Titanium(IV) isopropoxide and ethylmagnesium bromide catalyzed reaction of 2-alkynylamines
with Et2Zn, followed by deuterolysis/hydrolysis and iodinolysis, affords substituted (Z)-pent-2-en-2,5-d
2-1-amines, (Z)-pent-2-en-1-amines (65–88%), and substituted (Z)-2,5-diiodopent-2-en-1-amines (55–63%). It is suggested that the reaction proceeds
through the formation of cyclic organotitanium derivatives. The reaction between 1-alkynylphosphines
and Et2Zn in the presence of catalytic amounts of Ti(O-iPr)4 and EtMgBr leads to trisubstituted 1-alkenylphosphine oxides with high regioselectivity
and stereoselectivity.
Key words
2-alkynylamines - 1-alkynylphosphines - 2-zincoethylzincation - titanium catalysis