Electrolytic oxidation of ketones in a methanolic solution of sodium cyanide in the presence of catalytic amounts of potassium iodide
摘要:
The indirect electrolytic oxidation of ketones (1) in methanolic sodium cyanide was studied using iodide ion as a mediator. The product and the reactivity of ketone were dependent on the nature of the alkyl groups attached to the carbonyl group. Thus, 2-alkyl and 2,2-dialkyl ketones afforded the corresponding oxiranecarbonitriles 2 along with small amounts of methyl oxiranecarboximidate 3, whereas acetophenones exclusively yielded benzoylpropanedinitriles 4.
Photochemical Wittig reaction of quasi-phosphonium ylides
作者:Hideo Tomioka、Naoki Ichikawa、Hideki Murata
DOI:10.1039/c39920000193
日期:——
α-(Methoxycarbonyl)benzylidene quasi-phosphonium ylides, which are unreactive toward most carbonyl compounds, are found to undergo the Wittig reaction upon irradiation; irradiation with acyclic carbonyl compounds, e.g. benzaldehydes and acetophenones, afford the corresponding alkenes, whereas the reaction with cyclohexanone affords 1-phenyl-1-(methoxycarbonyl)hepta-1, 2-diene.
The preparation of eighteen epoxy diazomethyl ketones 1 is described. Two general methods were developed. Firstly, treatment of the mixed anhydrides of glycidic acids and carbonic acid ester with diazomethane led to the title compounds in yields ranging from 17–74%. Secondly, glycidyl chlorides which were obtained from sodium glycidates and oxalyl chloride, gave the desired products upon treatment