TITANIUM-INDUCED REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF CARBONYLS TO OLEFINS
TITANIUM-INDUCED REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF CARBONYLS TO OLEFINS
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00411a002
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
KREPSKI, LR
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作者:
MCMURRY, JE;FLEMING, MP;KREPSKI, LR
Active titanium metal, produced in a finely divided form by reduction of TiCl3 with either potassium or lithium, will reductively couple ketones and aldehydes to olefins. Although the intermolecular coupling works best when two identical carbonyls are coupled to a symmetrical product, unsymmetrical couplings can also be carried out in certain cases. The unsymmetrical coupling of a diaryl ketone with another partner is particularly efficient, and a mechanism to account for this is proposed. Intramolecular dicarbonyl coupling to form rings is also possible, and the combination TiCL/Zn-Cu works best. Rings of size 4-16 and 22 are prepared in high yield. The nature of the active titanium metal is studied by scanning electron microscopy, and a mechanistic proposal accounting for all observed results is presented. It is believed that the coupling reaction occurs on the surface of the active titanium par-ticle.Recently, three separate research groups independently observed that low-valent titanium reagents (TiCU/Zn, 1 TiCl3/Mg, 2 TiCl3/LiAlH43) would reductively dimerize ketones and aldehydes to olefins^ Twoof these reagent systems1’2 were reported to be effective only for aryl ketones, while our TiCls/LiAlH4 reagent gave excellent yields in both aryl and alkyl cases. 3 Subsequently, a number of research groups used our method to prepare a variety of interesting olefins, 4-9 but, as we have reported, 10 the TiCl3/LiAlH4 reagent gives capri-cious results depending on the exact batches of reagents used.