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LDA (lithium diisopropylamide) mediated reactions of 1-naphthalynes with lithiated acetonitriles and 1,4-dipolar nucleophilic anions
Biehl,Rakeeb Deshmukh,Dutt
, p. 885 - 888 (1993)
3-Bromo-2-methoxy-(5) and 3-bromo-2-methoxy-6-methylnaphthalene (6) yield 1-naphthalyne intermediates which react with various α-lithiated nitriles 10 to afford both rearranged 1-arylmethyl- or 1-hetarylmethyl-3-methoxynaphthalene-2-carbonitriles 11 and 12, respectively, and α-naphthylated aryl- or hetarylacetonitriles 13 and 14, respectively. Product distributions 11:13 favoring rearranged nitriles (65:35-90:10) were obtained from LDA-mediated reactions of 5 with arylacetonitriles 9a, b and thiopheneacetonitriles 9c, d. Similar treatment of 6 with 9a-d gave product distributions 12:14 heavily in favor of rearranged nitriles (> 90:10) presumably due to the ability of the additional 7-methyl group to increase the rate of cyclization of the initial aryne-nitrile anion adduct, the crucial step in the rearrangement pathway. However treatment of either 5 or 6 with α-lithiated pyridylacetonitriles 9e, f or 2-benzimidazolylacetonitrile (9g) gave product distributions 11:13 or 12:14, respectively, heavily in favor of α-naphthylated acetonitriles (30:7010:90). Additionally, several precursors to methoxy-substituted 1-naphthalynes 5, 19 and 20 were found to undergo cycloaddition with the dipolar nucleophilic precursors 3-cyanophthalide (17) and α-cyano-o-tolunitrile (21) to give angularly substituted benz[a]anthracene derivatives 18, 22.
Exhaustive Reduction of Esters Enabled by Nickel Catalysis
Cook, Adam,Prakash, Sekar,Zheng, Yan-Long,Newman, Stephen G.
supporting information, p. 8109 - 8115 (2020/05/20)
We report a one-step procedure to directly reduce unactivated aryl esters into their corresponding tolyl derivatives. This is achieved by an organosilane-mediated ester hydrosilylation reaction and subsequent Ni/NHC-catalyzed hydrogenolysis. The resulting conditions provide a direct and efficient alternative to multi-step procedures for this transformation that often require the use of hazardous metal hydrides. Applications in the synthesis of -CD3-containing products, derivatization of bioactive molecules, and chemoselective reduction in the presence of other C-O bonds are demonstrated.
Intramolecular carbonyl-ene reactions in the synthesis of peri-oxygenated hydroaromatics
Basak, Shyam,Mal, Dipakranjan
, p. 1758 - 1772 (2018/03/29)
2-Methallyl aromatic aldehydes, synthesized by Suzuki coupling of 2-formylphenylboronic acids, are shown to provide cycloalkylidene ene products under acidic conditions. Susceptibility of the products to aromatization is manoeuvred by varying the reaction conditions and catalysts including binol-derived Br?nsted acid catalysts. A peri-effect is identified as a controlling factor for the aromatizations. Several oxidative transformations of an ene product are carried out as model studies of hydroaromatic polyketide natural products.
