Synthesis 2001(10): 1573-1578
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-16095
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A One-Pot Conversion of Carboxylic Acids into Homoallylic Alcohols

Cyril Ollivier, Philippe Panchaud, Philippe Renaud*
Université de Fribourg, Institut de Chimie Organique, Pérolles, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
e-Mail: philippe.renaud@ioc.unibe.ch;
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Received 1 March 2001
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23. September 2004 (online)

Abstract

A one-pot procedure for the conversion of carboxylic acids into homoallylic alcohols under remarkably mild and selective conditions is described. The triethylammonium salts of alkanoic acids are treated with Bu3P/PhSeCl to afford the corresponding acyl selenides that are reduced to aldehydes by tributyltin hydride under radical conditions. Direct in situ trapping of the aldehydes by allylboronates affords the desired homoallylic alcohols. Preparation of optically active alcohols by use of a tartrate-modified allylboronate is possible and the enantioselectivities are similar to the ones obtained when isolated aldehydes are employed.

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New address: Department für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland. E-mail: philippe.renaud@ioc.unibe.ch.

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Roush (ref. [9f] ) has reported that allylation reactions are usually higher yielding in toluene than in THF.