Addition reactions Diels-Alder cycloaddition

Perhaps the most characteristic property of the carbon-carbon double bond is its ability readily to undergo addition reactions with a wide range of reagent types. It will be useful to consider addition reactions in terms of several categories (a) electrophilic additions (b) nucleophilic additions (c) radical additions (d) carbene additions (e) Diels-Alder cycloadditions and (f) 1,3-dipolar additions. 

To date, hydrogen bond catalysis has been successfully utilized to facilitate enantioselective Michael additions, Baylis-Hillman reactions, Diels-Alder cycloadditions, and additions of 7i-nucleophiles to imines. 

An important strategy for achieving substrate control is the use of chiral auxiliaries, which are structures incorporated into reactants for the purpose of influencing the stereochemistry. Two of the most widely used systems are oxazolidinones " derived from amino acids and sultams derived from camphorsulfonic acid. These groups are most often used as carboxylic acid amides. They can control facial stereoselectivity in reactions such as enolate alkylation, aldol addition, and Diels-Alder cycloadditions, among others. The substituents on the chiral auxiliary determine the preferred direction of approach. 

The reversible redox relationship between 1,4-benzenediols and 2,5-cyclohexadiene-l,4-diones (/ -benzoquinones, or just quinones) is a special one because of its relative ease. Conjugate addition and Diels-Alder cycloaddition are common reactions of quinones conjugate additions have biological importance. The isomeric but less stable 1,2-compounds are encountered much less often and arc accorilingly less important. 

In addition to activation by Lewis acids, the Diels-Alder reaction has also been shown to undergo dramatic acceleration in certain reaction media. Breslow, for example, noted that water as a solvent can lead to substantive rate enhancement (Equation 2) [21]. The cycloaddition reaction of cyclopen-tadiene and methyl vinyl ketone (19) shows a more than 700-fold rate increase in water relative to that in isooctane. Additionally, when Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions are conducted in water with LiCl or /1-cyclodextrin (18) as additives, further rate increases are observed (2.5-fold over water and 1800 over isooctane). It was suggested that this phenomenon was the result of hydrophobic effects, leading to mutual aggregation of the diene and dienophile [21, 22]. 

Further mechanistic evidence comes from trapping experiments. When bromobenzene is treated with KNH2 in the presence of a diene such as furan, a Diels-Alder reaction (Section 14.5) occurs, implying that the symmetrical intermediate is a benzyne, formed by elimination of HBr from bromobenzene. Ben-zyne is too reactive to be isolated as a pure compound but, in the presence of water, addition occurs to give the phenol, in the presence of a diene, Diels-Alder cycloaddition takes place. 

This reviews contends that, throughout the known examples of facial selections, from classical to recently discovered ones, a key role is played by the unsymmetri-zation of the orbital phase environments of n reaction centers arising from first-order perturbation, that is, the unsymmetrization of the orbital phase environment of the relevant n orbitals. This asymmetry of the n orbitals, if it occurs along the trajectory of addition, is proposed to be generally involved in facial selection in sterically unbiased systems. Experimentally, carbonyl and related olefin compounds, which bear a similar structural motif, exhibit the same facial preference in most cases, particularly in the cases of adamantanes. This feature seems to be compatible with the Cieplak model. However, this is not always the case for other types of molecules, or in reactions such as Diels-Alder cycloaddition. In contrast, unsymmetrization of orbital phase environment, including SOI in Diels-Alder reactions, is a general concept as a contributor to facial selectivity. Other interpretations of facial selectivities have also been reviewed [174-180]. 

Deslongchamps and coworkers [26] used a combination of a transannular Diels-Alder cycloaddition and an intramolecular aldol reaction in the synthesis of the unnatural enantiomer of a derivative of the (+)-aphidicolin (4-74), which is a diterpe-noic tetraol isolated from the fungus Cephalosporium aphidicolia. This compound is an inhibitor of DNA polymerase, and is also known to act against the herpes simplex type I virus. In addition, it slows down eukaryotic cell proliferation, which makes it an interesting target as an anticancer agent... 

Hetero substituted 2-cyclopropylideneacetates are ring-strain activated acrylates, highly reactive dienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions, but also powerful Michael acceptors. The reactivity of these compounds is enhanced by the same strain release in the Diels-Alder cycloadditions as well as in the 1,4-additions, and indeed the borderline between tandem Michael-cyclization and Diels-Alder-type cycloaddition is not well defined in many cases. 

In addition, it has been discovered that there are naturally occurring enzymes that facilitate Diels-Alder type reactions within certain metabolic pathways and that enzymes are also instrumental in forming polyketides, isoprenoids, phenylpropanoids, and alkaloids (de Araujo et al., 2006). Agresti et al. (2005) identified ribozymes from RNA oligo libraries that catalyzed multiple-turnover Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions. 

Inter- and intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions in a series of functionalized 2-(lH)-pyrazinones have been studied in detail by the groups of Van der Eycken and Kappe (Scheme 6.95) [195-197]. In the intramolecular series, cycloaddition of alkenyl-tethered 2-(lH)-pyrazinones required 1-2 days under conventional thermal conditions involving chlorobenzene as solvent under reflux conditions (132 °C). Switching to 1,2-dichloroethane doped with the ionic liquid l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (bmimPF6) and sealed-vessel microwave technology, the same transformations were completed within 8-18 min at a reaction temperature of 190 °C (Scheme 6.95 a) [195]. Without isolating the primary imidoyl chloride cycloadducts, rapid hydrolysis was achieved by the addition of small amounts of water and subjecting the reaction mixture to further microwave irradia-... 

In an attempt to further elucidate the mechanism of this process, these workers monitored the reaction between propiophenone enolsilane and fumaroylimide by in situ infrared (IR) spectroscopy, Scheme 25 (240). In the absence of alcoholic additives, the accumulation of an intermediate is observed prior to appearance of product. When i-PrOH is introduced, immediate decomposition of the intermediate occurs with concomitant formation of product. Evans suggests that the intermediate observed in this reaction is dihydropyran (374). Indeed, this reaction may be viewed as a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition followed by alcohol induced decomposition to the desired Michael adduct. That 374 may be acting as a competent inhibitor was suggested by an observed rate reduction when this reaction was conducted in the presence of IV-methyloxazolidinone. 

For concerted Diels-Alder reactions, as discussed above, both AV and AF are negative and Owl. In some unhindered Diels-Alder reactions, such as those involving maleic anhydride, it was observed [275] that AV > AF. This means that the transition state has an additional volume contraction with respect to the products. Since Diels-Alder cycloadditions are essentially solvent-insensitive and thus have negligible or small environmental contribution to the activation volume, this contraction seems to be of intramolecular origin, and it was suggested [284] that it could be due to secondary orbital interactions in the transition state. This contribution to AjF has been indicated as A, V. ... 

The proposed catalytic cycles for the iminium ion catalysed Diels-Alder cycloaddition and conjugate addition reactions are outlined in Fig. 2. The general principles of these catalytic cycles can be used to understand each of the reactions described within this review which all follow a similar mechanistic pathway. The catalytic cycle consists of three principle steps ... 

Cycloadditions, Carbene Additions and Diels-Alder Reactions... 

Oximes of type XON=CW2 (X = Ts, Tf, Ac W = CN, COiEt) are of interest as cycloaddition partners in [4-1-2] cycloaddition reactions of dienes For example, addition of acetoxyimino Meldrum s acid to dienes at high pressure afforded tetrahy-dropyridine derivatives. Recently, such reactions were studied in detail by Renslo and Danheiser. Thus, Diels-Alder cycloaddition of oximinotosylate 292 with a variety of 1,3-dienes afforded tetrahydropyridines 293, which can be easily transformed to... 

Electrophilic alkenes have been appended to imidazolium-type ILs for use in the Diels-Alder cycloaddition, 1,4-addition, Heck and Stetter reactions.Electrophilic alkenes containing Wang-type linkers were alkylated to imidazole followed by ion exchange and esterification giving the desired TSIL. Diels-Alder cycloaddition was carried out with 2,3-dimethylbutadiene and cyclopentadiene to give corresponding adducts. After washing with ether, transesterification resulted in cyclohexene derivatives. Scheme 29. 

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