Alkene derivatives electron-deficient alkenes

Reduction of the alkene C=C double bond of inisatin-derived electron-deficient alkenes (153), to give (154), has been promoted in high yield (>99%) by alkylphos-phanes in the presence of water a plausible mechanism (Scheme 15) was proposed on the basis of deuterium labelling and DPT calculations. ... 

The parent five-membered nitronate having no substituent at the 3-position was too unstable to be isolated. However, 3-substituted derivatives were highly stabilized. Especially, the 3-ethyl derivatives having a terminal electron-withdrawing substituent are readily available by the dehydrochlorination of 3-chloro-l-nitropropane in the presence of electron-deficient alkenes. It was our delight that the reaction of 3-al-kyl-substituted five-membered nitronates was also successfully catalyzed by R,R-DBFOX/Ph-Ni(SbFg)2 complex to at room temperature. This reaction was highly endo-selective (cisjtrans= 91 9) and enantioselective for the endo cycloadduct (92% ee). 

The Michael addition of nitroalkanes to alkenes substituted with two electron-withdrawing groups at the a- and P-positions provides a new method for the preparation of functionalized alkenes. Although reactions are not new,170 Ballini and coworkers have used this strategy in the synthesis of polyfunctionalized unsaturated carbonyl derivatives by Michael addition of nitroalkanes to enediones as shown in Eqs. 7.124-7.126.171 Success of this type of reaction depends on the base and solvent. They have found that DBU in acetonitrile is the method of choice for this purpose. This base-solvent system has been used widely in Michael additions of nitroalkanes to electron-deficient alkenes (see Section 4.3, which discusses the Michael addition).172... 

Nitro compounds have been converted into various cyclic compounds via cycloaddition reactions. In particular, nitroalkenes have proved to be useful in Diels-Alder reactions. Under thermal conditions, they behave as electron-deficient alkenes and react with dienes to yield 3-nitrocy-clohexenes. Nitroalkenes can also act as heterodienes and react with olefins in the presence of Lewis acids to yield cyclic alkyl nitronates, which undergo [3+2] cycloaddition. Nitro compounds are precursors for nitrile oxides, alkyl nitronates, and trialkylsilyl nitronates, which undergo [3+2]cycloaddition reactions. Thus, nitro compounds play important roles in the chemistry of cycloaddition reactions. In this chapter, recent developments of cycloaddition chemistry of nitro compounds and their derivatives are summarized. 

Two alkenylidene derivatives 149 and 563 have been reacted with several electron-deficient alkenes (Table 45) [36, 149]. 

Examples of the Michael-type addition of carbanions, derived from activated methylene compounds, with electron-deficient alkenes under phase-transfer catalytic conditions have been reported [e.g. 1-17] (Table 6.16). Although the basic conditions are normally provided by sodium hydroxide or potassium carbonate, fluoride and cyanide salts have also been used [e.g. 1, 12-14]. Soliddiquid two-phase systems, with or without added organic solvent [e.g. 15-18] and polymer-supported catalysts [11] have been employed, as well as normal liquiddiquid conditions. The micellar ammonium catalysts have also been used, e.g. for the condensation of p-dicarbonyl compounds with but-3-en-2-one [19], and they are reported to be superior to tetra-n-butylammonium bromide at low base concentrations. 

Aqueous NaOH (50%, 4 ml) is stirred with the electron-deficient alkene (10 mmol) and PhCOCH,SMe,+Br (2.6 g, 10 mmol), in CH2Cl, (6 ml) for ca. 30 min before TEBA-CI (0.2 g, 0.9 mmol) is added. The mixture is stirred at room temperature for 2-3 h and H,0 (50 ml) is then added. The organic phase is separated, washed well with H20 and brine, dried (Na2S04), and evaporated to yield the cyclopropane derivative (55-87%). 

Cydoadditions onto Methylene- and Alkylidenecydopropane Derivatives Table 43. [2 -i- 2] Cycloadditions of BCP (3) with electron-deficient alkenes 131, and 531-533... 

Suga et al. (197) reported the first stereocontrolled 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of carbonyl ylides with electron-deficient alkenes using a Lewis acid catalyst. Carbonyl ylides are highly reactive 1,3-dipoles and cannot be isolated. They are mainly generated through transition metal carbenoid intermediates derived in situ from diazo precursors by treatment with a transition metal catalyst. When methyl o-(diazoacetyl)benzoate is treated with A-methylmaleimide at reflux... 

Husson and co-workers (84) investigated the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of acyclic chiral azomethine ylides derived from (—)-Af-cyanomethyl-4-phenyl-l,3-oxazoli-dine with electron-deficient alkenes, and in some cases de >95% were obtained. 

Other 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of chiral azomethine ylides with Cgo (98) and reactions of chiral azomethine ylides derived from l-benzyl-4-phenyl-2-imidazoline with different electron-deficient alkenes have been performed (99). 

Further studies revealed that electron-deficient alkenes are capable of displacing O2 from a peroxopalladium(II) complex. The reaction of nitrostyrene derivatives with (bc)Pd(02) results in quantitative displacement of dioxygen and formation of the (bc)Pd(ns ) complex (i.e., the reverse reaction in Eq. 21) [138]. Moreover, preliminary results reveal that dioxygen and BQ undergo reversible exchange at a bathocuproine-coordinated Pd center (Eq. 22) (Popp BV, Stahl SS, unpublished results). This observation is the most direct experimental result to date that establishes the similar reactivity of dioxygen and BQ with palladium. 

Ketcnc equivalents, such as ketene acetals and thioacetals, can be used in cycloadditions to electron-deficient alkenes (see Sections 1.3.2.1. and 1.3.2.2.). In an example of a fumaric acid diester fitted with two chiral alcohol auxiliary groups, the aluminum(III)-catalyzed cycloaddition of 1,1-dimethoxyethene with di-(—)-menthyl fumarate (9) proceeds with > 99% diastereomeric excess. Intermediate 10 can be readily converted to cyclobutanone derivatives.17, 18... 

The use of chiral catalysts in [2 + 2] cycloadditions can result in significant asymmetric induction. The chiral titanium(IV) catalyst prepared from chiral 1,4-diol 13 catalyzes the cycloaddition of l.I-bis(methylsulfanyl)ethene with electron-deficient alkenes giving cyclobutanes with > 90% enantiomeric excess.19-21 These derivatives can be readily converted to chiral cyclobu-tanones. 

As a rule, alkynes react in bromo- and iodofluorinations by monoaddition because vinylic a./f-halofluorides as electron-deficient alkenes are generally less reactive. However, some aryl-conjugated alkenes, such as cinnamate or stilbene derivatives 3 or 5, respectively,184 may also be halofluorinated by hydrogen fluoride/pyridine/A-halosuccinimide reagent.185... 

And 3-vinyl derivatives of pyrrole, furan, thiophene and their benzologues behave as outer-inner dienes and react with ir-electron-deficient alkenes and alkynes to produce the corresponding Diels-Alder adducts. Thus, 3-vinylpyrrole (307) in combination with methyl propiolate gives dihydroindoles (308) or (309) (80JOC4515, 90TL4613, 91H(32)1199). 

A similar polar cyclization of an enamine and a thioketene derivative is shown in equation (87) (76TL4283), but electron-deficient alkenes and alkynes react in a concerted fashion. Concerted cyclizations may be subdivided into those in which the sulfur atom is part of the enophile or the dienophile. Into the first category fall the dimerizations of a,( - unsaturated thioaldehydes (equation 88) which may be shown to closely follow frontier molecular orbital predictions of regioselectivity (79JOC486). Related to this are the thiochalcones (equation... 

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