Fatty acid esters have been synthesized in good yield by reaction between copper(I) ate complexes formed from methylcopper(I) and primary or secondary Grignard reagents and esters of primary iodoalkylcarboxylic acids. The synthetic method is i l lustrated with proced.ures for CHr:gH(CHz)rgCO2C2H5, CeHsCHzO(CH2)16COzCzHs, CH3(CH2)25CO2C2H5, CH3O2C(CH)I2CO2CHI, CzHsOzC(CHz)szCO2C2H5, and CHg(CH2)...

It is no longer necessary to use dialkylzinc reagents to obtain enantioselectivities >95% in the copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of organometallic compounds to cyclic enones. We now report how this can be accomplished by using inexpensive and readily available Grignard reagents. Screening of bidentate ligands provided outstanding results with copper complexes of commercially avai...

The addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes in the presence of chiral aminoalcohols shows a moderate enantioselectivity. The study carried out with a series of ligands allows the correlation between the structural characteristics and their reactivity. Introduction The use of chiral aminoalcohol to lead asymmetrically nucleophilic additions of organometallics to carbonyl compounds is a field ...

___________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Although iron was known and widely used by people for hundreds of years, Grignard reagents also used for about a century, binding together these two concepts still took a long time and surprisingly it did not become a hot topic in chemistry until this decade. This paper is presenting several dev...

A ligand-controlled regioselectivity switch of ring-opening coupling reaction of diarylmethylenecyclopropa[b]naphthalenes with Grignard reagents providing differently substituted β-vinylic naphthalenes in moderate to excellent yields was reported: when Pd(OAc)2 was used, the aromatic group from the Grignard reagent regioselectively coupled to the naphthyl ring after the ring-opening of three-me...

A. Introduction B. Acid-Catalysed Esterification and Transesterification 1. General mechanism 2. Methanolic hydrogen chloride 3. Methanolic sulfuric acid 4. Boron trifluoride-methanol 5. Other acidic catalysts C. Base-Catalysed Transesterification 1. General mechanism 2. Sodium and potassium methoxide catalysts 3. Organic base catalysis D. Diazomethane and Related Reagents 1. Diazomethane and m...