Cyclization 4+4 -, with dienes

Cyclization with Dienes. The reaction of 2-thiono-l,3-dioxol-4-ene with anthracene at elevated temperatures leads to the production of the bicyclic adduct (1) (eq 1). No other dienes have been reported to cyclize with this reagent. Diels-Alder adducts could be treated with phosphines to effect a Corey-Winter aUcenation, which would render the reagent an acetylene equivalent. 

Palladium catalyzed cycloisomerizations of 6-cn-l-ynes lead most readily to five-membered rings. Palladium binds exclusively to terminal C = C triple bonds in the presence of internal ones and induces cyclizations with high chemoselectivity. Synthetically useful bis-exocyclic 1,3-dienes have been obtained in high yields, which can, for example, be applied in Diels-Alder reactions (B.M. Trost, 1989). 

COi is another molecule which reacts with conjugated dienes[10,95,96], COt undergoes cyclization with butadiene to give the five- and six-membered lactones 101. 102. and 103, accompanied by the carboxylic esters 104 and 105[97.98], Alkylphosphines such as tricyclohcxyl- and triisopropylphosphine are recommended as ligands. MeCN is a good solvent[99],... 

Depending on the substituents of l,6-enynes, their cyclization leads to 1.2-dialkylidene derivatives (or a 1.3-diene system). For example, cyclization of the 1,6-enyne 50 affords the 1.3-diene system 51[33-35]. Furthermore, the 1.6-enyne 53, which has a terminal alkene, undergoes cyclization with a shift of vinylic hydrogen to generate the 1,3-diene system 54. The carbapenem skeleton 56 has been synthesized based on the cyclization of the functionalized 1,6-enyne 55[36], Similarly, the cyclization of the 1,7-enyne 57 gives a si -mem-bered ring 58 with the 1,3-diene system. 

Myrcene with its conjugated diene system readily undergoes Diels-Alder reactions with a number of dienophiles. For example, reaction with 3-meth.5i-3-pentene-2-one with a catalytic amount of AlCl gives an intermediate monocyclic ketone, which when cyclized with 85% phosphoric acid produces the bicycHc ketone known as Iso E Super [54464-57-2] (49). The product is useful in providing sandalwood-like and cedarwood-like fragrance ingredients (91). 

In a related reaction, the Danishefsky diene 1434 cyclizes with ethyl pyruvate 1435 in the presence of catalytic amounts of the asymmetric Lewis acid catalyst 1436, at -72 °C in THF, to give the Diels-Alder adduct 1437, in 85% yield and 91% ee, and the ring-opened product 1438, which cyclizes, however, with triflic acid to give 1437 [11] (Scheme 9.9). 

Nickel(O) complexes are extremely effective for the dimerization and oligomerization of conjugated dienes [8,9]. Two molecules of 1,3-butadiene readily undergo oxidative cyclization with a Ni(0) metal to form bis-allylnickel species. Palladium(O) complexes also form bis-allylpalladium species of structural similarity (Scheme 2). The bis-allylpalladium complexes show amphiphilic reactivity and serve as an allyl cation equivalent in the presence of appropriate nucleophiles, and also serve as an allyl anion equivalent in the presence of appropriate electrophiles. Characteristically, the bis-allylnickel species is known to date only as a nucleophile toward carbonyl compounds (Eq. 1) [10,11],... 

Scheme 16 Origin of the diastereoselectivity in the cyclization of dienes with 70...

For most dienes, 7r-bonds adjacent to quaternary centers do not undergo insertion reactions. One notable exception is 1,5-diene (75) (Scheme 17) [44], For this substrate, the observed selectivity is inconsistent with a chair-like (in this case a trans decalin-like) transition structure (76 top) leading to the insertion product, which is typically seen in diene cyclizations with 70 [36]. 

A new approach to piperidines via cyclization of dienes, such as 158, employs a phosphorus hydride mediated radical addition/cyclization reaction <06JOC3656>. This reaction proceeds with complete regioselectivity to create the 6-exo-trig product 159, although as an inseparable mixture of two of the four possible diastereomers. 

Free-radical chain reactions have been reviewed60. The cyclization of dienes by the action of free radicals is illustrated for the case of the 1,6-heptadiene derivative 90 (E = CC Me) in equation 56. Treatment with tosyl radicals, produced from tosyl chloride and a catalytic amount of dibenzoyl peroxide, generates the radicals 91, which cyclize to 92. The latter reacts with tosyl chloride to form 93 and tosyl radicals are regenerated. The product is obtained in 85% yield as a 6 1 mixture of cis- and fraws-isomers61. 

Acyclic dienes also undergo the palladium-catalyzed cyclization with the Mn02/BQ oxidation system22. Thus, simple 1,5-hexadiene afforded a 72% isolated yield of cyclized products 18, 19 and 20, with an isomer distribution of 65 25 10, respectively (equation 8). In general, the selectivity and/or yield was lower for the acyclic dienes. 

Enantioselective catalysts have been developed for cyclization of dienyl aldehydes and coupling of aldehydes with alkynes (Equations (74) and (75)). For reactions with dienes see Refs 433 and 433a, and for reactions with alkynes see Refs 433b I33e. Chiral monodentate phosphines have proved to be effective. 

Zr-catalyzed enantio-selective intramolecular diene cyclizations with allylic alcohol and ether substrates afford carbocycles bearing quaternary carbon stereogenic centers the unexpected formation of the aldehyde product 19 is noteworthy. 

Larock extended this Pd-catalyzed diene heteroannulation to other dienes and anilines [399], including functionalized dienes leading to, for example, ketotetrahydrocarbazoles [400]. Back has employed 1-sulfonyl-l,3-dienes in this 2-vinylindoline synthesis [401], and the use of 1,3-dienes in constructing indolines has been adapted to the solid phase by Wang [402]. Interestingly, Larock has shown that the electronically-related vinylcyclopropanes undergo a similar cyclization with o-iodoanilines to form 2-vinylindolines, e.g., 310 [403, 404]. Vinylcyclobutane also reacts in a comparable manner. 

A bis-silylated l,2-octadien-7-yne undergoes very clean cyclization with a slight excess of (7/2-propene)Ti(OiPr)2, prepared in situ from Ti(OiPr)4 and iPrMgCl, at -50 °C for 2 h to give a 1,4-diene as a single isomer after hydrolytic workup (Scheme 16.71) [78]- Deuteration of the reaction mixture afforded exclusively the bis-deuter-ated product, confirming the presence of an intermediate titanacycle. This reaction seems to be general for other allenes with diverse substitution patterns. 

The numerous transformations of cyclooctatetraene 189 and its derivatives include three types of structural changes, viz. ring inversion, bond shift and valence isomerizations (for reviews, see References 83-85). One of the major transformations is the interconversion of the cyclooctatetraene and bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,4,7-triene. However, the rearrangement of cyclooctatetraene into the semibullvalene system is little known. For example, the thermolysis of l,2,3,4-tetra(trifluoromethyl)cyclooctatetraene 221 in pentane solution at 170-180 °C for 6 days gave three isomers which were separated by preparative GLC. They were identified as l,2,7,8-tetrakis(trifluoromethyl)bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,4,7-triene 222 and tetrakis(trifluoromethyl)semibullvalenes 223 and 224 (equation 71)86. It was shown that a thermal equilibrium exists between the precursor 221 and its bond-shift isomer 225 which undergoes a rapid cyclization to form the triene 222. The cyclooctatetraenes 221 and 225 are in equilibrium with diene 223, followed by irreversible rearrangement to the most stable isomer 224 (equation 72)86. 

Unfortunately, this process gave good results only with bulky substituents at the acetylenic terminus in 104 and, surprisingly, Jeffery s conditions—but without a quaternary ammonium salt—were found to work best. With an additional alkenyl substituent at the acetylenic terminus as in the cyclohexenyl-substituted 2-bromonona-l,8-dien-6-yne 109, the co-cyclization with bicyclopropylidene 12, under these conditions, leads to 110. This transformation involves two consecutive 67r-electrocyclizations of the initially formed cross-conjugated pentaene 111, which was not isolated (Scheme 30). ... 

Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric cyclization/hydrosilylation tolerated a number of functional groups including benzyl and pivaloyl ethers as well as benzyl and methyl esters (Table 8, entries 1-4). Furthermore, the protocol tolerated substitution at one of the two /ra/zi -terminal alkenyl positions and at one of the two allylic positions of the 1,6-diene (Table 8). As was the case with diene cyclization/hydrosilylation catalyzed by achiral palladium... 

For strychnine 3, the ketone 11 was converted to the alkene 12 by reduction of the enol inflate derived from the more stable enolate. Deprotection and acylation gave 13, which was cyclized with Pd to give, after equilibration, the diene 14. Alkylation, to give IS, followed by Pd-mediated cyciization then gave 16, which was reduced and cyclized to (-)-strychnine 3. 

Enantiomerically pure pipecolic acid (6) is accessible essentially by two well-established synthetic routes (i) cyclization of l- or D-lysine by reaction with disodium nitrosyl-pentacyanoferrate(II) with preservation of configuration at C2 215 216 (ii) ring closure of A ,Ae-bis(A-nitroso-A-tosyl) derivatives of l- or D-lysine, again with retention of chirality at C2. 217 Stereoselective synthesis of pipecolic acid derivatives, substituted in position 4, is achieved using the aza-Diels-Alder reaction of imines with dienes 218-220 or via an ene-iminium cyclization. 221 222 ... 

Whereas diallyl ethers do not readily undergo Zr-promoted cyclization due to competitive oxidative addition [23a], diallylamines have been shown to readily undergo Zr-promoted cyclization, even in cases where the corresponding all-C dienes fail to do so [231. Since the development of the Zr-catalyzed diene cyclization with n-butylmagnesiums. such as n-BuMgBr... 

Furthermore, intramolecular bis-silylative cyclization of dienes 28 with face selectivity gives a diastereomeric mixture of 29 and 30 (equation 16). The size of the substituents on the nonterminal silicon influences the ratio of 29/30, which follows the order Me < Et < Ph < /-Hu < / -Hr (cf. entry 17 of Table l)27. 

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