Acetal moieties

Numerous applications have been reported. A derivative of the (alkyn-1-yl)nucleosides 295. which have anticancer and antiviral activities, has been synthesized by this reaction. They are also used as chain-terminating nucleosides for DN.A. sequencing[l98,199]. In this reaction, use of DMF as the solvent is most important for successful operation[200]. Only the alkenyl bromide moiety in 2-bromo-3-aceto.xycycloheptene (296) reacts with alkynes without attacking the allylic acetate moiety[201]. 

Other mixed esters, eg, cellulose acetate valerate [55962-79-3] cellulose propionate valerate [67351-41-17, and cellulose butyrate valerate [53568-56-2] have been prepared by the conventional anhydride sulfuric acid methods (25). Cellulose acetate isobutyrate [67351-38-6] (44) and cellulose propionate isobutyrate [67351-40-0] (45) have been prepared with a 2inc chloride catalyst. Large amounts of catalyst and anhydride are required to provide a soluble product, and special methods of delayed anhydride addition are necessary to produce mixed esters containing the acetate moiety. Mixtures of sulfuric acid and perchloric acid are claimed to be effective catalysts for the preparation of cellulose acetate propionate in dichi oromethane solution at relatively low temperatures (46) however, such acid mixtures are considered too corrosive for large-scale productions. 

Somfai and coworkers investigated the thermal isomerization of vinylaziridines 228 and found that while LDA-mediated isomerization of 228, possessing a tert-butyl acetate moiety (R2 = C02t-Bu), afforded tetrahydropyridines by aza-[2,3]-Wit-... 

The high diastereoselectivity which is found in the nucleophilic addition of Grignard reagents to chiral 2-0x0 acetals can be explained by a chelation-controlled mechanism. Thus, coordination of the magnesium metal with the carbonyl oxygen and the acetal moiety leads to a rigid structure 3A in the transition state with preferred attack of the nucleophile occurring from the S/-side. 

Cho et al. reported a indium trichloride-catalyzed intramolecular Prins-type reactions of compounds having both the functionalities of homoallyl alcohol and acetal moiety. The intramolecular Prins cycliza-tions were performed using indium trichloride in chloroform or 25%... 

Holzapfel and coworkers [180] transformed the pseudoglycal 6/1-381 into the di-hydropyran 6/1-382 using PdCl2(MeCN)2 in the presence of CuCl2 in acetic acid/ acetonitrile (Scheme 6/1.96). The process contains an opening of the acetal moiety followed by a Wacker-like reaction, elimination of HPdL2Cl, and isomerization of the formed double bond. 

Moreover, compounds of type 7-127, which were obtained from 7-125 by reaction with Pb(OAc)4, can undergo a further domino process when treated with potassium carbonate in a mixture of water and methanol [57]. This includes saponification of the acetate moieties in 7-127 to provide 7-129 via the unstable cyclic hemiacetal 7-128 (Scheme 7.35). Retro-Claisen reaction and ring closure with the proposed intermediates 7-130 and 7-131 led to the bridged ring-system 7-132 as a mixture of di-astereomers with preference of the (3-isomer. 

Polymeric crystalline structure. Monomer units 222b linked by two isobidentate acetate moieties, with pentacoordinated Sn atoms... 

Another approach is based on the palladium-catalyzed intramolecular carbocyclization of the allylic acetate moiety with the alkene moiety (Scheme 96). After the formation of a 7t-allylpalladium complex, with the first double bond the intramolecular carbometallation of the second double bond occurs to form a new C-C bond. The fate of the resulting alkylpalladium complex 393 depends on the possiblity of /3-elimination. If /3-elimination is possible, it generates a metallated hydride and furnishes the cycloadduct 394. This cyclization could be viewed as a pallada-ene reaction, in which palladium replaces the hydrogen atom of the allylic moiety.231... 

An allene moiety can serve as a nucleophile vis-a-vis a 7r-allylpalladium species generated from an allylic acetate moiety in substrates such as 495 (Scheme 124). The cyclization involving these two moieties generates another 7r-allyl intermediate, and the stage is set for the subsequent carbonylative cascade process as demonstrated by the transformation of 495 to 496.402... 

Allylation and subsequent protection of the thus formed hydroxyl group furnishes compound 134, which bears the C-ring skeleton of baccatin HI. Removal of the C-9 silyl group, PhLi treatment of the resulting hydroxyl ketone, and in situ acetylation provides compound 135, which has the C-2 benzoate functionality. In the presence of a guanidinium base, equilibrium between the C-9 to C-10 carbonyl-acetate functional groups can be established. Thus, the desired C-9-carbonyl-C-10-acetate moiety 136 can be separated from the mixture. Compound 136 is then converted to aldehyde 137 via ozonolysis for further construction of the C-ring system (Scheme 7-40). 

The utility of this metallo-ene-type reaction has also been demonstrated by the reaction of 1,6- or 1,7-enynes bearing a chiral 1,2-diphenylethylene acetal moiety as the leaving group. The reaction was found to proceed with excellent chiral induction to give optically active cyclopentane and cydohexane derivatives, respectively, which was followed by reaction of the resulting vinyl titaniums with electrophiles, as exemplified in Eq. 9.60, s.p. 348 [108]. 

When an acetal moiety is introduced at one of the bridgehead centers, the reaction leads exclusively to a monoadduct119. In particular, in the presence of 1.5 equivalents of 2-nitrobenzenesulfenyl chloride, tetraene 89 gives a single derivative 90 corresponding to a 1,4-addition product (equation 99). 

Esterases play a role in regulating the platelet-activating factor (PAF), a lipid with hypotensive properties [96], Phospholipase A2 (EC 3.1.1.4) is involved in this pathway by hydrolyzing a precursor to lyso-PAF and a free fatty acid. The activity of PAF, formed by acetylation of lyso-PAF, is controlled by an esterase hydrolyzing the acetate moiety [100]. 

In the case of benzoquinone monoacetals 61, the two substituents at the 4-position are equal, and side-selective addition Re versus Si face) creates a single stereocenter (Scheme 7.17(a)). In the (S, R, R)-18/Cu(OTf)2-catalyzed 1,4-addition, depending on the nature of the R2Zn reagent and the size of the acetal moiety, enantioselectivities ranging from 85-99% were found (Table 7.4). The highest ees are provided by a combination of a small acetal moiety and Me2Zn 99% ee was obtained with 4,4-dimethoxy-5-methyl-2-cyclohexenone, for example. 

In the first method, a dialkylzinc reagent bearing an acetal moiety at the d-posi-tion is used (Scheme 7.25(b)). The catalytic 1,4-addition is followed by acetal hydrolysis and aldol cyclization of the 4-substituted cycloalkanone, affording 6,6- (92), 6,7-, (93) and 6,8- (94) annulated ring systems with high enantioselectivities (>96% ees) [80]. In addition, dimethyl-substituted decalone 95, with a structure frequently found in natural products, is readily obtained in enantiomerically pure form. 

The acetoxytellurium tribromides are converted into the diacetates by the same treatment employed for the diacetoxylation reaction (HOAc, 120°C). The formation of an overall syn- or anft-addnct depends on the competition between a rearward attack by the acetate ion at the tellnrinm atom (as in the case of cyclohexene and 2-butenes), and a front attack by the neighbonring acetate moiety (as in cyclopentenes, where the almost the planarity of the five-membered ring makes the conformation of the acetoxytellnrinm tribromide susceptible to frontal attack). 

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