By Oleg I. Kolodiazhnyi

While Wittig first built and defined phosphorus ylides, not anyone can have imagined how priceless and flexible this category of compounds should be. This publication presents a accomplished and up to date compilation of the chemistry and purposes of phosphorus ylides in natural synthesis. The ylides are mentioned as reagents within the synthesis of a vast variety of gear, among them olefins, acetylenes, cyclic and heterocyclic compounds, in such certainly taking place compounds as pheromones, steroids and carotenoids, and pharmaceutically and biologically lively compounds comparable to antibiotics and prostaglandins. a very valuable function of this booklet is the one hundred fifty key experimental approaches with the entire important information, permitting the training to begin instantly with no the necessity for a really time-consuming literature seek. yet should still a seek end up inevitable, round 2,500 references offer easy accessibility to the first literature. each chemist in academia and operating in natural, bioorganic, inorganic, and medicinal chemistry will welcome this booklet as an suggestion of techniques, rules and functional syntheses.

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0 g (82%). All operations must be performed under argon. 5 g, 20 mmol) was dissolved in toluene-THF (2:1, 300 mL). 79 g, 20 mmol) was added and the mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 15 h. Argon was passed through solution for 10 min. The precipitated sodium was stripped in vacuo to give the ylide as a light red solid. 8 g (85%), mp 102°C. convenient ~~ dehalogenating reagent. They found that sodium hydride reacts readily with dimethyl sulfoxide to form sodium methylsulfinylmethanide which dehydrohalogenates phosphonium, sulfonium, sulfoxonium, and arsonium salts under mild conditions.

39) R R=H, Me, OMe; R’=Me, CH=CHCOZMe This scheme of acylation requires twofold excess of the starting ylide; usually a cheap and accessible compound. Nevertheless because of transylidation, Merent methodologies have been proposed to avoid the loss of one equivalent of starting ylide. Thus employment of bases stronger than the starting ylide enables the acylation to be performed with an equimolecular ratio of starting reagents. Use of biphasic systems results in the ready acylation not only of stabilized ylides, but also of semi-stabilized ylides.

The sodium hydride is recommended as a base if dimethylformamide is used as solvent. The deprotonating activity increases substantially in the sequence: ether < THF < DME. The reaction of methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide with the sodium hydride in THF leads to the formation of the triphenylphosphonium methylide of high purity (Eq. 11 ) Preparation of triphenylphosphonium methylide (Eq. 67 g) in tetrahydrofuran (200 mL). The reaction mixture was stirred for 24 h at room temperature, the precipitate of NaBr was removed by filtration, and the solvent was removed under vacuum.

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