Carbocycle cyclopentane

A similar rearrangement takes place with A,A-dibenzyl-L-serme benzyl ester [UO (equation 68) and with partially protected carbocyclic nucleosides, such as l-hydroxymethyl-4-(2,4-dinitroanilino)cyclopentane-2,3-diol [133]... 

Furthermore, intramolecular cyclization of acyclic chiral imines, in which the imine and the enone groups are separated by alkyl chains, yield optically active cyclohexane and cyclopentane derivatives. /ra .v-l,2-Disubstitutcd carbocyclic compounds are exclusively or predominantly formed with diastereomeric ratios in the range 80 20 100 0, strongly dependent on the conditions used to induce cyclization, i.e. heat, pressure or Lewis acid (MgBr2) catalysis227. 

In a similar way as described for the hydroformylation, the rhodium-catalyzed silaformylation can also be used in a domino process. The elementary step is the formation of an alkenyl-rhodium species by insertion of an alkyne into a Rh-Si bond (silylrhodation), which provides the trigger for a carbocyclization, followed by an insertion of CO. Thus, when Matsuda and coworkers [216] treated a solution of the 1,6-enyne 6/2-87 in benzene with the dimethylphenylsilane under CO pressure (36 kg cm"2) in the presence of catalytic amounts of Rh4(CO)12, the cyclopentane derivative 6/2-88 was obtained in 85 % yield. The procedure is not restricted to the formation of carbocycles rather, heterocycles can also be synthesized using 1,6-enynes as 6/2-89 and 6/2-90 with a heteroatom in the tether (Scheme 6/2.19). Interestingly, 6/2-91 did not lead to the domino product neither could 1,7-enynes be used as substrates, while the Thorpe-Ingold effect (geminal substitution) seems important in achieving good yields. 

Hydrosilylation of 1,6-dienes accompanied by cyclization giving a five-membered ring system is emerging as a potential route to the synthesis of functionalized carbocycles.81,81a,81b 82 As its asymmetric version, diallylmalonates 86 were treated with trialkylsilane in the presence of a cationic palladium catalyst 88, which is coordinated with a chiral pyridine-oxazoline ligand. As the cyclization-hydrosilylation products, //ww-disubstituted cyclopentanes 87 were obtained with high diastereoselectivity (>95%), whose enantioselectivity ranged between 87% and 90% (Scheme 25).83 83a... 

Equivalently, the enthalpy of reaction 47 is equated to that of the analogous (unsubstituted, saturated, carbocyclic) reaction 48. The difference is 29 kJmol , taken as the strain energy of cyclopentane. 

Hydrogenative ring opening of cycloalkanes is also a well-studied area.16 252 253 289-292 Mainly cyclopropanes and cyclopentanes were studied, since three- and five-membered adsorbed carbocyclic species are believed to be intermediates in metal-catalyzed isomerization of alkanes (see Section 4.3.1). Ring-opening reactivity of different ring systems decreases in the order cyclopropane > cyclobutane > cyclopentane > cyclohexane.251 Cyclopropane and its substituted derivatives usually react below 100°C. 

Review coverage of the chemistry involved in the synthesis of enantiomerically pure natural products from carbohydrates is now extensive [2]. It is relevant to note that whereas, in 1983, the numbers of carbocyclic target compounds were relatively limited, as outlined in an authoritative monograph written by Hanessian [3], a comprehensive review of the methods available for making cyclopentane and cyclohexane derivatives from carbohydrates published 10 years later [4] cited 338 references, more than 80% of which were dated 1980 or later. The attention afforded the synthesis of carbocyclic products also features prominently iu a 1993 review of the use of sugars in the preparation of enantiomerically pure natural products [2],... 

The synthetic protocols used for the preparation of oligonucleotides on supports can also be used to prepare oligomers from diols other than nucleosides. Symmetric or unsymmetric diols, such as N-acylated 4-hydroxyprolinol [268] or cyclopentane-derived diols (carbocyclic deoxyribose analogs [269]), can be selectively mono-trity-lated and then converted into a phosphoramidite that is suitable for the solid-phase synthesis of oligophosphates. An illustrative synthesis of protected //-phosphonates from diols, as well as their conversion on CPG into oligomeric phosphoramidates, are outlined in Figure 16.28. 

Versatile [3 + 2]-cycloaddition pathways to five-membered carbocycles involve the trimethylenemethane (= 2-methylene-propanediyl) synthon (B.M. Trost, 1986). PaIladium(0)-induced 1,3-elimination at suitable reagents generates a reactive n - -methylene-1,3-propa-nediyl complex which reacts highly diastereoselectively with electron-deficient olefins. The resulting methylenecyclopentanes are easily modified, e.g., by ozonolysis, hydroboration etc., and thus a large variety of interesting cyclopentane derivatives is accessible. 

In contrast to the reactions catalyzed by Group Vm transition metal complexes (see Section II.A. 1), the hydrosilylation of 1,5- or 1,6-dienes with H3SiPh catalyzed by Cp2 NdCH(SiMe3)2 results in the formation of (silylmethyl)cyclopentanes (336) via 5-exo carbocyclization (equation 137)46. 

Although a number of multistep procedures are available for the introduction of five-membered carbocycles, their direct formation in a thermal cycloaddition is rare.6 Interest in the potential application of such a three-carbon + two-carbon cyclopentane cycloaddition has been derived from the expectation that such a process could prove to be an effective complement to the four-carbon + two-carbon Diels-Alder reaction which is used extensively in the regio- and stereocontrol led preparation of functionalized six-membered carbocycles. 

Pyranose - cyclopentanes. One method for transformation of a carbohydrate to a carbocycle involves reaction of a lactol (1) with a Wittig reagent followed by... 

Synthesis of Amino/Hydroxy Substituted Cyclopentanes and a Carbocyclic Nucleoside... 

Boyer, S.J. et al. Carbocyclic Nucleoside Analogs. I. Concise Enantioselec-tive Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclopentanes and Formal Total Synthesis of Aristeromycin. 2.4 1997 [109]... 

Campbell, J.A. et al. Chirospecific Syntheses of Precursors of Cyclopentane and Cyclopentene Carbocyclic Nucleosides by [3+3]-Coupling and Transannular Alkylation. 2.4 1995(111]... 

With the radical controversy solved, Bailey and others set about the detailed investigation of anionic cyclisation as a synthetic method for the formation of five-membered carbocyclic rings, and we shall divide the remainder of this section, which covers work published between 1987 and 2000, into the main classes of compounds produced by the cyclisation cyclopentanes, furans, pyrrolidines, and polycyclic products. It turns out that organolithiums are unique among the alkali metals in their ability to undergo anionic cyclisation to give cyclopentanes, particularly where primary organometallics are concerned.121... 

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