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KEY CONCEPT<br />

Organic<br />

Chemistry<br />

Fundamentals<br />

Reduction of Aldehydes and Ketones by Hydride<br />

Transfer :<br />

R δ+ δ–<br />

H3B – H + C = O<br />

R´<br />

R<br />

R<br />

– H – OH<br />

H – C – O H – C – O – H<br />

Hydride transfer Alkoxide ion Alcohol<br />

R<br />

R´<br />

These steps are repeated until all hydrogen atoms<br />

attached to boron have been transferred.<br />

Sodium borohydride is a less powerful reducing<br />

agent than lithium aluminum hydride. Lithium<br />

aluminum hydride reduces acids, aldehydes, and<br />

ketones but sodium borohydride reduces only<br />

aldehydes and ketones :<br />

O<br />

Reduced by LiAlH4<br />

O<br />

C < C < C <<br />

O– R OR´ R R´ R<br />

O<br />

Ease of reduction<br />

R´<br />

Reduced by NaBH4<br />

O<br />

C H<br />

Lithium aluminum hydride reacts violently with<br />

water, and therefore reductions with lithium<br />

aluminum hydride must be carried out in anhydrous<br />

solutions, usually in anhydrous ether. (Ethyl acetate<br />

is added cautiously after the reaction is over to<br />

decompose excess LiAlH4; then water is added to<br />

decompose the aluminum complex.) Sodium<br />

borohydride reductions, by contrast, can be carried<br />

out in water or alcohol solutions.<br />

The Addition of Ylides : The Wittig reaction :<br />

Aldehydes and ketones react with phosphorus ylides<br />

to yield alkenes and triphenylphosphine oxide. (An<br />

ylide is a neutral molecule having a negative carbon<br />

adjacent to a positive heteroatom.) Phosphorus ylides<br />

are also called phosphoranes :<br />

CARBONYL COMPOUND<br />

+ .. R´´<br />

C = O + (C6H5)3P – C<br />

R´´´<br />

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R<br />

R<br />

Aldehyde or<br />

ketone<br />

Phosphorus ylide<br />

or phosphorane<br />

R<br />

R´<br />

C = C R´´<br />

+ O =P(C6H5)3<br />

R´´´<br />

Alkene<br />

[(E) and(Z) isomers]<br />

Triphenyl phosphine<br />

oxide<br />

This reaction, known as the Wittig reaction, has<br />

proved to be a valuable method for synthesizing<br />

alkenes. The Wittig reaction is applicable to a wide<br />

variety of compounds, and although a mixture of (E)<br />

and (Z) isomers may result, the Wittig reaction offers<br />

a great advantage over most other alkene syntheses in<br />

that no ambiguity exists as to the location of the<br />

double bond in the product. (This is in contrast to E1<br />

eliminations, which may yield multiple alkene<br />

products by rearrangement to more stable carbocation<br />

intermediates, and both E1 and E2 elimination<br />

reactions, which may produce multiple products<br />

when different β hydrogens are available for<br />

removal.)<br />

Phosphorus ylides are easily prepared from<br />

triphenylphosphine and primary or secondary alkyl<br />

halides. Their preparation involves two reactions :<br />

General Reaction<br />

Reaction 1<br />

(C6H5)3P : + CH – X → (C6H5)3P – CH X –<br />

R´´<br />

R´´<br />

+<br />

R´´´<br />

R´´´<br />

Triphenylphosphine An alkyltriphenylphosphonium<br />

halide<br />

Reaction 2<br />

(C6H5)3P – C – H : B – ⎯→ (C6H5)3P – C : – R´´<br />

R´´<br />

+<br />

+<br />

+ H:B<br />

R´´´<br />

R´´´<br />

A phosphorus ylide<br />

Specific Example<br />

Reaction 1<br />

(C6H5)3P : + CH3Br ⎯→ (C6H5)3P – CH3Br –<br />

C6H6<br />

+<br />

Reaction 2<br />

Methyltriphenylphosphonium<br />

bromide (89%)

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