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lutesium

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Tosylation of alcohols using ZrCl4 -Zinc Bromide
« on: October 06, 2004, 10:48:00 PM »



ZrCl4 as an Efficient Catalyst for Selective Tosylation of Alcohols with p-Toluenesulfonic Acid

 Tosylation of alcohols has directly been carried out with p-toluenesulfonic acid in methylene chloride under reflux using ZrCl4 as a catalyst. Primary alcohols were found to be tosylated chemoselectively over secondary alcohols



 Chemistry Letters
Vol. 33 (2004) , No. 11 p.1428
 
ZrCl4 as an Efficient Catalyst for Selective Tosylation of Alcohols with p-Toluenesulfonic Acid
 
Biswanath Das and Vtukuri Saidi Reddy
 

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Reduction of Tosylates and Similar Compounds
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2004, 02:35:00 AM »
Reduction of Tosylates and Similar Compounds

(Reference : March's 5th edition text pg.526)

RCH2OTs  + LiAlH4------------->RCH3

Tosylates and other sulfonatescan be reduced with LiAlH4

Ref .- J.AM.Chem. Soc. 73,2872,1951
          Helv. Chim. Acta. 35,1660, 1952
          Aus. J. Chem. 35, 1895, 1982
Note: when the reagent is LiAlH4 , alky tosyolates are reduced more rapidly than I, Br, if the solvent is Et2O, but the order reversed in diglyme.

......also with NaBH4 in a dipolar aprotic solvent

Ref.-Tetrahedral Lett. 3495,1969

.......with LiEt3BH withi- Bu2AlH (DIBAL-H-diisobutyl-aluminum hydride)

Ref.-Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas 103, 220, 1984

.......also with Bu3SnH-NaI

Ref.-Chem.Lett. 795, 1983


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Zinc Bromide-Promoted Tosylation of Alcohols...
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2004, 03:08:00 AM »



Zinc Bromide-Promoted Tosylation of Alcohols
 
 



The combination of zinc bromide with tosyl chloride promoted sulfonylation, allowing temperature-controlled regioselective sulfonylation of carbohydrates which possess both primary and secondary hydroxy groups.

Chemistry Letters
Vol. 30 (2001) , No. 7 p.706
 
Zinc Bromide-Promoted Tosylation of Alcohols Allows Efficient Temperature-Controlled Primary Hydroxy Sulfonylation
 
Hatsuo Yamamura, Jyumpei Kawasaki, Hirokazu Saito, Shuki Araki and Masao Kawai
 

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no2meth

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ZrCl4?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2004, 06:20:00 PM »
The ZrCl4 procedure looks teasy; contrary to the CoCl2-catalyzed process primary alcs tosylate faster! Now, the only question I see is: how the hell do you pull of ZrCl4? It doesn't exactly seem to be lying on hardware store's shelves, many chem suppliers don't have it also :( Say one has access to ZrO2, the oxychloride or some Zr(II) salts. Any idea to make ZrCl4 other than chlorine-CCl4 at 500-800 deg C?

lutesium

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The oxide can be converted to the halide but...
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2004, 08:07:00 PM »
The oxide can be converted to the halide but neeed to research.

Use the Zinc Bromide method if you want to. Its easier to access