Issue 0, 1974

Oxymetallation. Part VI. Halogenodemercuration of peroxymercurials derived from αβ-unsaturated esters and ketones

Abstract

Conditions are described for the halogenolysis of the β- and α-carbonyl-β-mercurio-peroxides RCH(OOBut)·-CH(HgX)·COR′ and XHgCH2·CMe(OOBut)·COR′, formed by peroxymercuration of αβ-unsaturated esters and ketones, to afford the previously unknown β- and α-carbonyl-β-halogeno-peroxides, respectively; eleven compounds have been characterised by elemental analysis and 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy.

The peroxymercuration of methyl cis- and trans-cinnamate is shown to be stereospecific whereas both cis- and trans-chalcone give a mixture of diastereoisomers of the compound PhCH(OOBut)·CH(HgOAc)·COPh in the same proportions (1 : 4). In methanol, halogenodemercuration of the methyl cinnamate peroxymercurial, and probably also of the chalcone derivative, involves extensive racemisation, suggesting a radical or an SE1 mechanism as the major pathway.

A correlation is suggested between Jαβ(and hence configuration) and the chemical shifts of t-butyl or methyl groups in the diastereoisomers of compounds of the type RCHβ(OOBut)·CHαZ·COR′ or RCHβ(OMe)·CHαZ·COR′. On the basis of this it is tentatively concluded that the greater stereoselectivity found for bromodemercuration of the compound PhCH(OOBut)·CH(HgBr)·CO2Me in dichloromethane as opposed to methanol is unexpectedly due to predominant inversion of configuration.

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J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1974, 688-695

Oxymetallation. Part VI. Halogenodemercuration of peroxymercurials derived from αβ-unsaturated esters and ketones

A. J. Bloodworth and I. M. Griffin, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1974, 688 DOI: 10.1039/P19740000688

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