Bicyclo rings

Wada M, Ito S, Uno H, Murashima T, Ono N, Urano T, Urano Y (2001) Synthesis and optical properties of a new class of pyrromethene-BF2 complexes fused with rigid bicyclo rings and benzo derivatives. Tetrahedron Lett 42 6711-6713... 

A very comprehensive report on the nomenclature of terpenes has been approved by the lUPAC and the American Chemical Society (4). Some of the significant changes in nomenclature recommended are the replacement of the names camphane and bomylane by bomane. Norbomane replaces norcamphane and norbomylane. Thujane is preferred over sabinane. A definite system of numbering the bicyclo ring systems is recommended. The application of these terpene rules will eliminate many trivial names which are a tax on the memory. 

O-P-0 found for these two phosphoranes were apical, 162.5° and 163.3° and radial, 107.7° and 112.7° respectively. Probably, compression of the equatorial O-P-O bond angle in the 6-membered ring of (114 RR = CH2CH(Bu )CH2) and related phosphoranes allows the ring to assume a chair conformation more easily than when phosphorus is not part of a bicyclo ring system. 

Figure 2-37. Two different fundamental sets of rings for bicyclo[2.1.0]pentane.

Various bicyclic and polycyclic compounds are produced by intramolecular reactions] 127]. In the syntheses of the decalin systems 157 [38] and 158 [128], cis ring Junctions are selectively generated. In the formation of 158, allyhc silyl ether remains intact. A bridged bicyclo[3.3. l]nonane ring 159 was constructed... 

The bicyclic compound decahydronaphthalene, or bicyclo[4.4.0]decane, has two fused six-mem-bered rings. It exists in cis and trans forms (see Fig. 1.10), as determined by the configurations at the bridgehead carbon atoms. Both cis- and rran -decahydronaphthaiene can be constructed with two chair conformations. 

The monomer, norbomene (or bicyclo[2.2.l]hept-2-ene), is produced by the Diels-Alder addition of ethylene to cyclopentadiene. The monomer is polymerised by a ring-opening mechanism to give a linear polymer with a repeat unit containing both an in-chain five-membered ring and a double bond. Both cis-and trans- structures are obtainable according to the choice of catalyst used ... 

The decalin (bicyclo[4.4.0]decane) ring system provides another important system for study of conformational effects in cyclohexane rings. Equilibration of the cis and trans isomers reveals that the trans isomer is favored by about 2.8 kcal/mol. Note that this represents a change in configuration, not conformation. The energy difference can be analyzed by noting that the cis isomer has three more gauche butane interactions that are... 

Bicyclo[1.1.0]butane is an example of a molecule in which severe angle strain results in decreased stability and greatly enhanced reactivity. The bicyclo[1.1.0]butane ring has a strain energy of 63.9kcal/mol, and the central bond is associated with a relatively high... 

The geometry of bicyclic rings can also cause distortion of the alkene bond from coplanarity. An example is bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-l-ene ... 

Another system in which the factors constrolling the direction of reagent approach has been studied systematically is the bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane ring system. The stereochemistry of a number of reactions of the parent system and the 7,7-dimethyl derivative have been examined.Some of the results are given in Table 3.13. These reactions reveal... 

The principle of microscopic reversibility requires that the reverse process, ring closure of a butadiene to a cyclobutene, must also be a coiuotatory process. Usually, this is thermodynamically unfavorable, but a case in which the ring closure is energetically favorable is conversion of tra s,cis-2,4-cyclooctadiene (1) to bicyclo[4.2.0]oct-7-ene (2). The ring closure is favorable in this case because of the strain associated with the trans double bond. The ring closure occurs by a coiuotatory process. 

The bicyclo[2.2.0]hexa-2,5-diene ring system is a valence isomer of the benzene ring and is often referred to as Dewar benzene. After many attempts to prepare Dewar benzene derivatives failed, a pessimistic opinion existed that all such efforts would be finitless because Dewar benzene would be so unstable as to immediately revert to benzene. Then, in 1962, van Tamelen and Pappas isolated a stable Dewar benzene derivative by photolysis of 1,2,4-tri(/-butyl)benzene. ... 

On treatment with potassium metal, cij-bicyclo[6.1.0]nona-2,4,6-triene gives a mono-cyclic dianion. The trams isomer under similar conditions gives only a bicyclic monoanion (radical anion). Explain how the stereochemistry of the ring junction can control the course of these reductions. 

Among the most important of the bicyclic hydrocarbons are the two stereoisomeric bicyclo[4.4.0]decanes, called cis- and rrani-decalin. The hydrogen atoms at the ring junctions are on the same side in c/5-decalin and on opposite sides in tmns-AecdXm. Both rings adopt the chair confonnation in each stereoisomer. 

In some cases, the model that results from building may be severely distorted. For example, using Make Bond to transfonn axial methylcyclohexane into bicyclo[2.2.1 ]heptane (norbornane) gives a highly distorted model (the new bond is too long and the ring has the wrong confonnation). 

The cycloaddition of sulfene to bicyclo[2.2.1]heptyl enamines is stereospecific, addition coming from the exo side (156). However, the steric preference of cis and trans isomers relative to the four-membered ring generated does not seem as strong, at least in the case of the addition of chlorosulfene (CICH = SOj) to bicyclic enamines, where a mixture of stereoisomers is obtained (157). 

As described in Section 1.7.1, the utility of the Wenker reaction is limited to substrates without labile functionalities because of the involvement of strong acid and then strong base. The Fanta group prepared a variety of aziridines by taking advantage of the Wenker reaction.For example, 6-aza-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane (14) was produced from the ring-closure of ( )-rra s-2-aminocyclopentanol hydrochloride (13). In a similar fashion, sulfate ester 16 was prepared from A-methyl dl-trans- >-ssmnoA-hydroxytetrahydrofuran (15). Subsequent treatment of sulfate ester 16 with NaOH then delivered aziridine I . " Additional examples of Wenker aziridine synthesis may also be found in references 15-17. 

When formation of either the five- or six-membered ring was possible for N-chloroamine 37, only the five-membered ring was conducive under the Hofmann-Ldffler-Freytag reaction conditions, forming exclusively 6-ethyl-6-aza-bicyclo[3.2.1]-octane (38). No 2-ethyl-2-aza-bicyclo[2.2.2]-octane (39) was observed. On the other hand, 2-methyl-2-aza-bicyclo[2,2.2]octan-6-one (41) was installed by UV irradiation of a solution of A -chloroamine 40 in TFA. Ironically, when the ketone functionality on 40 was protected as its ethylene ketal group, the resultant steric interactions completely prohibited the classic Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag reaction. 

In an approach to the AB rings of rubrolone 65, Boger examined the use of oxazinones as a replacement for triazines. Reaction of l,3-oxazin-6-one 66 with enamines 67 produced the corresponding pyridines 70. The reaction proceeds in a manner analogous to the triazines however, instead of losing nitrogen, these systems lose CO2 via the intermediate bicyclo[2.2.2]octanes 68. The resultant 69 then loses pyrrolidine as in the triazine example. 

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