Alkyne derivatives ketone trapping

The alternative building scheme C2 + Q was used by Petasis and Hu [89], who reacted various aldehydes and ketones with alkenyltitanocene derivatives 172 to obtain the corresponding allenes 173 in high chemical yields (Scheme 2.54). The reaction probably proceeds via titanocene vinylidene complexes, which can also be trapped with alkynes and isocyanides to afford allenylketene imines [90],... 

Novel practical methods using various reagents, such as [Co(OAc)Br],1355 sulfur trioxide,1356 or ds-dioxoruthenium complexes,1357 were developed to transform alkynes to 1,2-diketones. Radical-catalyzed aerobic oxidation using A-hydro-xyphthalimide combined with a transition metal (Co, Cu, or Mn) affords a,P-acetylenic ketones in good yields.1358 Oxidation by the HOF. acetonitrile complex yields diketones, ketoepoxides, or cleavage products.1359 Ozonolysis of acetylenes combined with trapping techniques affords to isolate various derivatives.1360,1361 New information for the ozonolysis of acetylene was acquired by quantum-chemical investigatons.1362... 

Common to these molecules with their cyclopentadiene moieties is the so-called fulvene subunit 27. The first fulvenes, 6,6-dialkylfulvenes, were prepared as early as 1906 by Thiele et al. from sodium cydopentadienide and ketones [16]. The parent hydrocarbon 27 and many other derivatives have been thoroughly studied since the 1960s [17-19]. Diazocyclo-pentadiene (28), which is also easily prepared from cydopentadienide, is a heteroanalogue of fulvene. It has frequently been used as a precursor to other theoretically interesting molecules containing annelated cydopentadiene moieties, because its irradiation readily generates the cyclopentadienylidene 29. This carbene has, for example, been trapped with alkynes to form spiro-annelated cydopentadiene derivatives 30 (Scheme 5) [20]. It has been proved by UV spectroscopy [21] and supported by calculations [22] that these spiro[2.4]heptatrienes (so-called [1.2]spirenes) 30 experience a spedal kind of electronic... 

While most of the initial studies have involved the transition metal-catalyzed decomposition of a-carbonyl diazo compounds and have been reviewed [3-51], it appears appropriate to highlight again some milestones of these transformations, since polycyclic structures could be nicely assembled from acyclic precursors in a single step. Two main reactivities of metalo carbenoids derived from a-carbonyl diazo precursors, namely addition to a C - C insaturation (olefin or alkyne) and formation of a ylid (carbonyl or onium), have been the source of fruitful cascades. Both of these are illustrated in Scheme 27 [52]. The two diazo ketone functions present in the same substrate 57 and under the action of the same catalyst react in two distinct ways. The initially formed carbenoid adds to a pending olefin to form a bi-cyclop. 1.0] intermediate 58 that subsequently cyclizes to produce a carbonyl ylide 59, that is further trapped intramolecularly in a [3 + 2] cycloaddition. The overall process gives birth to a highly complex pentacyclic structure 60. 

This preliminary rationale is accommodated in a mechanistic model that begins with the departure of alcohol as water prompted by the strongly acidic medium, and the trapping of the resulting allyl cation IV with the acetylene function. Although vinyl cation V would have been a proposition open to public ridicule years ago, today it is a well established reactive intermediate. Its actual participation in this reaction was seen by the isolation of ketone VIII from the reaction, which may have been derived from the attack of water on this cation (Va) (see Scheme 44.1). Also, ample precedent exists for the attack of alkynes on cationic centers. ... 

The reaction between lithio TMS-diazomethane and carbonyl compounds, which generates alkyUdenecarbenes, has been studied further. Aliphatic ketones give cyclopentene derivatives, while aldehydes and aryl alkyl ketones give alkynes. The diazoalkene intermediates from aliphatic ketones can be trapped with diisopropylamine, producing... 

P-Ketophosphonates are valuable intermediates in the realm of Homer-Emmons alkenation methodology. Acyclic variants are difficult to obtain from enol phosphates due to competing alkyne and allene formation. One solution utilized the dianion derived from a-bromo ketones and trapping with diethyl phosphorochloridate however, only moderate yields of P-keto phosphonates were reported. The most efficient procedure utilizes the anion derived from dialkyl methylphosphonate, addition to an aldehyde, followed by oxidation (eq 8). ... 

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