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in a double bond, which side does a boron prefer to add to?

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least substituted

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name some alternative boron agents

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thexylborane, 9-BBN, disiamylborane, dicuclohexylborane, catechol borane, pineocamphylborane

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what is the benefit of catechol borane? How?

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doesn’t reduce an alkyne to an alkane - stops at alkene due to O lone pairs donating into empty p orbital on B

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what is a good activating solvent in an organoboron experiment?

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THF

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How would you go R-B to R-X-B?

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R migration

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in an R migration, how would the migrating and leaving group be orientated?

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antiperiplanar

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what nucleophile is used to go from R-B to B-OH?

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peroxide (O-OH)-

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what reagents used in a protonolysis?

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diglyme

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what charge does boron need to have to do a migration?

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negative

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how would you get evidence of mechanisms of reduction of alkynes/alkenes?

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D/H

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for alkenylborane reactions, does a halogenation or amination retain or inverse the configuration?

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halogenation = inversion
amination = retention
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how would a NCl3 react with an alkenylborane

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via radicals

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in a carbonylation of alkenylboranes, what reagent gives an aldehyde?

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i) LiAlH(OMe)3

ii) H2O2 in NaOH

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in a carbonylation of alkenylboranes, what reagent gives a ketone?

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i) H2O

ii) H2O2 in NaOH

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in a carbonylation of alkenylboranes, what reagent gives a tertiary alcohol?

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i) ethylene glycol

ii) H2O2 in NaOH

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in the cyanidation of alkylboranes, what type of compound do you get if you use 2 equiv OTf2?

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tertiary alcohol

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in the cyanidation of alkylboranes, what type of compound do you get if you use 1 equip OTf2 followed by H2O2 in base?

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ketone

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what would you use to aminate an alkenylborane?

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Cl-NH2 or HSO3O-NH2 (NH2 with good leaving group)

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what products would you get if you react BR3 with an a-halocarbonyl? And what intermediate?

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3 x a-R-carbonyl

intermediate = enolate

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If you have an alkyne (R—H), what reagents would you use to get a cis alkene product?

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i) R2BH

ii) I2 in NaOH

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If you have an alkyne (R—X), what reagents would you use to get a trans alkene product?

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i) R2BH
ii) NaOMe
iii) AcOH

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If you have an alkyne (R—H), what reagents would you use to substitute another R group?

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i) nBuLi
ii) R3B
iii) I2

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what happens when you react disiamylborane with alkynes?

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can combine 2 alkynes to forma dialkyne product (with the help of I2)

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how do you make a trans dialkene from a dialkyne

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i) 2x sia2BH

ii) RCO2H

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how would you retroborate? Do you get the same alkene out that you put in?
apply heat to remove a proton - alkene generated depends on which proton is removed in the retroboration.
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Which is unstable to rearrangement of allylboranes: B(OR)2 or BR2 (AKA which undergoes the rearrangement?)
BR2
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what structure does an allylborane reaction with carbonyls look like?
a chair conformation of a cyclohexane
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what is a thiirane?
an epoxide (ring) with an S in it
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what is a sulfide?
an ether with an S instead
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which bond is stronger OH or SH?
OH (orbital overlap)
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What type of addition does PhCH2SH do?
1,4 (as it is very nucleophilic)
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what reagents could you use to synthesise thiols?
Ph---X with S=C(NH2)2 + NaHCO3 // Na2S2O3 + H3O+ // KSCsOEt + LiAlH4 //Na2S2 (non Ph R group) + Na/liqNH3 + H3O+
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how would you synthesise aromatic thiols?
ClSO3H (chlorosulfonylation) + Zn, H3O+ // S8 with PhLi
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what bonds are changing in the oxidation of thiols?
2xSH to SS
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what reagents are used to break up a thioacetal ring?
Hg2+, HgCl2 in H2O
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How would you substitute H for R on a thioacetal?
i) nBuLi + ii) RX
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2 methods of sulphide synthesis?
di-Cl alkane treated with Na2S to substitute 1xCl then nucleophilic attack to remove the Cl. Attack of nucleophilic carbon atom at electrophilic sulfur
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What is an ylide?
a molecule with a permanent positive and negative charge.
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is a stabilised ylide hard or soft?
hard
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does sulfonium prefer axial or equatorial attack at a C=O on a cyclohexane ring?
axial
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When attacking a C=O-C=C, depending on if the ylide is soft or hard, an epoxide and a cyclopropane are formed. Which forms which?
unstabilised, soft, forms epoxide | stabilised, hard, forms cyclopropane
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what type of elimination does a sulfoxide do?
syn
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what reagents do you need to use for an elimination by a sulfoxide?
i) LDA ii) (PhS)2 iii) NaIO4 + Heat
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what can dimsyl sodium do?
a) form a 1-alkene on long chain alkane b) substitute with OH in COOH to form a ketone c) add to a ketone to form an alcohol
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what are the three sulfur compounds that are oxidised and reduced to each other - similar to alcohol to aldehyde to carboxylic acid?
sulfure --> sulfoxide --> sulfone | ---> oxidation
46
how does the stern oxidation work?
DMSO+(COCl)2 makes Cl-S-Me2 which is attacked by a terminal alcohol ----> oxidised to an aldehyde
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what are the different fates of alkoxysulfonium salts?
elimination, substitution at S, substitution at C, Pumerer reaction
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what does the Pummerer reaction do?
acylation of sulfoxide --> elimination to sulfonium ion --> acetation of sulfonium ion --> a-acyloxy-thioether
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What are some ways of synthesising sulphones?
oxidation of sulfides and sulfoxides // alkylation of sulfinate salts // rearrangement of sulfinate esters // friedel-crafts alkylation of sulfonyl halides // addition of sulfonyl halides to alkene or alkynes // cycloaddition reactions of SO2
50
What is Bredt's rule?
states that: a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system
51
What is the Ramberg-backlund reaction
effectively removes an SO2 from the middle of a chain to form an alkene. with KOHH, tBuOH in CCl4, H2O
52
Which isomer is produced during the Julia reaction? and what is it?
E (trans) | reductive elimination
53
What are some methods for losing sulfone group?
Ramberg-Backlund // sulfinic acid elimination // reductive desulfonation // reductive elimination
54
what reagents are used in the Eschenmosser fragmentation?
i) H2O2 in NaOH | ii) TsNHNH2
55
What does Tschugaev elimination do?
removes two trans alcohols on an 8-membered ring to twist the ring and form a double bond (using P(OR)3 and a sulfur thing basic: removes an OH to form an alkene using O-C=S bonds.
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What is the shapiro reaction?
removes a ketone to replace with a double bond next to it. [arylsulfonylhydrazones]
57
how would you synthesise a sulfonamide/sulfonate ester?
Sn2 substitution with a Cl for an NH2R/ROH
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In which of Si-O vs C-O, Si-F vs C-F and Si-H vs C-H does the silicon version have a weaker bond?
Si-H
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How does silicon stabilise the B-cation?
donates e density into empty p orbital on the cation
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How does Si stabilise an a-C-M bond?
overlap of the bond with a d orbital on silicon
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What is a Brook rearrangement?
inserts O from C-OH to C-O-Si
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How do you synthesise a silyl enol ether?
trapping of enolate ethers // conjugate addition/silylation // hydrosilation
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what is an exceptional use of silyl enol ether?
formation of a quarternary center on a cyclohexane
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What reagent is useful for reactions of silyl enol ether with strong electrophiles
TiCl4
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what is siloxybuta-1,3-diene used in?
diels alder
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How do you synthesise B-hydroxysilanes?
reaction of a-metallated silanes with carbonyl compounds (Li or Mg good) or ring-open with epoxysilanes
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what Si compound can act as a 'masked' carbonyl group?
vinyl silanes (Me3Si-=-R)
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Where does a compound substitute if its ipso?
on the same carbon in an aromatic ring
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What is hydrosilylation?
reduction of alkyne into an alkene using a Si compound
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What compound can be used to stop hydrosilylation reduction from going too far?
Pd-CaO3-PbO
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What intermediate does an electrophilic substitution reaction of a vinyl silane go through?
a stabilised B-carbocation
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In the Peterson Olefination (step 2) what reagent is used to produce an E alkene product?
NaH (causes a twist to coordinate the O to the Si which leaves)
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In the Peterson Olefination (step 2) what reagent is used to produce a Z alkene product?
AcOH (Si kicks off the app OH group)
74
What reagent could be used to turn an OH into an X
Ph3P, CCl4 // POCl3, DMF
75
What reagents would be used to form RCO2R (using a P reagent)
i) X2 + P(OEt)3 + pyridine ii) RCO2H iii) ROH
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reagents in the Mitsonobu reaction
DEAD and PH3P (takes PCO2H + alcohol --> ester)
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What ionic nitrogen intermediate compound can POCl3 make?
imine
78
What phosphorus reagent splits up an ozonide ring?
PR3
79
Julia Peterson reaction: what are the reagents used and what isomer is generated?
PPh3 is the nucleophile needs a base, an ylide is formed and reacted with a C=O, oxygen and phosphorus form an oxasphosphetane ring, either E/Z isomers are generated.
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In the Wittig reaction, using a stabilised ylide, which isomer is formed?
E only
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In the Wittig reaction, using an ustabilised ylide, which isomer is formed?
Z only
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What does the Wittig Reaction do?
complexes an ylide with a C=O to produce an alkene
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What does the HWE reaction do? Which isomer, why?
forms an E alkene from CHO - E alkene is faster for thermodynamic reasons
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What is the arbusov reaction?
Goes from (RO)3P + R-Cl to (RO)2RP=O

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