Intramolecular Carbonyl-Alkene Couplings

The ketyl radical anion intermediates can be exploited in carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Intermolecular and intramolecular pinacol couplings between the carbonyl groups of ketones and aldehydes are well known (Chapter 5, Section 5.1), as are intermolecular and intramolecular carbonyl-alkene couplings (Chapter 5, Section 5.2). 

Alkyne-alkene carbonylative coupling. Intramolecular carbonylative coupling of dialkynes catalyzed by Fe(CO)3 provides a route to cyclopentadienones (equation I). The more difficult carbonylative alkyne-alkene coupling to provide cyclopen-tenones (Pauson-Khand reaction) can also be effected with Fe(CO)s, but in modest yield. In an improved coupling, acetone is treated with Fe2(CO)9 to form Fe-... 

Radical anions resulting from cathodic reductions of molecules react with electrophilic centers. As an example (Scheme 8), the reduction of compounds in which a double bond is not conjugated with a carbonyl group, involves an intramolecular coupling reaction of radical anion with alkene [12]. 

A prototype example is the famous McMurry coupling of carbonyl compounds to alkenes (Scheme 1) [4]. The very high stability of the accumulating titanium oxides constitutes the thermodynamic sink which drives the conversion but demands the use of stoichiometric or excess amounts of the low-valent titanium reagent [Ti]. Only recently has it been possible to elaborate a procedure that for the first time enables us to perform intramolecular carbonyl coupling reactions catalyzed by titanium species [5]. 

From a synthetic point of view, bond forming steps are the most important reactions of radical ions [202]. Several principle possibilities have been described in Section 8.1 and are summarized in Scheme 52. Many carbo- and heterocyclic ring systems can be constructed by (inter- and intramolecular) radical addition to alkenes, alkynes, or arenes. Coupling of carbonyl radical anions leads to pinacols either intra-or inter-molecular which can be further modified to give 1,2-diols, acyloins or alkenes. Radical combination reactions with alkyl radicals afford the opportunity to synthesize macrocyclic rings. These radical ion-radical pairs can be generated most efficiently by inter- or intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer. 

The mechanism proposed by Albertin et al. involves ptotonation of 62 to give the vinylidene complex 63, as confirmed by the highly deshielded signal at 6 382.8 ppm in the spectrum (Scheme 5). The vinyl phospho-nium complex 64 was formed by intramolecular attack of one phosphonite on of the vinylidene ligand. The proton-coupled and -decoupled NMR spectra of 17 allowed clear assignment of the characteristic carbon atoms in the molecule the carbonyl appeared as a multiplet at 8 207.7 ppm, the metallate C-Co at 8 168.4 ppm, and the two alkene carbons at 8 63.8 and 32.1 ppm. 

The inter- and intramolecular coupling of two carbonyl groups of aldehydes or ketones in the presence of a low-valent titanium species produces a C-C bond with two adjacent stereocenters, a 1,2-diol (a pinacol). These may be further elaborated into ketones by the pinacol rearrangement or be deoxygenated to alkenes (McMurry reaction). 

Evidence for a radical coupling mechanism (as opposed to a carbanionic carbonyl addition mechanism) in the intramolecular Smh-promoted Barbier reactions has come from studies on appropriately functionalized substrates in the 3-keto ester series. It is well known that heterosubstituents are rapidly eliminated when they are adjacent to a carbanionic center. Indeed, treatment of a 3-methoxy organic halide (suitably functionalized for cyclization ) with an organolithium reagent leads only to alkene (equation 48). No cyclized material can be detected. On the other hand, treatment of the same substrate with Sml2 provides cyclized product and a small amount of reduced alcohol, with none of the alkene detected by gas chromatographic analysis (equation 49). ... 

A wide range of alkenic compounds exhibiting interesting properties associated with their ir-systems have been elaborated via the reductive coupling carbonyls. For example, Marshall and coworkers have studied the intramolecular McMurry reaction as a route to betweenanenes, a class of conformationally... 

Metallo-ene cychzations, intramolecular Pd(0), Ni(0), Rh(I), Zn(0) catalyzed alkene (or alkyne) allylations [62, 63, 64], have been recognized as a powerful tool in organic synthesis due to the synthetically useful functionalizations such as carbonylation or C-C coupling. The high regio- and stereoselectivities also al-... 

Carbonyl couplings. Many variations of cross couplings are possible these include aldehydes with a-dicarbonyl compounds. Ketyl radicals derived from carbonyl compounds also add to alkenes such as acrylonitrile " or N-allyl moieties. Intramolecular cyclizations on terminal alkenes or allene species have also been exploited for synthetic purposes. 

Previously, tin-ketyl radicals have been added to alkenes only in an intramolecular fashion. [9] In recent publications, however, pinacols and amino alcohols have been prepared by cyclisation of dicarbonyl compounds [10] or keto-oximes [11] with tributyltin hydride. Cyclisation of 1,5-ketoaldehydes 1 and 1,5-dialdehydes with tributyltin hydride yields cw-diols 2 with excellent stereoselectivities, whereas the keto-oxime 4 with four benzyloxy-substituents affords a 58 42 cis trans) mixture. The tran -product was transformed in two more steps to the potent glycosidase inhibitor 1-deoxynojirimycin (6). [lib] The reversibility of both the addition of the tributyltin-radical to the carbonyl group and the intramolecular radical C-C bond formation is believed to be responsible for the high selectivity in the formation of 2. In the cyclisation of 1,5-pentanedial the unhydrolyzed coupling product 3 could be isolated, therefore providing evidence for a new mechanistic variant of the pinacol reaction, in which only 1.2 equivalent of the reducing agent are necessary. 

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