THE STEREOCHEMISTRY OF HYDRIDE REDUCTIONS
THE STEREOCHEMISTRY OF HYDRIDE REDUCTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01592a069
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
NOYCE, DS
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作者:
DAUBEN, WG;FONKEN, GJ;NOYCE, DS
It has been shown that reductions of alkylcyclohexanones with lithium aluminum hydride, sodium borohydride and alumi-num isopropoxide lead to increasing proportions of the axial (unstable) isomer. The mechanism of the reduction step is discussed with reference to the ease of formation of the initial metallo-organic complex (steric approach control) and to the relative energetics of the formation of the products once the complex is formed (product development control).The reduction by metal hydrides of ketones which can yield diastereomeric alcohols has been the sub-ject of numerous investigations and such studies have been carried out with a wide variety of ketones, including acyclic, alicyclicand polycyclic compounds. 1 Correlations of the stereochemical results havebeen proposed by numerous investiga-tors1-6 and for the most part the results of these summaries have been expressed in terms of con-formational concepts, considering the most likely conformation of the initial ketone and the changes which must result during the reduction proper. One of the most descriptive postulates is that of Cram and Greene7 in which it was considered that the reduction by lithium aluminum hydride of acy-clic ketones proceeded by the fonnation of an initial complex between the hydride and the carbonyl oxygen atom and in this complex, the oxygen “be-comes effectively the bulkiest group in the molecule and tends to orient itself between the two least bulky groups attached to the adjacent asymmetric carbon atom.” The predominant isomer “would be formed by approach of the entering group from the least hindered side of the carbonyl complex.” Barton, 10 on the other hand, has merely summa-rized the results and has pointed out that with an unhindered ketone, the predominant product in the alicyclic series is the equatorial isomer. Other pre-vious workers, however, have paid little attention to the striking fact that the predominant product in any series usually is the more stable isomer. An excellent example of this generality is to be found in the study of the reduction of a series of 2-(apiperazinyl)-benzylcyclohexanones8 in which many