Date of Graduation
5-2013
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Advisor
Matthias C. McIntosh
Committee Member
Robert E. Gawley
Second Committee Member
Neil Allison
Third Committee Member
Bill Durham
Keywords
Pure sciences, Allylic diazene rearrangement, Diastereoselectivity, Tosyl hydrazones
Abstract
Former graduate student Wei Qi and Professor Matt McIntosh have reported diastereoselective reductive 1,3-transpositions of acyclic alpha, beta-unsaturated tosyl hydrazones to afford substrates with a 1,4-syn or 1,4-anti relationship between alkoxy and methyl groups that proceed via an ADR (Qi, W.; McIntosh, M. C. Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 357; Qi, W.; McIntosh, M. C. Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 7021). In these reports, silica gel was employed to accelerate the reduction. We have found that acetic acid gives the same results with high diastereoselectivity in the reaction. We further optimized the reaction by lowering the amount of catecholborane to 3 eq. Effects of hydrazone E/Z geometry and implication for reaction mechanism were also investigated.
Citation
Shrestha, M. L. (2013). Further Studies on the Allylic Diazene Rearrangement. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/706