Cheletrope reaction cycloaddition

Cheletropic processes are defined as reactions in which two bonds are broken at a single atom. Concerted cheletropic reactions are subject to orbital symmetry analysis in the same way as cycloadditions and sigmatropic processes. In the elimination processes of interest here, the atom X is normally bound to other atoms in such a way that elimination gives rise to a stable molecule. In particular, elimination of S02, N2, or CO from five-membered 3,4-unsaturated rings can be a facile process. 

Five-membered ring heterocycles can be the result of cycloaddition reactions of ADC compounds acting as 2n components with 1,3-dipoles, or as 47t components in cheletropic reactions. They can also result from nucleophilic attack on the ADC compound, followed by ring closure of the initial adduct. 

The cycloaddition of an atom or group X to an olefine to form a three-membered ring and the reverse process constitutes an example of four electron cycloaddition or elimination and if the reaction is concerted it becomes an example of cheletropic reaction. 

Cheletropic processes are defined as reactions in which two bonds are broken at a single atom. Concerted cheletropic reactions are subject to orbital symmetry restrictions in the same way that cycloadditions and sigmatropic processes are. 

A general cheletropic reaction is shown in Figure 12.2. This reaction involves the addition to, or extrusion from, a conjugated system of a group bound through a single atom. The reaction usually involves the elimination of simple stable molecules such as SO2, CO, or N2. The atom to which there were two a bonds carries away a pair of electrons, usually in a spn hybrid orbital. The addition of a carbene to a simple olefin to form a cyclopropane is also a cheletropic reaction which, as discussed in Chapter 14, is not predicted to be concerted. Cheletropic reactions incorporate features of both cycloaddition and electrocyclic reactions. 

Cheletropic reactions, in which a single atom is added or extruded, comprise a special case of cycloaddition reactions. Figure 14.4 displays correlation diagrams for two typical cheletropic reactions, the loss of SO2 from a thiirane dioxide (Figure 14.4a) and the loss of CO from a norbornadienone (Figure 14.4b). The addition of a carbene to an olefin is another example which is discussed below (Figure 14.9a). 

Sigmatropic, electrocyclic, cycloaddition and cycloelimination, and cheletropic reactions have all been carried out with organosulfur compounds and often used for synthetic puiposes. A chapter of Block s monograph (203] is devoted to this topic, and most of the pericyclic processes include examples with sulfur compounds. The treatises by Barton and Ollis [482], Trost and Fleming [483] and Klamann [484] are guides to the more specialized literature. Some reviews deal with specific cases thiocarbonyl compounds [120] or cycloaddition reactions [485],... 

Cheletropic reactions are a special group of cycloadditions or cycloreversions in which two a bonds are made or broken to the same atom. 

An anomalous pair of cheletropic reactions looking like forbidden [2+2] suprafacial cycloadditions ... 

Another anomalous cycloaddition is the insertion of a carbene into an alkene. 6-Electron cheletropic reactions (p. 28) are straightforward allowed pericyclic reactions, which we can now classify with the drawings 3.47 for the suprafacial addition of sulfur dioxide to the diene 2.179 and its reverse. Similarly, we can draw 3.48 for the antarafacial addition of sulfur dioxide to the triene 2.180 and its reverse. The new feature here is that one of the orbitals is a lone pair, which is given the letter co to distinguish it from o- and n-bonds, with suprafacial and antarafacial defined by the drawings 3.45 and 3.46, which apply to all sp3 hybrids and p orbitals, filled or unfilled. 

Cheletropic reactions are cyclizations - or the reverse fragmentations - of conjugated systems in which the two newly made o bonds terminate on the same atom. However, a cheletropic reaction is neither a cycloaddition nor a cycloreversion. The reason is that the chelating atom uses two AOs whereas in cycloadditions, each atom uses one and only one AO. Therefore, Dewar-Zimmerman rules cannot apply to cheletropic reactions. Selection rules must be derived using either FO theory or correlation diagrams 38 The conjugated fragment39 of 4n + 2 electron systems reacts in a disrotarory (conrotarory) mode in linear (nonlinear) reactions. In 4n electron systems, it reacts in a disrotarory (conrotarory) mode in nonlinear (linear) reactions. 

Cheletropic reactions are a special group of cycloadditions in which the two o bonds are made or broken to the same atom. Thus sulfur dioxide adds to butadiene to give an adduct, for which the sulfur has provided a lone pair to one of the o bonds and has received electrons in the formation of the other. It is an oxidative addition to the sulfur dioxide, changing it from SIV to SVI. The reaction is readily reversible on heating. 

An anomalous cycloaddition is the insertion of a carbene into an alkene. Some cheletropic reactions are straightforwardly allowed pericyclic reactions, which we can illustrate with the drawing 6.127 for the suprafacial addition of sulfur dioxide to a diene, and with the drawing 6.128 for the 8-electron antarafacial addition of sulfur dioxide to a triene. The problem comes with the insertion of a carbene into a double bond, which is well known to be stereospecifically suprafacial on the alkene with singlet electrophilic carbenes [see (Section 4.6.2) page 149]. This is clearly a forbidden pericyclic reaction if it takes place in the sense 6.129. 

Cycloadditions Sigmatropic reactions Electrocyclic reactions Group transfer reactions Cheletropic reactions... 

Cheletropic reactions, dimethylgermylene to 1-azabuta-1,3-dienes. 57, 5 Chemotherapeutic agents isoxazolines. 60, 297 thiopyrylium salts, 60, 172 Chiral auxiliaries, in diastereoselective cycloadditions of nitrile oxides, 60, 286-94... 

Symmetry Allowed Cycloaddition of SO to a diene Cheletropic Reactions involving 4 Electrons Addition of Carbenes or Nitrenes Reactions involving 6n Electrons Cycloaddition and Elimination Reactions involving 8ji Electroncs... 

Cycloadditions in which one of the components is a single atom (in other words, [1 + n] cycloadditions) are sometimes called cheletropic reactions. 

There are other kinds of cycloadditions, too. The [4 + 1] cycloaddition, a cheletropic reaction, usually goes in the retro direction for entropic reasons. 3-Sulfolene (butadiene sulfone, 2,5-dihydrothiophene 1,1-dioxide) undergoes a [4 + 1] retro-cycloaddition to generate S02 and 1,3-butadiene, which can undergo a Diels-Alder reaction with a dienophile. It is much more convenient to... 

All cycloadditions (except cheletropic reactions) form two new cr bonds to the termini of two 77 systems. 

The application of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules to cheletropic reactions is not straightforward. In the [2+1] cycloaddition of singlet carbenes to alkenes, the stereochemistry of the alkene is preserved in the product, so the alkene must react suprafacially. The Woodward-Hoffmann rules suggest that the carbene component of this thermal, four-electron reaction must react antarafacially. However, what this means for a species lacking a 77 system is difficult to interpret. 

Not all cheletropic reactions proceed suprafacially with respect to the larger component. In the following [6 + 1] retro-cycloaddition, the cis Me groups become out and in in the product. Results such as these are difficult to rationalize or predict a priori. 

So far, cycloadditions have been our only examples of pericyclic reactions. There are several other classes of pericyclic reactions, of which the most notable are cheletropic reactions, sigmatropic rearrangements and electrocyclic reactions. In essence, frontier orbital theory treats each of them as a cycloaddition reaction. 

Cheletropic Reactions. Cheletropic reactions are really a sub-class of cycloadditions. The only difference is that, on one of the components, both new bonds are being made to the same atom. The best-known reaction of this type is the general reaction of a carbene (133) with an olefin. At first sight, this... 

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