Acetylene alcohol compounds, inclusion

We found that some kinds of alcohols form channel-type inclusion compounds with alkaloids such as brucine (72) and sparteine (75), and that the alcohols are easily resolved utilizing inclusion formation. We also found that sparteine can be resolved by inclusion formation with an optically active tertiary acetylenic alcohol. 

ABSTRACT. Novel optical resolutions of guest compounds by inclusion complex formation with optically active host compound are reviewed Tertiary acetylenic alcohols, cyanohydrins, and secondary alcohols were resolved by complexation with alkaloids such as brucine or sparteine. Cycloalkanones, 2,3 -epoxycyclohexanones, and some other neutral compounds were resolved by complex formation with optically active diacetylenic diol. Mutual optical resolution of bis-g-naphthol and sulfoxides by complex formation was also reviewed. 

The direct combination of selenium and acetylene provides the most convenient source of selenophene (76JHC1319). Lesser amounts of many other compounds are formed concurrently and include 2- and 3-alkylselenophenes, benzo[6]selenophene and isomeric selenoloselenophenes (76CS(10)159). The commercial availability of thiophene makes comparable reactions of little interest for the obtention of the parent heterocycle in the laboratory. However, the reaction of substituted acetylenes with morpholinyl disulfide is of some synthetic value. The process, which appears to entail the initial formation of thionitroxyl radicals, converts phenylacetylene into a 3 1 mixture of 2,4- and 2,5-diphenylthiophene, methyl propiolate into dimethyl thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate, and ethyl phenylpropiolate into diethyl 3,4-diphenylthiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate (Scheme 83a) (77TL3413). Dimethyl thiophene-2,4-dicarboxylate is obtained from methyl propiolate by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide and thionyl chloride (Scheme 83b) (66CB1558). The rhodium carbonyl catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes in alcohols provides 5-alkoxy-2(5//)-furanones (Scheme 83c) (81CL993). The inclusion of ethylene provides 5-ethyl-2(5//)-furanones instead (82NKK242). The nickel acetate catalyzed addition of r-butyl isocyanide to alkynes provides access to 2-aminopyrroles (Scheme 83d) (70S593). 

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