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[*] posted on 2-4-2018 at 10:15
enolonium species


Hey does anyone know how to make a enolonium species from a ketone without using a hypervalent iodine reagents. Can someone please help
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[*] posted on 2-4-2018 at 13:58


Enolium? Enolate yes, but enolium? I've never heard of anything remotely similar. Is it a protonated enol? But due to their electron densities enols are bound to protonate at carbon, not at oxygen. At which point it is simply a protonated carbonyl group.

Or do you mean alpha carbonyl cations? Such compounds are intermediates in Friedel-Crafts alkylation with alpha halo carbonyl compounds but I still wouldn't refer to them as enolium because that resonance form would place the positive charge at the most electronegative atom (the horror, the horror! ).

Perhaps one can arrive at an enolium compound through reaction of a ketene with a (Lewis) acid. Although I imagine the already reactive ketene will only be more susceptible towards polymerization under such conditions.

Can you give a reference to the paper mentioning their formation with hyper valent iodine compounds? Or perhaps include astructural drawing for clarification?

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[*] posted on 2-4-2018 at 14:21


Enolonium species/iodo(III)enolates of carbonyl compounds have been suggested to be intermediates in a wide variety of hypervalent iodine induced chemical transformations of ketones, including α‐C−O, α‐C−N, α‐C−C, and α‐carbon–halide bond formation, but they have never been characterized. We report that these elusive umpoled enolates may be made as discrete species that are stable for several minutes at −78 °C, and report the first spectroscopic identification of such species. It is shown that enolonium species are direct intermediates in C−O, C−N, C−Cl, and C−C bond forming reactions. Our results open up chemical space for designing a variety of new transformations. We showcase the ability of enolonium species to react with prenyl, crotyl, cinnamyl, and allyl silanes with absolute regioselectivity in up to 92 % yield.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/anie.2016102...

I think it might be a alpha carbonyl cation but I'm not sure but it said its a umpoled enolate so it makes it a electrophile besides a nucleophile
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[*] posted on 2-4-2018 at 16:34


The question does not even make sense. An enolonium is a hypervalent iodine compound, therefore it clearly cannot be made without iodine. Specifically, an enolonium is an enolate ester where the enol oxygen is bonded to an iodine (III) center. The name derives because the "onium" in this case is the iodonium center.

Attached is a diagram of an enolonium reaction mechanism, for anyone who, like me, who was wondering what the fuck an enolonium is supposed to be.

enolonium_diagram.jpg - 25kB




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