Dehomologation of Aldehydes via Oxidative Cleavage of Silyl Enol Ethers with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Cetylpyridinium Peroxotungstophosphate under Two-Phase Conditions
作者:Satoshi Sakaguchi、Yumiko Yamamoto、Takuma Sugimoto、Hiroyo Yamamoto、Yasutaka Ishii
DOI:10.1021/jo990477x
日期:1999.8.1
Dehomologation of aldehydes has been first successfully achieved via oxidative cleavage of silyl enol ethers, derived from aldehydes and trimethylchlorosilane, using aqueous hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalytic amount of peroxotungstophophate (PCWP) under phase-transfer conditions. For instance, the oxidation of 1-[(trimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-octene resulting from octanal and Me3SiCl with 35% H2O2 catalyzed by PCWP in dichloromethane at room temperature afforded the one-carbon shorter aldehyde, heptanal, in 79% yield. A variety of silyl enol ethers were also converted into one-carbon shorter aldehydes in good yields. The oxidation under homogeneous conditions using tert-butyl alcohol gave hydrolysis products such as 2-oxooctanol and octanal. It is of interest that [1-(trimethylsilyl)oxy]-1,10-undecadiene involving an enol moiety and a terminal double bond afforded exclusively 9-decenal, in which the enol moiety was selectively oxidized. A plausible reaction path for the oxidative cleavage of silyl enol ethers by the present system has been suggested from the oxidation results of alpha-[(trimethylsilyl)oxy]styrene.