硝基烯烃是一种常见且用途广泛的试剂。它从烯烃合成通常受到顺式和反式化合物混合物的形成的限制。在这里,我们报告亚硝酸银 (AgNO2) 与 TEMPO 一起可以促进范围广泛的烯烃的区域和立体选择性硝化。这项工作公开了一种新的有效方法,其中从烯烃开始,硝基烷烃自由基形成和随后的转化以立体选择性方式导致所需的硝基烯烃。
Addition of silver nitrite to 2-bromoalkyl phenyl selenide in the presence of mercury(II) chloride afforded 2-nitroalkyl phenyl selenide, which upon oxidative deselenenylation provided the conjugatednitroalkene in excellent yield.
Treatment of alkenes with benzeneselenenyl bromide followed by addition of silver nitrite provided a mixture of 2-nitroalkyl and 2-hydroxyalkyl phenyl selenides. Oxidation of the former selenides with hydrogen peroxide gave nitroalkenes in 90–93% yields.
Ferric nitrate with catalytic TEMPO has been identified as a useful reagent for regio- and stereoselective nitration of a wide variety of aromatic, aliphatic, and heteroaromatic olefins. This reaction provided nitroolefins in preparatively useful yields with excellent E-selectivity. Due to its mild nature and operational simplicity, the present protocol is expected to find application in synthetic setup.