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PEYOTE

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Easy GBL
« on: October 17, 2001, 07:14:00 PM »
Hi guyz.

I think this Mn(OAc)3 it's more interesting than someone would expect.


From Advanced Organic Chemistry, J. March, 4th edition, page 835-6, section 5-45


The conversion of olefines to gamma-lactones (Addition of Oxygen, Carbon)

Global rxn:

>C=C< + Mn(OAc)3 =(HOAc)=> 3,4-(substituted)gamma-lactone

Olefins react with manganese (III) acetate to give gamma-lactones(1). The mechanism is probably free-radical, involving addition of .CH2COOH to the double bond. Lactone formation has also been accomplished by treatment of olefins with lead tetraacetate(2), with a alpha-bromocarboxylic acids in the presence of benzoyl peroxide as catalyst(3), and with dialkyl malonates and iron (III) perchlorate Fe(ClO4)3.9H2(4). Olefins can also be converted to gamma-lactone by indirect routes(4).



So, if you use ethylene, acetic acid and the magic Mn(OAc)3, you can product GBL and then GHB!

Refs:
(1) JACS   90:5903(1968), 90:5905(1968), 96:7977(1974)
    JCS, Perkin Trans 2   1537(1984)
    Tetrahedron   47:831(1991)
    Tetrahedron Lett.   26:3761(1985), 26:4291(1985)
(2) JACS   90:2706(1968)
(3) Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.   60:1049(1987)
    Tetrahedron Lett.   25:3939(1984)
(4) Synlett   42:(1990)
(5) Chem. Ber.   102:4157(1969)
    Helv. Chem. Acta   55:2198(1972)
    Tetrahedron Lett.   29:6925(1988)

Rhodium

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Re: Easy GBL
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2001, 08:25:00 PM »
The alkene you would use for GBL would be ethene... Not easy to handle, as it is a gas. But it is probably of more use for substituted GBL's.

encopo

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Re: Easy GBL
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2001, 02:43:00 AM »
yes, however, of ethene was cleaveged in situ, and the
manganese (III) acetate was deposited as a catalytic
stack of mesh, and the ethene passed through this stack,
would this be an appropriate method for converting the
olefin in the vapour phase?

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