Isopropylmagnesium chloride-promoted unilateral addition of Grignard reagents to β-diketones: one-pot syntheses of β-tertiary hydroxyl ketones or 3-substituted cyclic-2-enones
作者:Rui Yuan、Dan Zhao、Li-Yuan Zhang、Xiang Pan、Yan Yang、Pei Wang、Hong-Feng Li、Chao-Shan Da
DOI:10.1039/c5ob02072g
日期:——
unilateral additions of Grignardreagents to acyclic or cyclic β-diketones were effectively promoted by sub-stoichiometric amounts of i-PrMgCl to afford β-tertiary hydroxyl ketones or 3-substituted cyclic-2-enones, respectively. Also, the addition of Grignardreagents to acyclic β-diketones followed by a reaction with cyclic β-diketones in a one-pot process was put forward. The reaction mechanism was discussed
Several 3-alkylphenols including 3-undecylphenol, which was isolated from a Sumatran rainforest plant, were synthesized to investigate their antinematodal activity against the phytopathogenic nematodes, Bursapherencus xylophilus. A three-step synthesis involving the treatment of 2-cyclohexen-1-one with the Grignard reagent, oxidation of the resulting 1-alkyl-2-cyclohexen-1-ol and subsequent aromatization of 3-alkyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one successfully afforded such phenols. Among the 3-alkylphenols, 3-nonylphenol showed the highest activity, while 3-decylphenol and 3-undecylphenol also showed high activity.