Claisen rearrangement examples

Sigmatropic rearrangement (Section 24 13) Migration of a a bond from one end of a conjugated tt electron system to the other The Claisen rearrangement is an example... 

A heterocyclic ring induces partial double-bond fixation in a fused benzene ring. Hence, for example, diazo coupling occurs at the 7-position of 6-hydroxyindazole (349), and Claisen rearrangement of 6-allyloxy-2-methylbenzothiazole (350) gives the 7- and 5-allyl products in a ratio of 20 1. 

Studies of chiral substrates have also demonstrated that chirality is maintained in the reaction. Further examples of the synthetic application of the Claisen rearrangement are discussed in Section 6.5 of Part B. 

There are a number of powerful synthetic reactions which join two trigonal carbons to form a CC single bond in a stereocontrolled way under proper reaction conditions. Included in this group are the aldol, Michael, Claisen rearrangement, ene and metalloallyl-carbonyl addition reactions. The corresponding transforms are powerfully stereosimplifying, especially when rendered enantioselective as well as diastereoselective by the use of chiral controller groups. Some examples are listed in Chart 20. 

Two other important sigmatropic reactions are the Claisen rearrangement of an allyl aryl ether discussed in Section 18.4 and the Cope rearrangement of a 1,5-hexadiene. These two, along with the Diels-Alder reaction, are the most useful pericyclic reactions for organic synthesis many thousands of examples of all three are known. Note that the Claisen rearrangement occurs with both allylic aryl ethers and allylic vinylic ethers. 

The Claisen rearrangement has also been observed in heterocyclic systems, for example see ref. 144. 

For example /-butyl phenyl ether with aluminium chloride forms para-t-butyl phenol155. Often the de-alkylated phenol is also formed in considerable quantity. The reaction formally resembles the Fries and Claisen rearrangements. Like the Fries rearrangement the question of inter- or intramolecularity has not been settled, although may experiments based on cross-over studies156, the use of optically active ethers157 and comparison with product distribution from Friedel-Crafts alkylation of phenols158 have been carried out with this purpose in view. 

Similar to the well-known thio-Claisen rearrangement of allyl aryl sulfides211 and sulfonium salts212, the thio-Claisen rearrangement of allyl aryl sulfoxides has also been reported213. For example, heating of allyl 2-naphthyl sulfoxide (147) at 120 °C for 2h in dimethylformamide resulted in quantitative isomerization to the dihydronaphthothio-... 

Because of the nature of the transition state in the pericyclic mechanism, optically active substrates with a chiral carbon at C-3 or C-4 transfer the chirality to the product, making this an enantioselective synthesis (see p. 1451 for an example in the mechanistically similar Claisen rearrangement). ... 

The aza-[2,3]-Wittig rearrangement [47] and the related aza-[3,3]-Claisen rearrangement [48] of vinylaziridines are elegant examples of expansion of the aziridine ring in a stereocontrolled fashion (Scheme 38). 

Rearrangements, especially those only involving heat or a small amount of catalyst to activate the reaction, display total atom economy. A classic example of this is the Claisen rearrangement, which involves the rearrangement of aromatic allyl ethers as shown in Scheme 1.2. Although... 

The Claisen rearrangement has attracted much attention as an attractive tool for the construction of new carbon-carbon bonds. Various catalytic systems have been developed to afford enantioselective versions of this process. On the other hand, relatively few chiral sulfur-containing ligands have been investigated for this type of reaction. As an example, Taguchi et al. have... 

Scheme 6.15 gives some representative examples of the orthoester Claisen rearrangement. Entry 1 is an example of the standard conditions for the orthoester Claisen rearrangement using triethyl orthoacetate as the reactant. The allylic alcohol is heated in an excess of the orthoester (5.75 equivalents) with 5 mol % of propanoic acid. Ethanol is distilled from the reaction mixture. The E-double bond arises from the chair TS. 

The stereochemistry of Ireland-Claisen rearrangements of cyclic compounds is sometimes indicative of reaction through a boat TS. For example, the major product from 2-cyclohexenyl propanoate is formed through a boat TS.244... 

The possibility of using chiral auxiliaries or chiral catalysts to achieve enantio-selective Claisen rearrangements has been explored.253 One approach is to use chiral boron enolates. For example, enolates prepared with the chiral diazaborolidine bromide O lead to rearranged products of more than 95% enantiomeric excess.254... 

Scheme 6.17 gives some examples of the orthoamide and imidate versions of the Claisen rearrangement. Entry 1 applied the reaction in the synthesis of a portion of the alkaloid tabersonine. The reaction in Entry 2 was used in an enantiospecific synthesis of pravastatin, one of a family of drugs used to lower cholesterol levels. The product from the reaction in Entry 3 was used in a synthesis of a portion of the antibiotic rampamycin. Entries 4 and 5 were used in the synthesis of polycyclic natural products. Note that the reaction in Entry 4 also leads to isomerization of the double bond into conjugation with the ester group. Entries 1 to 5 all involve cyclic reactants, and the concerted TS ensures that the substituent is introduced syn to the original hydroxy substituent. 

Besides the obvious biological interest, chorismate mutase is important for being a rare example of an enzyme that catalyses a pericyclic reaction (the Claisen rearrangement), which also occurs in solution without the enzyme, providing a unique... 

As shown earlier in many examples, the Claisen rearrangement of allyl vinyl ethers also provides a very powerful method for carbon-carbon bond formation in domino processes. Usually, the necessary ethers are formed in a separate step. However, both steps can be combined in a novel domino reaction developed by Buchwald and Nordmann [306]. This starts from an allylic alcohol 6/4-102 and a vinyl iodide 6/4-103, using copper iodide in the presence of the ligand 6/4-104 at 120 °C to give 6/4-105 (Scheme 6/4.25). The reaction even allows the stereoselective formation of two adjacent quaternary stereogenic centers in high yield. 

Hydroxymethyl-4,8-dimethylfuro[2,3-/z]chromen-2-one was realized in an efficient manner via a Claisen rearrangement of 4-(hydroxybut-2-ynyloxy)-4-methylchromen-2-one as depicted in the following scheme. Other examples with substitution of hydroxyl and with other substituents, such as chloro, amino, acetoxy were also reported <06JHC763>. A new approach for the synthesis of oxygenated benzo[fe]furans was developed via epoxidation and cyclization of 2 -hydroxystilbene <06T4214>. 

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