Phospha-Michael additions to activated internal alkenes: steric and electronic effects.

Autor: Lenker HK; Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA., Richard ME, Reese KP, Carter AF, Zawisky JD, Winter EF, Bergeron TW, Guydon KS, Stockland RA Jr
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of organic chemistry [J Org Chem] 2012 Feb 03; Vol. 77 (3), pp. 1378-85. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Jan 13.
DOI: 10.1021/jo202183u
Abstrakt: The addition of P(O)-H bonds to internal alkenes has been accomplished under solvent-free conditions without the addition of a catalyst or radical initiator. Using a prototypical secondary phosphine oxide, a range of substrates including cinnamates, crotonates, coumarins, sulfones, and chalcones were successfully functionalized. Highly activated acceptors such as isopropylidenemalononitrile and ethyl 2-cyano-3-methyl-2-butenoate underwent the phospha-Michael reaction upon simple trituration of the reagents at room temperature, whereas less activated substrates such as ethyl cinnamate and methyl crotonate required heating (>150 °C) in a microwave reactor to achieve significant consumption of the starting alkenes. For the latter alkenes, a competing reaction involving disproportionation of the ditolylphosphine oxide into ditolylphosphinic acid and ditolylphosphine was observed at the high temperatures needed to promote the addition reaction.
Databáze: MEDLINE