Tandem reactions cyclization

The following molecules have been synthesized by radical cyclization and tandem radical cyclizations. Identify the bond or bonds that could be formed by radical cyclizations and suggest an appropriate reactant and reaction conditions that would lead to the specified products. 

Clerici and Porta reported that phenyl, acetyl and methyl radicals add to the Ca atom of the iminium ion, PhN+Me=CHMe, formed in situ by the titanium-catalyzed condensation of /V-methylanilinc with acetaldehyde to give PhNMeCHMePh, PhNMeCHMeAc, and PhNMeCHMe2 in 80% overall yield.83 Recently, Miyabe and co-workers studied the addition of various alkyl radicals to imine derivatives. Alkyl radicals generated from alkyl iodide and triethylborane were added to imine derivatives such as oxime ethers, hydrazones, and nitrones in an aqueous medium.84 The reaction also proceeds on solid support.85 A-sulfonylimines are also effective under such reaction conditions.86 Indium is also effective as the mediator (Eq. 11.49).87 A tandem radical addition-cyclization reaction of oxime ether and hydrazone was also developed (Eq. 11.50).88 Li and co-workers reported the synthesis of a-amino acid derivatives and amines via the addition of simple alkyl halides to imines and enamides mediated by zinc in water (Eq. 11.51).89 The zinc-mediated radical reaction of the hydrazone bearing a chiral camphorsultam provided the corresponding alkylated products with good diastereoselectivities that can be converted into enantiomerically pure a-amino acids (Eq. 11.52).90... 

Tandem addition-cyclization reactions can be used for a simultaneous construction of the central and terminal rings. This is illustrated in Equation (10) by the synthesis of 121 from 120 <2002BMC1275>. 

Ma et al. described the palladium(0)-eatalyzed three-component tandem double-addition-cyclization reaction of 2-(2,3-allenyl)malonate 218, Phi, and A-Ts-imine 219 for the stereoselective synthesis of 2,5-m-pyrrolidine 220... 

The key features of the catalytic cycle are trapping of the radical generated after cycliza-tion by an a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compound, reduction of the enol radical to give an enolate, and subsequent protonation of the titanocene alkoxide and enolate. The diaster-eoselectivity observed is essentially the same as that achieved in the simple cyclization reaction. An important point is that the tandem reactions can be carried out with alkynes as radical acceptors. The trapping of the formed vinyl radical with unsaturated carbonyl compounds occurs with very high stereoselectivity, as shown in Scheme 12.21. 

Tandem mass spectrometry has been used to demonstrate that M+ as well as MH+ of substituted A-(ort/zo-cyclopropylphenyl)benzamides isomerizes before the fragmentation, with formation of 3-aryl-1-ethyl-lH-benzoxazines and 5-ethyl-2-oxodi-benzoazepines (Scheme 5.14). The methyl group in /V-[ortho-( 1 -methylcvclopropyl )-phenyl]benzamides quenches the latter process, leaving the formation of benzoxazines as the only cyclization reaction. A subsequent chemical experiment in solution confirmed the mass spectral predictions [24]. A similar study confirmed the analogy of cyclization of substituted A-(ort/zo-cyclopropylphenyl)-A -aryl ureas and N- ortho-cyclopropylphenyl)-A -aiyl thioureas in the ion source of mass a spectrometer and in solution [25]. 

This method can also be applied to silyl enol ethers of homologous unsaturated ketones as well as of unsaturated aldehydes or esters [85-87]. While unmodified unsaturated esters give only the corresponding aldehydes without cyclization under tandem hydroformylation/aldol reaction conditions, the corresponding silylated ester enolates smoothly cyclize in a tandem hy-droformylation/ Mukaiyama aldol reaction (Scheme 32) [85-87]. 

The Kolbe electrolysis has also been used to initiate tandem radical cyclization reactions [21]. Recently, Matzeit and Schafer reported that these reactions could be used to construct angularly fused tricyclic ring skeletons (Scheme 8) [22]. The reaction led to the formation of three new C-C bonds. In addition to the desired tricyclic product, the reaction formed a pair of products having the... 

For chemical routes to tandem radical cyclization reaction see Curran DP, Kuo SC (1987) Tetrahedron 43 5653, as well as reference 17c. 

Free-radical reaction of vinyl iodides having dienoate function in the presence of (TMS)3SiH and AIBN in refluxing benzene caused a tandem cyclization reaction to produce (4 - -1) and (4 - - 2) annulated compounds [94]. Reaction (7.83) shows the transformation resulted from a tandem 5-exo, 6-endo cyclization to give the isoindole skeleton where the stereogenic centres were highly controlled, whereas Reaction (7.84) proceeded via a tandem 6-exo, 5-exo cyclization to furnish a (4 -b 1) cycloadduct. 

Triethylamine as the electron donor was also used by Mattay and co-workers in tandem fragmentation cyclization reactions of a-cyclopropylketones. The initial electron transfer on the ketone moiety is followed by the fast cyclopropyl-carbinyl-homoallyl rearrangement, yielding a distonic radical anion. With an appropriate unsaturated side chain within the molecule both annealated and spi-rocyclic ring systems are accessable in moderate yields (Scheme 41) [62]. 

Cascade Addition-Cyclization Reactions Given the importance of cascade reactions in modem chemical synthesis, the MacMillan group has proposed expansion of the realm of iminium catalysis to include the activation of tandem bond-forming processes, with a view toward the rapid constraction of natural products. In this context, the addition-cyclization of tryptamines with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes in the presence of imidazolidinone catalysts 11 or 15 has been accomplished to provide pyrroloindoline adducts in high yields and with excellent enantioselectivities (Scheme 11.3a). This transformation is successful... 

The 8/7-thieno[2,3-3]indole 457 was prepared by tandem cross-coupling and cyclization reactions analogously to 4/7-thieno[3,2-3]indole 358 (Scheme 37) from 3-bromothiophene <2002SL207, 20040L533>. 

Tetrahydrobis(benzofuran) is produced by a tandem cyclization reaction from the bis-vinyl ether on reaction with catalytic quantities of rhodium(l) salts in the presence of electron-rich phosphine ligands <20030L1301>. Thus, employing 10mol% of [RhCl(coe)2]2 with 20mol% of a dicyclohexyl ferrocenyl phosphine ligand produces the bis-cyclized product (coe = cyclooctene Equation 67). 

Treatment of functionalized vinyllithium, 28, with allylmaghesium bromide in the presence of zinc bromide leads to a stereoselectively substituted, metallated cyclopropane, 29, via a tandem metalla-Claisen-cyclization reaction (equation 48 )M. The produced cyclo-... 

A consideration in a tandem strategy is the choice of two pairs of nucleophiles and electrophiles to achieve the reaction sequences of cyclization and convergent ligation. One entire pair essential for the cyclization reaction is placed in the peptide precursor, while the other pair for the convergent ligation is split between the peptide and the core. Although various combinations of these pairs can be exploited for the sequential reactions in thiol and... 

Tandem Diels-Alder-Nitronic Ester Cyclization Reactions 1122... 

Tandem Michael-Azomethine Ylide Cyclization Reactions... 

Very recently examples of tandem Michael-azomethine ylide cyclization reactions have been presented.626 Thus, divinyl sulfone reacted with imine (124) in the presence of lithium bromide and tri-ethylamine to give (126) in 40% yield (Scheme 38). Presumably formation of Michael adduct (125), tau-tomerization to an azomethine ylide and ensuing intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition afforded (126). Indeed, (125) could be independently synthesized and converted to (126) under the reaction conditions. The preference for initial Michael addition, rather than cycloaddition, was variable. When (124) and divinyl sulfone were treated with silver acetate and triethylamine in DMSO, intermolecular azomethine cycloaddition occurred giving (127) in 27% yield. 

The use of tandem reactions continues to be an efficient method for the construction of complex molecules. While tandem cyclization reactions such as the reaction of do-deca-l,6-dien-ll-yne (29) with Et3B-Ph3SnH to furnish the products (30)-(32)... 

Scheme 16 Tandem intermolecular addition-cyclization reactions...

The above described total synthesis shows the application of the (7-carbonyl radical-initiated tandem cyclization reaction for the first generation of (+)-paniculatine. With this method starting from 2-substituted-5-(R)-cyclohexenone 5 Sha and co-workers obtained 15 (=1) in 21 steps. Furthermore the HBr-salt of this alkaloid was prepared and subjected to a single X-ray analysis, which unambiguously confirmed the structure and stereochemistry of this synthetic (+)-paniculatine. 

The 87/-thicno 2,3-/ ]indole 181 was prepared a by tandem of cross-coupling and cyclization reactions in very good yield (76%) [13] from 2-nitroboronic acid 25 and 3-bromothiophene 182 (Scheme 33) analogously to 4//-thicno 3,2-/ indolc 28 (see Scheme 33). 

The number of similar cyclizations, including tandem and cascade sequences where an SnH reaction is a key step, has been considerably increased. As a rule, they are easily performed allowing at times the synthesis of complex polynuclear heterocycles in one step. The present paper, which summarizes about 130 articles on this topic, shows SnH cyclizations to be a very promising strategy for heterocyclic ring annulations. 

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