Anion chemistry furan

Treating succinic anhydrides (64) with triethylamine, zinc chloride and trimethylchlorosilane in acetonitrile gives 2,5-bis(trimethylsiloxy)furans (65). ° The relative ease of silylation in these cases demonstrates one of the differences between enol silyl ether chemistry and classical enolate anion chemistry. It would have been quite difficult to generate the dianion of succinic anhydride. 

The replacement of two CH groups in benzene by a neutral NR, O or S introduces into the new ring an electron-donating heteroatom. This electron-donor character is accentuated in the pyrrole anion where N is introduced. Thus the five-membered rings with one heteroatom are electron rich (rr-excessive), and the chemistry of pyrrole, furan and thiophene is dominated by this effect and is again considered together as a whole in Part 3. 

Since cumulenes and alkynes are often easily interconvertible, many syntheses discussed above have allenic counterparts, especially base-catalyzed cyclizations of allenic alcohols.77 And, of course, several of the alkyne-based syntheses may well have allenic intermediates. There are, however, a few syntheses based specifically upon allene chemistry. In an important one, due to Stirling and his collaborators,78 an allenic sulfonium salt reacts with an enolate anion. Scheme 12 sketches the main features yields as high as 86% are recorded. Methoxyallene is easily metallated by butyllithium and so converted into an allenic epoxide that can be isomerized by fe/T-butoxide into a furan (Scheme 13) or an exocyclic equivalent similar to 15 clearly this method is particularly suited to the preparation of 3-methoxyfuran... 

In contrast to the rich chemistry of alkoxy- and aryloxyallenes, synthetic applications of nitrogen-substituted allenes are much less developed. Lithiation at the C-l position followed by addition of electrophiles can also be applied to nitrogen-containing allenes [10]. Some representative examples with dimethyl sulfide and carbonyl compounds are depicted in Scheme 8.73 [147, 157]. a-Hydroxy-substituted (benzotriazo-le) allenes 272 are accessible in a one-pot procedure described by Katritzky and Verin, who generated allenyl anion 271 and trapped it with carbonyl compounds to furnish products 272 [147]. The subsequent cyclization of 272 leading to dihydro-furan derivative 273 was achieved under similar conditions to those already mentioned for oxygen-substituted allenes. 

Macrocyclic molecules that have the ability to bind anions continue to attract considerable synthetic effort. During the course of such studies, it has been found that hybrid calixpyrroles in which some pyrrole units are replaced by thiophenes are good receptors for Y-shaped anions such as carboxylates <2005JOC1511>. One such macrocyle is compound 176. The synthesis of this compound utilizes the same type of chemistry as has been adopted for the thiaporphyrins. The bis(bipyrrolyl)furan 174 was reacted with the diol 175 (1.1 molar ratio) in MeCN in the presence of a catalytic amount of Bp3-Et20 at 0°C to give 176 in 44% yield. 

In general, however, one must be concerned with the possible dominance of chemistry by small amounts of dianions. Although not seen in electrochemistry, the naphthalene dianion has been reported in the literature ll l5°-159 167) and could dictate the results of quench reactions. In the specific case of sodium naphthalene in tetrahydro-furan, kinetic analysis of a water quench directly implicites the radical anion as the chemically dominant species 150 -158-167>. In the case of the larger aromatic molecule, perylene, however, the dianion and not the radical anion is the species quenched167a). 

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