Volume 129, Issue 10 pp. 2643-2647
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Enolonium Species—Umpoled Enolates

Shlomy Arava

Shlomy Arava

Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel-University, 40700 Ariel, Israel

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Dr. Jayprakash N. Kumar

Dr. Jayprakash N. Kumar

Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel-University, 40700 Ariel, Israel

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Shimon Maksymenko

Shimon Maksymenko

Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel-University, 40700 Ariel, Israel

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Dr. Mark A. Iron

Dr. Mark A. Iron

Computational Chemistry Unit, Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel

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Dr. Keshaba N. Parida

Dr. Keshaba N. Parida

Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel-University, 40700 Ariel, Israel

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Dr. Peter Fristrup

Dr. Peter Fristrup

Institute of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, 2400-Kgs Lyngby, Denmark

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Dr. Alex M. Szpilman

Corresponding Author

Dr. Alex M. Szpilman

Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel-University, 40700 Ariel, Israel

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First published: 09 February 2017
Citations: 42

Abstract

Enolonium species/iodo(III)enolates of carbonyl compounds have been suggested to be intermediates in a wide variety of hypervalent iodine induced chemical transformations of ketones, including α-C−O, α-C−N, α-C−C, and α-carbon–halide bond formation, but they have never been characterized. We report that these elusive umpoled enolates may be made as discrete species that are stable for several minutes at −78 °C, and report the first spectroscopic identification of such species. It is shown that enolonium species are direct intermediates in C−O, C−N, C−Cl, and C−C bond forming reactions. Our results open up chemical space for designing a variety of new transformations. We showcase the ability of enolonium species to react with prenyl, crotyl, cinnamyl, and allyl silanes with absolute regioselectivity in up to 92 % yield.

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