Allyl alcohol rearrangement

The next example makes more involved use of these [2,3]-sigmatropic allylic sulfoxide-allylic alcohol rearrangements. It comes from the work of Evans (he of the chiral auxiliary) who, in the early 1970s, first demonstrated the synthetic utility of allylic sulfoxides. Here he is using this chemistry to make precursors of the prostaglandins, a family of compounds that modulate hormone activity within the body. 

Isomerization of allylic alcohols to saturated carbonyl compounds. In the presence of this ruthenium complex, allylic alcohols rearrange to saturated aldehydes or ketones. The rate depends on the number of substituents on the double bond, with highest rates in the case of monosubstituted alkenes. 1,1-Disubstilutcd alkencs rearrange faster than 1,2-disubstitutcd alkencs. 

In accordance with the transition state model discussed above, tertiary allylic alcohols rearrange with Uttle stereoselectivity unless the substituents at the quaternary stereocenter differ substantially in size. For instance, virtually no selectivity was observed by Johnson in a synthesis of fluorinated precursors for polyolefin cydizations (Scheme 7.17) [38]. 

Scheme 108 Xie and Horeancig s Re(VII)-catalyzed allylic alcohol rearrangement strategy for the synthesis of spiroacetals [204]...

Xie and Floreancig [204] have reported a tandem rhenium(VII)-catalyzed allylic alcohol rearrangement/nucleophilic addition sequence for the synthesis of spiroacetals (Scheme 108). Treatment of allylic alcohols 444 with Rc207 in dichloromethane gives rise to the spiroacetals 448 and 449 in moderate yield. 

Bouvet D, Sdassi H, Ourevitch M, Bonnet-Delpon D. Short stereoselective route to "y-CF3 allylic alcohols rearrangements with creation of quaternary Cp3-susbtituted carbons. J. Org. Chem. 2000 65 2104-2107. 

Conjugate addition of vinyllithium or a vinyl Grignard reagent to enones and subsequent oxidation afford the 1.4-diketone 16[25]. 4-Oxopentanals are synthesized from allylic alcohols by [3,3]sigmatropic rearrangement of their vinyl ethers and subsequent oxidation of the terminal double bond. Dihydrojasmone (18) was synthesized from allyl 2-octenyl ether (17) based on Claisen rearrangement and oxidation[25] (page 26). 

Furthei-more, the cyclization of the iododiene 225 affords the si.x-membered product 228. In this case too, complete inversion of the alkene stereochemistry is observed. The (Z)-allylic alcohol 229 is not the product. Therefore, the cyclization cannot be explained by a simple endo mode cyclization to form 229. This cyclization is explained by a sequence of (i) e.vo-mode carbopallada-tion to form the intermediate 226, (ii) cydopropanation to form 227. and (iii) cyclopropylcarbinyl to homoallyl rearrangement to afford the (F3-allylic alcohol 228[166]. (For further examples of cydopropanation and endo versus e o cyclization. see Section 1.1.2.2.)... 

The stereoselective allylic rearrangement of the allylic alcohol 798 catalyzed by PdCl2(MeCN)2 and Ph3P under Mitsunobu inversion conditions is explained as proceeding via a rr-allylpalladium intermediate[496]. The smooth rearrangement of the allylic p-tolylsulfone 799 via a rr-allylpalladium intermediate is catalyzed by a Pd(0) catalyst[497]. 

Propylene oxide-based glycerol can be produced by rearrangement of propylene oxide [75-56-9] (qv) to allyl alcohol over triUthium phosphate catalyst at 200—250°C (yield 80—85%) (4), followed by any of the appropriate steps shown in Figure 1. The specific route commercially employed is peracetic acid epoxidation of allyl alcohol to glycidol followed by hydrolysis to glycerol (5). The newest international synthesis plants employ this basic scheme. 

Hydroxyl groups are stable to peracids, but oxidation of an allylic alcohol during an attempted epoxidation reaction has been reported." The di-hydroxyacetone side chain is usually protected during the peracid reaction, either by acetylation or by formation of a bismethylenedioxy derivative. To obtain high yields of epoxides it is essential to avoid high reaction temperatures and a strongly acidic medium. The products of epoxidation of enol acetates are especially sensitive to heat or acid and can easily rearrange to keto acetates. 

Mixtures of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and tetrahydrofuran are successfully used as fluorinating agents to convert 1,1,2-trifluoro-l-allcen-3-ols, easily prepared from bromotrifluoroethene via lithiation followed by the reaction with aldehydes or ketones, to 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoro-2-alkenes The yields are optimal with a 5 1 ratio of hydrogen fluoride to tetrahydrofuran The fluorination reaction involves a fluonde lon-induced rearrangement (Sf,j2 mechanism) of allylic alcohols [65] (equation 40)... 

Allyiic rearrangements are observed m the reactions of allylic alcohols with dialkylaminosulfur trifluorides [95 130] Both crotyl alcohol and buten 3 ol give... 

A synthetically valuable reaction sequence is the chlorodifluoroacetylation of various substituted allylic alcohols and the subsequent Reformatskii-Claisen rearrangement of the ester thus formed to interesting 2,2-difluoropentenoic acid derivatives [25] (equation H) Comparable sequences have been reported for ally monofluoroacetates [26] and allyl 3,3,3-trifiuoropropanoates [27] (equations 15 and 16). 

Sharpless and Masumune have applied the AE reaction on chiral allylic alcohols to prepare all 8 of the L-hexoses. ° AE reaction on allylic alcohol 52 provides the epoxy alcohol 53 in 92% yield and in >95% ee. Base catalyze Payne rearrangement followed by ring opening with phenyl thiolate provides diol 54. Protection of the diol is followed by oxidation of the sulfide to the sulfoxide via m-CPBA, Pummerer rearrangement to give the gm-acetoxy sulfide intermediate and finally reduction using Dibal to yield the desired aldehyde 56. Homer-Emmons olefination followed by reduction sets up the second substrate for the AE reaction. The AE reaction on optically active 57 is reagent... 

Quantitative measurements of the rate of acid catalyzed rearrangement of 3-methyl-l-(2-thienyl) allyl alcohol (178) to 1-methyl-3-(2-thienyl)allyl alcohol (179) showed that (178) rearranged forty times faster than the phenyl analog but about three times slower than the... 

Titanium-IV compounds with their Lewis acid activity may catalyze an interfering rearrangement of the starting allylic alcohol or the epoxy alcohol formed. In order to avoid such side-reactions, the epoxidation is usually carried out at room temperature or below. 

Catalytic reduction of codeine (2) affords the analgesic dihydrocodeine (7) Oxidation of the alcohol at 6 by means of the Oppenauer reaction gives hydrocodone (9)an agent once used extensively as an antitussive. It is of note that treatment of codeine under strongly acidic conditions similarly affords hydrocodone by a very unusual rearrangement of an allyl alcohol to the corresponding enol, followed by ketonization. 

As propylene oxide is introduced into the reactor, a portion of it is converted to allyl alcohol and propenyl alcohol via a rearrangement [5] ... 

A salient structural feature of intermediate 18 (Scheme 2b), the retrosynthetic precursor of aldehyde 13, is its y,r5-unsaturated ester moiety. As it turns out, the Johnson ortho ester variant of the Clai-sen rearrangement is an excellent method for the synthesis of y,<5-unsaturated esters.11 In fact, the Claisen rearrangement, its many variants included, is particularly valuable in organic synthesis as a method for the stereocontrolled construction of trans di- and tri-substituted carbon-carbon double bonds.12,13 Thus, it is conceivable that intermediate 18 could be fashioned in one step from allylic alcohol 20 through a Johnson ortho ester Claisen rearrangement. In... 

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