Reaction of ketoximes with aliphatic aldehydes and diphenylborinic acid. Crystal and molecular structure of a diphenylboron chelate derived from the pivaldehyde adduct to cyclohexanone oxime
Various ketoximes have been reacted with aliphatic aldehydes in the presence of oxybis(diphenylborane) in order to assess the influence of increasingly bulky residues on the nature of the products. Crystals of 5-tert-butyl-2-cyclohexylidene-3,3-diphenyl-1,4-dioxa-2-azonia-3-boratacyclopentane, 4c, are monoclinic, a = 14.0647(9), b = 11.416(1), c = 14.756(1) Å, β = 115.696(4)°, Z = 4, space group P21/c. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.038 (Rw = 0.038) for 2511 reflections with I >= 3σ(I). A bulky substituent at the aldehyde favors α-hydroxyalkylation at the oxime oxygen atom and subsequently leads to the formation of BOCON diphenylboron chelates, whereas formaldehyde reacts by N-alkylation of the oximes, resulting in COBON diphenylboron chelates.Key words: ketoximes, organoboron compounds, crystal structure.