Alkene alcohols fragmentation

In the hydration of compounds 2f and 2g, besides the expected ester, three other products (acetic acid, an alkene, and alcohol) were observed. These products were postulated to arise via a fragmentation of the intermediate vinyl cation, 6, as shown in Scheme II. The importance of the fragmentation path is presumably determined by the stability of the alkyl cation formed by the alkyl oxygen fission. 

In a rare example of the use of phenylselenides as radical precursors in the generation of alkene radical cations by the fragmentation approach, Giese and coworkers generated a thymidine C3/,C4/ radical cation by expulsion of diethyl phosphate. Trapping experiments were conducted with methanol and with allyl alcohol (Scheme 16), when nucleophilic attack was followed by radical cyclization [66]. 

An example of a 6-endo cyclization of an alcohol onto an alkene radical cation/phosphate anion pair has also been described (Scheme 22). In order to bring about fragmentation of the primary alkyl phosphate bond in this reaction it was necessary to work in a 1 1 mixture of benzene and acetonitrile [139,140],... 

Aliphatic onium ions such as immonium, oxonium, and sulfonium ions have been introduced as even-electron ionic products of the a-cleavage occurring from molecular ions of amines, alcohols, and ethers or thiols and thioethers, respectively (Chap. 6.2.5). All these and analogous onium ions are capable of further fragmentation reactions, the majority of which are alkene losses [141] yielding fragments of high relevance for structure elucidation. 

The iodoetherification strategy was applied to the synthesis of the smaller fragment coupling component 109 as well (Scheme 16). Silylation of alcohol 104 [30] (76% de) allowed the separation of the pure desired diastereomer, which in turn was subjected to hydroboration/oxidation, sulfide formation with thiol 105, and oxidation to give sulfone 106. The requisite y-triethylsilyloxy alkene functionality in 107 was constructed as a diastereomeric E) Z)=l.2 l mixture by another sulfone-based olefination of aldehyde 90 with 106. Treatment of 106 with... 

However, the real breakthrough came with the drastically facilitated preparation of 1-cyclopropylcyclopropanol (15) from methyl cyclopropanecarboxylate (19) applying the transformation of an alkoxycarbonyl group into a cyclopropanol fragment with ethylmagnesium bromide in the presence of Ti(zPrO)4 as developed by Kulinkovich et al. [13]. The optimized conversion of the alcohol 15 to the bromide 16 and its dehydrobromination makes the alkene 1 available in synthetically useful quantities of 40 -55 g within one week (Scheme 3) [ 14]. This sequence is also applicable to prepare substituted, especially spirocyclopropane-annelated, bicyclopropylidenes [ 14a]. 

Support-bound sulfonylhydrazones can also be used as linkers for alkenes. Cleavage is effected by heating in the presence of an alcoholate, whereby diazoalkanes are initially formed these then undergo thermal fragmentation into the alkene and nitrogen (Entry 12, Table 3.43 Bamford-Stevens reaction). Polystyrene-bound alkynyl... 

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