1 - -1 -alkene cycloalkanone

Reduction, carboxyl groups, 56,83 Reduction of a,0-unsaturated p-toluene-sulfonyl-hydrazones to alkenes, 59,42 Reductive alkylation, 56,52 Reductive cleavage, 56, 101 Resolution of amines, 55,80, 83 Rexyn 201,55,4 Rhodium(III) oxide, 57, 1 Ring contraction, 56, 107 Ring expansion of cycloalkanones to cycloalkenones, 59, 113... 

Of the many substituted and functionalized alkenes that have been combined with diazo dipoles to give A -pyrazolines or products derived from them (i.e., A -pyrazolines, pyrazoles, cyclopropanes), only a selection will be mentioned. These include ot-alkylidene-cycloalkanones (62), -flavanones, -thioflavanones, -chroma-nones, and thiochromanones (63,64) a-arylidene-indanones and -indolones (65) diarylideneacetones (66) l-benzopyran-2(77)-ones (coumarins) (67,68) 4-nitro-1,2-oxazoles (69) 2-alkylidene-2-cyanoacetates (70) dimethyl 2,3-dicyanofuma-rate (71) tetracyanoethylene (72) tetraethyl ethylenetetracarboxylate (72) 1,4-quinones (35,73-75) 2-X-l,l,l-trifluoro-2-propene [X = Br, (76), SPh, SOPh, S02Ph (77)] nitroalkenes (78) including sugar nitroalkenes (79) 1-diethoxyphos-phoryl-1-alkenyl-sulfoxides (80) methyl 2-(acetylamino)cinnamate and -acrylate... 

Intramolecular nitrone-alkene cycloaddition. Reaction of cycloalkanones substituted by a 3-(2-propenyl) or a 3-(3-butenyl) side chain with alkylhydroxylamines with azeotropic removal of water results in a bridged bicycloalkane fused to an isoxazolidine ring. The transformation involves formation of a nitrone that undergoes intramolecular cycloaddition with the unsaturated side chain. 

Olefination of aldehydes with the a-fluoroalkylphosphine oxide (54) provides a highly stereoselective route to the (Z)-fluoroalkenes (55) (Scheme 9).31 A similar reaction with the corresponding phosphonate gave a 1 1 mixture of ( )- and (Z)-alkenes. A new one-pot synthesis of 2-(diphenylphosphinoyl)cycloalkanes (56) by the reaction of cycloalkanone enolates with chlorodiphenylphosphine followed by oxidation has been reported (Scheme 10).32 Attempts to synthesise sarkomycin methyl ester (58) via reaction of the anion of phosphine oxide (57) with formaldehyde were unsuccessful as were similar reactions with other aldehydes, although the corresponding phosphonate anion does undergo olefination reactions. An X-ray structural analysis of (57) is reported. 

Ketones are less electrophilic than aldehydes and the ene adducts are tertiary alcohols that are much less acid stable than the secondary alcohols produced from aldehydes. Ene adducts can be isolated from the EtAlCh-catalyzed reactions of cycloalkanones and reactive ene components, i.e. 1,1-disubstituted alkenes with one end of the double tend sterically accessible and the other end capable of stabilizing a positive charge in an intermediate. The yields are moderate at best (6-55%), but the reaction does provide an extremely simple route to homoallylic tertiary alcohols. 

More complex products are obtained from cyclizations in which the oxidizable functionality and the alkene are present in the same molecule. y9-Keto esters have been used extensively for Mn(III)-based oxidative cyclizations and react with Mn(OAc)3 at room temperature or slightly above [4, 10, 11, 15], They may be cyclic or acyclic and may be a-unsubstituted or may contain an a-alkyl or chloro substituent. Cycloalkanones are formed if the unsaturated chain is attached to the ketone. y-Lactones are formed from allylic acetoacetates [10, 11]. Less acidic /3-keto amides have recently been used for the formation of lactams or cycloalkanones [37]. Malonic esters have also been widely used and form radicals at 60-80 °C. Cycloalkanes are formed if an unsaturated chain is attached to the a-position. y-Lactones are formed from allylic malonates [10, 11]. yff-Diketones have been used with some success for cyclizations to both alkenes and aromatic rings [10, 11]. Other acidic carbonyl compounds such as fi-keto acids, /3-keto sulfoxides, j8-keto sulfones, and P-nitro ketones have seen limited use [10, 11]. We have recently found that oxidative cyclizations of unsaturated ketones can be carried out in high yield in acetic acid at 80 °C if the ketone selectively enolizes to one side and the product cannot enolize... 

Annulation reactions are possible when a precursor monocyclic substrate contains an activated alkene in a tether [4a]. As demonstrated in Scheme 5, an ester was employed to activate the olefin appended to cycloalkanone 17. Upon generation of the 0-stannyl ketyl with tributyltin hydride, the carbon-centered radical attacks the electron-poor /(-position on the activated alkene. The corresponding cyclized adduct 18 is a bicyclic skeleton with a bridgehead hydroxyl group. An example of this reaction shows cyclopentanone 19 undergoing cyclization to diquinane 20 and tricycle 21 (76 24) in 69% yield. The presence of reasonable amounts of the minor, yet readily isolable, jn-diastereomers in the reaction indicated that the reaction may not be reversible. 

A general procedure for the preparation of keto-aldehydes (8) from cycloalkanones and their conversion into pyridines (9) has been reported. 4 Vinylogous silyl esters (6) are readily prepared from cycloalkanones and these, by reaction with allylic Grignard reagents, followed by hydrolysis, yield alkenes of type (7). The latter compounds are converted into the keto-aldehydes (8) by Pd / -catalysed oxygenation. 

The system Ru(III)-EDTA catalyzes the oxidation of cyclohexane by molecular oxygen [26]. In the presence of manganese(II) acetate and molecular oxygen, alkenes and active methylene compounds react to yield cyclic peroxides [27]. a-Substituted cycloalkanones are oxidized to oxo acids by the copper(II) nitrate-dioxygen-acetic acid-water system [28a] ... 

N.m.r. data for several unsaturated ketones and the corresponding alkenes, saturated ketones, and alkanes, have been analysed in terms of n-electron densities. Included are data for cyclohepta-2,7-dienone, cyclo-octa-2,4-dienone, cyclohept-2-enone, cyclo-oct-2-ene, and tropone. The n.m.r. spectra of several di-esters, including medium-ring examples, have been reported. Boron trifluoride complexa-tion of cycloalkanones has been studied using n.m.r. at low temperatures (— 85 to —125 °C) separate signals for both the complexed ( 24 p.p.m. downfield) and free ketones were observed. ... 

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