Cope rearrangement carbanion-accelerated

A carbanion -accelerated hetero-Cope rearrangement was reported by Blechert 170). Reaction of the sodium salt of the hydroxamic acid (202) with the allene sulfone 203 led at 0 °C within 10 min to 206. Undoubtedly, the carbanions 204 and 205 are the important intermediates in this transformation. A carbanion -accelerated... 

Two other examples of carbanion -accelerated rearrangements have been described in the literature. The first one leads from the anion of the 60-allylic guanine 211 in two consecutive [3.3] sigmatropic shifts (a combined Claisen-Cope rearrangement) via 212 and 213 to the 8-allylic guanine 214 173). 

Blechert has developed an interesting synthesis of 2-subsdtuted indoles which involves the conjugate addition of V-phenylhydroxylamine salts (or A(-phenylnitrones) to electron-deficient allenes, followed by carbanion-accelerated hetero-Cope rearrangement of the Michael adduct. For example, addition of the hydroxylamine salt (46) to the allenyl sulfone (47) produces the anion (48), which undergoes rapid 3,3-sigmatropic reanangement to afford the P-keto sulfone (49). Cyclization to the indole proceeds smoothly upon exposure to formic acid (Scheme 3). 

A carbanion-accelerated tandem aza-Cope rearrangement cyclization reaction is observed in the example 20 -+ 241152. 

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