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TETRAHEDRON
Volume 62, Issue 38, Pages 8988-9001Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.07.013
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The electrophilic alpha-alkylation of ketones with alcohols is accomplished by a hydrogen autotransfer process catalyzed by RUCl2(DMSO)(4). The reaction can produce either simple alkylated ketones or alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones just by choosing the appropriate starting ketones (methyl ketones or bicyclic methylenic ketones, respectively), as well as quinolines (by using 2-aminobenzyl alcohol derivatives) or the corresponding alcohol derivatives by the addition of an extra equivalent of the initial alcohol. In the last case, after the above alkylation process reduction of the carbonyl compound takes place. A mechanistic study seems to indicate that the process goes through the oxidation of the alcohols with ruthenium (after a previous deprotonation) to yield the corresponding aldehyde and a ruthenium hydride intermediate. In turn, the aldehyde suffers a classical aldol reaction with the starting ketone to form the corresponding alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone, which finally is reduced through a Michael-type addition by the aforementioned ruthenium hydride intermediate. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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