Conjugate addition allylation

The addition of lithium alkoxydienolates to a,P-enones occurs exclusively in the l,4(a)-mode. For example, alkoxydienolate (202), obtained from ethyl senecioate, adds efficiently, in a tandem conjugate addition-allylation protocol, to cyclopentenone to afford the a,(3-functionalized cyclopentanone (203),153 In contrast, the lithium dienolate (204), from 5-methylbutenolide, affords exclusive y-alkylation,154 b while the analogous phthalide enolates (206) can be exploited to accomplish regiospecific polynuclear aromatic syntheses (Scheme 76).l54c ... 

Conjugate addition. Allyl transfer from allyltributylstannane to enals, enones, and... 

The roles of NHC complexes of copper, silver, and gold in conjugate additions, allylic alkylations, reduction, boration, hydrofunctionalizations, hydrations, cross-couplings, and enyne cycloisomerization have been discussed. ... 

Arai, Y, Kasai, M., Ueda, K., Masaki, Y. (2003). Asymmetric tandem conjugate addition-allylation of chiral (p-tolylsulfinyl)pyrrolyl cinnamoyl amide. Synthesis, 1511-1516. 

Conjugate addition of vinyllithium or a vinyl Grignard reagent to enones and subsequent oxidation afford the 1.4-diketone 16[25]. 4-Oxopentanals are synthesized from allylic alcohols by [3,3]sigmatropic rearrangement of their vinyl ethers and subsequent oxidation of the terminal double bond. Dihydrojasmone (18) was synthesized from allyl 2-octenyl ether (17) based on Claisen rearrangement and oxidation[25] (page 26). 

Allylic amine is a less reactive leaving group[7], but the allylic ammonium salts 214 (quaternary ammonium salts) can be used for allylalion(l30,131]. Allylic sulfonium salts are also used for the allylation[130]. The allylic nitrile in the cyclic aminonitrile 215 can be displaced probably via x-allylic complex formation. The possibility of the formation of the dihydropyridinium salts 216 and subsequent conjugate addition are less likelyfl 32],... 

Section 10 10 Protonation at the terminal carbon of a conjugated diene system gives an allylic carbocation that can be captured by the halide nucleophile at either of the two sites that share the positive charge Nucleophilic attack at the carbon adjacent to the one that is protonated gives the product of direct addition (1 2 addition) Capture at the other site gives the product of conjugate addition (1 4 addition)... 

Copper-mediated Diastereoselective Conjugate Addition and Allylic Substitution Reactions... 

A result equivalent to an allylic substitution reaction with a chiral leaving group can also be achieved by a two-step procedure involving a conjugate addition reaction and a subsequent elimination reaction, as demonstrated by Tamura et al., wbo studied the reaction shown in Scheme 8.15 [27]. 

Recently, elegant synthesis of ruin -MRS carbapenum has been reported. Sequential reaction of nitromethane via conjugate addition-elimination to a,fi-unsanirated esters followed by Pd-catalyzed subsdnidon of the residdng allyl nitro compound with the naphthosultam affords the allyladon product which is an and fEq. 7.20. ... 

Electrophilic Additions to Conjugated Dienes Allylic Carbocations 48i... 

Allylsilanes in which the silyl group is at the more substituted end of the allyl system have been prepared by a reaction sequence involving the conjugate addition of silylcuprates to a, jS-unsat-urated esters followed by reduction and dehydration via selenoxide elimination38. 

An example for synthesis of the chiral [l-keto ester 69 is illustrated in equation 64. It involves conjugate addition of the dipotassium / -keto ester 68 to vinyl sulfone 67 followed by in situ quenching with allyl bromide54. The method provides a new procedure to sevenring annulation product 70 that is a potential precursor for (l)-(-)-cytochalasin C. 

The conjugate addition of tributylstannylmethyllithium to unsaturated sulfones 100, followed by trapping with an aldehyde, provides a route to the allyl alcohol 101 which may be transformed into 2(5H)-furanones (equation 81)67. 

When enantiomerically pure allyl p-tolyl sulfoxide is deprotonated and then treated with electrophilic 2-cyclopentenone, a conjugate addition occurs forming a new carbon-carbon bond with very high control of absolute stereochemistry (equation 25)65. See also Reference 48. Similarly, using more substituted enantiomerically pure allylic sulfoxides leads to virtually complete diastereocontrol, as exemplified by equations 26 and 27 the double bond geometry in the initial allylic sulfoxide governs the stereochemistry at the newly allylic carbon atom (compare equations 26 vs. 27)66. Haynes and associates67 rationalize this stereochemical result in terms of frontier molecular orbital considerations... 

This type of asymmetric conjugate addition of allylic sulfinyl carbanions to cyclopen-tenones has been applied successfully to total synthesis of some natural products. For example, enantiomerically pure (+ )-hirsutene (29) is prepared (via 28) using as a key step conjugate addition of an allylic sulfinyl carbanion to 2-methyl-2-cyclopentenone (equation 28)65, and (+ )-pentalene (31) is prepared using as a key step kinetically controlled conjugate addition of racemic crotyl sulfinyl carbanion to enantiomerically pure cyclopentenone 30 (equation 29) this kinetic resolution of the crotyl sulfoxide is followed by several chemical transformations leading to (+ )-pentalene (31)68. 

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