Functionalized alkenes

A cross-linked and crystalline copoly(ester—imide) containing an alkene function was made by reaction of an unsaturated diacid chloride containing a cychc imido group with ethylene glycol at low temperature (27). 

Styrene was successfully oxidized to the S-product both by xylene monooxygenase from P. putida mt-2 [113] and styrene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas sp.VLB120 [114] (Scheme 9.13), with the latter enzyme displaying a particularly large substrate tolerance with excellent stereoselectivity (>99% ee). In this context it is interesting to note that both xylene monooxygenase as well as chloroperoxidase are very selective for mono-epoxidation in case of presence of multiple alkene functionalities [115]. 

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. 

In the hrst step, we have an alkene reacting with Br2. To understand this step of the mechanism, we must determine which reagent is the nucleophile, and which reagent is the electrophile. The alkene possesses a pi bond, which represents a region in space of electron density. Therefore, the alkene functions as the nucleophile. 

Scheme 6.4 Some transformations of alkene function of fatty acids...

As predicted from the comparative rates for C=C over C=C hydrozirconation cited earlier, a (poly)enyne is selectively hydrozirconated at the alkyne moiety, whatever the position of the alkene function [138, 210] in the molecule. It can be exempUfied by the chemoselective hydrozirconation of 1,3-butenyne. One exception to this chemoselectivity has been reported, which showed the terminal alkene to react with 1 but leaving the TMS-substituted alkyne function intact (Scheme 8-25). 

Intramolecular ketene cycloadditions are possible if the ketene and alkene functionalities can achieve an appropriate orientation.170... 

The alkene-W complexes used in this study are complexes 33, 166, and 168 (Schemes 5 and 31). The deprotonation of the W-alkene functionality has been carried out on 166, which has three methyl substituents at the C=C bond, in order to prevent any rearrangement of the 1-metallacyclopropene to the corresponding alkylidyne.22b The reaction of 166 with LiBu led to the 1-metallacyclopropene 169 (Scheme 32), which was isolated in quite good yield. The alkylidene 169, a very stable compound, was characterized both in solution and in the solid state.28 The h NMR spectrum shows a four-fold symmetry calixarene skeleton, while the 13C NMR spectrum contains a resonance at 271.0 ppm for the alkylidene carbon. 

A palladium-catalysed carbometallation-alkyne cross coupling cascade process has been reported for the stereo- and regio-controlled synthesis of dibenzoxepines with substituted exocyclic alkene functionality <06OL1685>. 

TMC ATRA reactions can also be conducted intramolecularly when alkyl halide and alkene functionalities are part of the same molecule. Intramolecular TMC ATRA or atom transfer radical cyclization (ATRC) is a very attractive synthetic tool because it enables the synthesis of functionalized ring systems that can be used as starting materials for the preparation of complex organic molecules [10,11], Furthermore, halide functionality in the resulting product can be very beneficial because it can be easily reduced, eliminated, displaced, converted to a Grignard reagent, or if desired serve as a further radical precursor. The use of copper-mediated ATRC in organic synthesis has been reviewed recently and some illustrative examples are shown in Scheme 3 [10,11,31,32,33],... 

There are two distinct classes of compounds that fit the criteria mentioned above alkene-functionalized chalcone derivatives (Fig. IB) and enone-functionalized chalcone derivatives (Fig. 1C). Within each class, both aromatic and non-aromatic compounds exist. Those compounds functionalized at the alkene include i) 3-membered heterocycles, e.g., epoxide and aziri-dine compounds, ii) 5-membered aromatic derivatives including fused and non-fused compounds, and iii) 6-membered aromatic pyrazine compounds. The enone-functionalized compounds include i) 5-membered aromatics such as pyrazole and isoxazole compounds, ii) 5-membered non-aromatic compounds for example pyrazolines and isoxazolines, and iii) 6-membered non-aromatics where a discussion of heterocyclic and non-heterocyclic compounds will be given for completeness. 

The alkene functionality is one of the key units of organic reactivity. Addition of an organometallic species to an alkene has been well described, but in many cases, catalysis is required.11-13... 

The term Diels-Alder reaction in a general sense refers to the reaction between a diene and a dienophile. Retro Diels-Alder reaction is a process that, under certain conditions, produces diene and olefin or a compound containing a C=C bond. The application of flash vacuum pyrolysis to effect the retro Diels-Alder reaction, as shown in Schemes 5-46 and 5-47, has become the standard procedure since the introduction of the method by Stork et al.74 in the 1970s. Therefore, alkenes that are difficult to access by conventional methods may be obtained via retro Diels-Alder reactions.75 In particular, this reaction allows the preparation of thermodynamically less stable compounds such as 4,5-dialkyl cyclopenta-2-en-one. In this case, the alkene functional group can be regarded as being protected by cyclopentadiene (as shown in 154 or 157), which, after subsequent reaction, can easily be removed through quick pyrolysis. 

Organogermanium compounds can be prepared by transmetallation reactions with tin reagents. Examples include Me2PhGeCl (Equation (66)),89 the alkene-functionalized species 26-28, (Equations (67) and (68)),90 and the allenic (Equation (69)) and propargylic (Equation (70)) species 29 and 30.91 A series of aryltrichlorogermanes was prepared from the corresponding tin reagents (Equation (71), Table 9).92 Transmetallation with zirconium species can also be used (Equation (72), Table 10).93... 

A reaction of an allylic compound containing a hydrogen to an alkene function is an ene reaction. Thus a reaction between propene and ethylene is an example of an ene reaction. 

In order to determine the electronic interaction between the amino and the alkene functionalities, the n and tt orbital energies of 32 and the two analogous monofunctional compounds l-azabicyclo[4.4.4]tetradecane (34) and bicyclo[4.4.4]tetradec-l-ene (35) should be known. n and JZ( =c of 32 and 34 have been determined by PES, while 7r =c of the unknown alkene 35 has been estimated. The data are depicted in Figure 9. 

The hydrogenation reaction is carried out with a substituted cinnamic acid. The acetamido group is of particular importance because it functions as a secondary complexation function in addition to the alkene functionality. In the first step the alkene co-ordinates to the cationic rhodium species (containing an enantiopure phosphine DIPAMP in Figures 4.4 and 4.5 with the chirality at phosphorus carrying three different substituents, Ph, o-An, CH2) for which there are several diasteromeric structures due to ... 

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... 

Along with homopolymerization, copolymerization has also been studied within the framework of initiation by tris(4-bromophenyl)ammoniumyl hexachloroantimonate (Bauld et al. 1998a). Generally, cation-radical cycloaddition occurs more efficiently when the reactive cation-radical is the ionized dienophile (Bauld 1989, 1992). In the cited work on copolymerization, the bis(diene) was chosen to be resistant against ionization by the initiator used. As to the dienophile functionality, propenyl rather than vinyl moieties were selected because terminal methyl groups sharply enhance the ionizability of the alkene functions. The polymerization shown in Scheme 7.18 was performed in dichloromethane at 0°C. 

Electrochemical oxidation of alkenes results in the removal on one electron from the alkene function to give a 7t-radical-cation where the electron deficiency is delocalised over tire conjugated system. The majority of alkene radical-cations cannot be characterised because they readily lose an allylic proton in aprotic sol-... 

Carbon-oxygen bonds adjacent to an aromatic ring or an alkene function can be cleaved by reduction at very negative potentials [1]. The process is often followed by reduction of the activating group as in 1. In these processes, the reduction potential of the activating group controls the electrode potential required. Thus an... 

Alkyl alkanoates are reduced only at very negative potentials so that preparative scale experiments at mercury or lead cathodes are not successful. Phenyl alkanoates afford 30-36% yields of the alkan-l-ol under acid conditions [148]. Preparative scale reduction of methyl alkanoates is best achieved at a magnesium cathode in tetrahydrofuran containing tm-butanol as proton donor. The reaction is carried out in an undivided cell with a sacrificial magnesium anode and affords the alkan-l-ol in good yields [151]. In the absence of a proton donor and in the presence of chlorotrimethylsilane, acyloin derivatives 30 arc formed in a process related to the acyloin condensation of esters using sodium in xylene [152], Radical-anions formed initially can be trapped by intramolecular addition to an alkene function in substrates such as 31 to give aiicyclic products [151]. 

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