Acroleins 2-substituted

P-Picoline may serve as an important source of nicotinic acid [59-67-6] for dietary supplements. A variety of substituted pyridines may be prepared from acrolein (75—83). 

Several Diels-Alder reactions in which acrolein participates as the dienophile are of industrial significance. These reactions involve butadiene or substituted butadienes and yield the corresponding 1,2,5,6-tetrahydroben2aldehyde derivative (THBA) examples are given in Table 9 (90). These products have found use in the epoxy and perfume/fragrance industries. 

By substituting paraldehyde for glycerol, 2-methylquinoline [27601-00-9] may be synthesized. The Skraup synthesis is regarded as an example of the broader Doebner-von Miller synthesis. In the case of the Skraup synthesis, the glycerol undergoes an acid-catalyzed dehydration to provide a small concentration of acrolein that is the reactive species. If acrolein itself is used as a reactant, it would polymerize. Crotonaldehyde is the reactive intermediate in the Doebner-von Miller synthesis (28). 

Acrolein (CH2=CHCHO) can be substituted for formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in the above reaction to give similar results, but the proportion of (3) is higher than when acetaldehyde and formaldehyde are fed separately. Acrolein may be formed as one of the first steps to pyridine (1) and P-picoline (3) formation. There are many variations on the vapor-phase synthesis of pyridine itself. These variations are the subject of many patents in the field. 

The chemical reactivity of these two substituted ethylenes is in agreement with the ideas encompassed by both the MO and resonance descriptions. Enamines, as amino-substituted alkenes are called, are vety reactive toward electrophilic species, and it is the p carbon that is the site of attack. For example, enamines are protonated on the carbon. Acrolein is an electrophilic alkene, as predicted, and the nucleophile attacks the P carbon. 

The simple addition of acrolein to enamines derived from aldehydes to give substituted glutardialdehydes has also been observed (54). 

A substituted a,/3-unsaturated aldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, has been observed to undergo the same type of two-step 1,3-cycloaddition reaction with a cyclohexanone enamine as acrolein does, forming in this case a stereo-isomeric mixture of substituted bicycloaminoketones in excellent yield (29a,31a,31b). 

Two-step 1,4 cycloaddition of enamines, such as was observed with methyl vinyl ketone, is not possible with acrylate or maleate esters. This is due to the fact that, following the initial simple substitution, no side-chain carbanion is available for nueleophilic attack on the a carbon of the iminium ion. Likewise two-step 1,3 eycloaddition, such as that found when alicyclic enamines were treated with acrolein, is impossible with acrylate or maleate esters because transfer of the amine moiety from the original enamine to the side chain to form a new enamine just prior to the final cyclization step is not possible. That is, the reaction between a seeondary amine and an ester does not produce an enamine. 

To overcome these problems with the first generation Brmsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acid 7, Yamamoto and coworkers developed in 1996 a second-generation catalyst 8 containing the 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid moiety [10b,d] (Scheme 1.15, 1.16, Table 1.4, 1.5). The catalyst was prepared from a chiral triol containing a chiral binaphthol moiety and 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid, with removal of water. This is a practical Diels-Alder catalyst, effective in catalyzing the reaction not only of a-substituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes, but also of a-unsubstituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes. In each reaction, the adducts were formed in high yields and with excellent enantioselectivity. It also promotes the reaction with less reactive dienophiles such as crotonaldehyde. Less reactive dienes such as isoprene and cyclohexadiene can, moreover, also be successfully employed in reactions with bromoacrolein, methacrolein, and acrolein dienophiles. The chiral ligand was readily recovered (>90%). 

Schlenk equilibrium 93 s-cis 7, 9, 26, 31, 35 sdyl-substituted 16 Simmons-Smith reaction 87 SnClj 309 SnCU 309 solid-phase 198 square bipyramidal 255 rr-stacking 8 stannyl-substituted 16 s-trans 7, 26 - acrolein 307 succinimide 227 sulfonamides 122 synchronicity 306... 

Acifluorfen, synthesis of, 683 Acrolein, structure of, 697 Acrylic acid, pKa of, 756 structure of. 753 Activating group (aromatic substitution), 561 acidity and, 760 explanation of, 564-565 Activation energy, 158 magnitude of, 159 reaction rate and, 158-159 Active site (enzyme), 162-163 citrate synthase and, 1046 hexokinase and, 163... 

The chiral catalyst 142 achieves selectivities through a double effect of intramolecular hydrogen binding interaction and attractive tt-tt donor-acceptor interactions in the transition state by a hydroxy aromatic group [88]. The exceptional results of some Diels-Alder reactions of cyclopentadiene with substituted acroleins catalyzed by (R)-142 are reported in Table 4.21. High enantio- and exo selectivity were always obtained. The coordination of a proton to the 2-hydroxyphenyl group with an oxygen of the adjacent B-0 bond in the nonhelical transition state should play an important role both in the exo-endo approach and in the si-re face differentiation of dienophile. 

In the same area, a (5)-tryptophan-derived oxazaborolidine including a p-tolylsulfonylamide function has been used by Corey et al. to catalyse the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction between 2-bromoacrolein and cyclo-pentadiene to form the corresponding chiral product with an unprecedented high (> 99% ee) enantioselectivity (Scheme 5.27)." This highly efficient methodology was extended to various 2-substituted acroleins and dienes such as isoprene and furan. In addition, it was applied to develop a highly efficient total synthesis of the potent antiulcer substance, cassiol, as depicted in Scheme 5.21... 

We have shown that the direct arylation of acrolein toward the synthesis of cinnamaldehyde derivatives was an efficient procedure. Using the palladacycle 1 as catalyst, substituted aldehydes 3 were prepared with up to 87% isolated yield from condensed aiyl bromides (Scheme 21.1, Route 1) that was extended successfully to heteroaiyl bromides, like bromoquinolines (6). Alternatively, the acrolein diethyl acetal was used as olefin and a selective formation of the saturated ester 4 was attained under the same reaction conditions (Scheme 21.1, Route 2). The expected aldehydes 3 were, however, obtained from most of the aiyl halides used under modified conditions. It was shown that the addition of n-Bu4NOAc in the medium... 

Grieco utilized an aqueous intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction as the key step in forming the AB ring system of the potent cytotoxic sesquiterpene vernolepin. 87 Cycloaddition of sodium ( >3,5-hexa-dienoate with an a-substituted acrolein in water followed by direct reduction of the intermediate Diels-Alder adduct gave the desired product in 91% overall yield (Eq. 12.28). 

These reactions are found to be promoted by electron-donating substituents in the diene, and by electron-withdrawing substituents in the alkene, the dienophile. Reactions are normally poor with simple, unsubstituted alkenes thus butadiene (63) reacts with ethene only at 200° under pressure, and even then to the extent of but 18 %, compared with 100% yield with maleic anhydride (79) in benzene at 15°. Other common dienophiles include cyclohexadiene-l,4-dione (p-benzoquinone, 83), propenal (acrolein, 84), tetracyanoethene (85), benzyne (86, cf. p. 175), and also suitably substituted alkynes, e.g. diethyl butyne-l,4-dioate ( acetylenedicarboxylic ester , 87) ... 

In a recently published report by MacMillan s group [121] on the enantioselective synthesis of pyrroloindoline and furanoindoline natural products such as (-)-flustramine B 2-219 [122], enantiopure amines 2-215 were used as organocatalysts to promote a domino Michael addition/cyclization sequence (Scheme 2.51). As substrates, the substituted tryptamine 2-214 and a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes were used. Reaction of 2-214 and acrolein in the presence of 2-215 probably leads to the intermediate 2-216, which cyclizes to give the pyrroloindole moiety 2-217 with subsequent hydrolysis of the enamine moiety and reconstitution of the imidazolid-inone catalyst. After reduction of the aldehyde functionality in 2-217 with NaBH4 the flustramine precursor 2-218 was isolated in very good 90 % ee and 78 % yield. 

The 5-triflate of 1,3-dioxin undergoes a variety of facile Pd-catalysed cross coupling reactions affording 5-substituted 1,3-dioxins from which acrolein can be thermally generated in high yield by a retrocycloaddition. In particular, this approach leads to a new class of 2-acylacroleins (Scheme 61) <00T10275>. 

Thermal ene reactions of 3-(alk-2-enyl)benzylamino-2-(methoxycarbonyl) acrolein derivatives have been reported to give the substituted 4,5-dihydro-lff-azepines 3 (R = H, Me, Ph, 2-furyl, CC Et) in good yield <00T1299>. 

Entries 6-8 show that with BLA 76, the corresponding reaction with a-substituted a,/ -enals such as acrolein and crotonaldehyde exhibits low enan-tioselectivity and/or reactivity. However, the enantioselectivity can be raised from 40% to 90% ee by using (/ )-76b instead of (J )-76a (Entries 6 and 7). 

Besides the methods discussed in Chapter 2, some quaternary stereocenters can also be conveniently constructed through the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction of the 2-substituted acroleins 75 and 128-130. 

A second similar synthesis, due to Doebner and Miller, leads to the formation of substituted quinolines. The simplest example is the production of quinaldine from aniline and paraldehyde by heating with concentrated hydrochloric acid. The course of the reaction is closely related to that of the Skraup synthesis by route II. There the aniline reacts with acrolein, here with crotonaldehyde, which is easily formed under the conditions which prevail ... 

Two other applications of catalyst 364, i.e. in cycloaddition reactions of a-substituted acroleins with dienes 374 and 376, have been depicted in equations 110 and 111237. Cycloadducts 375 and 377 have been used as precursors in the syntheses of cassiol and gibberellic acid, respectively. The use of catalysts 364 and 369b in cycloadditions with acrolein resulted in low enantioselectivities with opposite face selectivities. 

Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation procedure was applied to the synthesis of the side chain of azinomycin A (equation 26)43. Horner-Emmons condensation of phospho-nate 36 with a /J-aziridine substituted acrolein afforded dehydroamino acid diene 37. Treatment of the diene with catalytic amounts of an osmium reagent and dihydroquini-dine (DHQD) p-chlorobenzoate resulted in asymmetric dihydroxylation, producing diol 38. Diol 38 was further converted to the naphthyl ester. 

An extensive review of the hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of 1-oxabuta-1,3-dienes has been published. Ab initio calculations of the Diels-Alder reactions of prop-2-enethial with a number of dienophiles show that the transition states of all the reactions are similar and synchronous.Thio- and seleno-carbonyl compounds behave as superdienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions with cyclic and aryl-, methyl-, or methoxy-substituted open-chain buta-1,3-dienes.The intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of 4-benzylidine-3-oxo[l,3]oxathiolan-5-ones (100) produce cycloadducts (101) and (102) in high yield and excellent endo/exo-selectivity (Scheme 39). A density functional theoretical study of the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between butadiene and acrolein indicates that the endo s-cis is the most stable transition structure in both catalysed and uncatalysed reactions.The formation and use of amino acid-derived chiral acylnitroso hetero-Diels-Alder reactions in organic synthesis has been reviewed. The 4 + 2-cycloadditions of A-acylthioformamides as dienophiles have been reviewed. ... 

A simple, commercially available chiral alcohol, a,a,a a -tetraaryl-l,3-dioxo-lane-4,5-dimethanol (TADDOL, 7a), catalyzes the hetero- and carbo-Diels-Alder reactions of aminosiloxydienes with aldehydes and a-substituted acroleins to afford the dihydropyrones and cyclohexenones, respectively, in good yields and high enan-tioselectivities. More recently, it was reported that axially chiral biaryl diols 7b and 7c were more highly effective catalysts for enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions (Scheme 12.5). ... 

The cationic chiral Lewis acids 10, generated from the corresponding oxazaboroli-dines by protonation by trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, are excellent catalysts for the enantioselective reaction of 2-substituted acroleins, a-unsaturated a,p-enones, a-unsaturated acrylic acid esters, and a-unsaturated acrylic acids with a variety... 

In particular, the reduced steric bulk around the catalytic nitrogen has allowed for expansion of the scope of these reactions to more hindered substrates such as a-substituted acroleins and, importantly, a,P-unsaturated ketones, augmenting the chemistry described in Sect. 2 of this report (Fig. 14). 

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