Carveol synthesis

Alpha-Pinene oxide 9 (Eq. 15.2.5) is known as a reactive molecule which rearranges easily under the influence of an acid catalyst (6, 7). Thereby many products can be formed. For example compounds such as the isomeric campholenic aldehyde 11, trans-carveol 12, trans-sobrerol 13, p-cymene 14 or isopinocamphone 15 are observed as main by-products. At temperatures higher than 200°C more than 200 products can be formed. The industrially most desired compound among these is campholenic aldehyde 10. It is the key molecule for the synthesis of various highly intense sandalwood-like fragrance chemicals (7, 8). 

Derivatives of Menthene.— The most important alcohols and ketones derived from the menthene unsaturated group of terpenes are terpineol, di-hydro carveol, di-hydro carvone and pulegone. The first one, the alcohol terpineol, occurs in its dextro form in cardamon oil and marjoram oil, in its leoo form in neroU oil and in its inactive form in cajeput oil. The constitution is proven by Perkin s synthesis from As-tetra-hydro para-toluic acid by means of the Grignard reaction. 

Until recently, the intramolecular cyclization procedure had been used only to synthesize fused heterocyclic structures. The first report of a bridged product, in 1978, involved only a minor amount (9%) of an azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane derivative obtained from the reaction of ds-carveol with acetonitrile and BFj-EtiO. However, several effective examples are now known. These all involve reaction of the nitri-lium intermediate with an internal alkenic nucleophile to yield a 1-azacyclohexene ring and a new carbe-nium ion which undergoes conventional, but stereospecific, Ritter reaction fiom the least hindered face. Such reactions are typified by formation of the multicyclic structures (64 equation 38) 5<) and (65 equation 39), 5i considerable potential in the synthesis of complex nitrogen heterocyclic systems... 

The previously unknown (+ )-(lS,2S,4R)-isodihydrocarveol (157) has been made from (+ )-limonene epoxide (158) as a component of a mixture of isomers, either with lithium in ethylamine or with the stoicheiometric amount of lithium aluminium hydride. Dihydrocarveol (159) has been synthesized from 4-acetyl-1-methylcyclohexene by conventional means.A method that is said to convert allyl alcohols into the corresponding chlorides without allyl rearrangement has been applied to carveol. The chloride was indeed obtained, but since the rotations of the compounds were not recorded it is unfortunately impossible to draw any conclusions about rearrangement. An ingenious synthesis of pure stereoisomers of carvomenthone-9-carboxylic acids involves a [2 -I- 2]-type cycloaddition of an ynamine to 2-methylcyclohex-5-enone (160). This leads... 

The chiral aldehyde 76 was employed as the starting material of intramolecular ene-reaction to prepare chiral bicyclo [4.3.1] decanes [61]. The one-pot Claisen rearrangement of carveol with ethyl vinyl ether in the presence of a catalytic amount of Hg(OAc)2 furnished the aldehyde 76 stereospedfically (Eq. 3.1.50). For the synthesis of stereoselective side chain introduced aldehydes as the starting materials of intramolecular ene-reaction to prepare chiral bicyclo [3.3.1] decanes [61], a one-pot Claisen rearrangement of carveol with ethyl vinyl ether in the presence of a catalytic amount of Hg(OAc)2 stereospecifically furnished the aldehyde 76 (Eq. 3.1.50). 

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