Activated double bonds

The addition of large enolate synthons to cyclohexenone derivatives via Michael addition leads to equatorial substitution. If the cyclohexenone conformation is fixed, e.g. as in decalones or steroids, the addition is highly stereoselective. This is also the case with the S-addition to conjugated dienones (Y. Abe, 1956). Large substituents at C-4 of cyclic a -synthons direct incoming carbanions to the /rans-position at C-3 (A.R. Battersby, 1960). The thermodynamically most stable products are formed in these cases, because the addition of 1,3-dioxo compounds to activated double bonds is essentially reversible. 

Another widely used route to cyclopropanes involves the addition of sulfoniutn ylides to a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (S.R. Landor, 1967 R. Sowada, 1971 C.R. Johnson, I973B, 1979 B.M. Trost, 1975 A). Non-activated double bonds are not attacked. Sterical hindrance is of little importance in these reactions because the C—S bond is extraordinarily long... 

Reactions. Heating an aqueous solution of malonic acid above 70°C results in its decomposition to acetic acid and carbon dioxide. Malonic acid is a useful tool for synthesizing a-unsaturated carboxyUc acids because of its abiUty to undergo decarboxylation and condensation with aldehydes or ketones at the methylene group. Cinnamic acids are formed from the reaction of malonic acid and benzaldehyde derivatives (1). If aUphatic aldehydes are used acryhc acids result (2). Similarly this facile decarboxylation combined with the condensation with an activated double bond yields a-substituted acetic acid derivatives. For example, 4-thiazohdine acetic acids (2) are readily prepared from 2,5-dihydro-l,3-thiazoles (3). A further feature of malonic acid is that it does not form an anhydride when heated with phosphorous pentoxide [1314-56-3] but rather carbon suboxide [504-64-3] [0=C=C=0], a toxic gas that reacts with water to reform malonic acid. 

Another impo2rtant P—C-hond-forming reaction is the base-cataly2ed Michael addition to activated double bonds. For example, dimethyl phosphite can be added to dimethyl maleate to yield tetramethylphosphonosucciaate [2788-26-3] (TMPS), an iatermediate ia the synthesis of 2-phosphonobutane-l,2,4-tricarboxyhc acid [37971-36-1] (PBTC) with 98% yield (20). 

Poly(vinyl alcohol) undergoes Michaels addition with compounds containing activated double bonds, including acrylonitrile (145—150), acrylamide (151—153), A/-methylolacrylamide (154—156), methyl vinyl ketone (157,158), acrolein (157), and sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonate (159). The reactions have been carried out under conditions spanning from homogeneous reactions in solvent to heterogeneous reactions occurring in the swollen powder or fiber. 

Xanthates have been added to activated double bonds, eg, acryhc derivatives and a,P-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones (59—61) ... 

Various alkylating agents are used for the preparation of pyridazinyl alkyl sulfides. Methyl and ethyl iodides, dimethyl and diethyl sulfate, a-halo acids and esters, /3-halo acids and their derivatives, a-halo ketones, benzyl halides and substituted benzyl halides and other alkyl and heteroarylmethyl halides are most commonly used for this purpose. Another method is the addition of pyridazinethiones and pyridazinethiols to unsaturated compounds, such as 2,3(4//)-dihydropyran or 2,3(4//)-dihydrothiopyran, and to compounds with activated double bonds, such as acrylonitrile, acrylates and quinones. 

A variety of ring syntheses have been devized which depend on carbanion addition to an activated double bond. The examples depicted in Scheme 74 illustrate the use of inter alia cyano and nitro groups which are subsequently eliminated. In appropriate instances the inclusion of additional eliminable groups ensures the formation of fully aromatized products. 

A thiol, usually under basic catalysis, can undergo Michael addition to an activated double bond, resulting in protection of the sulfhydryl group as a substituted 5-ethyl derivative. 

The Michael dimerization (activated double bond-amino group interaction) affords the intermediate 211 whose tautomeric form 212 closes the tetrahydropy-ridine cycle 213 which undergoes aromatization with elimination of water and ammonia to isomeric pyridine 214. 

Levoglncosenone, a cellnlose-derived a,fi-nnsanirated ketone, is an interesting material because it is both chiral and contains an activated double bond. This compound has been used... 

Chemical Reactions. TNMe is a strong acid and forms salts with metals and bases (see below). It readily reacts with formaldehyde to form trinitroethanol (Ref 16). it adds to activated double bonds, such as ft, J -un saturated carbonyl compds and vinyl ethers (Ref 19b). 

The following subdivision has been adopted in this section oxidation methods reduction methods pyrolysis to SOz addition to activated double bonds spectroscopic methods chromatographic methods. 

Fluoboric acid is also an efficacious promoter of cyclic oxo-carbenium ions (Scheme 4.24) bearing an activated double bond which, in the presence of open-chain and cyclic dienes, rapidly undergo a Diels-Alder reaction [91]. Chiral a, -unsaturated ketones bearing a -hydroxy substituents, protected as acetals, react with various dienes in the presence of HBF4, affording Diels-Alder adducts that were isolated as alcohols by hydrolysis of the acetal group by TsOH. Some examples of reactions with isoprene are reported in Table 4.23. The enantios-electivity of the reaction is dependent on the size of the substituent R on the of-carbon high levels of asymmetric induction were observed with R = z-Pr (90 1) and R = t-Bu (150 1) and low levels with R = Me (2.7 1) and R = Ph (3.0 1). Scheme 4.24 shows the postulated reaction mechanism. 

Addition of Organometailic Compounds to Activated Double Bonds... 

Acylation of Activated Double Bonds and of Triple Bonds... 

The 1,3-dipolar reagent can in some cases be generated by the in situ opening of a suitable three-membered ring system. For example, aziridines can add to activated double bonds to give pyrrolidines, for example," ... 

The electrochemical reduction of activated double bonds may also be used in the characterization of olefins. In all cases in which pairs (124 and 125) of 1,2-disubstituted olefins in which both X and Y are electron-withdrawing... 

When a second, non-activated double bond 15) is present in the allylamine, cyclo-propanation can still not compete with allylic insertion, as the example of 122 shows. 

These reactions comprise nucleophilic SN2 substitutions, -eliminations, and nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds or activated double bonds, etc. They involve the reactivity of anionic species Nu associated with counterions M+ to form ion-pairs with several possible structures [52] (Scheme 3.4). 

Diphenylnitrilimine (DNPI) can be subjected to 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with activated double bonds as dipolarophiles (Eq. 54). It can be generated in situ by reaction of hydrazonoyl chloride with a base. 

On a first, very broad, approximation singlet oxygen behaves somehow like ethylene. Three types of reactions of 102 are usually observed and have been utilized in organic synthesis 606 608) a) the Diels-Alder like cycloaddition to dienes (6.1) b) the ene reaction with olefins (6.2) and c) cycloaddition to activated double bonds (6.3). 

A tandem radical addition/cyclization process has been described for the formation of benzindolizidine systems from l-(2-iodoethyl)indoles and methyl acrylate <00TL10181>. In this process, sun-lamp irradiation of a solution of the l-(2-iodoethyl)ethylindoles 149 in refluxing benzene containing hexamethylditin and methyl acrylate effects intermolecular radical addition to the activated double bond leading to the stabilized radical 150. Intramolecular cyclization to the C-2 position of the indole nucleus then affords the benzindolzidine derivatives 151 after rearomatization of the tricyclic radical. 

The X-ray structures of some perhydropyrrolo[l,2- ]isoxazoles have been established in order to determine the stereochemistry of the cycloadducts obtained by addition of nitrones to activated double bonds <1997T2979, 2005T8836, 2005JOC856>. 

After treatment of sulfide 383 with iV-chlorobenzotriazole (iV-CBT) in methanol to give sulfoxide 384, followed by reaction with Ac20, the nonclassicaf thiazole 385 was obtained. This highly reactive compound reacted with iV-phenylmaleimide to give a mixture of the corresponding [4+2] cycloadducts 386 (major) and 387 (minor) in good yield. The reaction worked also with activated double bond or triple bonds (Scheme 56) <2000T10011>. 

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