Addition compounds of alkali metal hydrides. 15. Steric effects in the reaction of representative trialkylboranes with lithium and sodium hydrides to form the corresponding trialkylborohydrides
Addition compounds of alkali metal hydrides. 15. Steric effects in the reaction of representative trialkylboranes with lithium and sodium hydrides to form the corresponding trialkylborohydrides
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碱金属氢化物的加成化合物。
DOI:
10.1021/ja00479a016
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
J. L. Hubbard
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作者:
H. Brown;S. Krishnamurthy;J. L. Hubbard
The reactionin tetrahydrofuran of lithium and sodium hydrides with representative trialkylboranes of increasing ste-ric requirements was examined in detail with respect to rate, stoichiometry, and products. The rate of the reaction is strongly influenced by the steric requirements of the trialkylborane. Thus, the rates of reaction of lithium hydride with a series of trialk-ylboranes at 25 C follows the orderEt3B> n-Bu3B>¡'-Bu3B» sec-Bu3B. Even in refluxing tetrahydrofuran, tri-seobutyl-borane and other hindered organoboranes react with lithium hydride sluggishlyand incompletely. Sodium hydride exhibits greater reactivity than lithium hydride in these reactions. Sodium hydride reacts with essentially all of the unhindered trialkyl-boranes and with a number of hindered trialkylboranes even at 25 C. Other hindered trialkylboranes such as tri-rec-butylbor-ane, tricyclohexylborane, and tri-exo-2-norbornylborane react with sodium hydride in refluxing tetrahydrofuran rapidly and quantitatively. Here againthe rate of the reaction decreases drastically with increasing size of the alkyl substituent on boron: Et3B> n-Bu3B> tricyclopentylborane>¡-Bu3B> tricyclohexylborane> tri-exo-2-norbornylborane> rec-Bu3B. Highly hindered organoboranes such as trisiamylborane and tris (rra «i-2-methylcyclopentyl) borane are essentially inert toward both lithium hydride and sodium hydride at 65 C. The reaction of alkali metal hydrides with trialkylboranes proceeds in 1: 1 stoi-chiometry; the products of the reaction are alkali metal trialkylborohydrides characterizedby hydride analysis, IR, and nB NMR. The present reaction serves as a convenient means for studying the steric requirements of various trialkylboranes. In addition, it also provides a simple route to a number of lithium and sodium trialkylborohydrides.