Aldehyde-enyne substrate

The formal total synthesis of the selective muscarinic receptor antagonist (+)-himbacine was accomplished by M.S. Sherburn and co-workers using an intramoiecuiar Dieis-Aider reaction, a Stiiie cross-coupling, and a 6-exo-trig acyi radical cyclization as the key steps.In order to prepare the selenoate ester precursor for the radical cyclization step, the aldehyde-enyne substrate was converted to the carboxylic acid via the Pinnick oxidation without affecting the delicate enyne moiety. 

Furthermore, the choice of enyne substrates can lead to cyclized products that contain other functionalities than dienes. Very recently, Muller and Kressierer [148] have shown that yne allyl alcohols 200 can be rapidly cyclo-isomerized by a Pd2dba3-W-acetyl phenyl alanine catalyst system to furnish heterocyclic enals 202 in excellent yields (Scheme 82). The intermediate product of the enyne cycloisomerization in this case is the enol 201, which rapidly tautomerizes to the aldehyde 202. 

By the choice of the enyne substrates, the obtained cyclized products might contain functionalities other than dienes. The unusual catalyst combination of a Pd precatalyst and formic acid enables sequential catalysis initiated by cycloisomerization in a very peculiar way. Kressierer and Muller [16] demonstrated in several cases that the palladium(0)-catalyzed Alder-ene reaction of a-alkynyl M-allyl alcohols 7 furnishes cyclic y,5-enals 8 as a consequence of the in situ enol-aldehyde tautomerism (Scheme 12.2). 

After extensive screening of various aldehydes to optimize the reaction conditions, it was found that aromatic aldehydes were able to serve as a carbon monoxide source, in which the electronic nature of the aldehydes is responsible for their ability to transfer CO efficiently [24]. Consequently, aldehydes bearing electron-withdrawing substituents are more effective than those bearing electron-donating substituents, with pentafluoro-benzaldehyde providing optimal reactivity. Interestingly, for all substrates tested the reaction is void of any complications from hydroacylation of either the alkene or alkyne of the enyne. Iridium and ruthenium complexes, which are known to decarboxylate aldehydes and catalyze the PK reaction, demonstrated inferior efficiency as compared to... 

Cross-metathesis applications, 11, 200 enynes, 11, 282 in ethenolysis, 11, 198 Lewis-basic substrates, 11, 193 in one-pot reactions, 11, 197 for reagent synthesis, 11, 188 as simple metathesis reaction, 1, 171 Crotyltributyltins, with aldehydes, 9, 352 Crown ether clathrates, diorganozinc compounds, 2, 335 Crown ether-pendant polysilanes, preparation, 3, 577 Crown-ethers, as hosts, 12, 813... 

Here the substrates are 3-silyloxy-l,5-enynes the concept was to combine a metal-induced 6-endo-trig cyclization with a ring contraction by a sigmatropic rearrangement (Scheme 12.12).27 From the cationic intermediate, elimination to the biaryl product can be observed in addition to the aldehyde. 

Complexation of propargyl aldehydes to cobalt also enhances the reactivity and enantioselectivity of the addition of alkylzinc reagents. This fact was used to create non-racemic enyne-ol 88 reacting the aldehyde 86 with bis-homoallylzinc in the presence of a chiral frzs-(sulfonamide) and Ti(OlPr)4. The resulting complexed substrate 87 underwent the PKR promoted by TMANO in a one pot fashion (Scheme 25) [122]. 

Rhodium and iridium catalysts incorporating bisphosphine ligands such as BINAP and derivatives have also been shown to be effective in the asymmetric Pauson—Khand reaction of 1,6-enynes, and some high ees have been obtained with substrates incorporating heteroatoms. As an example, the allylpropargylamine (8.243) is converted into the bicychc product (8.244) with high ee in the presence of an iridium/ToIBINAP catalyst. It has been shown that, in some cases, aldehydes... 

An efficient gold-catalyzed oxidative domino reaction of enyne aldehydes and ketones, as well as related substrates, afforded tetracyclic keto-ethers and heteroaromatic analogues by using pyridine N-oxides as external oxidants (13CEJ14787). 

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