Alkyne derivatives regiochemistry

Treatment of an alkyne/alkene mixture with ruthenium carbene complexes results in the formation of diene derivatives without the evolution of byproducts this process is known as enyne cross-metathesis (Scheme 22). An intramolecular version of this reaction has also been demonstrated, sometimes referred to as enyne RCM. The yield of this reaction is frequently higher when ethylene is added to the reaction mixture. The preferred regiochemistry is opposite for enyne cross-metathesis and enyne RCM. The complex mechanistic pathways of Scheme 22 have been employed to account for the observed products of the enyne RCM reaction. Several experiments have shown that initial reaction is at the alkene and not the alkyne. The regiochemistry of enyne RCM can be attributed to the inability to form highly strained intermediate B from intermediate carbene complex A in the alkene-first mechanism. Enyne metathesis is a thermodynamically favorable process, and thus is not a subject to the equilibrium constraints facing alkene cross-metathesis and RCM. In a simple bond energy analysis, the 7r-bond of an alkyne is... 

Doyle et al. (39) expanded the rhodium-catalyzed generation of isomiinchnones from diazoacetacetamides and subsequent trapping with dipolarophiles (38). As shown in Scheme 10.12, in the case of diazoacetoacetyl urea (79) the derived isomtinchnone 80 reacts with methyl propiolate to give a 2 1 mixture of cycloadducts 81. The resulting regiochemistry is successfully rationalized using frontier molecular orbital (FMO) theory as being isomiinchnone-HOMO controlled. This result represents one of the few reactions in which the cycloadducts from isomiinchnones and alkynes are stable. 

Organopalladium derivatives obtained by any of the methods indicated above can undergo carbometallation which may be defined as a process of addition, generally syn-addition, of a C - Pd bond to alkenes and alkynes (Schemes 1 and 2). The regiochemistry of carbometallation can be affected by mutually competing factors and is therefore often somewhat unpredictable. 

The presence of halogens in norbornene-derived systems is a good way to control the regiochemistry of the PKR with alkynes. This has been observed with 7-oxa- and 7-azanorbornenes 246 and 249. Thus, the carbonyl is bonded with the olefinic carbon that bore the halogen, which is eliminated in the pro-... 

Dalla Croce and La Rosa examined the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of unsymmetrical munchnones with terminal alkynes to give pyrroles 156 and 157 (Table 4.8). The reaction is generally regioselective the major pyrrole isomer from the monosubstituted munchnones have adjacent hydrogens, irrespective of the munchnone substituent. With the disubstituted munchnones, the major regioisomer is derived from attachment of C-4 of the munchnone and the p-carbon of the alkyne, except for phenylacetylene, which shows the opposite regiochemistry. The authors interpreted this behavior as a consequence of the electron-rich nature of phenylacetylene as a dipolarophile with a larger LUMO coefficient on the a carbon. 

Following this oxidative addition, insertion of the olefin or alkyne occurs into the platinum-hydride bond to form an alkyl or vinyl hydride complex. The regioselectivity of the insertion step and the chemistry of the alkyl silyl complexes control the overall regioselectivity of the hydrosilylation of olefins. Recall that these platinum catalysts form terminal alkylsilane products. This regioselectivity indicates that insertions of terminal olefins occur in order to generate a linear alkylplatinum intermediate. Apparently, the insertions of styrene and acrylic acid derivatives into the platinum hydride in these catalysts occur with the same regiochemistry. 

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