In the case of the Lu₃N@I_h-C₈₀ cation, however, only a [6,6]-open adduct was obtained. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicated that the oxidized M₃N@I_h-C₈₀ was much more reactive than the neutral compound upon addition of the diethyl bromomalonate anion. The Bingel–Hirsch reaction of M₃N@I_h-C₈₀ cations occurred by means of an unusual outer-sphere single-electron transfer (SET) process from the diethyl bromomalonate anion to the stable intermediate [M₃N@C₈₀(C₂H₅COO)₂CBr]^.. Remarkably, the diethyl bromomalonate anion was found to act as both a nucleophile and an electron donor.     

单电子转移反应

本文对重要有机反应之一的单电子转移过程作了综述。单电子转移反应与极性反应的根本区别在于,前者每次只发生一个电子的转移,而后者通常每次发生一对电子的转移。影响这二种历程的主要因素是反应物的立体因素,电子结构及氧化还原能力。单电子转移按其反应方式又被细分(?)inner-sphere ET (?) outer-sphere ET 二种历程。一些典型的单电子转移反应已被分类介绍。     

Versatile Synthesis of Fused Tricyclic 1,2,4-Triazole Derivatives

ABSTRACT

A rapid and general method for the synthesis of symmetrical disulfides involves reaction of sulfur with sodium hydroxide under PTC-microwave irradiation condition to give sodium disulfide, which reacts with alkyl halides to afford the disulfides in good to excellent isolated yields.     

Mechanistic Dichotomy of Magnesium‐ and Zinc‐Based Germanium Nucleophiles in the C(sp3)−Ge Cross‐Coupling with Alkyl Electrophiles

Robust procedures for two mechanistically distinct C(sp³)?Ge bond formations from alkyl electrophiles and germanium nucleophiles are reported. The germanium reagents were made available as bench‐stable solutions by lithium‐to‐magnesium and lithium‐to‐zinc transmetalation, respectively. The germanium Grignard reagent reacts with various primary and secondary alkyl electrophiles by an ionic nucleophilic displacement. Conversely, the coupling of the corresponding zinc reagent requires a nickel catalyst, which then engages in radical bond formations with primary, secondary, and even tertiary alkyl bromides. Both methods avoid the regioselectivity issue of alkene hydrogermylation and enable the synthesis of a wide range of functionalized alkyl‐substituted germanes.     

Preparation of THP‐Ester‐Derived Pyridinium‐Type Salts and their Reactions with Various Nucleophiles

Nucleophilic substitution at the anomeric positions of tetrahydropyranyl (THP) and related carbohydrate‐derived esters that proceeded through pyridinium‐type salt intermediates have been developed. Treatment of the 6‐substituted α‐acetoxy‐tetrahydropyrans with TMSOTf (TMS=trimethylsilyl) and 2‐substitutited pyridines, such as 2‐p‐tolylpyridine and 2‐methoxypyridine, led to the efficient generation of cis‐pyridinium‐type salts. These salts reacted with various nucleophiles, such as alcohols, azides, and organozinc reagents, to form nucleophilic‐substitution products. A characteristic feature of these processes was that they took place under mild conditions, which did not affect acid‐labile protecting groups. Furthermore, the reactions that employed azides and C‐nucleophiles generated 2,6‐trans products with high degrees of stereoselectivity.     

Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions are Mechanistically Similar with Opposite Polarity

Confrontation of the recently formulated general mechanism of nucleophilic substitution in electron-deficient arenes with the well-known mechanism of electrophilic substitution revealed that these fundamental processes are mechanistically identical but proceed according to opposite polarity—an Umpolung relation. In this viewpoint this apparently controversial concept is supported by discussion of a variety of experimental results.     

Electrophilic and nucleophilic aromatic substitution: Analogous and complementary processes

Analysis of many variants of nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen proceeding according to an addition—elimination pattern reveals that this is the major reaction pathway, whereas nucleophilic replacement of halogen or another nucleofugal group is the secondary process, i.e.,ipso-substitution. In this respect electrophilic and nucleophilic aromatic substitution can be considered as analogous processes.This account is published in connection awarding Prof. M. Mgkosza the degree ofDoctor Honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences for his investigations in the fields of physical organic chemistry and fine organic synthesis.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3. pp. 531–544, March, 1996.     

cine‐Substitution Reactions of Metallabenzenes: An Experimental and Computational Study

Alkali‐resistant osmabenzene [(SCN)₂(PPh₃)₂Os{CHC(PPh₃)CHCICH}] ( 2 ) can undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution with MeOH or EtOH to give cine‐substitution products [(SCN)₂(PPh₃)₂Os{CHC(PPh₃)CHCHCR}] (R=OMe ( 3 ), OEt( 4 )) in the presence of strong alkali. However, the reactions of compound 2 with various amines, such as n‐butylamine and aniline, afford five‐membered ring species, [(SCN)₂(PPh₃)₂Os{CH?C(PPh₃)CH?C(CH?NHR′)}] (R′=nBu( 8 ), Ph( 9 )), in addition to the desired cine‐substitution products, [(SCN)₂(PPh₃)₂Os{CHC(PPh₃)CHCHC(NHR′)}] (R′=nBu( 6 ), Ph( 7 )), under similar reaction conditions. The mechanisms of these reactions have been investigated in detail with the aid of isotopic labeling experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The results reveal that the cine‐substitution reactions occur through nucleophilic addition, dissociation of the leaving group, protonation, and deprotonation steps, which resemble the classical “addition‐of‐nucleophile, ring‐opening, ring‐closure” (ANRORC) mechanism. DFT calculations suggest that, in the reaction with MeOH, the formation of a five‐membered metallacycle species is both kinetically and thermodynamically less favorable, which is consistent with the experimental results that only the cine‐substitution product is observed. For the analogous reaction with n‐butylamine, the pathway for the formation of the cine‐substitution product is kinetically less favorable than the pathway for the formation of a five‐membered ring species, but is much more thermodynamically favorable, again consistent with the experimental conversion of compound 8 into compound 6 , which is observed in an in situ NMR experiment with an isolated pure sample of 8 .     

Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbonylative Reactions of 1‐Bromo‐2‐fluorobenzenes with Various Nucleophiles: Effective Combination of Carbonylation and Nucleophilic Substitution

A systematic study on the carbonylative transformation of 1‐bromo‐2‐fluorobenzenes with various nucleophiles has been performed. Different types of double nucleophiles, such as N?N, N?C, O?C, and N?S, can be effectively applied as coupling partners. The corresponding six‐membered heterocycles were isolated in moderate to good yields.     

Regioselectivity of Reactions of Nitrogen and Carbon Nucleophiles with Coumarin Derivatives

Abstract

Reaction of various 3‐substituted coumarins with nitrogen and carbon nucleophiles appears to involve, in all cases examined, exclusive, direct substitution at the exocyclic C‐1′ electrophilic center.     

Reactions of Chlorosulfanyl Derivatives of Cyclobutanones with Different Nucleophiles

The reactions of 3‐chloro‐3‐(chlorosulfanyl)‐2,2,4,4‐tetramethylcyclobutan‐1‐one ( 2 ) with N, O, S, and P nucleophiles occur by substitution of Cl at the S‐atom. Whereas, in the cases of secondary amines, alkanols, phenols, thiols, thiophenols, and di‐ and trialkyl phosphates, the initially formed substitution products were obtained, the corresponding products with allyl and propargyl alcohols undergo a [2,3]‐sigmatropic rearrangement to give allyl and allenyl sulfoxides, respectively. Analogous substitution reactions were observed when 3‐chloro‐3‐(chlorodisulfanyl)‐2,2,4,4‐tetramethylcyclobutan‐1‐one ( 3 ) was treated with N, O, and S nucleophiles. The reaction of 3 with Et₃P led to an unexpected product via cleavage of the S? S bond (cf. Scheme 13). In the reactions of 2 with primary amines and H₂O, the substitution products react further via elimination of HCl to yield the corresponding thiocarbonyl S‐imides and the thiocarbonyl S‐oxide, respectively. Whereas the latter could be isolated, the former were not stable but could be intercepted by MeOH (Scheme 4) or adamantanethione (Scheme 5). The structures of some of the substitution products were established by X‐ray crystallography.     

Reactions of methylchlorodisilanes with Grignard reagents

Reactions of Cl₂MeSiSiMeCl₂ with RMgCl make it possible to obtain and isolate pure disilanes containing a smaller number of functional groups, namely, RMeClSiSiMeCl₂ (R = Ph), RMeClSiSiMeRCl (R = Prⁱ, Ph), and R₂MeSiSiMeRCl (R = Buⁱ). The reaction of Cl₂MeSiSiMeCl₂ with BuⁿMgCl is the least selective. The chlorides obtained were reduced with LiAlH₄ into the corresponding hydrides.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 954–957, May, 1995.     

Synthesis and Reactions of Trifluoromethyl-Substituted 1,3,5-Triazines

A variety of di- and trifluoromethyl-s-triazines are prepared following straightforward synthetic protocols from simple, commercially available starting materials. Trichloromethyl-substituted triazine electrophiles are obtained in good yield and react with amine nucleophiles to afford aminotriazine products in good to excellent yield. The nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction is broad in scope and proceeds smoothly with both aromatic and aliphatic (primary, secondary, and branched) amines in the presence of non-participating functional groups including alcohols, carboxylic acids, indoles, and common amine protecting groups. Furthermore, most reactions require only a catalytic amount of 4-DMAP with no stoichiometric base and are complete within two hours at ambient temperature.     

Diastereoselective Synthesis of Open‐Chain Secondary Alkyllithium Compounds and Trapping Reactions with Electrophiles

A practical stereoselective iodide–lithium exchange was used in the first general preparation of functionalized stereodefined acyclic secondary nonstabilized lithium reagents from the corresponding secondary alkyl iodides. These lithium reagents react with various electrophiles including carbon electrophiles with high retention of configuration. Kinetic data on the configurational stability of these acyclic alkyllithium reagents are given. This methodology offers a new entry to chiral synthons for the stereoselective synthesis of open‐chain molecules.     

Azines and Their Acyclic Derivatives as Transferers of One-carbon Fragment in Reactions with Pyrazolones

Enehydrazine derivatives have been obtained by the reaction of 6-phenyl-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxide with pyrazolones 2, which on further heating with pyrazolones 2 are converted into the corresponding symmetrical or unsymmetrical derivatives of dipyrazolylmethane. Enehydrazine derivatives of 1,3-dimethyl-5-nitrosouracil and 1,3-dimethylimidazolidine interact with 3-methyl-1-phenyl-5-pyrazolone (2a) with the formation of dipyrazolylmethane derivative. On interacting compound 2a or 3-methyl-1-(p-nitrophenyl)-5-pyrazolone with 3,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxide 12 the corresponding 4,4'-bispyrazolones are formed, but the interaction of compound 12 with 3-(p-nitrophenyl)-1-phenyl-5-pyrazolone leads to dipyrazolylmethane derivative. Dipyrazolylmethane derivative is obtained on heating of fervenulin 4-oxide, 2,4-dihydroxy-5-nitropyrimidine, and 1,3,5-triazines: 6-azauracil, 5-azauracil, azacytosine, and 2,4-diamino-s-triazine with pyrazolone 2a.     

Transition-Metal-Free Coupling of Polyfluorinated Arenes and Functionalized,Masked Aryl Nucleophiles

A chemoselective C(sp²)−C(sp²) coupling of sufficiently electron-deficient fluorinated arenes and functionalized N-aryl-N’-silyldiazenes as masked aryl nucleophiles is reported. The fluoride-promoted transformation involves the in situ generation of the aryl nucleophile decorated with various sensitive functional groups followed by a stepwise nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S_NAr). These reactions typically proceed at room temperature within minutes. This catalytic process allows for the functionalization of both coupling partners, furnishing highly fluorinated biaryls in good yields.