1 -Acetoxy-1,3-butadiene

Diels-Alder reactions.1 A key step in a synthesis of 4-demethoxydaunomy-cinone (5) involves a regioselective Diels-Alder reaction of anthracene-1,4,9,10-tetrone (2) with (1) to give the desired adduct (3) in 79% yield. A similar reaction with 2-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene affords only a 58% yield of the corresponding adduct. The product (rather unstable) is aromatized and hydrolyzed to give 4 in high yield. 

Recently, Overman, et al. reported an organocatalytic Diels-Alder reaction of 2-acetoxy-1,3 -butadiene 40 and acrolein (28f) by MacMillan catalyst, ent-30-HOTf, Scheme 3.11 [21], It was noteworthy to use water-saturated nitromethane as the reaction solvent. The adduct 41 was transformed to a tetracycle with the skeleton of the ring A-D of daphnicyclidin-Type alkaloids (42). 

Easily prepared from glycols, enones have been investigated as dienophiles. They react with butadiene under Lewis acid catalysis to form chiral cyclohexenes used in the synthesis of compactin analogs [353]. Levoglucosenone has been used in a Diels-Alder reaction with acetoxy-butadiene to construct a part of the indole alkaloid reserpine [354], and in synthetic studies toward tetrodotoxin [355]. Analogs of the anthracycline rhodomycinone have been similarly prepared [356]. [4 + 2]-Cycloaddition of the same enone with silyloxydiene allowed the creation of the fused ring system present in actinobolin [357]. 

It is well established that steric effects hinder the Cope rearrangement of divinylcyclopropanes. An interesting example of this steric effect is seen in the reaction of 33 with cis- and trans-l-acetoxy-butadiene (Scheme 13). ° The reaction of 33 with trans-1-acetoxy-l, 3-butadiene leads cleanly to the [3+4] annulation product 34 in 67% yield. In contrast, the product from the reaction of 33 with c/j-l-ace-toxy- 1,3-butadiene is the cw-divinylcyclopropane 35 (80% yield), and high temperatures (220 °C) are required to convert 35 to the [3+4] annulation product 36. The effect of alkene geometry on the stereochemistry and the rate of reaction is readily explained by considering the boat transition state for the Cope rearrangement of divinylcyclo-propanes (structure 37). A trans diene substituent (Y) would generate a trans product (34), whereas a cis substituent (X) would lead to a cis... 

A soln. of dilorine in CCI4 added dropwise at ca. -70 to a soln. of 1-acetoxy-butadiene in hexane containing a small amount of Ba-carbonate, after 10 min. allowed to warm to room temp., NaHCOg and water added, and the heterogeneous mixture shaken 4 hrs. -> tra j->-chlorocrotonaldehyde. Y 62%. F. e. s. M. J. Berenguer et al., Tetrah. Let. 1971, 493. 

Methyl-lf 2-butadienyl acetate (l-acetoxy-2-methyl-1 2-butadiene)... 

It is possible to prepare 1-acetoxy-4-chloro-2-alkenes from conjugated dienes with high selectivity. In the presence of stoichiometric amounts of LiOAc and LiCl, l-acetoxy-4-chloro-2-hutene (358) is obtained from butadiene[307], and cw-l-acetoxy-4-chloro-2-cyclohexene (360) is obtained from 1.3-cyclohexa-diene with 99% selectivity[308]. Neither the 1.4-dichloride nor 1.4-diacetate is formed. Good stereocontrol is also observed with acyclic diene.s[309]. The chloride and acetoxy groups have different reactivities. The Pd-catalyzed selective displacement of the chloride in 358 with diethylamine gives 359 without attacking allylic acetate, and the chloride in 360 is displaced with malonate with retention of the stereochemistry to give 361, while the uncatalyzed reaction affords the inversion product 362. 

Acetoxy-1,3-butadiene (1,3-butadienyl acetate) cis-trans mixture [1515-76-0] M 112.1, b 42-43 /16mm, 51-52 /20mm, 60-61 /40mm, d 4 0.9466, n g 1.4622. The commercial sample is stabilised with 0.1% of p-/er/-butylcatechol. If the material contains crotonaldehyde (by IR, used in its synthesis) it should be dissolved in Et20, shaken with 40% aqueous sodium bisulfite, then 5% aqueous... 

Sensitizer Et Butadiene dimers ot-Acetoxy acrylonitrile adducts ... 

The presence of the catalyst can also favor multiple Diels-Alder reactions of cycloalkenones. Two typical examples are reported in Schemes 3.6 and 3.7. When (E)-l-methoxy-1,3-butadiene (14) interacted with 2-cyclohexenone in the presence of Yb(fod)3 catalyst, a multiple Diels-Alder reaction occurred [21] and afforded a 1 1.5 mixture of the two tricyclic ketones 15 and 16 (Scheme 3.6). The sequence of events leading to the products includes the elimination of methanol from the primary cycloadduct to afford a bicyclic dienone that underwent a second cycloaddition. Similarly, 4-acetoxy-2-cyclopenten-l-one (17) (Scheme 3.7) has been shown to behave as a conjunctive reagent for a one-pot multiple Diels-Alder reaction with a variety of dienes under AICI3 catalysis, providing a mild and convenient methodology to synthesize hydrofluorenones [22]. The role of the Lewis acid is crucial to facilitate the elimination of acetic acid from the cycloadducts. The results of the reaction of 17 with diene... 

Table 5.1 High pressure Diels-Alder reactions of (E)-l-acetoxy- (18a) and (E)-l-methoxy butadiene (18b) with acrylic and crotonic dienophiles...

Uncatalyzed Diels-Alder reactions between l-(trimethysiloxy)- or 1-acetoxy-l,3-butadiene and sugar-derived nitroalkenes having D-galacto or D-manno configurations proceed with complete regioselectivity. Diastereofacial selectivity is also complete with the D-galacto dieno-phile, whereas it is only moderate with the D-manno (Eq. 8.30).51... 

Several other examples of regioselective cyclopropanation of 1- and 2-substituted butadienes in the presence of copper catalysts are known (Scheme 5). 2-Trimethyl-siloxy-1,3-butadiene parallels the behavior of other 2-substituted butadienes (see Table 9) in that the electron-rich double bond is cyclopropanated 60. With the 1-methoxy-, acetoxy- or trimethylsilyloxy-substituted butadienes 17, 18 and 19, both double bonds are cyclopropanated, thus giving rise to sometimes unseparable mixtures of regio- and stereoisomers 79). Perhaps, the yields of separated and isolated regioisomers in some cases do not reflect the true regioselectivity as considerable... 

The reaction has been improved to a satisfactory process by modifying the reaction conditions. A remarkable effect of the addition of amines on the reaction was observed (49). For example, the reaction of butadiene (4 moles) and acetic acid (4 moles) in the presence of 2-(N,/V-dimethyl-amino)ethanol (4 moles) using Pd(acac)2 (3 mmoles) and PPh3 (3 mmoles) at 90°C gave complete conversion after 2 hours. The product was found to consist of 8-acetoxy-1,6-octadiene (47) (71%), 3-acetoxy-1,7-octadiene (48) (21%) and 1,3,7-octatriene (16) (8%). Various tertiary amines, such as triethylamine, )V-methylmorpholine, Af,Af,N, N -tetramethyl-1,3-bu-tanediamine, and triethylenediamine, showed the same favorable effect. Other basic salts, such as sodium and potassium acetate, accelerate the reaction, especially at high concentrations (50, 51). The selection of solvents is also important. Arakawa and Miyake found that electron-donating type solvents (e.g., THF and triethylamine) are good solvents... 

Pd2+ salts are useful reagents for oxidation reactions of olefins. Formation of acetaldehyde from ethylene is the typical example. Another reaction is the formation of vinyl acetate by the reaction of ethylene with acetic acid (16, 17). The reaction of acetic acid with butadiene in the presence of PdCl2 and disodium hydrogen phosphate to give butadienyl acetate was briefly reported by Stem and Spector (110). However, 1-acetoxy-2-butene (49) and 3-acetoxy-l-butene (50) were obtained by Ishii and co-workers (111) by simple 1,2- and 1,4-additions using PdCl2/CuCl2 in acetic acid-water (9 1). 

Heck obtained 4-phenyI-3-acetoxy-l-butene (126) by the reaction of butadiene, phenylmercury acetate, and lead tetraacetate in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 (112) ... 

McClure, C.K., Herzog, K.J., and Bruch, M.D., Structure determination of the Diels-Alder product of a ketovinylphosphonate with E-l-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene, Tetrahedron Lett., 37, 2153, 1996. 

Chiral boron catalysts had already been widely used in a variety of reactions before they were applied in Diels-Alder reactions220. Boron catalysts were first employed in the Diels-Alder reactions of quinones with electron-rich dienes. Kelly and coworkers221 found that stoichiometric amounts of a catalyst prepared from BH3, acetic acid and 3,3 -diphenyl-l,l/-bi-2-naphthol (344) catalyzed the reaction of 1-acetoxy-l,3-butadiene (341) with juglone (342) to afford cycloadduct 343 with 98% ee (equation 96). The reaction was supposed to proceed via a spirocyclic borate complex in which one face of the double bond of juglone was effectively shielded from attack by the diene. 

Narasaka and Yamamoto applied catalyst 406 in the cycloaddition of l-acetoxy-3-methyl-1,3-butadiene (409) to 3-boryl propenoic acid derivative 410 (equation 122). Cycloadduct 411 was employed in the total synthesis of (-l-)-paniculide254. 

Binaphthol catalyst 417 proved effective in the cycloadditions of 1-alkoxy-l,3-butadienes with methacrolein and 1,4-naphthoquinone257. More recently, it was found that the use of molecular sieves was essential for the in situ preparation of the catalyst, but also that this had dramatic effects on the enantioselectivity258. In the presence of molecular sieves, the cycloaddition of juglone (342) with 1-acetoxy-l,3-butadiene was catalyzed by 10 mol% of 417 to give cycloadduct 343 with only 9% ee. In the absence of molecular sieves, the enantiomeric excess increased to 76-96% (equation 124). 

When the reactions of 494 with some dienes were carried out under thermal conditions, the adducts were obtained metal-free. This suggested the possibility of effecting these transformations using a catalytic amount of an appropriate Cr(0) source. Rigby and colleagues showed that the reaction between cycloheptatriene 511 and 1-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene (341) can be catalyzed by employing a catalytic amount of 513 (equation 149). The yield of 512 was 36% in this instance, whereas a yield of 20% was obtained when a catalytic amount (10 mol%) of 494 was used as the catalyst305,308. 

The first studies of chlorine addition to the simplest diene, 1,3-butadiene, carried out in solvents of various polarity, showed58 that the reaction always led to mixtures of 1,2- and 1,4-addition products, in ratios almost independent of the solvent polarity. Furthermore, the addition of CI2 in acetic acid gave, besides the 1,2- and 1,4-dichlorides, 3-acetoxy-4-chloro-l-butene and l-acetoxy-4-chloro-2-butene arising from solvent incorporation (equation 27). By comparison of these data with those related to Br2 addition... 

Using a similar approach, l-acetoxy-4-diethylamino-2-butene and l-acetoxy-4-benzylamino-2-butene were prepared. Treatment of 1,3-butadiene with LiCl-LiOAc in the presence of Pd(OAc)2 and p-benzoquinone in acetic acid gave 91% l-acetoxy-4-chloro-2-butene (E/Z = 90/10). Subsequent allylic amination with diethylamine, catalyzed by Pd(PPh3)4 in THF, produced mainly ( )-l-acetoxy-4-diethylamino-2-butene13. 

A number of other specific reactions have been studied. For example, Diels-Alder reactions of the unsaturated 5(4//)-oxazolone derived from piperonal with 2-ferf-butyldimethylsilyloxy-1,3-butadiene, piperylene, 1-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene, and Danishefsky s diene have been described. In these cases, the results are variable and are dependent on the diene with poor yields often obtained even at high temperatures. Moreover, the stereochemical outcome of these reactions has not been determined. " ... 

Auf analoge Weise erhalt man aus 2-Methyl-l,3-butadien (Isopren) mit Acetylnitrat unter Nachbehandlung mit Essigsaure 4-Acetoxy-2-methyl-l-nitro-2-buten (SO /o)1 ... 

Acetoxy-l-brom-l, 2-butadiene und l-Brom-4-hydroxy-l, 2-butadiene reagieren mit einem 4- bis 5fachen bzw. einem 2,5- bis 3fachen OberschuB an primaren oder sekundaren Aminen unter Br/Amino-Austausch und gleichzeitiger Allen-Alkin-Isomerisierung zu 3-Amino-4-hydroxy-l-butinen2 ... 

Ethenediyl carbonate (l,3-dioxol-2-one vinylene carbonate, 417) is a readily available,270 versatile synthon having pronounced dienophilic properties.270-275 Diels-Alder adducts of 417 with 1,4-di-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene and furan were selectively converted into cy-clitols,256 257-275 and also served as precursors of DL-ribose derivatives258 (see Section IV, 2). Another possibility of applying 417 as an equivalent of a 1,2-dihydroxyethane unit has been demonstrated in a synthesis of racemic apiose. Photochemical cycloaddition of 417 to 1,3-diace-toxy-2-propanone (418) gave the oxetane derivative 419, which, on alkaline hydrolysis, afforded DL-apiose (420) in 23% yield.1... 

Typical TLC data (silica gel, 6 1 hexanesiethyl acetate) include R - 0.61 (1-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene) 0.51, a red spot [tricarbonyl(cycloheptatriene)chromium] 0.45 a yellow spot (side product that often overlaps with the starting complex) and 0.31 a yellow spot (main intermediate chromium complex). 

The yield reported is that of the submitters and is based on the use of the pure (E)-l-acetoxy-l, 3-butadiene. It was found by the checkers that use of a mixture of the E, Z-isomers (as purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc.) led to an average yield of 73%. 

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