Dehydration of alcohols derived from 1-t-butyl-3-dimethylaminopropan-1-one; a novel cleavage reaction involving 2,6-dichlorobenzylmagnesium bromide
The acid-catalyzed dehydration of 1-t-butyl-3-dimethylamino-1-phenylpropan-1-ol gives cis(t-Bu/H)1-t-butyl-3-dimethylamino-1-phenylprop-1-ene exclusively. Dehydration of the product of reaction between 1-t-butyl-3-dimetnylammopropari-1-one and 2,6-dichlorobenzylmagnesium bromide gives cis and trans 2-t-butyl-1-2,6-dichlorophenyl-4-dimethylaminobut-2-ene plus the cis aminopropene of the first reaction. The formation of the aminopropene, together with that of its precursor tertiary alcohol, represents a novel cleavage reaction of 2,6-dichlorobenzylmagnesium bromide. The configurations of the aminoalkenes were established from proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic data, the cis(t-Bu/H)but-2-ene providing a further example of a magnetically non-equivalent t-butyl group.