Grieco elimination

The Grieco elimination

The Grieco elimination is an organic reaction describing the elimination reaction of an aliphatic primary alcohol through a selenide to a terminal alkene.[1][2] It is named for Paul Grieco.

The alcohol first reacts with o-nitrophenylselenocyanate and tributylphosphine to form a selenide via a nucleophilic substitution on the electron-deficient selenium. In the second step, the selenide is oxidized with hydrogen peroxide to give a selenoxide. This structure decomposes to form an alkene by an Ei elimination mechanism with expulsion of a selenol in a fashion similar to that of the Cope elimination. This reaction takes part in the synthesis of ring C of the Danishefsky Taxol synthesis.

The elimination step is common with the Clive-Reich-Sharpless olefination that uses PhSeX as the selenium source.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Grieco, Paul A.; Gilman, Sydney; Nishizawa, Mugio (1976). "Organoselenium chemistry. A facile one-step synthesis of alkyl aryl selenides from alcohols". J. Org. Chem. 41 (8): 1485-1486. doi:10.1021/jo00870a052.
2. ↑ Sharpless, K. Barry; Young, Michael W. (1975). "Olefin synthesis. Rate enhancement of the elimination of alkyl aryl selenoxides by electron-withdrawing substituents". J. Org. Chem. 40 (7): 947-949. doi:10.1021/jo00895a030.
3. ↑ Hassner, A.; Namboothiri, I. (2011). Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions: A Practical Guide to Over 800 Transformations. (3rd ed.). p. 91. ISBN 9780080966311.

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Alkenes

Alkenes|

* Ethene ( C2H4 )
* Propene ( C3H6 )
* Butene ( C4H8 )
* Pentene ( C5H10 )
* Hexene ( C6H12 )
* Heptene ( C7H14 )
* Octene ( C8H16 )
* Nonene ( C9H18 )
* Decene ( C10H20 )

Preparations|

* Dehydrohalogenation from haloalkane
* Dehydration reaction from alcohol
* Semihydrogenation from alkyne
* Bamford–Stevens reaction
* Barton–Kellogg reaction
* Boord olefin synthesis
* Chugaev elimination
* Cope reaction
* Corey–Winter olefin synthesis
* Grieco elimination
* Hofmann elimination
* Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction
* Hydrazone iodination
* Julia olefination
* Kauffmann olefination
* McMurry reaction
* Peterson olefination
* Ramberg–Bäcklund reaction
* Shapiro reaction
* Takai olefination
* Wittig reaction
* Olefin metathesis
* Ene reaction
* Cope rearrangement

Reactions|

* Hydrogenation
* Halogenation
* Hydration
* Electrophilic addition
* Oxymercuration reaction
* Hydroboration
* Cyclopropanation
* Epoxidation
* Dihydroxylation
* Ozonolysis
* Hydrohalogenation
* Polymerization
* Diels–Alder reaction
* Wacker process
* Dehydrogenation
* Ene reaction
* Friedel-Crafts Alkylation

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