Intramolecular conjugate

Medium Sized Organic Molecules. - 4-nitroaniline (pNA), the prototype for the enormous number of organic n-conjugated intramolecular donor/ acceptor molecules that have been studied in the expectation of finding large... 

Exampie Chioroform Free radicai formation Exampie Carbon tetrachioride intramoiecuiar cyciization Exampie 2-Bromoethylamine Giutathione conjugation intramolecular cyclization Example 1,2-Dibromoethane Cysteine conjugate /i-lyase activation Example Trichloroethylene Facilitated transport Example Bromobenzene... 

Conjugate intramolecular addition of nucleophiles to dienyl diketones can follow two pathways anionic or easily deprotonated nucleophiles in the presence of pyrrolidine afford cyclopentenones while the neutral nucleophile l,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) promoted a 6n electrocycli-zation to give 2E/-pyrans (Scheme 1) (14JOC10296). 

The intramolecular reaction oF allcenes with various O and N functional groups offers useful synthetic methods for heterocycles[13,14,166]. The reaction of unsaturated carboxylic acids affords lactones by either exo- or endo-cyclization depending on the positions of the double bond. The reaction of sodium salts of the 3-alkenoic acid 143 and 4-alkenoic acid 144 with Li2PdCl4 affords mostly five-membcrcd lactones in 30-40% yields[167]. Both 5-hexe-noic acid (145) and 4-hexenoic acid (146) are converted to five- or six-mem-bered lactones depending on the solvents and bases[168]. Conjugated 2,4-pentadienoic acid (147) is cyclized with Li2PdCl4 to give 2-pyrone (148) in water[i69]. 

The reaction of alkenyl mercurials with alkenes forms 7r-allylpalladium intermediates by the rearrangement of Pd via the elimination of H—Pd—Cl and its reverse readdition. Further transformations such as trapping with nucleophiles or elimination form conjugated dienes[379]. The 7r-allylpalladium intermediate 418 formed from 3-butenoic acid reacts intramolecularly with carboxylic acid to yield the 7-vinyl-7-laCtone 4I9[380], The /i,7-titisaturated amide 421 is obtained by the reaction of 4-vinyl-2-azetidinone (420) with an organomercur-ial. Similarly homoallylic alcohols are obtained from vinylic oxetanes[381]. 

The alkenylpalladium intermediate 364, formed by the intramolecular insertion of 363, is terminated by hydrogenolysis with formic acid to give the terminal alkene 365[266]. The intramolecular insertion of 366 is terminated by the reaction of the alkynylstannane 367 to afford the conjugated dienyne system 368[267j. 

The intramolecular insertion of a conjugated diene into 7r-allylpalladium, initially formed in 789, generates another rr-allyl complex 790, which is trapped with acetate anion to give a new allylic acetate 791. No further reaction of the allylic acetate with alkene takes place[489]. 

The linear dimerization of substituted conjugated dienes is difficult, but the Pd-catalyzed intramolecular dimerization reaction of the 1,3,9,11-tetraene 13 gives the 3-propenylidene-4-allylpiperidine derivative 14, which has the 1,3,7-octatriene system. The corresponding 1,3,8,10-tetraene also affords the 3-pro-penylindene-4-allylcyclopentane derivative[18]. 

Both enols have their carbon-carbon double bonds conjugated to a carbonyl group and can form an intramolecular hydrogen bond They are of comparable stability... 

Both the conjugate addition step and the intramolecular aldol condensation step can be carried out in one synthetic operation without isolat mg any of the intermediates along the way For example consider the reaction... 

Conjugation is more important 1 3 Cyclohexanedione exists mainly in its enol form in spite of the fact that intramolecular hydrogen bonding is impossible due to the distance between the carbonyl group and the enohc —OH group... 

Base-promoted cyclization of vicinal halohydrins (Section 16.10) This reaction is an intramolecular version of the Williamson ether synthesis. The alcohol function of a vicinal halohydrin is converted to its conjugate base, which then displaces halide from the adjacent carbon to give an epoxide. 

Both the conjugate addition step and the intramolecular aldol... 

Robinson annulation (Section 18.13) A combination of conjugate addition of an enolate anion to an a,p-unsaturated ketone with subsequent intramolecular aldol condensation. 

Reaction of tryptamine with simple ketones has not been widely explored. Acetone in the presence of benzoyl chloride has been reported to yield 2-benzoyl-1,1 -dimethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-j8-carbo-line. That the keto group is much less reactive than the aldehyde group is indicated by the fact that j8-keto aldehydes, in the form of their acetals or sodium salts, react with tryptamine at the aldehyde function to yield the conjugated enamine 24, which undergoes ring closure via an intramolecular Michael addition. The potentialities of this interesting modification of the Pictet-Spengler reaction have not yet been fuUy explored. 

Apparently, cyclization involves the formation of open-chain intermediates 342, 343, further closing up to imidazolidines 344 and oxazolidines 345 which eliminate the secondary amine, thus leading to imidazolines 346 and oxazolines 347. The latter exist in the solution exclusively in the enolic forms 348, 349 which are stabilized by conjugation and intramolecular hydrogen bonds. 

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