Dimethyl sulfoxide-hydrobromic acid as a novel reagent for convenient oxidation on a preparative scale of stilbenes and some derivatives of diphenylethane to benzils
摘要:
We have found that the systems HBr-H2O2-DMSO and HBr-DMSO are mild and selective reagents for the high-yield oxidation of the C = C bond in stilbenes to benzils. These reagents also successfully oxidate 1,2-diphenyl-1,2-dibromoethane and a number of its derivatives to benzils. We have evaluated the preparative potentialities of the novel reagents.
We investigated the reductive elimination of several functionalized and non-functionalized vic-dibromides with 1,2-diphenyl-, 1, 1,2,2-tetraphenyl- and l-phenyl-2-(2-pyridyl)-1,2-disodioethane. The reaction, involving some of the less expensive organic and inorganic reagents, proceeds under mild conditions, and is tolerant of a variety of functional groups. Extension of this procedure to similar 1,2-disubstituted compounds was also investigated. Reductive eliminations run on stereochernical probe compounds strongly suggest that this reaction proceeds via a "single electron" reductive elimination reaction pathway. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Reducing properties of 1,2-diaryl-1,2-disodiumethanes
1,2-Diphenyl- and 1-phenyl-2-(2-pyridyl)-1,2-disodiumethane efficiently dehalogenate vic-dibromoderivatives, affording the corresponding alkenes. The reaction proceeds rapidly, under mild conditions and is tolerant of a variety of functional groups (alcohol, carboxylic acid, ester and amide). This procedure was successfully extended to similar vic-disubstituted compounds. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Balou, Daniel; Dubois, Jaques-Emile, Journal of Chemical Research, Miniprint, 1980, # 10, p. 4449 - 4473