Acetal derivatives cycloadditions

Selenoaldehydes 104, like thioaldehydes, have also been generated in situ from acetals and then directly trapped with dienes, thus offering a useful one-pot procedure for preparing cyclic seleno-compounds [103,104], The construction of a carbon-selenium double bond was achieved by reacting acetal derivatives with dimethylaluminum selenide (Equation 2.30). Cycloadditions of seleno aldehydes occur even at 0 °C. In these reactions, however, the carbon-selenium bond formed by the nucleophilic attack of the electronegative selenium atom in 105 to the aluminum-coordinated acetal carbon, may require a high reaction temperature [103], The cycloaddition with cyclopentadiene preferentially gave the kinetically favorable endo isomer. 

Tetrabutylammonium peroxydisulfate-mediated oxidative cycloaddition was recently discovered to be a convenient method for the realization of fused acetal derivatives. It is believed that the reactive intermediate is the cyclic enol ethers of the 1,3-diketones. An example is presented below <00S1091>. 

A convenient approach to the synthesis of fused furofuran derivatives is provided by the tetrabutylammonium peroxydisulfate-mediated oxidative cycloaddition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to cyclic enol ethers. In the presence of a base such as potassium acetate in acetonitrile, several fused acetal derivatives of type 39 have been prepared in 82-90% yield (Equation 62) <200081091 >. 

Asymmetric Pericyclic Reactions. Several reports illustrate the utility of fra/is-2,5-dimethylpyirolidine as a chiral auxiliary in asymmetric Claisen-type rearrangements, [4 + 2], and [2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions. The enantioselective Claisen-type rearrangement of N,0-ketene acetals derived from tram-2,5-dimethylpyrrolidine has been studied. For example, the rearrangement of the iV.O-ketene acetal, formed in situ by the reaction of A-propionyl-fra/w-(25,55)-dimethylpyrrolidine with ( )-crotyl alcohol, affords the [3,3]-rearrangement product in 50% yield and 10 1 diastereoselectivity (eq 9). 

Enantiomerically pure 3-oxo-8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octyl-2-yl derivatives were obtained by [4 -h 3] cycloaddition of furan with chiral 1,2-dioxyallyl cation engendered in situ by acid-catalyzed heterolysis of enantiomerically pure, mixed acetals derived from 1,1-dimethoxy-acetone and enantiomerically pure, secondary benzyl alcohols [203]. For instance, mixed acetal 439 is converted into the silyl enol ether 440. In the presence of a catalytic amount of trimethylsilyl triflate, 440 generates a cationic intermediate that adds to furan at - 95°C, giving... 

H 2]-Cycloaddition occurs between 3-methoxycarbonyl-2-pyrone 309 and a trimethylenemethane Pd[(/-PrO)3P]4 complex to give the cycloadduct 310 in 71% yield (88JA1602). (See Scheme 59.) Reactions of 309 and 3-acetylcoumarin 236a with cyclopropenone acetal derivative 312 afford regioselectivity the cyclopentenone acetal compound 313 and 314, respectively (92JA5523). 

Arylidenetetralones undergo an ammonium acetate catalysed cycloaddition with //-substituted cyanoacetamides to give a mixture of 1-substituted 4-ary1-5,6-dihydrobenzo[h]quinolin-2-one and its 3-cyano derivative (A.H. Moustafa et al, J. prakt. Chem., 1978, 320. 97). 

The unstable cycloadducts (24) and (25) are obtained from the photolysis of the enone ethers (26).A similar approach has been reported by Barker and Pattenden in their study of the photocyclization of enol acetates. Thus the intramolecular photocycloaddition affords the adducts (27) from the mixture of enol acetates derived from (28). An analogous regioselective cycloaddition is encountered in the irradiation of the enol acetates derived from (29) to afford the adduct (30). 

Neier et al. made use of the Diels-Alder reaction to generate an allyl silyl ketene acetal in situ (Scheme 4.62) [62]. Diels-Alder cycloaddition of a silyl ketene acetal derived from a dienol propionate yielded an intermediate allyl silyl ketene acetal which underwent in situ Ireland-Claisen rearrangement. The pentenoic acid products were formed in 60% yield as a 47 29 24 mixture of diastereomers, from which the major diastereomer shown below was isolated. 

The research groups of Xiao and Rueping applied this concept towards [3 -I- 2] dipolar cycloadditions using amino acetate derivatives that form azomethine ylides under photocatalysis. Xiao and co-workers performed aerobic oxidations of ethyl 2-(3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-2(lH)-yl) acetates in the... 

Aldehydes take part in the cycloaddition to give the methylenetetrahydrofuran 178 by the co-catalysis of Pd and Sn compounds[115]. A similar product 180 is obtained by the reaction of the allyl acetate 179, which has a tributyltin group instead of a TMS group, with aldehydesfl 16]. The pyrrolidine derivative 182 is formed by the addition of the tosylimine 181 to 154[117]. 

A large number of pyridazines are synthetically available from [44-2] cycloaddition reactions. In one general method, azo or diazo compounds are used as dienophiles, and a second approach is based on the reaction between 1,2,4,5-tetrazines and various unsaturated compounds. The most useful azo dienophile is a dialkyl azodicarboxylate which reacts with appropriate dienes to give reduced pyridazines and cinnolines (Scheme 89). With highly substituted dienes the normal cycloaddition reaction is prevented, and, if the ethylenic group in styrenes is substituted with aryl groups, indoles are formed preferentially. The cycloadduct with 2,3-pentadienal acetal is a tetrahydropyridazine derivative which has been used for the preparation of 2,5-diamino-2,5-dideoxyribose (80LA1307). 

Scheeren et al. reported the first enantioselective metal-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of nitrones with alkenes in 1994 [26]. Their approach involved C,N-diphenylnitrone la and ketene acetals 2, in the presence of the amino acid-derived oxazaborolidinones 3 as the catalyst (Scheme 6.8). This type of boron catalyst has been used successfully for asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions [27, 28]. In this reaction the nitrone is activated, according to the inverse electron-demand, for a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with the electron-rich alkene. The reaction is thus controlled by the LUMO inone-HOMOaikene interaction. They found that coordination of the nitrone to the boron Lewis acid strongly accelerated the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction with ketene acetals. The reactions of la with 2a,b, catalyzed by 20 mol% of oxazaborolidinones such as 3a,b were carried out at -78 °C. In some reactions fair enantioselectivities were induced by the catalysts, thus, 4a was obtained with an optical purity of 74% ee, however, in a low yield. The reaction involving 2b gave the C-3, C-4-cis isomer 4b as the only diastereomer of the product with 62% ee. 

Azcpincs under acid conditions reportedly117-225 yield aniline derivatives although ring contraction to pyridines is more usual. Thus, highly substituted 3//-azepines, e.g. 28, with a vacant 7-position, formed by cycloaddition of 2//-azirines with cyclopentadienones, on heating in acetic acid isomerize rapidly to the correspondingly substituted anilines 29.117... 

Cycloalkenones and/or their derivatives can also behave as dienic partners in the Diels-Alder cycloaddition. It is well documented [41] that cyclic acetals, for example, can interconvert with ring-opened enol ether forms, in a reversible manner the latter compounds can then be trapped by various dienophiles. Thus dienes 119 and 120 reacted with [60]-fullerene (Ceo) at high pressure, affording highly thermally stable products [42] (Scheme 5.16). Ketones 123 and 124 could be directly obtained by cycloaddition of enol forms 121 and 122 of 2-cyclopen-ten-and 2-cyclohexen-l-one, respectively. 

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