On the inversion barriers of pyramidal carbanions

A simple MO model is used to explain the trends exhibited by inversion barriers of pyramidal carbanions upon variation of its substituents. Free carbanions as well as carbanions solvated by H₂O molecules are considered.     

Alpha-sulfinyl carbanions as a new source of olefins

[reaction: see text] Secondary alpha-lithiosulfinyl carbanions react either intermolecularly, after transmetalation into an organocopper derivative in an S(N)2-type process with zinc carbenoid, or intramolecularly via higher-order zincate to give, through a tandem zinc homologation-beta-elimination reaction the corresponding alkenes. alpha,alpha-Disubstituted alkenes are only formed from tertiary alpha-lithiosulfinyl carbanions via the 1,2-metalate rearrangement.     

VICARIOUS NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION WITH SULFUR CONTAINING CARBANIONS

Abstract

Carbanions stabilized with sulfur containing substituents are versatile intermedi-ates in organic synthesis. The great value and importance of such carbanions is connected with specific properties of the sulfur atom which is capable to exist in a variety of valent states and to form many functional groups. These various sulfur-containing groups exert different carbanion stabilizing effects and can also serve as leaving groups in nucleophilic substitution or elimination reactions. Taking into account numerous types of sulfur containing functional groups and a variety of reactions they can promote, it is well understandable that reactions of sulfur-containing carbanions have been thoroughly studied and widely exploited in organic synthesis. The reactions of such carbanions with aliphatic electrophilic partners: alkylating agents, carbonyl compounds and Michael acceptors consist a major section of this field and were subject of numerous studies as well as many monographs.¹ Contrary to that, not very much was known about reactions of such carbanions with electrophilic aromatic compounds. Actually, there are only few reports on nitroarylation of sulfur-containing carbanions via replacement of halogen orfho- or para- to the nitro group in halonitrocornpounds.² There are also some reports on the alkylation of nitroarenes and heterocyclic compounds in the reaction with sulfonium3 and sulfoxonium4 ylides, dimethylsulfoxide carbanion,⁵ and dialkyl or alkyl aryl sulfones carbanions.⁶     

Catalytic Carbanion Reactions: Formation and Reaction of Carbanions from Ester or Amide Equivalents Using Catalytic Amounts of Bases

We describe here carbanion reactions using catalytic amounts of bases. The carbanions formed are different from conventional carbanions in which stoichiometric amounts of bases are needed for the formation. Two types of reactions using such carbanions from amide (imido) and ester equivalents are discussed.     

Inverse solvent effects in carbocation carbanion combination reactions: the unique behavior of trifluoromethylsulfonyl stabilized carbanions

Second-order rate constants for the reactions of the trifluoromethylsulfonyl substituted benzyl anions 1a-e (CF3SO2CH(-)-C6H4-X) with the benzhydrylium ions 2f-j and structurally related quinone methides 2a-e have been determined by UV-vis spectroscopy. The reactions proceed approximately 10-40 times faster in methanol than in DMSO leading to the unique situation that these carbocation carbanion combinations are faster in protic than in dipolar aprotic media. The pK(a) values of some benzyl trifluoromethylsulfones were determined in methanol (1c-H, 17.1; 1d-H, 16.0; 1e-H, 15.0) and found to be 5 units larger than the corresponding values in DMSO. Rate and equilibrium measurements thus agree that the trifluoromethylsulfonyl substituted benzyl anions 1a-e are more effectively solvated by ion-dipole interactions in DMSO than by hydrogen bonding in methanol. Br?nsted correlations show that in DMSO the trifluoromethylsulfonyl substituted carbanions 1 are less nucleophilic than most other types of carbanions of similar basicity, indicating that in DMSO the intrinsic barriers for the reactions of the localized carbanions 1 are higher than those of delocalized carbanions, including nitroalkyl anions. The situation is reversed in methanol, where the reactions of the localized carbanions 1 possess lower intrinsic barriers than those of delocalized carbanions as commonly found for proton-transfer processes. As a consequence, the relative magnitudes of intrinsic barriers are strongly dependent on the solvent.     

酰基过氧化物的化学 VII: 过氧化环丙基甲酰与硝基烷烃阴离子的单电子转移反应

过氧化环丙基甲酰(CPP)能将硝基仲烷烃阴离子氧化成相应的酮. 产物分析和ESR研究揭示该反应经过由硝基烷烃阴离子向CPP的单电子转移引发步骤及随后的一系列自由基反应步骤, 生DN 主要产物酮和典型的自由基副产物, 如双环丙基、硝基烷基二聚体和能被ESR直接检测的双环丙基氮氧自由基等.     

SULFAMOYLATION OF ESTER ENOLATE ANIONS

Abstract

Stabilized carbanions such as the α-carbanions of carboxylic acid esters react with sulfamoyl chlorides by nucleophilic displacement at chlorine which results in chlorination of the carbanion. Thus direct sulfamoylation of these carbanions with sulfamoyl chlorides fails. Conversion of sulfamoyl chlorides to N-sulfonylamines followed by addition of carbanions at -78°C results in sulfamoylation of the carbanion. The method has not been successful with carbanions from diethyl acetamidomalonate and ethyl diphenylacetate.     

Carbon-13 NMR spectra of arylmethyl carbanions

Carbon-13 chemical shifts of three arylmethyl carbanions have been determined by changing solvents and counter ions. The charge distributions in the carbanions are discussed and compared with those obtained from the ¹H chemical shifts.     

Carboacides polycyanes—V : Preparation et proprietes des sels d'aza-2 propenures polycyanes

O-p-Toluensulfonylisonitrosomalononitrile by the action of malononitrile in basic conditions yields salts of 1,1,3,3 tetracyano-2 azapropenide. Similar polycyano derivatives are obtained with various other carbanions. The heterocyclisation of the 2 azapropenides into pyrazines is described.     

Nucleophilic reactivities of carbanions in water: the unique behavior of the malodinitrile anion

The kinetics of the reactions of nine carbanions 1a-i, each stabilized by two acyl, ester, or cyano groups, with benzhydrylium ions in water were investigated photometrically at 20 degrees C. Because the competing reactions of the benzhydrylium ions with water and hydroxide ions are generally slower, the second-order rate constants of the reactions of the benzhydrylium ions with the carbanions can be determined with high precision. The rate constants thus obtained can be described by the Ritchie equation, log(k/k(0)) = N(+) (eq 1), which allows us to calculate Ritchie N(+) parameters for a series of stabilized carbanions, for example, malonate, acetoacetate, malodinitrile, etc., and compare them with those of other n-nucleophiles in water (hydroxide, amines, azide, thiolates, etc.). Because the Ritchie relationship (eq 1) is a special case of the more general relationship log k = s(N + E) (eq 4), the reactivity parameters N and s for the carbanions 1a-i can also be calculated and compared with the nucleophilic reactivities of a large variety of n-, pi-, and sigma-nucleophiles, including reactivities of carbanions in dimethyl sulfoxide. While the acyl and ester substituted carbanions are approximately 3 orders of magnitude less reactive in water than in dimethyl sulfoxide, the malodinitrile anion (1i) shows almost the same reactivity in both solvents. Correlations between the nucleophilic reactivities of carbanions with the pK(a) values of the corresponding CH acids reveal that the malodinitrile anion (1i) is considerably more nucleophilic than was expected on the basis of its pK(a) value. This deviation is assigned to the exceptionally low Marcus intrinsic barriers of the reactions of the malodinitrile anion (1i).     

Directed addition of sulfur-stabilised carbanions to 1,2,3-trisubstituted aziridines

Thioether and sulfone-stabilised carbanions possessing varying functional groups enter into highly regioselective, stereospecific ring-opening reactions with vinyl- and hydroxymethyl-substituted aziridines. Some derivatisation reactions of the adducts are reported.     

Milieux hyperbasiques : Nouvelle méthode de synthèse de γ et δ-cétoaldéhydes

Substituted γ and δ-ketoaldehydes may be conveniently synthesized in two steps from imine carbanions, which are obtained by reaction with hyperbasic media. These anions are stable at low temperature (?30°); they react with functional electrophiles to afford masked ketoaldehydes which may be cyclised into various cyclopentenones or cyclohexenones.     

Nucleophilic fluoroalkylation of epoxides with fluorinated sulfones

The unprecedented nucleophilic fluoroalkylation of simple epoxides with fluorinated sulfones was achieved to give the beta-fluoroalkyl alcohols in one step. The negative "fluorine effect" in the nucleophilic fluoroalkylation of epoxides with fluorinated carbanions was probed by the reactivity comparison between carbanions PhSO2CF2- (3) and PhSO2CCl2- (4) and between carbanions PhSO2CHF- (7) and PhSO2CHCl- (13). The mediation of this fluorine effect by introducing another electron-withdrawing benzenesulfonyl group was found to be an effective way to significantly increase the nucleophilicity of the fluorinated carbanions, with the reactivity order [(PhSO2)2CF-] (16) > PhSO2CFH- (7) > PhSO2CF2- (3).     

Synthèse stéréosélective des sulfones vinyliques Z et E.

The condensation of α-sulphonyl carbanions with esters or with aldehydes (followed in this case by oxidation) gives β-ketosulphones. These were reduced stereoselectively into threo β-hydroxysulphones.Basic conditions have been found where the corresponding tosylates are converted into Z vinylic sulphones whereas the erythro tosylates lead to the E isomer. The corresponding acetoxy-sulphones erythro or threo, under different alkaline conditions are converted into the same E vinylic sulphone in a “convergent” manner.     

Reaction of 4-acetoxy-2-azetidinone with tertiary carbanions: Preparation of 4-alkyl- and 4-alkylidene-2-azetidinones

Reaction of 4-acetoxy-2-azetidinone with tertiary stablished carbanions gives carbon-substituted 2-azetidinones which have transformed into 4-alkyliden     

Concurrent cyclopropanation by carbenes and carbanions? A density functional theory study on the reaction pathways

The mechanisms for the addition reactions of phenylhalocarbenes and phenyldihalomethide carbanions with acrylonitrile (ACN) and trimethylethylene (TME) have been investigated using an ab initio BH and HLYP/6-31G (d, p) level of theory. Solvent effects on these reactions have been explored by calculations that included a polarizable continuum model (PCM) for the solvent (THF). These model calculations show that for the addition of phenylhalocarbenes, a TME species may readily undergo addition reactions with carbenes while ACN has a high-energy barrier to overcome. It was also found that phenyldihalomethide carbanions do not readily add to the electron-rich TME. The cyclopropane yields only appear to occur via addition of PhCBr to TME. However, the cyclopropanation proceeds not only via slow addition of phenylhalocarbenes to ACN but also forms through the stepwise reaction of phenyldihalomethide carbanions with ACN. Our calculation results are in good agreement with experimental observations (Moss, R.A.; Tian, J.-Z. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8960) that indicate that the cyclopropanation of phenylhalocarbenes and phenyldihalomethide carbanions with ACN are concurrent in THF.     

Regioselectivity of the Base-Induced Ring Cleavage of 1-Oxygenated Derivatives of Cyclobutabenzene

Oxy anions 3 generated from 1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzen-1-ones 1 through addition of a charged nucleophile or from 1-hydroxy-1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzenes 2 by deprotonation with base lead to stable products through distal and/or proximal cleavage of the strained four-membered ring via benzyl carbanion 4 and/or aryl carbanion 5. A systematic study of this process reveals the relative stability of the two isomeric carbanions 4 and 5 as a key factor in determining the course of the ring-cleavage reaction. While benzyl carbanions 4 can be trapped with carbon electrophiles, attempts at trapping aryl carbanions 5 with electrophiles other than H⁺ failed. In protic solvents, the magnesium salt of the tertiary alcohol 2 shows an increased rate of proximal cleavage as compared to its alkali salts. From this, we conclude that, in contrast to benzyl carbanions 4 , free aryl carbanions 5 are of transient existence only. Proximal C,C-bond cleavage seems to occur either through protonation of 5 from a fast, reversible equilibrium 3 ? 5 in which 3 strongly predominates, or in protic solvents possibly even through a rate-limiting protonation of 3 at the aromatic C-atom, bypassing free anion 5 altogether. Thus, additional factors other than just the relative stability of isomeric carbanions 4 and 5 are of importance in determining the regiochemistry of the base-induced C,C-bond cleavage in ketones 1 and in alcohols 2 .     

The carbanions of S-alkanoate-O,O-dialkyl phosphates: new synthons for reaching α, β-ethylenic esters

The stabilization of phosphorothiolate carbanions has been achieved. Condensation of these carbanions with carbonyl derivatives lead to the corresponding α,β-unsaturated esters; a mechanism, via a β-hydroxyphosphorothiolate-β-mercaptophosphate rearrangement, is described. These new synthons are compared with the phosphonate analogs (Wittig-Horner's reagent).     

Reactions of α-chloro β-oxo aldehydes with CH-acid anions

The reactions of α-chloro and α,α-dichloro β-oxo aldehydes with carbanions are accompanied by the cleavage of the carbon-carbon bond in the chloro aldehydes and result in formylation of CH-acids. These electrophiles react with carbanions, which are generatedin situ from CH-acids in the presence of AcONa in aprotic solvents, to form polyfunctional hydroxy compounds.     

Dimerisation oxydante d'anions de sulfones (XXI)

Cupric salts, particularly triflates, convert α-sulphonyl carbanions into α-disulphones. Allylphenylsulphones couple preferentially in the 3-3′ mode.