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Carbocation Lewis acid TrBF4-catalyzed 1,2-hydride migration of α-alkyldiazoacetates themselves or in situ-generated cross-coupling adducts of aldehydes and α-alkyldiazoacetates has been developed, affording (Z)-α,β-unsaturated esters and α-branched β-ketocarbonyls, respectively, in good yields and with high regioselectivities.

The olefination of aldehydes constitutes a most valuable and widely adopted strategy for constructing carbon-carbon double bonds in organic chemistry. While various synthetic methods have been made available for this purpose, no biocatalysts are known to mediate this transformation. Reported herein is that engineered myoglobin variants can catalyze the olefination of aldehydes in the presence of α-diazoesters with high catalytic efficiency (up to 4,900 turnovers) and excellent Ediastereoselectivity (92-99.9 % de). This transformation could be applied to the olefination of a variety of substituted benzaldehydes and heteroaromatic aldehydes, also in combination with different alkyl α-diazoacetate reagents. This work provides a first example of biocatalytic aldehyde olefination and extends the spectrum of synthetically valuable chemical transformations accessible using metalloprotein-based catalysts.

Methods are provided for carrying out carbene transfer transformations such as olefin cyclopropanation reactions, carbene heteroatom-H insertion reactions (heteroatom = N, S, Si), sigmatropic rearrangement reactions, and aldehyde olefination reactions with high efficiency and selectivity by using a novel class of myoglobin-based biocatalysts. These methods are useful for the synthesis of a variety of organic compounds which contain one or more new carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom (N, S, or Si) bond. The methods can be applied for conducting these transformations in vitro (i.e., using the biocatalyst in isolated form) and in vivo (i.e., using the biocatalyst in a whole cell system).

Pd(0)-doped mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles (Pd/TiO2) have been synthesized using an EISA method. The catalytic activity of Pd/TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) is significantly enhanced under solar light irradiation for the Heck reaction. The Heck coupling product gives a considerable amount of Z-isomer, due to photochemical isomerization of the initially formed E-isomer, providing a facility for the time-dependent selectivity of E/Z-isomers under sunlight at ambient conditions. The Royal Society of Chemistry.

The palladium catalysed Mizoroki-Heck, Suzuki-Miyaura and Sonogashira reactions were successfully carried out under irradiation with sunlight. The Heck reaction gives considerable amount of Z product due to photochemical isomerization of initially formed E alkenes. Reaction of methyl 2-iodobenzoate with acrylamide under solar condition furnished 2H-2-benzazepine-1,3-dione rather than the expected derivative of cinnamate while the same reaction with ethyl 2-iodobenzoate gave the desired cinnamide.

The true course of the lithium salt-free Wittig reaction has long been a contentious issue in organic chemistry. Herein we report an experimental effect that is common to the Wittig reactions of all of the three major phosphonium ylide classes (non-stabilized, semi-stabilized, and stabilized): there is consistently increased selectivity for cis-oxaphosphetane and its derived products (Z-alkene and erythro-β-hydroxyphosphonium salt) in reactions involving aldehydes bearing heteroatom substituents in the β-position. The effect operates with both benzaldehydes and aliphatic aldehydes and is shown not to operate in the absence of the heteroatom substituent on the aldehyde. The discovery of an effect that is common to reactions of all ylide types strongly argues for the operation of a common mechanism in all Li salt-free Wittig reactions. In addition, the results are shown to be most easily explained by the [2+2] cycloaddition mechanism proposed by Vedejs and co-workers as supplemented by Aggarwal, Harvey, and co-workers, thus providing strong confirmatory evidence in support of that mechanism. Notably, a cooperative effect of ortho-substituents in the case of semi-stabilized ylides is confirmed and is accommodated by the cycloaddition mechanism. The effect is also shown to operate in reactions of triphenylphosphine-derived ylides and has previously been observed for reactions under aqueous conditions, thus for the first time providing evidence that kinetic control is in operation in both of these cases.

A mild method for the facile removal of phosphine oxide from the crude products of Wittig and Appel reactions is described. Work-up with oxalyl chloride to generate insoluble chlorophosphonium salt (CPS) yields phosphorus-free products for a wide variety of these reactions. The CPS product can be further converted into phosphine.

Nanocrystalline magnesium oxide was found to be an effective heterogeneous, solid base catalyst for the one-pot Wittig reaction to afford α,β-unsaturated esters and nitriles in excellent yields with high E-stereoselectivity in the presence of triphenylphosphine under mild conditions.

Based on a modification of the Doebner-Knoevenagel reaction, a practical and highly efficient synthesis of β,β-unsaturated esters with excellent regio- and stereoselectivity was developed. The reactions are catalyzed by 4-dimethylaminopyridine in DMF at room temperature or below. Both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes can readily be used in the process.

A simple one-pot process for the PCC oxidation of alcohols followed by in situ trapping of the aldehyde with a Wittig reagent is described.

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The reaction of α-stannyl ester enolates with carbonyl compounds is described. α,β-Unsaturated esters are obtained in good yields.A reaction mechanism is proposed.

Peterson-type reaction of (trimethylgermyl)acetates 1 with aldehydes and ketones 2 gave stereoselectively (E)-2-alkenoic acid esters (E)-4 after stirring at -78 deg C and warming to room temperature.High yields of the reaction intermediates threo- and erythro-3-hydroxy-2-(trimethylgermyl)alkanoic acid esters 3 were obtained when the reaction was quenched at -78 deg C.The paths for conversion of threo-3 and erythro-3 to (E)-4 are discussed.

The spectroscopic properties and photoisomerization reactions of several (E)- and (Z)-cinnamic esters, bis cinnamic esters, and model esters and lactones in the presence and absence of Lewis acids have been investigated.The use of Lewis acids such as BF3

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