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Heavier Carbonyl Olefination: The Sila-Wittig Reaction
Reiter, Dominik,Frisch, Philipp,Szilvási, Tibor,Inoue, Shigeyoshi
, p. 16991 - 16996 (2019/10/16)
The Wittig reaction is one of the most versatile tools in the repertoire of organic chemists. Thus, a broad variety of carbonyl compounds can be converted to tailor-made alkenes with phosphorus ylides under mild conditions. However, no comparable reaction has been reported for silanones, the silicon congeners of ketones. Here, we demonstrate for the first time the successful application of the Wittig olefination to iminosilylsilanone 1. The selective formation of a series of silenes (R2Sia? CR2) via the sila-Wittig reaction revealed an unprecedented approach to otherwise elusive compounds. In addition, the highly reactive and zwitterionic nature of 1 was also susceptible to nucleophilic attacks and cycloaddition reactions by and with the phosphorus ylides. Our results therefore make another important contribution to discovering the differences and similarities between carbon and silicon.
New reactions and reactive intermediates in the pyrolysis of cyclic phosphonium ylides
Aitken, R. Alan,Bj?rnstad, Vidar,Massil, Tracy,Skramstad, Jan,Young, Robert J.
, p. 293 - 301 (2017/10/27)
Pyrolysis, either neat or in diphenyl ether solution, results in the conversion of both 4-triphenylphosphoranylidenetetrahydrofuran-2,3,5-trione and 4-triphenylphosphoranylidenetetrahydrothio-phene-2,3,5-trione into 3,5-bis(triphenylphosphoranylidene)cyclopentane-1,2,4-trione. These reactions involve extrusion of CO2 or COS to give 3-triphenylphosphoranylidenecyclopropane-1,2-dione which further loses CO to give triphenylphosphoranylideneketene. The precise way in which these two reactive phosphorus compounds combine to give the observed product has been examined by chemical and isotopic labelling studies. Cyclotrimerization of triphenylphosphoranylideneketene upon thermolysis in diphenyl ether has also been observed for the first time. The erroneous literature interpretation of the 13C NMR spectrum for triphenylphosphoranylideneketene is corrected.
Ravynic acid, an antibiotic polyeneyne tetramic acid from: Penicillium sp. elucidated through synthesis
Myrtle,Beekman,Barrow
, p. 8253 - 8260 (2016/09/09)
A new antibiotic natural product, ravynic acid, has been isolated from a Penicillium sp. of fungus, collected from Ravensbourne National Park. The 3-acylpolyenyne tetramic acid structure was definitively elucidated via synthesis. Highlights of the synthetic method include the heat induced formation of the 3-acylphosphorane tetramic acid and a selective Wittig cross-coupling to efficiently prepare the natural compounds carbon skeleton. The natural compound was shown to inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus down to concentrations of 2.5 g mL-1.
