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Bornyl chloride as alkylating agent?
Would bornyl chloride (below) be suitable as an alkylating reagent in Grignard reaction on acetone?
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No, you would have to prepare the organomagnesium compound from bornyl chloride first to use it in a Grignard reaction with acetone. Such raction with
acetone would probably give 2-propanol as the main product (its reaction with aldehydes and ketones gives the reduced products, DOI:
10.1039/JR9310003340).* Under some conditions, the nucleophilic addition on acetone might be preferential over the reduction pathway and in such case
the product would be 2-bornyl-2-propanol. Search the literature for such conditions, if they were ever discovered. If not, discover them yourself.
| Quote: | | Synthesis of the bornyl and fenchyl Grignard reagent. A solution of isobornyl chloride or ß-fenchyl chloride (17.2 g, 100 mmol) in THF (180
mL) was slowly added to a suspension of activated Mg turnings (2.7g,110mmol) in THF (20mL). After the addition was completed, the mixture was heated
under reflux for 12 h. Prior to use, the clear solution was separated from the excess of Mg via cannula. The yield determined by titration was about
80%. |
From DOI: 10.1039/B819178F
* The mechanism of the reduction is discussed in the book Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 7, page 62 (preview available at
googlebooks). It appears that at least the reaction benzaldehyde gives a little of the addition product according to this report.
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Quote: Originally posted by Nicodem  |
No, you would have to prepare the organomagnesium compound from bornyl chloride first to use it in a Grignard reaction with acetone. Such raction with
acetone would probably give 2-propanol as the main product (its reaction with aldehydes and ketones gives the reduced products, DOI:
10.1039/JR9310003340).* Under some conditions, the nucleophilic addition on acetone might be preferential over the reduction pathway and in such case
the product would be 2-bornyl-2-propanol. Search the literature for such conditions, if they were ever discovered. If not, discover them yourself.
| Quote: | | Synthesis of the bornyl and fenchyl Grignard reagent. A solution of isobornyl chloride or ß-fenchyl chloride (17.2 g, 100 mmol) in THF (180
mL) was slowly added to a suspension of activated Mg turnings (2.7g,110mmol) in THF (20mL). After the addition was completed, the mixture was heated
under reflux for 12 h. Prior to use, the clear solution was separated from the excess of Mg via cannula. The yield determined by titration was about
80%. |
From DOI: 10.1039/B819178F
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Now I'm confused, possibly because what you write is what I meant.
bornyl chloride (R-Cl) + Mg (in suitable solvent):
R-Cl + Mg === >R-Mg-Cl
R-Mg-Cl solution + acetone and after hydrolysis === > 2-bornyl propan-2-ol, a t-alcohol.
Is that what you meant too?
It would have been more accurate to ask:
1. Does bornyl chloride form an organomagnesium compound (in suitable conditions)?
2. Can this organomagnesium compound be added to acetone?
[Edited on 16-12-2015 by blogfast25]
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The organomagnesium compound will form, but rather than adding to the ketone, it might instead reduce it to the alcohol. That is pretty interesting to
me. Probably has something to do with all that steric hindrance. I'll have to investigate this farther.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Crowfjord | | The organomagnesium compound will form, but rather than adding to the ketone, it might instead reduce it to the alcohol. That is pretty interesting to
me. Probably has something to do with all that steric hindrance. I'll have to investigate this farther. |
So this reduction to the secondary alcohol wouldn't be limited to acetone either? I must admit not to know much about that type of nucleophilic
addition v. reduction...
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The reference given by Nicodem only mentions fairly hindered substrates like iso-valeraldehyde and citral. In these cases, it seems that electrons
are capable of being transferred, but the squeeze is too tight for C-C bond formation. Perhaps something smaller would give the addition product
instead. Whether acetone fits the criteria remains to be seen, through experimentation or maybe more scrutiny of the literature.
According to this old-timey thesis, carbon dioxide and ethyl formate give the addition products. Maybe this hints that acetone, will also?
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I doidn't see this as a potential Grignard. I thought the bulk of the molecule would limit the formation of the ether complex to negligible..However I
might be wrong: http://bit.ly/1NyHQf4
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You ARE wrong... Because you didn't read Nicodem's post. Neither did blogfast25. He has answered all questions and all subsequent questions.
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| Quote: Originally posted by chemrox | I doidn't see this as a potential Grignard. I thought the bulk of the molecule would limit the formation of the ether complex to negligible..However I
might be wrong: http://bit.ly/1NyHQf4
[Edited on 17-12-2015 by chemrox] |
Steric hindrance would reduce reaction rate, as evidenced by the 12 h period needed to form the fenchyl and bornyl organomagnesium compounds.
It would have a similar effect on the actual addition but not necessarily completely impede it. In one of Nicodem's links the bornyl Grignard reagent
is added to benzaldehyde, although yield isn't high.
It kind of begs the question: 'would a chloro cyclohexane Grignard addition to acetone work and how long would that all take?'
[Edited on 17-12-2015 by blogfast25]
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the preference of reducing the substrate instead of adding to it is quite common in sterically hindered grignard reagents(see adamantane reactions).
The solution is to use Li instead of Mg to form an organolithium compound,which can then be added to the carbonyl group.
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| Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS | the preference of reducing the substrate instead of adding to it is quite common in sterically hindered grignard reagents(see adamantane reactions).
The solution is to use Li instead of Mg to form an organolithium compound,which can then be added to the carbonyl group. |
Is that mainly due to higher polarisation of the Li-C bond compared to the Mg-C bond or are there other factors?
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You would probably have to add an aromatic solvent after the grignard reagent has formed, it looks like it might be not very soluble in Et2O.
Mostly benzene is used then if such compounds are less soluble, for further reaction with the carbonyl or other compounds, however other BTEX aromates
are also employable.
The reaction works much better with the carbonyl compound then, but I don´t know more about this special substance you are after, it´s all
generalised for bulky grignard reagents.
I have prepared bromomagnesiumnaphthalene and reacted it with dimethylcarbonate, and for best results the grignard(which tend to precipitate) hat to
be solvated in another solvent, toluene for me, to react properly.
Nonetheless Et2O or other symmetric ethers are favored for the preparation of the grignard reagent, but blogfast25 does surely know this so I am
writing this last sentence only for other people interested in this topic  .
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Polarization might have something to do with it, but I think that in this case it is mainly just the fact that Li is much smaller than Mg, as well as
monovalent.
I found two references with Scifinder that make the 2-bornyl-propan-2-ol (dimethylbornylcarbinol), both use bornyl lithium. From Ann. chim.
(Paris)(1954), Volume9, pp 51-96:
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VI (0.1 mol) in 322 cc. petr. ether treated dropwise with 0.1 mol Me2CO in 30 cc. petr. ether, and the mixt. hydrolyzed after 0.5 h. and distd. gave 4
g. dimethylbornylcarbinol, b15 112-16°, nD18 1.4885, d18 0.9585, MRD 59.06, [α]578 -13.4°, [α]546 -16.6° (c 5%, EtOH).
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VI here is bornyl lithium.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Crowfjord |
Polarization might have something to do with it, but I think that in this case it is mainly just the fact that Li is much smaller than Mg, as well as
monovalent.. |
both of you are correct,see this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organolithium_reagent#Addition...
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Thanks all.
I had considered metal atom size too but stupidly (and temporarily) thought Li and Md are same period. Doh!
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