Bridgehead alkene

The acylpalladium complex formed from acyl halides undergoes intramolecular alkene insertion. 2,5-Hexadienoyl chloride (894) is converted into phenol in its attempted Rosenmund reduction[759]. The reaction is explained by the oxidative addition, intramolecular alkene insertion to generate 895, and / -elimination. Chloroformate will be a useful compound for the preparation of a, /3-unsaturated esters if its oxidative addition and alkene insertion are possible. An intramolecular version is known, namely homoallylic chloroformates are converted into a-methylene-7-butyrolactones in moderate yields[760]. As another example, the homoallylic chloroformamide 896 is converted into the q-methylene- -butyrolactams 897 and 898[761]. An intermolecular version of alkene insertion into acyl chlorides is known only with bridgehead acid chlorides. Adamantanecarbonyl chloride (899) reacts with acrylonitrile to give the unsaturated ketone 900[762],... 

Another interesting transformation is the intramolecular metathesis reaction of 1,6-enynes. Depending on the substrates and catalytic species, very different products are formed by the intramolecular enyne metathesis reaction of l,6-enynes[41]. The cyclic 1,3-diene 71 is formed from a linear 1,6-enyne. The bridged tricyclic compound 73 with a bridgehead alkene can be prepared by the enyne metathesis of the cyclic enyne 72. The first step of... 

An NOE between the the alkene proton at 3h = 6.22 and the methyl protons at Sh = 1.17 establishes the relative eonfiguration (exo) of the respeetive methyl group. The exo attaehment of the six-membered ring in the stereostrueture I follows, in partieular, from the NOE between the methyl protons at 5h = 1.26 and the bridgehead proton at Sh = 3.22 as well as the absenee of effeets between the alkenyl proton pair with Sh = 5.44/6.22 and the bridgehead proton pair with Sh = 2.85/3.22. 

The utility of lOOC reactions in the synthesis of fused rings containing a bridgehead N atom such as pyrrolizidines, indolizidines, and quinolizidines which occur widely in a number of alkaloids has been demonstrated [64]. Substrates 242 a-d, that possess properly positioned aldoxime and alkene functions, were prepared from proline or pipecolinic acid 240 (Eq. 27). Esterification of 240 and introduction of unsaturation on N by AT-alkylation produced 241 which was followed by conversion of the carbethoxy function to an aldoxime 242. lOOC reaction of 242 led to stereoselective formation of various tricyclic systems 243. This versatile method thus allows attachment of various unsaturated side chains that can serve for generation of functionalized five- or six-membered (possibly even larger) rings. 

Bicyclo[3.2.2]non-l-ene, a strained bridgehead alkene, is generated by rearrangement when bicyclo[2.2.2]octyldiazomethane is photolyzed.227... 

The carbene route to bridgehead olefins is a well established reaction and has been developed to a major method for the generation of bridgehead alkenes. The field has been recently reviewed by one of the main contributors to this area.1 The reversed reaction, the formation of carbenes from distorted olefins, has also been known for a long time. Distortion of the tt bond in alkenes is easily affected by photoexitation. In connection with those reactions, carbene chemistry has been observed and the field has also been reviewed some years ago.2... 

For carbenes 25 and 26 1,2-shifts of bonds a and b will lead to different bridgehead olefins, 17 and 27 for 26, and 1-norbomene 16 and bicy-clo[3.1.1]hept-l-ene (30) for 25, whereas carbene 24a will only give alkene 15. In accordance with experimental observations,19 calculations show that the more strained bond will migrate preferentially. 

An alternative substrate design, in which the alkene radical cation is substituted only at the internal position, forces the nucleophilic cyclization into the endocyclic mode, leading overall to bicyclic systems with a bridgehead nitrogen (Scheme 31) [139,140]. 

The stoichiometric enantioselective reaction of alkenes and osmium tetroxide was reported in 1980 by Hentges and Sharpless [17], As pyridine was known to accelerate the reaction, initial efforts concentrated on the use of pyridine substituted with chiral groups, such as /-2-(2-menthyl)pyridine but e.e. s were below 18%. Besides, it was found that complexation was weak between pyridine and osmium. Griffith and coworkers reported that tertiary bridgehead amines, such as quinuclidine, formed much more stable complexes and this led Sharpless and coworkers to test this ligand type for the reaction of 0s04 and prochiral alkenes. 

Tricyclic P-lactams not having a bridgehead nitrogen atom have been obtained by intramolecular Friedel-Crafls reactions <99T5567> and from the intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of 1,3-dienes generated from a mesylate 79 <99TL1015>. Other tricyclic P-lactams e.g., 80 have been obtained by intramolecular nitrone-alkene cycloaddition <99TL5391>. 

Benzvalene (18) is a tricyclic benzene isomer containing a bicyclobutane ring system bridged by an ethylene moiety its radical cation is accessible by PET or radiolysis. CIDNP indicated negative hfcs for the alkene protons (H ), strong positive hfcs for the non-allylic bridgehead protons (Hy), and negligible hfcs for the... 

All this is not to say that dialkylcarbenes are incapable of the reactions formerly attributed to them exclusively. They often—usually—are able to do the reactions, even in cases in which diazo compound chemistry pre-empts their doing so. For example, homocubylidenes (65) are not the first-formed intermediates from the diazohomocubane precursor (66). The bridgehead alkenes, homocubenes (67) are. However, it was possible to use a complex kinetic analysis involving both the pyridine ylide technique and the alternative hydrocarbon precursor 68 to show that in the parent system the two reactive intermediates 65 and 67 are in... 

Another group of compounds that have a twisted double bond are the bicyclic compounds with bridgehead double bonds such as 1,2-norbomene (9) and 1,7-norbornene (10). " It has been found that many compounds, such as 11, which is based on trawi-cyclooctene, may be isolated whereas those based on smaller trauj -cycloalkenes are usually quite unstable. Some evidence for the formation of 9 has been obtained by trapping the product of the dehalogenation of 1,2-diha-lonorbornanes." Here, the simplest view is that the two p orbitals that form the double bond in 9 and 10 are roughly perpendicular to each other. However, pyr-amidalization and rehybridization also are involved. One indication is the reduced localized 7i-orbital population found in the NBO analysis. Whereas normal alkenes have 71 populations of 1.96 e, for 9 with OS = 57 kcal/mol, it is 1.921, and for 10 with OS = 86 kcal/mol, it is 1.896. With 9, the deviations of the a and n orbitals from the line of centers are 24° and 19°, respectively, and with 10, the deviations are 34° and 29°. 

It is interesting to note that head-to-tail dimeric structures are proposed for these products. On the other hand, the head-to-head cyclobutane dimers 15 and 16 are obtained on isomerization of the propellanes 13 and 14. respectively.8 The bridgehead alkenes have been proposed as intermediates as is evident from trapping of the adducts with furan. An X-ray crystallographic study of 15 confirmed the configurations of both cyclobutanes 15 and 16 indicating syn head-to-head dimerization, as 15 could cleanly be converted to 16 by catalytic hydrogenation. 

Strained n/d/ -Bredt alkenes as well as -cycloalkenes will undergo [2 + 2] cycloadditions with alkenes. The bridgehead bicyclo[3.3.1]nonenones 16, produced as a transient species by the dehydrobromination of the corresponding bridgehead bromoketone, undergo cycloaddition with 1,1-dimethoxyethenc (15) to give the tricyclic ketones 17 in quantitative yields.7... 

On a similar note, a series of bridgehead alkenes and -cycloalkenes have been reported to undergo cycloadditions with l,l-dichloro-2,2-difluoroethene (12) to give the corresponding dichlorodifluorocyelobutanes.s... 

Oxyaminatkm.1 The ratio of amino alcohol to diol formed by reaction of alkenes with the reagent is considerably improved by the presence of tertiary alkyl bridgehead amines. Of these ligands, quinuclidine (I, 976 4, 417) is the most efficient. In this case DME is used in place of pyridine as solvent. 

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