Carbon dioxide 2-pyrone formation

Ditertiary phosphane complexes of nickel were found to be effective in the formation of pyrone 108 by cyclocotrimerization of alkynes with carbon dioxide. The formation of the nickelacyclopentadiene 105 from two moles of alkyne and a nickel complex is followed by CO2 insertion into a nickel-carbon bond to give the oxanickelacycloheptadienone 106, which then eliminates 108 with intramolecular C—O coupling. Another route involving [4 + 2] cycloadditions of 105 with CO2 in a Diels - Alder reaction to give 107 cannot be ruled out but is less probable because CO2 does not undergo [4 + 2] cycloaddition with dienes. Addition of another alkyne to 105 results in the formation of a benzene derivative (Scheme 38). ... 

Pyrones are useful dienes, although they are not particularly reactive. The adducts have the potential for elimination of carbon dioxide, resulting in the formation of an aromatic ring. Pyrones react best with electron-rich dienophiles. Vinyl ethers are frequently used as dienophiles with pyrones. The regiochemical preference places the dienophile donor ortho to the pyrone carbonyl. 

Pyrones behave as dienes and react with bismaleimides giving biscycload-ducts [62-65]. By heating, carbon dioxide extrusion takes place with formation of bisdienes. This reaction was used to prepare a polyimide with a bicyclooctene structure [51] (Fig. 15). 

The mechanism of ring formation from monoalkyne and heterocumulenes, catalysed by Ni(0) complexes, Lx Ni(0), has been proposed to involve one-step cycloaddition scheme (10) [103] and scheme (11) [104, 105] show the formation of the 2-pyrone ring in the alkyne reaction with carbon dioxide and the 2-pyridone ring in the alkyne reaction with isocyanate respectively ... 

The Pd-catalyzed carbonylation of aryl halides (cf Section 2.1.2) occurs with high turnover numbers and reaction rates in SCCO2 as the solvent using standard precursor complexes and commercially available phosphine or phosphite ligands [30]. The generally better performance of the phosphite-based catalysts was attributed to their better solubility in the reaction mixture, but the formation of Pd carbonyl complexes was also mentioned as a possibility. The [Ni(cod)2]/dppb system (dppb = l,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane) was investigated in an early study as a catalyst for the synthesis of pyrones from alkynes and CO2 under conditions beyond the critical data of carbon dioxide [31]. Replacing dppb with PMcs results in a system with better solubility and catalytic performance, albeit catalyst deactivation remains a problem [3 c, 15]. 

The photoisomer of a-pyrone was synthesized in order to prepare a cyclobutadiene.64 It was pyrophoric in air at room temperature and its mass spectrum was similar to that of furan. Flash thermolysis was reported to give many compounds, as shown in Scheme 26.65 No evidence for the formation of cyclobutadiene was obtained, but carbon dioxide and acetylene products seem to support its intervention. 

There has been a growing interest in the utilization of CO2 as a potential Cl source for chemicals and fuels to cope with the predictable oil shortage in the near future. Insertion reactions of CO2 into M-H, M-0, M-N, and M-C bonds are well documented, where these reactions are explained in terms of the electrophilicity of CO2 il, 2). Catalytic syntheses of lactones (3-9) and pyrones (10-16) are also established by incorporation of CO2 into dienes and alkynes activated on low-valent metal complexes. Carbon dioxide shows only an electrophilicity under usual reaction conditions, but it exhibits a nucleophilicity upon coordination to low-valent metals because of the intramolecular charge transfer from metals to CO2. Metal-C02 formation may be the key species in electro- and photochemical CO2 reductions. Since the first characterization of [Ni(PCy3)2(T) (C,0)-C02)] (17), a variety of metal... 

Dienes, allenes, and alkynes react with carbon dioxide to yield cyclic lactones—the catalysts include various Ni and Pd complexes.4 With certain diynes, alternating copolymerization with C02 results in the formation of poly (2-pyrones) (Scheme 6.16). 

Most of the synthetic applications of retro-Diels-Alder reactions involve cyclopentadiene or furan derivatives, but there are other dienes that have appropriate functionality for this process. One example is illustrated by heating pyrone 102 in a sealed tube at 200°C with bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene to give 103, after initial formation of cycloadduct 104 and loss of carbon dioxide via a retro-Diels-Alder reaction.The retro-Diels-Alder usually requires higher temperatures than the Diels-AIder reaction, and the normal Diels-AIder product can be obtained without competition from the retro reaction. When the retro Diels-AIder reaction is desired, flash vacuum pyrolysis is a common technique used in synthesis. " Retro-Diels-Alder reactions can also be catalyzed by Lewis acids (sec. 11.6.A).An example that uses furan as a retro-Diels-Alder synthon is taken from work by Cannone et al., who used the retro-reaction as a synthetic route to 4-substituted... 

This ability of ethyl and methyl l//-azepine-l-carboxylate to participate as an enophile and a dienophile is demonstrated in a further report describing their reactions with methyl pyrone-3-carboxylate and its 5-isomer <84BCJ3483>. On heating at 80°C for 68 hours, methyl 1/f-azepine-l-carboxylate and the pyrone-3-isomer yielded the [2 + 4]7t adduct (23) and the azepine [6 + 4]tc dimer. Under similar conditions ethyl 1/f-azepine-l-carboxylate and the corresponding pyrone-5-isomer gave a mixture of the [2 + 4]7t and [6 + 4]7t adducts (24) and (25) in yields of 25% and 20%, respectively. At 110°C the products consisted of the azepine [6 + 6[n dimer and a small amount of 3-ethyl 7-methyl 3/7-3-benzazepine-3,7-dicarboxylate (26), arising from (24) by extrusion of carbon dioxide. In a further reaction the same authors have demonstrated the formation of (27) by reaction with tetrachlorocyclopentadienone dimethyl acetal. 

ABSTRACT The review covers particularly the synthesis of fine chemicals via the formation of C-C bonds between carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons. In the reactions of CO2 with alkenes, dienes and alkynes a great number of carboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acids, esters, lactones and pyrones are formed, whether in stoichiometric or catalytic reactions. In each chapter the reactions are considered in the order of the transition metals applied. In addition, some syntheses will be mentioned which are closely related to transition metal catalysis, for instance the electrocarboxylation ofolefinic hydrocarbons. 

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