Biaryl quinone

Similar reaction pathways were recently shown to be available to the widely used chiral ligand l,l -binaphthol (BINOL) (138).87 Irradiation of BINOL in aqueous acetonitrile initiated ESIPT to the 4 -, 5 -, and 7 -ring carbons to give biaryl quinone... 

Burnham, K. S. Schuster, G. B. A search for chiral photochromic optical triggers for liquid crystals photoracemization of l,l -binaphthylpyran through a transient biaryl quinone methide intermediate. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 12619-12625. 

Oxidation of Phenol Ether Derivatives to Biaryls, Quinone-Imine... 

Biaryls merit special interest due to their axial element of chirality and are among the most widely used ligands in enantioselective synthesis and catalysis. Their coordination by a tricarbonyl chromium fragment following benzannulation provides an additional stereogenic element in terms of a chiral plane to the molecule [68]. Biaryl quinones are similarly relevant to natural product synthesis and enantioselective catalysis. 

In these cases, no transients assignable to biaryl quinone methides were observable by LFP, although Burnham and Schuster have assigned a 560-nm (x = 5 0,s in cyclohexane) transient to the corresponding binaphthyl quinone methide. The photoreversible nature of these reactions (they are photochromic) prompted Burnham and Schuster to investigate the binaphthyl system (Eq. (39.26)) as a possible chiral photochromic optical trigger for Hquid crystals ... 

Wan s group showed that the observed photodehydration of hydroxybenzyl alcohols can be extended to several other chromophores as well, giving rise to many new types of quinone methides. For example, he has shown that a variety of biphenyl quinone methides can be photogenerated from the appropriate biaryl hydroxybenzyl alcohols.32,33 Isomeric biaryls 27-29 each have the benzylic moiety on the ring that does not contain the phenol, yet all were found to efficiently give rise to the corresponding quinone methides (30-32) (Eqs. [1.4—1.6]). Quinone methides 31 and 32 were detected via LFP and showed absorption maxima of 570 and 525 nm, respectively (in 100% water, Table 1.2). Quinone methide 30 was too short lived to be detected by LFP, but was implicated by formation of product 33 that would arise from electrocyclic ring closure of 30 (Eq. 1.4). 

Shi, Y. Wan, P. Solvolysis and ring closure of quinone methides photogenerated from biaryl systems. Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83, 1306-1323. 

A similar electron-transfer mechanism is readily applicable to the reaction between sterically hindered quinones and arylmagnesium bromides, which leads to biaryls as well as quinone anion radical as directly observable species,50 (equation 24). 

Similar types of nucleophilic substitutions have also been carried out when PIFA is activated by two equivalents of Lewis acids such as trimethylsilyl triflu-oromethanesulfonate (TMSOTf) and BF3 Et20 or heteropolyacid in standard solvents such as CH2C12 and MeCN. These reactions were applied to intramolecular reactions by the same authors leading to biaryls (49) [54-57], quinone imine derivatives (50) [58], and dihydrobenzothiophens (51) [59], which are important structures of bioactive natural products [Eqs. (7)-(9)]. Dominguez and co-workers have expanded the above biaryl coupling reaction to the syntheses of benzo[c]phenanthridine system (52) [60] and heterobiaryl compounds (53) [61] [Eqs. (10,11)]. 

Michael reactions. 2-Alkylidene derivatives of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds behave as donors in Michael reactions. Of particular interest is the formation of biaryl precursors with quinones. ... 

Aerial oxidation of this affords anthraquinone in 37% yield. Both 1-naphthyl and 2,4-dimethylbenzene sulphonates follow the same path but yield only traces of the corresponding quinone. In the last case, 2,4-dimethylbenzenesulphonate, the quinone is accompanied by 0.8% of 2,4-dimethylphenol. The second path involves loss of sulphur trioxide to yield aryl radicals which afford the products, the arene and/or the biaryl, shown in Scheme 17212,213. Other studies have shown that anthraquinone-1-sulphonic acid (256)214,215 and anthraquinone-2-sulphonate216 are also photochemically labile. A study of the photochemical reactivity of azulene sulphonic acids has also been reported217. Photochromism has been studied with respect to the stilbene derivative 257218. 

In 2009, a DKR was reported by Carreno s group for the asymmetric synthesis of atropisomeric biaryl[4] and [5]helicene quinones. Therefore, the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of a racemic biaryl diene with a chiral sulfinyl... 

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