Carbonylative cyclization

The reaction of alkenyl iodides or triflates, alkenylstannanes, and CO affords divinyl ketones[397,398]. Thus the capnellene skeleton 538 has been synthesized by the carbonylation of the cyclopentenyl triflate 536 with the alkenyltin 537[392], The macrocyclic divinyl ketone 540 has been prepared in a moderate yield by the carbonylative cyclization of 539[399]. 

Allyl methylcarbonate reacts with norbornene following a ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization under carbon monoxide pressure to give cyclopentenone derivatives 12 (Scheme 4).32 Catalyst loading, amine and CO pressure have been optimized to give the cyclopentenone compound in 80% yield and a total control of the stereoselectivity (exo 100%). Aromatic or bidentate amines inhibit the reaction certainly by a too strong interaction with ruthenium. A plausible mechanism is proposed. Stereoselective CM-carboruthenation of norbornene with allyl-ruthenium complex 13 followed by carbon monoxide insertion generates an acylruthenium intermediate 15. Intramolecular carboruthenation and /3-hydride elimination of 16 afford the -olefin 17. Isomerization of the double bond under experimental conditions allows formation of the cyclopentenone derivative 12. 

An a-allenic sulfonamide undergoes Pd-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization with iodobenzene, affording a mixture of isomeric heterocycles (Scheme 16.12) [17]. The coupling reaction of an allene with a PhCOPdl species takes place at the allenyl central catrbon to form a 2-acyl-Jt-allylpalladium complex, which is attacked by an internal sulfonamide group in an endo mode, affording a mixture of isomeric heterocycles (Scheme 16.13). 

Lee s group has also reported ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization of 1,6-diynes. The noteworthy aspect of this cyclization is the unprecedented anti nucleophile attack on a 7i-alkyne complex bearing a ruthenium vinylidene functionality. A catalytic system based on [Ru(p-cymene)Cl2]2/P(4-F-C6H4)3/DMAP was active for the cyclization of 1,6-diyne 103 and benzoic acid in dioxane at 65 °Cto afford cydohexenylidene enol ester 104a in 74% yield after 24h [34]. Additional examples are shown in Scheme 6.35. 

Alkyl- or 3-aryl-2,4-oxazolidinediones via photochemical cyclization, ° organonickel-mediated carbonylation, ° cyclization of A-alkenyl-a-acet-amides, ° carboxylation and cyclization of 2-propynamides, °" cyclization of (9-carbamates of a-hydroxy acetic acids and esters,cyclization of a-hydroxy acetamides,and catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation (ADH) of A-alkenoyl-2-oxazolidinones. ... 

Carbonylative cyclization of o-hydroxytolans yields 3-acylbenzo[b]furans <99SL1079>. 

Carbonylative Cyclizations Involving Enolizable CH-Acids References... 

The detailed investigation of carbonylative cyclization has been performed by Negishi et al. first as a stoichiometric, and then as a catalytic process. ... 

Iodoalkenylbenzenes bearing internal double bonds in some cases give better yields, even under less stringent conditions in both modes of carbonylative cyclization reactions. However, in order to obtain the product of nucleophilic cleavage by alcohol in high yields, higher pressures of GO are required (Scheme 10). ... 

Multiple carbonylative cyclizations can take place with substrates containig several double bonds. Up to three consecutive cyclizations can take place in good overall yields and high diastreoselectivity. All five- and six-membered cycles are formed in x (9-processes (Scheme 19). ... 

An interesting mechanism involving palladacycle intermediate has been proposed for carbonylative cyclizations of 4-en-2-ynyl carbonates (Scheme 24), The examples of this transformation are shown in Scheme 25. 

A regio- and diastereoselecdve tandem process involving carbapalladation with two consequtive carbonylative cyclizations has been realized using this strategy (Scheme 26). ... 

Enantioselective carbonylative cyclization has been realized with o-alkenylaryl triflates in the presence of 2,2-bis(diphenyl-phosphanyl)-1,1-binaphthyl (BINAP) or TolBINAP ligands in high material yields and enantiomeric excess (Equation (41)). ... 

This chapter covers the recent advances in amidocarbonylations, cyclohydrocarbonylations, aminocarbonylations, cascade carbonylative cyclizations, carbonylative ring-expansion reactions, thiocarbonylations, and related reactions from 1993 to early 2005. In addition, technical development in carbonylation processes with the use of microwave irradiation as well as new reaction media such as supercritical carbon dioxide and ionic liquids are also discussed. These carbonylation reactions provide efficient and powerful methods for the syntheses of a variety of carbonyl compounds, amino acids, heterocycles, and carbocycles. 

In this chapter, the recent advances in amidocarbonylations, cyclohydrocarbonylations, aminocarbonylations, cascade carbonylative cyclizations, carbonylative ring-expansion reactions, thiocarbonylations, and related reactions are reviewed and the scope and mechanisms of these reactions are discussed. It is clear that these carbonylation reactions play important roles in synthetic organic chemistry as well as organometallic chemistry. Some of the reactions have already been used in industrial processes and many others have high potential to become commercial processes in the future. The use of microwave irradiation and substitutes of carbon monoxide has made carbonylation processes suitable for combinatorial chemistry and laboratory syntheses without using carbon monoxide gas. The use of non-conventional reaction media such as SCCO2 and ionic liquids makes product separation and catalyst recovery/reuse easier. Thus, these processes can be operated in an environmentally friendly manner. Judging from the innovative developments in various carbonylations in the last decade, it is easy to anticipate that newer and creative advances will be made in the next decade in carbonylation reactions and processes. 

Perfluoro ketones and perfluoro a-diketones, with a trifluoromethyl group in the -position to the carbonyl, cyclize in the presence of antimony(V) fluoride to give furan derivatives, as reviewed by Krcspan and Petrov.4 Perfluoro(4-methylpentan-2-one) (1) rearranges to per-fluoro(2,4-dimethyltetrahydrofuran) (2) in 84% yield, when heated in the presence of anti-mony(V) fluoride.5... 

Allylamines cyclize readily with a dicobalt octacarbonyl catalyst (equation 55).1,2 Rhodium catalysis generally allows the carbonylative cyclization to be carried out under milder conditions.86 Application of this reaction to unsaturated amides yields the corresponding imides, the best yields arising when R1 = H and R2 = allyl (equation 56).I>2... 

C-arylation with bismuth(V) compounds, 9, 444 CH-acids, in carbonylative cyclizations, 11, 429 Enols, in Co-assisted alkylation of propargylic alcohols, 11,126 Enone-dienes, in reductive cyclizations, 10, 502 Enones... 

Comparable lactones 19 can be synthesized from allenyl alcohols 18 by a ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization [19] and an extension of this procedure to the synthesis of lactames 21 has also been reported [20]. 

Scheme 7. Carbonylative cyclization of hydroxymethyl allenes 18 and aminomethyl allenes 20.

We have already mentioned that it is the cis isomer of the 2,5-hexadienoyl halide which in the presence of nickel carbonyl cyclizes to give a cyclo-pentene derivative. The trans form reacts with acetylene to give (XXXV)... 

Both 3-alkyl and 3-alkylideneoxindoles have been obtained by carbonylative cyclization of o-alkynylanilines. Carbonylation in the absence of a reducing agent gives the unsaturated oxindole while inclusion of water and Et, N leads to the alkyloxindoles. <95TL6243> Since there are now several reliable syntheses of o-alkylanilines this may be a practical route to oxindoles. 

An intramolecular Heck-carbonylation/cyclization of the vinyl iodide 881 provides the 5,6-dihydropyran-2-one 882 during a total synthesis of manoalide (Equation 354) <1997CC1139>. The reaction of but-3-yn-l-ol with diaryl sulfides and carbon monoxide in the presence of a palladium(O) catalyst leads to a novel thiolactonization and hence arylthiosubstituted 5,6-dihydropyran-2-one 883 (Equation 355). Similar results are obtained with diaryl diselenides (Equation 355) <1997JOC8361>. Hydrozirconation of O-protected homopropargylic alcohols followed by carbonyla-tion and quenching with iodine provides a simple route to 5,6-dihydropyran-2-ones <1998TA949>. 

A one-pot chroman-4-one synthesis-azomethine ylide cycloaddition can be performed using 2-iodophenol, carbon monoxide, allene and imine 1099 to furnish a mixture of exo- and OTr/o-cycloadducts 1100 (Equation 431) <2000TL7129>. Other nucleophiles are viable alternatives for this process <2000TL7125>. Synthesis of chroman-4-one 1101 is possible using a palladium catalyzed carbonylative cyclization of o-allyloxyliodobenzene (Equation 432) <2001JOC2175>. 

Moreto and coworkers have made improvements to the Chiusoli reaction, the Ni(CO)4-mediated carbonylation cyclization of allyl halides and alkynes, by conducting it in methanol403. It has subsequently been applied in the synthesis of methylenomycin B, in an intramolecular sense to provide bicyclo[3.3.0]octenones, and in intermolecular cases to form both fused bicyclic cyclopentenones and spirocyclopentenones (equations 203 and 204)403-405. 

Ruthenium complexes are also suitable catalysts for carbonylation reactions of a variety of substrates. Indeed, when a reaction leads to C-Ru or het-eroatom-Ru bond formation in the presence of carbon monoxide, CO insertion can take place at the coordinatively unsaturated ruthenium center, leading to linear ketones or lactones. Thus, ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization was involved in the synthesis of cyclopentenones by reaction of allylic carbonates with alkenes in the presence of carbon monoxide [124] (Eq. 93). 

Insertion of carbon monoxide can also allow the formation of the C-C bond. For example, y-butyrolactones were produced by carbonylative cyclization of allenols [125] (Eq. 94). 

The reactions described in this section are not unique to ruthenium catalysis. These transformations can also be achieved using a palladium or a nickel catalyst. Since carbonylative cyclizations leading to cyclic carbonyl compounds are useful transformations in organic synthesis, these reactions are included in this section. 

Because unsaturated lactones and lactams are of importance as biologically active compounds, the carbonylative cyclization of alkynyl alcohols, alkynyl amines, and their allenyl derivatives has been extensively studied using various transition-metal complexes. Takahashi et al. [35] reported that Ru3(CO)12 also catalyzes the cyclocarbonylation of allenyl alcohols to five- to eight-membered unsaturated lactones (Eq. 20). 

They include aromatic hydroxylation, hydrocarbon and alcohol oxidation, alkene epoxidation, nitro-aromatic reduction, dehydrogenation, carbonylation, cyclization, heterocycle functionalization, etc. 

Cyclic acylpalladation. Another major subtopic of carbopalladation is acylpalladation. In the mid-1960s, two seemingly independent papers were published by J. Tsuji [24] and P.R. Hughes [25,26]. The former reported a perfectly alternating copolymerization of norbornadiene with CO (Scheme 8), while the latter described two related Pd-catalyzed carbonylation cyclizations shown in Scheme 9. 

By reaction of phenylhydrazine with enaminediones bearing an olefinic side-chain conjugated with the carbonyl, cyclization can be accomplished, depending on the solvent, to 3-vinylpyrazoles or to dihydropyridones282 (equation 208). 

The intramolecular carbenoid-carbonyl cyclization reaction (Scheme 2) is a particularly effective method for generating carbonyl ylide dipoles undoubtedly as a consequence of... 

A tandem carbonylation-cyclization radical process in heteroaromatic systems bearing electron-attracting substituents such as l-(2-iodoethyl)indoles and pyrroles 970 result in the formation of 2,3-dihydto-l//-pyrrolo[l,2- ]indol-1-ones and 2,3-dihydro-l//-pyrrolizin-l-ones 974 (Scheme 188). The AIBN-induced radical reaction of compounds 970 with Bu3SnH under pressure of CO suggests that the acyl radical 972, derived from radical 971 and CO, would undergo intramolecular addition to C-2 of heteroaromatic system, and the benzylic radical 973 so obtained, upon in situ oxidation would produce final product 974 <1999TL7153>. 

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