Palladium-Catalyzed SN1 Reactions of Secondary Benzylic Alcohols: Etherification, Amination, and Thioetherification
作者:Kimberly J. Miller、Mahdi M. Abu-Omar
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.200390185
日期:2003.3
The reaction of various secondarybenzylicalcohols in the presence of PdII catalysts provides ethers in good to high yields. Unsymmetric ethers could also be obtained with good selectivity by coupling two different alcohols. Direct amination is observed with electron-deficient anilines, and thioethers are prepared conveniently in high yields by the direct action of thiols on sec-phenylethyl alcohol
BiBr 3 -Catalyzed benzylation of alcohols. Stereochemistry and mechanistic investigations
作者:El Mehdi Keramane、Bernard Boyer、Jean-Pierre Roque
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(01)00014-x
日期:2001.3
We have investigated the benzylation of optically active aliphatic alcohols (octan-2-ol and butan-2-ol) as well as cis and trans 2-methylcyclohexanol or (S)-(-)-menthol, catalyzed by bismuth (III) bromide in the presence of(-) or (+/-)-1-phenylethanol (PeOH). Under mild conditions, aliphatic alcohols provided an equimolar mixture of diastereomeric ethers while alicyclic alcohols gave rise to ethers with retention of configuration. To explain these results, we assumed that BiBr3, acting as Lewis acid, would lead to the formation of a 6-fold coordinated bismuth intermediate involving two molecules of 1-phenylethanol and one molecule of aliphatic alcohol. We have proposed a mechanism to explain these BiBr3-promoted etherification reactions. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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