3-alkenoic acid alkene

Studies of the transfer of Br+ and I+ from amine-coordinated halonium ions to acceptor l-co-alkenols have been undertaken to determine the mechanism in an effort to assist in the development of chiral transfer reagents. Transfer of Br+ and I+ from two commercially available dimeric hydroquinine and hydroquinidine ligands ((DHQ)2PHAL and (DHQD)2PHAL) to various 1, (o-alkenols and l,co-alkenoic acids is shown to provide enantiomeric excesses of 4-47% depending on the acceptor alkene. 

With respect to the biosynthesis of the solvents it has been speculated on the basis of quantitative data and the identification of (3,y-unsaturated acids in primitive oxytelid beetles that pairs of 1-alkenes and y-lactones are synthesized from corresponding 3-alkenoic acids by either lactonization or by decarboxylation [118]. 

The intramolecular reaction of alkenes with various O and N functional groups offers useful synthetic methods for heterocycles[l3,14,166]. The reaction of unsaturated carboxylic acids affords lactones by either exo- or endo-cyclization depending on the positions of the double bond. The reaction of sodium salts of the 3-alkenoic acid 143 and 4-alkenoic acid 144 with Li2PdCU affords mostly five-membcrcd lactones in 30-40% yields[ 167]. Both 5-hexe-noic acid (145) and 4-hexenoic acid (146) are converted to five- or six-mem-bered lactones depending on the solvents and bases[168]. Conjugated 2,4-pentadienoic acid (147) is cyclized with Li2PdCl4 to give 2-pyrone (148) in water[169]. 

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