ABSTRACT
The ruthenium-catalysed double addition of trimethylsilyldiazomethane to alkynes developed by Dixneuf and co-workers was applied to the synthesis of 2-alkyl- or 2-aryl-3-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)-1,3-butadienes by use of alkynylboronates instead of alkynes. Di- and tetrasubstituted 1,3-butadienes were prepared from a 2-boryl-1,4-disilyl-1,3-butadiene, using the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction, iodolysis of the alkenylsilane moieties with N-iodosuccinimide and hydrolysis of the carbon-silicon bonds with trifluoroacetic acid. The same compound was converted also to a bicyclic compound, a trisubstituted 1,3-butadiene and a dienone through the Diels-Alder reaction, oxidation of the alkenylboronate moiety and the Mukaiyama aldol reaction.
ABSTRACT
Molecular hydrogen adds to aliphatic and aromatic alkynylstannanes in the presence of a ruthenium catalyst, pushing the stannyl group to the adjacent carbon atom to give alpha-substituted vinylstannanes. This is the first achievement of hydrogenation of alkynylstannanes, which is applicable also to the deuteration affording precursors for an important class of deuterium-labeled compounds.
ABSTRACT
Treatment of an alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone and an aldehyde with chromium(II) chloride and R(3)SiCl in DMF gives cross-pinacol-type coupling products, 1,2-diols selectively. The anti/syn ratios of the produced 1,2-diols are shown to depend on the reaction temperature: at lower temperatures, the anti adduct is produced selectively, but at higher temperatures, the anti/syn ratios gradually decrease. When a combination of manganese and a catalytic amount of lead are used instead of chromium(II), 1,6-diketone, a dimer of the alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone, is produced selectively.
