Cycloadditions involving allyl cations

In the case above, 100 is protonated in the last step by the acid HA, but if the acid is omitted and a suitable nucleofuge is present, it may leave, resulting in a cyclo-pentene. In these cases the reagent is an allylic anion, but similar 3 + 2 cycloadditions involving allylic cations have also been reported. 

Cycloaddition reactions involve the combination of two molecules to form a new ring. Concerted pericyclic cycloadditions involve reorganization of the Tr-electron systems of the reactants to form two new a bonds. Examples might include cyclodimerization of alkenes, cycloaddition of allyl cation to an alkene, and the addition reaction between alkenes and dienes (Diels-Alder reaction). 

The synthesis of fenozan BO-7 4 involves two key steps, the first of which employs a 4 + 2 cycloaddition of singlet oxygen to the diene 83a122-20 123. This provides the endoper-oxide 83b that can be transformed into the target cis-fused 1,2,4-trioxane by treatment with the Lewis acid, TMSOTf, in the presence of a carbonyl compound. The reaction proceeds by Lewis acid promoted heterolysis of the C—O bond to give an intermediate peroxy allyl cation 83c that is captured by the carbonyl compound (in this case, cyclopen-tanone) to give the product (Scheme 30). A number of different carbonyls have been used in this reaction along with a number of different endoperoxide templates and detailed SAR have been developed (Scheme 30). 

Diels-Alder reactions are classified as [4 + 2] cycloadditions, and the reaction giving the cyclobutane would be a [2 + 2] cycloaddition. This classification is based on the number of electrons involved. Diels-Alder reactions are not the only [4 + 2] cycloadditions. Conjugated ions like allyl cations, allyl anions and pentadienyl cations are all capable of cycloadditions. Thus, an allyl cation can be a 2-electron component in a [4 + 2] cycloaddition, as in the reaction of the methallyl cation 6.2 derived from its iodide 6.1, with cyclo-pentadiene giving a seven-membered ring cation 6.3. The diene is the 4-electron component. The product eventually isolated is the alkene 6.4, as the result of the loss of the neighbouring proton, the usual fate of a tertiary cation. This cycloaddition is also called a [4 + 3] cycloaddition if you were to count the atoms, but this is a structural feature not an electronic feature. In this chapter it is the number of electrons that counts. 

Silver(I) compounds are known to promote different kinds of cycloaddition. Reactions of 2-alkoxyallyl halides with 1,3-dienes in the presence of silver(I) compounds provide a beneficial route to cycloheptanones [2,3]. When a mixture of 2-(trimethyl-siloxy)allyl chloride 1 and cyclopentadiene (2) is treated with 2 equiv. AgC104 in THF-ether (1 2) at 0 °C, bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one 3 is produced in 91 % yield [3] (Sch. 1). The 2-(trimethylsiloxy)allyl cation 4 is believed to be involved as a reactive species in the reaction. 

The [2+1] cycloaddition of carbenes and alkenes to give cyclopropanes was discussed in Chapter 2. Other cycloadditions are less common, although [4 + 3], [4 + 4], [6 + 4], [8 + 2] and many other cycloadditions are certainly known. The [4 + 3] cycloaddition in particular involves an allyl cation as the three-atom component and an electron-rich diene as the four-atom component. 

Hoffmann has suggested that the reaction involves transformation of the dibromoketone into an allyl cation (b), which reacts by cycloaddition to (2) to give (3). 

The intramolecular [4+3] cycloaddition reaction towards seven-membered rings involving furans and allylic cations have been reviewed <01ACR595>. A review on the use of 2-siloxyfurans as butenolide precursors has appeared <01T3221>. Organometallic compounds of furans and their benzoannulated derivatives have also been summarized <01 AHCI>. 

We may further extend the analysis of pericyclic reactions by considering that a single p orbital, denoted by the symbol m, can be a participant in a pericyclic reaction. In this analysis, one lobe of the p orbital makes up the top face of a one-atom n system, while the other lobe makes up the bottom face. The participation of a single p orbital is suprafacial if both cycloaddition processes involve only one of the two lobes of the p orbital, and it is antarafacial if the cycloaddition involves both. We may thus predict that the conrotatory opening of the cyclopropyl anion to an allyl anion (Figure 11.72) should take place via an -F 2 ] pathway. Conversely, the opening of the cation would be a -F 2 ] process, giving the opposite stereochemistry in the product." ... 

The majority of cycloaddition reactions involve interactions between two (occasionally three) n systems as in the Diels-Alder reaction [equation (5.284)] or the analogous additions of allyl cations to dienes (148)-(150). Such n cycloadditions usually take place by cis addition to each conjugated system because the corresponding transition states are less strained. The reactions are then of Hiickel type (see, e.g.. Figs. 5.35a and 5.36a) and follow the same rules for aromaticity as do ordinary conjugated hydrocarbons. Some examples follow ... 

It is tempting to think that allylic cations would behave similarly to other stabilized cations in their reactions with alkyl azides. " In practice what happens is invariably an initial formal [3+3] cycloaddition of azide to the allylic cation, which is followed by a migration event (typically of hydride) or trapping by a nucleophile. Pearson and coworkers found that when sulfonylindole 27 was treated with SnCk at -78 °C, followed by basic workup, triazoline adducts 28 were obtained as mixture of chloride epimers (Scheme 7.24). When A -alkyl indoles (e.g. 29) were subjected to Lewis acidic conditions, tri-azines such as 30 were obtained as the sole products. In the former case involving an iV-sulfonyl indole, a [3+2] cycloaddition pathway explains the product, whereas the iV-alkyl indoles examined underwent [3+3] cycloaddition. 

The addition of simple ester or ketoenolates to TT-allylpalladium complexes may constitute the second step of an ingenious [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction. One substrate that undergoes this process is 2-(tri-methylsilylmethyl)allyl acetate (5). The mechanism proposed involves initial formation of a 2-(tri-methylsilylmethyl)allylpalladium cation followed by desilylation by the acetate liberated in the oxidative addition (Scheme 1). The dipolar intermediate can be envisioned as an T]3-trimethylenemethane-PdL2 species (6) or, less likely, an -complex (7). 

Cycloaddition reactions of 18-electron transition metal ti -allyl complexes with unsaturated electrophiles to form five-membered rings have been extensively investigated. These transformations constituted a family of metal-assisted cycloaddition reactions in which the metal functions as an electron-donor center. These are typically two-step processes that involve the initial formation of a dipolar metal r) -alkene intermediate (2) and subsequent internal cyclization (equation 2). The most extensively investigated application of this methodology has been with dicarbonyl-ii -cyclopentadienyliron (Fp) complexes from the laboratory of Rosenblum. These (ri -allyl)Fp complexes are available either by metallation of allyl halides or tosylates with a Fp anion, or by deprotonation of (alkene)Fp cations. ... 

Another synthetically useful carbon bond-forming reaction involves reaction of diiron nonacarbonyl with halo-carbonyl compounds. Noyori found that a,a -dibromoketones (498) react with diiron nonacarbonyl [Fe2(CO)9] to give an iron stabilized alkoxy zwitterion (499). The intermediate Jt-allyl iron species reacts with alkenes in a stepwise manner (initially producing 500) to give cyclic ketones such as 501, 23 and the product is equivalent to the product of a [3-t2]-cycloaddition with an alkene (sec. 11.11). This cyclization method is now known as Noyori annulation. This reaction is related to the Nazarov cyclization previously discussed in Section 12.3.C. Enamines can react with 498, but the initially formed enamino ketone product eliminates the amino group to form cyclopentanone derivatives. Intermediates such as 499 may actually exist as cations hound to a metal rather than as the alkoxide-iron structures shown.323b-d noted that Zn/B(OEt)3 is... 

It should be noted that the reaction of a 1,3-diene partner with an allyl or oxyallyl cation is sometimes also classified as [4 -I- 3] cycloaddition, where the number identifies the number of atoms involved in the two chains. However, electronically, the process is quite similar to the Diels—Alder reaction and can... 

Addition of an T -allyl-Fp complex to this compound affords an T -aIlyl-Fp-substituted cycloheptatriene system. Two double bonds are involved in an (T -diene)iron complex. The remaining free double bond of the silyl enol ether attacks as a nucleophile at the cationic r -alkene-Fp moiety to form an (Tj -diene)iron complexed cyclopentane annulated cycloheptadienone. Treatment with CAN in methanol under carbon monoxide atmosphere releases the methoxycarbonyl-substituted free ligand (Scheme 4-25). Reaction of the Ti -dienyliumiron intermediate of Scheme 4-25 with an ( , Z)-isomeric mixture of ri -crotyl-Fp proceeds with high diastereoselectivity. Four new stereogenic centers are formed in the course of this formal [3+2] cycloaddition. A hetero [3+2] cycloaddition is also feasible between T -ailyl-Fp complexes and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of zinc chloride or titanium(IV) chloride to provide tetrahydrofuran derivatives (Scheme 4-26). A 1,2-shift of the iron complex fragment occurs in the course of this reaction. Employment of imines affords the corresponding pyrrolidines. ... 

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