Synthesis 2024; 56(21): 3307-3313
DOI: 10.1055/a-2326-6416
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Special Issue PSRC-10 (10th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry)

Sodium-Mediated Reductive anti-Dimagnesiation of Diarylacetyl­enes with Magnesium Bromide

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This work was supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST, Grant Number JPMJCR19R4) as well as Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19H00895 and JP24H02208 to H.Y.


This paper is dedicated to Professor Dr. Thorsten Bach on his 60th birthday.

Abstract

Diarylacetylenes undergo anti-dimagnesiation using magnesium bromide and sodium dispersion to afford (E)-1,2-dimagnesioalkenes. This dimagnesiation utilizes simple magnesium bromide as a reduction-resistant electrophile, contrasting with the previously reported dimagnesiation using tricky organomagnesium halides. The resulting vicinal double Grignard reagents react with various electrophiles to yield multisubstituted alkenes stereoselectively.

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Publication History

Received: 28 April 2024

Accepted after revision: 14 May 2024

Accepted Manuscript online:
14 May 2024

Article published online:
28 May 2024

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