Carbon seven-membered ring formation

One could obtain both five- and seven-membered ring formation but only the 6-membered ring was observed. Furthermore, formation of the six-membered ring 39 was preferred >6 1 (cyclization of ring z onto carbon b over cyclization of ring y on carbon a) over 40 presumably due to increased 1,3- steric interactions in forming 40. 

Examination of the backbones of the neopentane-based, carbon-anchored TIME and bulky TIME tripodal ligands reveals possible reasons for the lack of 1 1 complex formation with metal centers. A hypothetical complex of TIME would contain three eight-membered rings (Fig. 9, I) with much lower stability than the more commonly observed five, six, or seven-membered rings formed, for instance, by poly(p5irazolyl)borate or poly(phosphine) ligands. In order... 

TV-substituted methylenephthalimide derivatives served as the starting material for the preparation of a series of tetracyclic systems. The intramolecular Heck reaction of these compounds (4.10.) led in each case to the formation of a carbon-carbon bond between the exocyclic carbon atom of the olefin bond and the aryl moiety. The formation of five, six and seven membered rings was achieved with near equal efficiency, enabling the preparation of some isoindolobenzazepine alkaloids.11... 

At high temperatures with low catalyst concentration the formation of acetanilides is favored. Maleic anhydride and acetanilides may be formed directly from the mixed anhydride by an initial attack of the nitrogen on the acetate carbonyl, but this process would involve a seven membered ring transition state. Another possible route to the formation of maleic anhydride and the acetanilides is participation by neighboring carbonyl in loosening the amide carbon-nitrogen bond to the extent that the amine can be captured by acetic anhydride as shown in path D. 

Interestingly, the balance can be tipped toward formation of the seven-membered ring by simply placing an electron-withdrawing group on the terminal carbon of the dipolarophile (Scheme IS). Tliis leads to polarization of the alkene and to an FMO-controlled process. Incidentally, the reaction shown proved critical in a total synthesis of anatoxin a, the so-called very fast death factor . ... 

Many ring systems have been prepared by cycloaddition of acetylenic compounds, following concerted or multi-step intra- or intermolecular reaction mechanisms. In-particular, the placing in close proximity of triple bonds or a triple bond and another unsaturated system, such that intramolecular cycloaddition might lead to four-seven-membered rings, would seem of interest. This section deals with transannular carbon-carbon bond formation of triple bonds in acyclic and cyclic systems. 

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