702-15-8Relevant articles and documents
Access to Trisubstituted Fluoroalkenes by Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cross-Metathesis
Nouaille, Augustin,Pannecoucke, Xavier,Poisson, Thomas,Couve-Bonnaire, Samuel
supporting information, p. 2140 - 2147 (2021/03/06)
Although the olefin metathesis reaction is a well-known and powerful strategy to get alkenes, this reaction remained highly challenging with fluororalkenes, especially the Cross-Metathesis (CM) process. Our thought was to find an easy accessible, convenient, reactive and post-functionalizable source of fluoroalkene, that we found as the methyl 2-fluoroacrylate. We reported herein the efficient ruthenium-catalyzed CM reaction of various terminal and internal alkenes with methyl 2-fluoroacrylate giving access, for the first time, to trisubstituted fluoroalkenes stereoselectively. Unprecedent TON for CM involving fluoroalkene, up to 175, have been obtained and the reaction proved to be tolerant and effective with a large range of olefin partners giving fair to high yields in metathesis products. (Figure presented.).
Biocatalytic reduction of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids to allylic alcohols
Aleku, Godwin A.,Leys, David,Roberts, George W.
, p. 3927 - 3939 (2020/07/09)
We have developed robust in vivo and in vitro biocatalytic systems that enable reduction of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids to allylic alcohols and their saturated analogues. These compounds are prevalent scaffolds in many industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals. A substrate profiling study of a carboxylic acid reductase (CAR) investigating unexplored substrate space, such as benzo-fused (hetero)aromatic carboxylic acids and α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids, revealed broad substrate tolerance and provided information on the reactivity patterns of these substrates. E. coli cells expressing a heterologous CAR were employed as a multi-step hydrogenation catalyst to convert a variety of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids to the corresponding saturated primary alcohols, affording up to >99percent conversion. This was supported by the broad substrate scope of E. coli endogenous alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), as well as the unexpected CC bond reducing activity of E. coli cells. In addition, a broad range of benzofused (hetero)aromatic carboxylic acids were converted to the corresponding primary alcohols by the recombinant E. coli cells. An alternative one-pot in vitro two-enzyme system, consisting of CAR and glucose dehydrogenase (GDH), demonstrates promiscuous carbonyl reductase activity of GDH towards a wide range of unsaturated aldehydes. Hence, coupling CAR with a GDH-driven NADP(H) recycling system provides access to a variety of (hetero)aromatic primary alcohols and allylic alcohols from the parent carboxylates, in up to >99percent conversion. To demonstrate the applicability of these systems in preparative synthesis, we performed 100 mg scale biotransformations for the preparation of indole-3-aldehyde and 3-(naphthalen-1-yl)propan-1-ol using the whole-cell system, and cinnamyl alcohol using the in vitro system, affording up to 85percent isolated yield.
Method used for reduction of tertiary amide into alcohols and/or amines
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Paragraph 0151-0154, (2019/08/07)
The invention discloses a method used for reduction of tertiary amide into alcohols and/or amines. The method comprises following steps: tertiary amide, an alkali metal reagent, and a proton donor agent are added into an organic solvent for a following reaction selectively: when the proton donor agent is a raw material alcohol and/or inorganic salt aqueous solution, the reaction product is an alcohol compound and/or tertiary amine compound. The method is capable of realizing selective reduction of tertiary amide into alcohols and tertiary amine compounds, the yield is high, the suitable rangeis wide, operation is safe and simple, the adopted raw materials are cheap and easily available; no precious metal catalyst, toxic silanes, and flammable and combustible metal hydrides are adopted; notoxic by product is generated; reaction is more friendly to the environment; problems in the prior art that amide compound reducing method operation is complex, conditions are strict, and control ofproducts is difficult are solved.
