Trichloromethylation reaction. Ring-chain tautomerism
Trichloromethylation reaction. Ring-chain tautomerism
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三氯甲基化反应。
DOI:
10.1021/jo01282a019
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发表时间:
1967
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通讯作者:
Dale E. Battin
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作者:
A. Winston;J. Sharp;K. Atkins;Dale E. Battin
Several anhydrides have been subjected to the trichloromethylation reactionusing sodium trichloroacetate in dimethoxyethane solution. The trichloromethylation products exist in either of two tautomeric forms, the keto acid or the lactol. If the trichloroacetyl and carboxyl groups are held in fixed coplanarity, the stability of the lactol tautomer is quite high and the compound crystallizes in that form. If the groups are not held coplanar, then the keto acid tautomer is isolated. In solution the compounds are in tautomeric equilibrium and the pres-ence of two tautomeric forms may be detected spectroscopically. The yields of the trichloromethylation products are generally quite good, but, in cases where side reactions are particularly significant, low yields result. Sodium trichloroacetate reacts with aldehydes to give trichloromethylcarbinols, with acetyl chloride to give 1, 1, 1-trichloro-2-propanone, and with methyl iodide to give 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane. Sodium tribromoacetate may be used to introduce the tribromomethyl group, reaction occurring with both anhydrides and aldehydes. The use of sodium trifluoroacetate has not been successful. The decomposition of sodium trichloro-and tribromoacetate is strongly accelerated by the presence of the anhydride. The possibilitythat the trihalomethylation reaction involves a participation by the trihaloacetate ion is suggested.The decomposition of sodium trichloroacetate in the presence of anhydrides is a useful synthetic method for introducing the trichloromethyl group into organic compounds. 2 A variety of anhydrides readily under-goes the addition reaction to produce trichloromethyl ketones, keto acids, and lactols in high purity, often in excellent yield. The reaction is quite rapid; in certain cases yields of> 70% are realized after only 30 min in refluxing dimethoxyethane. Occasionally, lower yields (10-50%) result, and the product may be accompanied by considerable amounts of tarry material. This is due in part to the abstractionof hydrogen or chlorine from the primary product by the trichloromethyl anion, to give an anion which may undergo further reactions. Abstraction reactions of this type are well known3· 4 and