New strategies for pinacol cross-couplings and alkenation reactions

Blanc, Guilaine F. (2010) New strategies for pinacol cross-couplings and alkenation reactions. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

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Abstract

The research described herein involves the study of new approaches to alkenation and pinacol cross-coupling.

The competition between modified Julia alkenation and Peterson alkenation was studied. Heterocyclic sulfides were oxidised to sulfones by dimethyldioxirane. Reactions between sulfones and aldehydes gave vinyl sulfones in good yields, rather than vinyl silanes, confirming that the Peterson alkenation is preferred in this system.
Pinacol cross-coupling between an aldehyde or ketone in solution and a more easily reduced aldehyde immobilised on resin was attempted, but proved unsuccessful. However, aldehydes bearing the salts of tertiary amines were found to be good substrates for pinacol homo-coupling giving diols. The formation of salt avoided unwanted reduction of the aldehyde to a primary alcohol.
A wide range of approaches to anisomycin using titanium reagents were investigated. These were based on the formation of the bond between C-3 and C-4 by alkylidenation of esters and ring-closing metathesis (RCM) or intramolecular alkylidenation or radical cyclization. The presence and position of the nitrogen atom proved an insurmountable obstacle to this strategy.
The solid-phase synthesis of 4-amino-ketones was achieved. Resin-bound esters were alkylidenated using a novel titanium reagent generated in situ by reduction of a thioacetal with a low valent titanium reagent. Treating the resulting enol ethers with acid gave ketones in good yield and high purity because of the switch in the nature of the linker from acid-stable to acid-sensitive (a chameleon catch strategy). Amino-ketones are potential precursors of pyrrolidines.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Qualification Level: Doctoral
Keywords: Pinacol Cross-couplings, vinyl sulfones, titanium carbenoids, anisomycin, pyrrolidines, solid-phase synthesis, alkenation reactions
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Colleges/Schools: College of Science and Engineering > School of Chemistry
Supervisor's Name: Hartley, Dr. Richard C.
Date of Award: 2010
Depositing User: Dr Guilaine Blanc
Unique ID: glathesis:2010-2227
Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
Date Deposited: 17 Dec 2010
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2015 11:21
URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/2227

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