MECHANISM OF THE WITTIG REACTION - THE ROLE OF SUBSTITUENTS AT PHOSPHORUS
MECHANISM OF THE WITTIG REACTION - THE ROLE OF SUBSTITUENTS AT PHOSPHORUS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00220a037
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发表时间:
1988-06-08
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
MARTH, CF
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作者:
VEDEJS, E;MARTH, CF
The variation in Wittig reaction stereochemistry is attributed to dominant kinetic control in nearly all cases. Formation of cis or trans oxaphosphetanes is the decisive step, and this occurs by an asynchronous cycloaddition. An interplay of 1, 2 and 1, 3 steric interactions decides which diastereomeric oxaphosphetane will be favored. For Ph3P= CHCH3, the best transition state is the puckered four-center arrangement 2a having a pseudoequatorial aldehyde alkyl group R'and pseudoaxia! a-methyl. This geometry results from the unusual steric consequences associated with having an sp1 23 4-hybridized atom (phosphorus) as one of the reacting centers in a cycloaddition process and is increasingly favored when R'is bulky. A trend toward the trans diastereomer 5 occurs if the nearest phosphorus ligand can orient a compact face toward the aldehyde, or if the aldehyde R'group has at least one-hydrogen. These conditions are satisfied in the exceptionally trans selective ylide 10, even for tertiary aldehydes, as a result of bond angle preferences and geometric constraints due to the 5-membered ring. In contrast, 7 is constrained to react via the cis-selective puckered geometry and affords exclusively the Z alkene. Nonstabilized or “moderated” ylide reactions involve early transition states having phosphorus in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. Stabilized ylidesreact via a productlike geometry, and kinetic trans selectivity is easily understood on the basis of oxaphosphetane-like steric interactions.