Alkoxybromination of Olefins Using Ammonium Bromide and Oxone
摘要:
A mild, efficient, and highly regio- and stereoselective method for the methoxy and ethoxy bromination of olefins has been developed using NH4Br as a bromine source and Oxone as an oxidant. Various kinds of olefins (aromatic, linear, and cyclic olefins) afforded the corresponding alkoxy brominated products in moderate to excellent yields. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications (R) for the following free supplemental resources: Full experimental and spectral details.]
Surface polarity of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) aqueous micelles was checked by use of as a probe the bromination reaction of a series of 1-alkenes and a water-soluble alkene, cis-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboxylic acid dimethyl ester (I). There was strong inhibition (10(5)-10(6)-fold) of the second-order reaction rate constants relative to those in water; moreover, both kinetics and the product distributions suggested that alkenes had different locations at the micellar surface. Kinetics in the presence of added NaBr and n-decane supported this location hypothesis.