Alkynes carbonylative annulation

Thiourea was used as stabilising agent for zerovalent Pd species [117]. The Pd-thiourea (H2NCSNH2) catalysed carbonylation of terminal alkynes and allylic alcohols has been described by Chiusoh [118]. More recently, Pd-thiourea-catalysed carbonylative annulation was studied. The reaction proceeds between alkynes, iodophenol acetates and carbon monoxide, in the presence of dppp, thiourea (H2NCSNH2) and base at 40 °C. Flavones have been obtained in good yields (Scheme 30) [119]. 

The insertion of alkynes into arylpalladium complexes might also be accompanied by the insertion of carbon monoxide into the resulting vinylpalladium intermediate. The carbonylative annulation of TV-protected 2-iodoanilines and internal alkynes under an ambient pressure of carbon monoxide resulted in the formation of 2-quinolones (4.14.), The protection of the nitrogen atom in the aniline is crucial to the success of the reaction. 

Under the same conditions, o-iodophenol and aniline derivatives also undergo carbonylative annulation with terminal alkynes in the presence of carbon monoxide to form the corresponding coumarins and 2-quinolines, respectively [80]. This is a particularly interesting discovery because analogous palladiumreactions between a terminal alkyne, o-iodophenol, and CO have previously been reported to afford either aurones or chromones, whereas the corresponding reaction with o-iodoanilines generates six-membered ring 4-quinolines. 

Kadnikov, D.V. and Larock, R.C. (2000) Synthesis of coumarins via palladium-catalyzed carbonylative annulation of internal alkynes by o-iodophenols. Organic Letters, 2, 3643—3646. 

As with Michael additions to activated alkenes, the initial adducts with activated alkynes can be trapped by various processes. An aldol reaction can occur if a carbonyl is properly situated in the starting material (Scheme 71).123 However, the use of methyl ethynyl ketone (509) and its homologs in the Robinson annulation process to give cyclohexadienones (510 equation 110) usually proceeds in poor... 

The platinum-catalysed intramolecular domino annulation reaction of o-alkynylben-zaldehydes has been described as a versatile approach to naphthalenes with annulated carbocycles or heterocycles of various sizes (Scheme 32).94 A plausible mechanism for the platinum(II)-catalysed annulation reaction shows that the double annulation process most probably proceeds through the benzopyrylium cation (117), which results from the nucleophilic attack of the carbonyl oxygen at the alkyne, activated by the Lewis-acidic platinum salt. A subsequent intramolecular Huisgen-type 3 + 2-cycloaddition of the second alkyne is assumed to generate intermediate (118). Rearrangement to (119) and the formal 4 + 2-cycloaddition product (118) leads to the aromatized final (116), liberating the active catalyst. In the case of FeCl3 as the Lewis acid, we assume that intermediate (118) is oxidatively transformed to (121). 

Attempted annulation of 3-iodoflavones, for example 428, by internal alkynes catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2 in the presence of NaOAc and LiCl yielded a mixture of two compounds (Scheme 73) <1998JOC2002>. While the expected benzoxanthenes (e.g., 429) were isolated as the minor compound, tetrasubstituted furans (e.g., 430) resulting from the electrophilic attack on the carbonyl oxygen atom by the vinylpalladium intermediate followed by pyrone ring opening were the major product. 

In addition to cationic cyclizations, other conditions for the cyclization of polyenes and of ene-ynes to steroids have been investigated. Oxidative free-radical cyclizations of polyenes produce steroid nuclei with exquisite stereocontrol. For example, treatment of (259) and (260) with Mn(III) and Cu(II) afford the D-homo-5a-androstane-3-ones (261) and (262), respectively, in approximately 30% yield. In this cyclization, seven asymmetric centers are established in one chemical step (226,227). Another intramolecular cyclization reaction of iodo-ene poly-ynes was reported using a carbopaUadation cascade terminated by carbonylation. This carbometalation—carbonylation cascade using CO at 111 kPa (1.1 atm) at 70°C converted an acycHc iodo—tetra-yne (263) to a D-homo-steroid nucleus (264) [162878-44-6] in approximately 80% yield in one chemical step (228). Intramolecular aimulations between two alkynes and a chromium or tungsten carbene complex have been examined for the formation of a variety of different fiised-ring systems. A tandem Diels-Alder—two-alkyne annulation of a triynylcarbene complex demonstrated the feasibiHty of this strategy for the synthesis of steroid nuclei. Complex (265) was prepared in two steps from commercially available materials. Treatment of (265) with Danishefsky s diene in CH CN at room temperature under an atmosphere of carbon monoxide (101.3 kPa = 1 atm), followed by heating the reaction mixture to 110°C, provided (266) in 62% yield (TBS = tert — butyldimethylsilyl). In a second experiment, a sequential Diels-Alder—two-alkyne annulation of triynylcarbene complex (267) afforded a nonaromatic steroid nucleus (269) in approximately 50% overall yield from the acycHc precursors (229). 

Electrocyclic ring opening of oxiranes - either thermally or photochemically - yields carbonyl ylides, which can be trapped with alkynes to give dihydrofurans. If l-buten-3-ynyl-oxirans are used as starting materials, the corresponding ethenylfurans are obtained (Equation (49)). This sequence, which has been studied quite intensively by Eberbach and co-workers, can also be used to prepare annulated derivatives <93CB975>. 

The use of both LIU and HIU has been shown to increase the efficiency of the P-K reaction, which involves the formation of cyclopentenone from the annulation of a cobalt alkynyl carbonyl complex and an alkene. The use of low-power ultrasound, as for example, from a cleaning bath, although capable of producing intramolecular P-K reactions, generated relatively low cyclization yields. The motivation for the use of high intensity came from its ability, as previously described, to effectively decarbonylate metal carbonyl and substituted metal carbonyl complexes. Indeed, HIU produced by a classic horn-type sonicator has been shown to be capable of facile annulation of norbornene and norbornadiene in under 10 min in the presence of a trimethylamine or trimethylamine N-oxidc dihydrate (TMANO) promoter, with the latter promoter producing cleaner product mixtures. This methodology also proved effective in the enhancement of the P-K reaction with less strained alkenes such as 2,5-dihydrofuran and cyclopentene, as well as the less reactive alkenes -fluorostyrene and cycloheptene. The mechanism has been postulated to involve decarbo-nylation of the cobalt carbonyl alkyne, followed by coordination by the amine to the vacant coordination sites on the cobalt. 

The reaction was first reported by Khand and Pauson et al. in 1973d It is the dicobalt octacarbonyl [Co2(CO)8l mediated or promoted one-step synthesis of a,p-unsaturated cyclopentenone from the [2+2+1] cycloaddition of alkyne, alkene and carbon monoxide, through an intermediate of alkynedicobalt hexacarbonyl complex. Therefore, this reaction is generally known as the Pauson-Khand reaction, Pauson-Khand cyclization, or Pauson-Khand cycloaddition. Occasionally, this reaction is also referred to as the Pauson-Khand annulation, Pauson-Khand multicomponent cycloaddition, Pauson-Khand carbonylative cocyclization, Pauson-Khand bicyclization, Khand annulation, Khand cycloaddition, Khand cyclization (cyclisation ), or Khand reaction.Among these names, the Pauson-Khand reaction is the one used most often. 

Highly substituted 4/f-pyrans are obtained from [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of a-ester-substituted a,P-imsaturated carbonyl compounds with alkynes promoted by a nickel(0) complex (14BCSJ1058) and by annulation reactions of a-allenals with chalcones mediated by the NHC catalyst 2 (Scheme 6) (140L4742). 

The intermolecular Pauson-Khand annulation using dicobalt hexacarbonyl-alkyne complexes met only with limited success, possibly because of the higher energy of the cobalt-carbonyl bond. In contrast, chromium carbonyls dissociate more easily, and the reactions of metallocarbenes of chromium, e.g., the Dotz annulation of alkynes, are improved by sonication. 

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