71019-06-2Relevant articles and documents
The Electrophilic Fluorination of Enol Esters Using SelectFluor: A Polar Two-Electron Process
Wood, Susanna H.,Etridge, Stephen,Kennedy, Alan R.,Percy, Jonathan M.,Nelson, David J.
supporting information, p. 5574 - 5585 (2019/03/21)
The reaction of enol esters with SelectFluor is facile and leads to the corresponding α-fluoroketones under mild conditions and, as a result, this route is commonly employed for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds such as fluorinated steroids. However, despite the use of this methodology in synthesis, the mechanism of this reaction and the influence of structure on reactivity are unclear. A rigorous mechanistic study of the fluorination of these substrates is presented, informed primarily by detailed and robust kinetic experiments. The results of this study implicate a polar two-electron process via an oxygen-stabilised carbenium species, rather than a single-electron process involving radical intermediates. The structure–reactivity relationships revealed here will assist synthetic chemists in deploying this type of methodology in the syntheses of α-fluoroketones.
Impact of silyl enol ether stability on palladium-catalyzed arylations
Guo, Yong,Tao, Guo-Hong,Blumenfeld, Alex,Shreeve, Jean'ne M.
scheme or table, p. 1818 - 1823 (2010/06/18)
The effect of stability on arylation of silyl enol ethers as dictated by the presence of bulky silyl groups was elucidated through experiment and calculation. With the enhancement of stability of the silyl enol ethers, especially of acyclic ethers, the ef
Reaction of silyl enol ethers with xenon difluoride in MeCN: Evidence for a nonclassical radical cation intermediate
Ramsden, Christopher A.,Smith, Rachel G.
, p. 1591 - 1594 (2008/02/09)
(matrix presented). The reactions of xenon difluoride in MeCN solution in Pyrex flasks with a series of TMS enol ethers have been investigated. The types of products formed are dependent on the structures of individual enol ethers, but under these conditions all products are consistent with a mechanism involving single electron transfer to un-ionized XeF2 giving a radical cation and subsequent formation of an α-fluoroketone, together with some ketone formation. The results suggest that if the radical cation is particularly stable, fluorodesilylation leads to radical formation, and solvent-derived products are then observed. Using other solvents, such as CFCl3 and C6F6, much more complex mixtures of products are obtained, and this is attributed to a different mode of reaction of xenon difluoride involving ionization to FXe+.