Boron trifluoride Diels-Alder reactions

Lewis acids such as zinc chloride, boron trifluoride, tin tetrachloride, aluminum chloride, methylaluminum dichloride, and diethylaluminum chloride catalyze Diels-Alder reactions.22 The catalytic effect is the result of coordination of the Lewis acid with the dienophile. The complexed dienophile is more electrophilic and more reactive toward electron-rich dienes. The mechanism of the addition is believed to be concerted and enhanced regio- and stereoselectivity is often observed.23... 

Kunieda and colleagues155 used a similar kind of l,3-oxazolidin-2-one (234) and studied the diethylaluminum chloride and boron trifluoride etherate catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions of its A-acryloyl and A-crotonyl derivatives with cyclopentadiene. The yields were high (80-100%), the reactions being almost completely endo selective. The diastere-omeric excesses obtained ranged from 71% to more than 99%. 

Lewis acids are frequently employed in catalyzing the Diels-Alder reaction. Particularly fascinating is the observation of the different regiochemistry arising from monodentate and bidentate chelation of 2-methoxy-5-methyl-l,4-benzoquinone with boron trifluoride and stannic chloride, respectively [177],... 

Bis(l,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel(0), 35 By Diels-Alder reaction Boron trifluoride etherate, 43... 

Silyloxy-2-aldehydes can undergo hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with aldehydes to give useful heterocycles.350 A model reaction, H2C=C(OSiH3)-N=CH2 with formaldehyde, has been explored theoretically. Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride catalyse the reaction by coordinating to the aldehyde oxygen, making the aldehyde more electrophilic. Concerted and stepwise mechanisms for this process are considered. 

In this article a differentiation of concerted and two-step cycloadditions will not be made although this point will be briefly discussed in the theoretical part. However, products which could be formally formed by a hetero Diels-Alder reaction, but for which a different mechanism has been proven will not be included. Thus, quite recently it has been shown that the formation of an oxazine by reaction of N-sulfinyl-p-toluenesulfonamide and an excess of propanal in the presence of boron trifluoride etherate does not involve a hetero Diels-Alder reaction [37]. 

Imidazole-containing compounds have been utilized as reagents for various synthetic transformations. A convenient access to substituted allyl enol carbonates was established through the reaction of ketone enolates with the complex of allyl l//-imidazole-l-carboxylates 74 and boron trifluoride etherate <07JOC9372>. Relatively mild and highly efficient Cul-catalyzed /V-arylation procedures for imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl bromides or chlorides have been developed in the presence of ligands 75 and cesium carbonate <07JOC2737>. a, -Unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles 76 are an alternative and practical class of dienophiles for the DNA-based catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction in... 

He and his students developed C-alkylation with quaternary ammonium salts and nucleophilic displacements on such salts, including the stereochemistry. His name is immediately associated with important innovations in the use of polyphosphoric acid for inter- and intramolecular condensations, cyclizations, and functional conversions in organic chemistry. He pioneered the use of boron trifluoride as an efficient catalyst in the Fischer indole synthesis and discovered new reactions of anils, including Diels-Alder reactions. He and his students delineated the requirements for disproportionation of tertiary amines. He developed the synthesis and chemistry of arylboranic acids. One of his fundamental ideas was for the incorporation of sufficient boron into organ-specific drugs that they could then be... 

Diel -AldeT catalyst. Kelly and Montury have examined the effect of three Lewis acids on the Diels-Alder reaction of perf-hydroxylated naphthoquinones with l-methoxy-3-methyl-l,3-butadiene magnesium iodide, boron trifluoride etherate, and boron triacetate. All three increase regioselectivity. BF, etherate and B(OAc)3... 

Recently, Sisko and Weinreb have developed a new, in situ procedure for effecting A -sulfonyl imine Diels-Alder reactions. The method consists of treating an aldehyde with an A -sulfinyl sulfon-amide/boron trifluoride etherate in the presence of a diene (Scheme 3). Under these conditions the IV-sul-finyl sulfonamide reacts with the aldehyde to produce an /V-sulfonyl imine. This reaction, developed by Kresze, has been used previously for preparing imines from simple, non-enolizable aldehydes (c/. 1,2), but had not been applied to more complex aldehydes. As can be seen from the scheme, the cycload-... 

Erraan and Stonehave devised a new method for the construction of the tricyclic skeleton associated with such sesquiterpenes as a-patchoulene (438) and cyperene (439). The route they employed was the formation of the acid-ester (440 R = OH) by a Diels-Alder reaction of 3-ethoxycarbonyl-2,4-dimethyl-penta-1,3-diene with acrylic acid. The corresponding diazo-ketone (440 R = CHN2), on treatment with boron trifluoride etherate, gave the keto-esters (441) and (442) directly. This direct acid-catalysed cyclization proved to be more efficient than the conventional copper-catalysed thermal decomposition of (440 ... 

The synthesis of a soluble nonacenetriquinone based on the well-known Diels-Alder reaction of 1,3-diarylisoben-zofurans was developed by L.L. Miller and co-workers. The preparation of the 1,3-diarylisobenzofuran commenced with the Paai-Knorr furan synthesis. The substrate was an aromatic 1,4-diketone, which was treated with excess neat boron trifluoride etherate for almost two days to afford the desired 2,5-diarylfuran in almost quantitative yield. Interestingly, this cyclization could not be achieved efficiently by using the more traditional acid catalysts such as H2SO4 or PPA. 

The first total synthesis of ( )-lycoridine margetine (33), a member of the non-basic alkaloids which possess antimitotic activity has been achieved (Scheme 3). The homoallylic alcohol (26) served as a latent diene in a Diels-Alder reaction with ethyl acrylate to give a diastereomeric mixture of adducts which upon base equilibration and hydrolysis provided the tmns-acid (27). Modified Curtius reaction on (27) afforded the corresponding isocyanate which was cyclized to the lactam (28) in 89% yield by a new method using boron trifluoride etherate. Compound (28) was converted into an N-acetyl derivative which upon basic hydrolysis gave the acid (29). Treatment of (29) with NBS followed by reflux in pyridine solution gave the lactone... 

Starling from the cycloadduct of juglone and acetoxybutadiene [35]. The Diels-Alder reaction gave regio- and stereoselectively the adduct in the presence of the Lewis acid, boron trifluoride. 

More recent research has uncovered some unusual attributes of the transition states for Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions. Of note, a [4-t3] transition state has been postulated as the low energy pathway for the borane-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction between acrolein and 1,3-butadiene [ 17] that is, a stabihzing interaction between the terminal carbon of the diene and the carbonyl carbon of the dienophile appears to be more important than the classically-invoked interaction between C-2 of the diene and the carbonyl carbon (Fig. 3). While this argument was originally advanced for only the endo s-trans transition state, it has been subsequently broadened in scope to include each of the four possible diastereomeric transition states for the boron trifluoride-promoted process [ 10] thus, the energy differences for these reaction pathways are determined by the strength and number of the secondary interactions. 

Weinreb and Sisko have reported the first examples of Diels-Alder reactions of Af-tosyl imines derived from enolizable aldehydes [12]. The imines were generated in situ from the aldehyde, N-sulfinyl-p-toluenesulfonamide and boron trifluoride etherate. Two examples of these cycloadditions are shown in Egs. (50) and (51). It was also possible to effect the cycloaddition intramolecularly [Eq. 

The Diels-Alder reaction has been shown to be subject to catalysis by a wide range of solid catalysts (see Chapter 4 for some examples). Acidic mesoporous aluminosilicates can be used to catalyse selective Diels-Alder reactions such as that between cyclopentadiene with methyl acrylate. The zinc-exchanged version of the material is particularly effective and compares well to other more established solid acids such as the ion-exchanged clay Zn2+-K10 as well as homogeneous catalysts such as boron trifluoride (Table 2.7).50... 

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