Cyclic 1,3-butadienes

Trisubstituted X -phosphorins or X -phosphorins can be isolated unchanged even after long periods of irradiation when oxygen is excluded. Stade discovered that cyclic phosphinic acid esters 208 a-c which contain a cyclic butadiene (1.3)-moiety, photochemically rearrange smoothly to the tricyclic compounds 214 a-c. 

Polymerization reactions, in addition to those previously mentioned, have been reported in the Russian literature which involve unsaturated compounds of all kinds. However, recent original work has not exceeded in industrial importance the polymerization of butadiene over metallic sodium as developed by Lebedev. In studies of the effect of temperature on this polymerization, Lebedev established the limits of formation of a cyclic butadiene dimer, vinylcyclohexene, while a lower temperature was necessary for polymer formation. Slobodin and co-workers established that at 300-400° over Florida earth, 1,3-butadiene gave the above dimer as well as dimethylcyclohexadiene and also trimers and tetramers with fused rings (379,382). 

The reaction of butadiene with sulfur gives the disulfide 112, cyclic sulfide 113, and macrocyclic mono- and trisulfides 114 and 1I5[105]. 

Thus cyclobutadiene like cyclooctatetraene is not aromatic More than this cyclo butadiene is even less stable than its Lewis structure would suggest It belongs to a class of compounds called antiaromatic An antiaromatic compound is one that is destabi lized by cyclic conjugation... 

Experiments with cyclic thioethers (80JCS(P1)1693), thiourea, thiocyanate and ethyl xan-thate always led to destruction of oxaziridines (73AJC2159). Products of complicated consecutive reactions could be isolated but only with some difficulty, e.g. (92) from a reaction with carbon disulfide (74JOC957), and (93), obtained by trapping with butadiene a product of a reaction between an oxaziridine and a thiirane (80JOC1691). 

The bis(silyloxy)cyclobutenes are also subject to a variety of special reactions. Probably the most interesting is the observation that they readily undergo a ring-opening reaction leading to a butadiene derivative. This reaction has already been used to prepare large-ring diketones from cyclic 1,2-diesters. 

Nylon 12 first beeame available on a semieommercial scale in 1963. The monomer, dodecanelactam, is prepared from butadiene by a multistaged reaction. In one proeess butadiene is treated with a Ziegler-type eatalyst system to yield the cyclic trimer, cyclododeca-1, 5, 9-triene. This may then be hydrogenated to give cyelododeeane, which is then subjeeted to direct air oxidation to give a mixture of cyclododecanol and cyclododecanone. Treatment of the mixture with... 

The reactions with nucleophiles include a wide variety such as amines, sulfides (133,135), diazomethane (111), and others. Of particular interest were the reactions of such intermediate iminium salts with 2,3-dimethyl-butadiene to give cyclic products as shown in the reaction of N-bromo-methylpiperidine and N-bromo- and N-chloromethyldiethylamine (134). 

Butadiene could be oligomerized to cyclic dienes and trienes using certain transition metal complexes. Commercially, a mixture of TiCU and Al2Cl3(C2H5)3 is used that gives predominantly cis, trans, trans-1,5,9-cyclododecatriene along with approximately 5% of the dimer 1,5-cyclooctadiene ... 

Regardless of Llieu apparent structural differences, all terpenoids are related. According to a formalism called the isoprene rule, they can be thought of as arising from head-to-tail joining of 5-carbon isoprene units (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene). Carbon 1 is the head of the isoprene unit, and carbon 4 is the tail. For example, myreene contains two isoprene units joined head to tail, forming an 8-carbon chain with two 1-carbon branches. a-Pinene similarly contains two isoprene units assembled into a more complex cyclic structure, and humulene contains three isoprene units. See if you can identify the isoprene units in a -pinene and humulene. 

Having just seen a resonance description of benzene, let s now look at the alternative molecular orbital description. We can construct -tt molecular orbitals for benzene just as we did for 1,3-butadiene in Section 14.1. If six p atomic orbitals combine in a cyclic manner, six benzene molecular orbitals result, as shown in Figure 15.3. The three low-energy molecular orbitals, denoted bonding combinations, and the three high-energy orbitals are antibonding. 

Conjugation (Chapter 14 introduction) A series of overlapping p orbitals, usually in alternating single and multiple bonds. For example, 1,3-butadiene is a conjugated diene, 3-buten-2-one is a conjugated enone, and benzene is a cyclic conjugated triene. 

Unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbons (e.g., vinyl-cyclohexene) Butadienes... 

A much improved synthesis of perfluoroalkanesulphonyl fluorides from sulphones has been published. This involves the electrolysis of cyclic unsaturated sulphones in anhydrous HF at 8-10°C using a potential of 5-7 volts. Thus, butadiene sulphone was oxidized to perfluorobutanesulphonyl fluoride in quantitative yield211 (equation 94). 

Barluenga et al. have described novel vinylcarbene complexes containing a cyclic BF2 chelated structure which temporarily fixes the s-cis conformation of the exocyclic C=C and Cr=C double bonds. These boroxycarbene complexes behave as dienophiles with 2-amino-l,3-butadienes in a remarkably regio- and exo-selective way. Moreover, high degrees of enantioselectivity are reached by the use of chiral 2-aminodienes derived from (S)-methoxymethylpyrrolidine [101] (Scheme 54). 

In the case of electrophiles like Br", which can form cyclic intermediates, both 1,2-and 1,4-addition products can be rationalized as stemming from an intermediate like 17. Direct nucleophilic attack by W would give the 1,2 product, while the 1,4 product could be formed by attack at the 4 position, by an Sn2 type mechanism (see p. 422). Intermediates like 18 have been postulated but ruled out for Br and Cl by the observation that chlorination or bromination of butadiene gives trans 1,4... 

The chemical reactions through cyclic transition states are controlled by the symmetry of the frontier orbitals [11]. At the symmetrical (Cs) six-membered ring transition state of Diels-Alder reaction between butadiene and ethylene, the HOMO of butadiene and the LUMO of ethylene (Scheme 18) are antisymmetric with respect to the reflection in the mirror plane (Scheme 24). The symmetry allows the frontier orbitals to have the same signs of the overlap integrals between the p-or-bital components at both reaction sites. The simultaneous interactions at the both sites promotes the frontier orbital interaction more than the interaction at one site of an acyclic transition state. This is also the case with interaction between the HOMO of ethylene and the LUMO of butadiene. The Diels-Alder reactions occur through the cyclic transition states in a concerted and stereospecific manner with retention of configuration of the reactants. 

In the presence of the corresponding copper(II) catalyst, N-acryloyloxazo-lidinone reacted with various conjugated dienes (cyclic and acychc) with good enantioselectivities in all cases, competing with results obtained for classical catalysts in the case of flexible dienes. Thus the cycloadducts obtained from isoprene or 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene were synthesized in high yields and good enantioselectivities (92% ee in both cases). 

Simple Example Lewis acids, such as AlCl, catalyse the Diels-Alder reaction. Workers used a three-fold excess of butadiene to react with the AlCl complex of 5,6 and 7-membered cyclic enones, e.g, (5), giving excellent yields of eie fused bicyclic ketones (6), Me and H must be cis in (6) as they were aiv in (5). 

The same catalytic system has been tested for the hydroamination of 1,3-butadiene with cyclic amines from the three-membered ring aziridine to the seven-mem-bered ring perhydroazepine. Although arizidine does not lead to a hydroamination reaction, all other cyclic amines give rise to a mixture of 1 1 telomers in fair to excellent yields (e.g., Eq. 4.47) [181]. 

On the other hand, numerous examples are already known in which monomeric metaphosphoric esters are generated by thermolysis reactions. Most worthy of mention in this context is the gas phase pyrolysis of the cyclic phosphonate 150 which leads via a retro-Diels-Alder reaction to butadiene and monomeric methyl metaphosphate (151) 108,109, no). While most of the phosphorus appears as pyrophosphate and trimeric and polymeric metaphosphate, a low percentage (<5%) of products 152 and 153 is also found on condensation of the pyrolyzate in a cold trap containing diethylaniline or N,N,N, N,-tetraethyl-m-phenylene-diamine. The... 

There is just the possibility that in adding bromine to butadiene the 1,4-adduct might be obtained via an unstrained, five-membered cyclic bromonium ion (70). This would lead, on nucleophilic cleavage by Bre, to the cis 1,4-dibromide (71) ... 

It can be assumed that, in the presence of InCl3 and water, the cyclic enol ethers 2-618 form a hydroxy aldehyde which reacts with the aniline to give an aromatic im-inium ion. This represents an electron-poor 1,3-butadiene which can undergo a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction [323] with another molecule of 2-618 to give a mixture of the diastereomeric tetrahydroquinolines 2-619 and 2-620. 

In the Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand, the overlap of the LUMO of the 1-oxa-l,3-butadiene with the HOMO of the dienophile is dominant. Since the electron-withdrawing group at the oxabutadiene at the 3-position lowers its LUMO dramatically, the cycloaddition as well as the condensation usually take place at room or slightly elevated temperature. There is actually no restriction for the aldehydes. Thus, aromatic, heteroaromatic, saturated aliphatic and unsaturated aliphatic aldehydes may be used. For example, a-oxocarbocylic esters or 1,2-dike-tones for instance have been employed as ketones. Furthermore, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds cyclic and acyclic substances such as Meldmm s acid, barbituric acid and derivates, coumarins, any type of cycloalkane-1,3-dione, (1-ketoesters, and 1,3-diones as well as their phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur analogues, can also be ap-... 

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