Alkenes, cyclization major products

An analogous Lewis acid catalyzed cyclization of the oi-acctoxy derivatives 3 gives rise to one pair of diastereomers of 4 in the case of the ( )-alkenc, while the (Z)-alkene affords a diastereomeric mixture of (2S, 3/J, 4/J )-4 (major product) and (2,S, 3,S, 4/ )-4 (minor product)90. 

Zinc-mediated reductive dimerization cyclization of 1,1-dicyano-alkenes occurs to give functionalized cyclopentenes in good yields under saturated aqueous NH4CI-THF solution at room temperature. The trans isomers are the major products (Eq. 10.38).89... 

Addition of halocarbons to alkenes in the presence of transition metals is a well-known radical reaction. Weinreb etal. have now reported an intramolecular version leading to cyclic esters or bicyclic lactones. Typical substrates are the a,a-dichloro ester 1 or the a,a-dichloro acid 2, readily available by reaction of ethyl lithiodi-chloroacetate with 5-bromo-l-pentene. When 1 is heated in benzene at 160° with a metal catalyst, mixtures of epimeric ot,w-dichloro esters 3 and 4 are obtained. The ratio and yields of 3 and 4 are dependent on the catalyst and concentration of 1, but 3 and 4 are the major products formed in the presence of Ru(II) and Fe(II) catalysts. In contrast cyclization of 2 under the same conditions gives the bicyclic y-lactone 5 in high yield. 

Perlmutter used an oxymercuration/demercuration of a y-hydroxy alkene as the key transformation in an enantioselective synthesis of the C(8 ) epimeric smaller fragment of lb (and many more pamamycin homologs cf. Fig. 1) [36]. Preparation of substrate 164 for the crucial cyclization event commenced with silylation and reduction of hydroxy ester 158 (85-89% ee) [37] to give aldehyde 159, which was converted to alkenal 162 by (Z)-selective olefination with ylide 160 (dr=89 l 1) and another diisobutylaluminum hydride reduction (Scheme 22). An Oppolzer aldol reaction with boron enolate 163 then provided 164 as the major product. Upon successive treatment of 164 with mercury(II) acetate and sodium chloride, organomercurial compound 165 and a second minor diastereomer (dr=6 l) were formed, which could be easily separated. Reductive demercuration, hydrolytic cleavage of the chiral auxiliary, methyl ester formation, and desilylation eventually led to 166, the C(8 ) epimer of the... 

O-Isopropylidene-D-erythrose ( ) (15), obtained either by acetonation of D-erythrose ( ) or by periodate oxidation of 3,4-0-isopropylidene-fi-arabinose (1, ]J), reacted with ethoxycarbonylmethy-lenetriphenylphosphorane in refluxing benzene (18) to give the E-alkene ( ) as the major product (56%) together with the Z -alkene ( ) (21%), As expected (1 -M) the alkenes (14) and (f5) readily cyclized to tetrahydrofurans (16) under very mild basic conditions. Initially the 6 anomer of (16) was favored C86% from (lA) and 100% from ( )] at equilibrium the a anomer preponderated (82%) (19). 

Related pyrrolidines 149 and 150 are produced from organolithium species which readily undergo cyclization onto suitably positioned alkenes <20030BC2111>. The amino-stannane starting material undergoes tin-lithium exchange at low temperatures followed by cyclization on warming to produce two stereoisomers in a 4 1 ratio (Equation 51). The major product formed was found to be the stereoisomer 149, contrary to expectation from model studies. 

Reaction of atomic carbon with alkenes generally involves both DBA and vinyl C—H insertion. An interesting example is the reaction of C atoms with styrene in which the major products are phenylallene (21) and indene (22). The synthesis of a number of specifically deuterated styrenes and the measurement of the deuterium isotope effects on the 21/22 ratio led to the conclusion that 21 was formed by DBA followed by ring expansion and by C—H(D) insertion into and followed by rearrangement of the resultant frawi-vinylcarbene (23). The indene was formed by C—H(D) insertion into Xb followed by cyclization of the resultant cw-vinylcarbene (24) (Eq. 18). An examination of the product ratios and their label distributions when atoms are used leads to the conclusion that the ratio of C=C addition to C—H insertion is 0.72 1 in this case. 

When an alkyl or aryl ketone, or an aryl aldehyde, reacts with an alkyl-substituted ethylene, or with an electron-rich alkene such as a vinyl ether, the mechanism involves attack by the (n,n triplet state of the ketone on ground-state alkene to generate a 1,4-biradical that subsequently cyclizes. The orientation of addition is in keeping with this proposal, since the major product is formed by way of the more stable of the possible biradicals, as seen for benzophenone and 2-melhylpropene (4.64). As would be expected for a triplet-state reaction, the stereoselectivity is low, and benzophenone gives the same mixture of stereoisomers when it reacts with either trans or... 

Electrophilic heteroatom cyclizations of systems involving alkyne and allene ir-systems have attracted significant attention. A major difference from alkene cyclizations is that the electrophilic group in the initial product may be a vinyl substituent, and, in the case of metal electrophiles, possess different reactivity patterns than when attached to a saturated carbon. 

Intermolecular addition and addition-cyclization reactions of aminium cation radicals with electron-rich alkenes such as ethyl vinyl ether (EVE) allow an entry into products containing the N—C—C—O moiety of 13-amino ethers 70 or the equivalent of /3-amino aldehydes 71. The mild conditions under which aminium cation radicals are generated from PTOC carbamates makes the reactions described in Scheme 22 possible. In the absence of hydrogen atom donors, the /3-amino ethoxy(2-pyridylthio) acetal 71 was the major product. The mixed acetal can easily be converted... 

Tributyltin hydride-mediated radical cyclization of alkenes 403 (R = OPh or OAc) led to three types of product (Equation 58). The yields of the 4/6/6 ring system were low and the ratio of the isomers varied with the nature of R but the major product was 404 in each case <1996TL1363>. 

A Lewis-acid-mediated intramolecular cyclization of allenyl stannane 344 furnishes 2,6- //-tetrahydropyran as the major product, the stereochemistry of which can be switched to syn with moderate effect if a propargylstannane 345 is used as a substrate (Equation 147, Table 16) <1996TL3059>. The stereoselectivity observed in an analogous system, the intramolecular cyclization of y-alkoxyallyl stannanes 346 with a tethered aldehyde, can be controlled by changing the geometry of the alkene (Scheme 83) <1997JOC7439>. y-Alkoxyallyl stannanes are also known to cyclize both diastereoselectively and enantioselectivity, by incorporation of both a chiral auxiliary and a chiral catalyst respectively into the reaction <1999JOC4901>. 

If dehydration occurred first, only the Z-alkene could cyclize and the major product, the E-alkene, would be wasted. 

As expected, the higher alkene substitution present in the 2-indolylacyl radical derived from 14a retarded the usually favored 5-exo cyclization in favour of the 6-endo mode. Thus, the tram fused tetracycle 15a was isolated as the major product in 75% yield along with... 

As depicted in the following scheme, a homoallyl alcohol derived from a norbomyl a-diketone underwent a lead(IV) acetate reaction in MeOH, resulting in the formation of a novel methoxy substituted spirocyclic tetrahydrofuran <07CC4239>. It is believed that the addition of the methoxylead(IV) acetate species across the alkene from the less sterically hindered side to form a plumbonium cation leads to the major product after subsequent cyclization and reductive elimination. Moreover, construction of tetrahydrofurans by a Pd(II)/Pd(IV)-catalyzed aminooxygenation of homoallyl alcohols was also reported <07AGE5737>. 

Considerable information about the course of aldehyde decarbonylations has been gleaned from the decarbonylations of alk-4-enals. Pent-4-enals form cyclopentanones in high yield in decarbonylations catalyzed by [RhCl(PPh3)3], The major product from the decarbonylation of hex-4-enal is 2-methylcyclopentanone. As shown in Scheme 5, the cyclization reaction requires a vacant site on rhodium. The other products result from decarbonylation of the unsaturated acyl before cyclization can take place. In these cases, there is competition between addition of deuterium to C-1 of the alkenyl ligand or its addition to the alkene bond and the formation of an unstable metallocycle. ... 

The halocyclization of 1 -benzyloxy-3-hydroxy-4-alkenes or l-benzyloxy-3-alkoxy-4-alkenes, carried out with iodine in tetrahydrofuran, in the presence of sodium hydrogen carbonate, or with bromine in dichloromethane, gives tetrahydrofurans in good yield. 1,2-Asymmetric induction is very effective and m-2.3-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans are the major products, in analogy with the cyclization of the corresponding diols, unless the double bond has Z configuration16,25. 

An interesting application of the asymmetric alkoxyselenenylation of alkenes to natural product synthesis was reported recently by Wirth, who described a short procedure to obtain some furofuran lignans 147]. The total synthesis of (+)-Samin 53 [47 a] is shown in Scheme 7. The protected allylic alcohol 50 was treated with the selenyl triflate derived from diselenide 29 in the presence of 2,3-butadien-l-ol, and afforded the addition product 51 in 55% yield and with a diastereomeric ratio of 15 1. The favored 5-exo-trig radical cyclization of the major isomer afforded the tetrahydrofuran derivative 52 from which the final product was obtained through few classical steps. 

Unsaturated acyliutn ions generated from alkenic acids or anhydrides react with alkenes to produce cy-clopentenones (equation 4i).88.i78-i8i with cycloheptene the major products arise from ring contraction. Again, it is unclear whether these reactions proceed via direct cyclization of (76) or a Nazarov cycliza-tion. 

For unsubstituted alkenyl radicals containing up to eight carbons, with the general structure previously shown, the preferred mode of cyclization is exo. (The symbol at means that the alkene is at the terminus distant from the radical.) The reaction is controlled kinetically the major product is the one that forms faster. The rates of formation of the two possible adducts are a result of the stereochemical requirements of their transition states. Often the endo product is more stable than the exo product. When this is the case, however, the more stable product is not the major product formed. 

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