Barton oxidation

On using Barton-oxidation procedures cyclohexane is oxidized by 1949, in the presence of FeCb and the Fe "-picolinate complex, to give cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol [166] whereas with FeCl2 1-chlorocyclohexane is the mayor product, with cyclohexanone and a small amount of cyclohexanol [167] (Scheme 12.47). 

D.B. Hall, R.E. Holmlin, and J.K. Barton, Oxidative DNA damage through long-range electron transfer. Nature 382, 731-735 (1996). 

Barton-oxidation of dienes for the MB+ system, in wh.ch the oxygen active species is molecular oxygen [125] (Scheme 3). 

To demonstrate the versatility of his S3mthesis strategy Yamada used ketoester 151 as relais substance to S3mthesize two further picrotoxane alkaloids isolated from Dendrobium species, nobilonine (90) and 2-hydroxydendrobine (87) (Scheme 14) (84). Monobromination of 151 with bromine in dioxane and subsequent treatment with water resulted in hydroxy-y-lactam 152, whereas attempts to hydroxylate 151 by Barton oxidation led to rearrangements. Chemo- and stereoselective reduction with zinc borohydride converted 152 into the en fo-alcohol. To counterbalance the unfavorable conformational equilibrium this alcohol had to be converted into the alcoholate to achieve lactonization. Chemoselective reduction of the hydroxylac-tam moiety of lactone 153 again followed Borch s protocol, which led in this case to boron complexed amino compounds necessitating successive acid treatment to obtain racemic 2-hydroxydendrobine (87) in low yield accompanied by dendrobine (82). 2-Hydroxydendrobine (87) was converted into nobilonine (90) by Eschweiler-Clark methylation. 

Barton oxidation was the key to form the 1,2-diketone 341 in surprisingly high yield, in order to close the five-membered ring (Scheme 38). The conditions chosen for the deprotection of the aldehyde, mercuric oxide and boron trifluoride etherate, at room temperature, immediately led to aldol 342. After protection of the newly formed secondary alcohol as a benzoate, the diketone was fragmented quantitatively with excess sodium hypochlorite. Cyclization of the generated diacid 343 to the desired dilactone 344 proved very difficult. After a variety of methods failed, the use of lead tetraacetate (203), precedented by work performed within the stmcmre determination of picrotoxinin (1), was spectacularly successful (204). In 99% yield, the simultaneous formation of both lactones was achieved. EIcb reaction with an excess of tertiary amine removed the benzoate of 344 and the double bond formed was epoxidized with peracid affording p-oxirane 104 stereoselectively. Treatment of... 

Oxidation of alcohols (1, 308). Finch and co-workers report that the Barton oxidation of chloroformates (1, 308-309) was superior to Jones oxidation in the case of aldehyde (1). The trans-isom t of (1) was obtained in somewhat higher yield (81%). 

Phosgene reacts with alcohols to give chloroformates, and with secondary amines to give chloroformamides (it reacts preferentially with the latter). The formation of a chlorofor-mate is the first step in the Barton oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes, which is followed by complex formation with... 

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