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My PhD dissertation - Institut Fresnel

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17<br />

and gave only the mono-chlorinated pyrrole at the 2-position in 74% after distillation.<br />

Gas chromatography analysis of the crude reaction mixture revealed the presence of the<br />

expected chloropyrrole (20) together with a by-product in a 4 : 1 ratio. This latter<br />

product could be isolated as crystalline material in 11% and was identified as the N-{1-<br />

[(1S)-phenylethyl]pyrrol-2-yl} succinimide (21) stemming from the addition of<br />

succinimide on the chloropyrrole (20).<br />

N<br />

(S)-14<br />

1) NCS, THF, - 75 °C<br />

2) - 75 °C to 25 °C<br />

Cl<br />

N + N N<br />

(S)-20, 74% (S)-21, 11%<br />

The standard Grignard reaction conditions applied to chloropyrrole (20) in<br />

tetrahydrofuran with commercial magnesium turning did not produce any trace of<br />

organometallic species. Conditions were then varied by changing solvents or reaction<br />

temperatures, and the formation of the Grignard reagent was followed by gas chromatography<br />

after trapping of an aliquot with carbon dioxide and subsequent esterification with<br />

diazomethane. Since only small amounts of Grignard species could be formed this way,<br />

several activated magnesium were tried<br />

[ ] 102 before R.D. Rieke's conditions<br />

O<br />

O<br />

[ ] 103 revealed<br />

effective and afforded the expected enantiomerically pure N-[(1R)-phenylethyl]pyrrole-2-<br />

carboxylic acid (22) in 74% after crystallization although this yield was determined to be of<br />

97% by gas chromatography when the reaction was ran with an internal calibrated standard.<br />

Cl<br />

N<br />

(S)-20<br />

1) K, MgCl 2, KI, reflux<br />

ClMg<br />

N<br />

2) CO 2, THF<br />

3) HCl 10%<br />

HOOC<br />

N<br />

(S)-22, 74%<br />

These conditions to produce the active magnesium chloride species were then<br />

applied for the preparation of the phosphinite (19). Unfortunately, the same generated<br />

Grignard reagent, when treated with 1/2 equivalent of triethyl phosphite gave only lower<br />

yields of less pure product due to the difficulty to remove the magnesium salts. Few more<br />

trials with other phosphites resulted either in lower reaction rate in the case of triphenyl<br />

phosphite or in the formation of the corresponding methyldipyrrolylphosphine oxide<br />

presumably by Michaelis-Arbuzov rearrangement as already encountered by H. Gilman and J.<br />

Robinson<br />

[ ] 104 .

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