3- cyclobutanol

In ketones having propyl or longer alkyl groups as a carbonyl substituent, intramolecular hydrogen abstraction can be followed by either cleavage of the bond between the a and P carbon atoms or by formation of a cyclobutanol ... 

Intramolecular hydrogen-atom abstraction is also an important process for acyclic a,/ -unsaturated ketones. The intermediate diradical then cyclizes to give the enol of a cyclobutyl ketone. Among the by-products of such photolyses are cyclobutanols resulting from alternative modes of cyclization of the diradical intermediate ... 

A consequence of the orientation of the 11-carbonyl function towards the C-19 methyl group which is retained in the excited state is the exclusive functionalization at C-19. Ring cleavage products of the Norrish II type are not observed but the reaction is rather sensitive to conformational changes in the substrate. In a series of experiments conducted under comparable conditions (24 hr irradiation) the yield of cyclobutanols drops... 

In order to convert the cyclobutanols obtained in the photoreaction into angularly oxygenated steroids the 18,20 or 11,19 bond must be broken. 

Conversion of pregnanes to androstanes via the Schmidt Rearrangement 17/3-aminoandrost-5-en-3/3-ol, 145 Cyclobutanol formation by ketone irradiations... 

The intensity of the m/z 31 ion is sufficient to suggest the presence of oxygen. Masses 44 and 57 are usually present, and an M - 18 peak is also detectable. Mass 44 usually suggests an aldehyde unbranched on the a-carbon, but this ion is also prominent in the mass spectra of cyclobutanol, cyclopentanol, cyclohexanol, and so forth. Mass 57 (C3H5O) is also fairly intense for C5 and larger cyclic alcohols. If an aldehyde is present, M - 1, M - 18, and M - 28 peaks are observed. 

Both singlet and triplet n,n states undergo the reaction." The intermediate diradical can also cyclize to a cyclobutanol, which is often a side product. Carboxylic esters, anhydrides, and other carbonyl compounds can also give this... 

In some cases, the Grignard reaction can be performed intramolecularly. For example, treatment of 5-bromo-2-pentanone with magnesium and a small amount of mercuric chloride in THE produced 1-methyl-1-cyclobutanol in 60% yield. Other four- and five-membered ring compounds were also prepared by this procedure. Similar closing of five- and six-membered rings was achieved by treatment of a 6- or s-halocarbonyl compound, not with a metal, but with a dianion derived from nickel... 

Oxidation of cyclobutanol by a Cr(VI)-V(IV) couple appears to involve attack of Cr(IV) upon the substrate to yield a free radical, (Section 2.5). This implies the following possible variation in the Westheimer scheme for a secondary alcohol ... 

Preliminary results have been reported of oxidation of cyclobutanol by the Cr(VI)-V(IV) couple to 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde. This proceeds at the same rate as the oxidation of V(IV) by Cr(VI) and cannot involve attack of Cr(V) upon the alcohol, for this oxidation state is formed in a rapid pre-equilibrium, but rather attack by Cr(IV), viz. 

Cp2TiCl . Hydrogen atom abstraction from THF seems possible, also. Most remarkably, the reaction can be employed in the efficient synthesis of cyclopropanols and cyclobutanols as shown in Scheme 28. 

Conformational factors in the photolysis of N-acylimidazoles leading to Norrish type II products or cyclobutanols have been discussed in reference [7]. 7V-Acylimidazoles have been irradiated in tetrahydrofuran using a low-pressure mercury lamp (quartz well,... 

Intramolecular hydrogen abstraction has been successfully utilized in a number of interesting synthetic preparations. In general the recombination of the biradical resulting from intramolecular hydrogen abstraction to form a cyclobutanol has received more attention from the point of view of photo-... 

A lower molecular weight methyl ketone and an olefin are isolated as products of this reaction. That the enol is formed as a primary product which rearranges to the ketone follows from its detection in the IR spectrum of gaseous 2-pentanone upon photolysis. 3 In addition to the ketone and olefinic products, one usually obtains varying amounts of cyclobutanols. 

The photolysis of methylisopulegon in cyclohexane by Cookson et ah resulted in the interesting methylene cyclobutanol shown below in a 70% yield(99) ... 

A combination of a Pd-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution by a phenol and a ring expansion was described by Ihara and coworkers [127] using cis- or trans-substituted propynylcyclobutanols 6/l-262a or 6/l-262b. The product ratio depends on the stereochemistry of the cyclobutanols and the acidity of the phenol 6/1-263. Thus, reaction of 6/l-262b with p-methoxyphenol 6/1-263 (X = pOMe) led exclu-... 

The trimethylsilyl ethers 212 of four-membered 1-alkenyl-1-cyclobutanols rearrange to the ring-expanded 0-mercuriocyclopentanones 213. These can be converted into the a-methylenecyclopentanones 214 through elimination or further expanded by one-carbon atom into cyclohexanones 215 via the Bu3SnH-mediated free radical chain reactions [116]. A similar radical intermediate is suggested to be involved in the ring expansion of a-bromomethyl-fi-keto esters [117]. (Scheme 84)... 

This efficient cyclobutanol forming reaction has been utilized in the synthesis of terpenes404) (4.4), medium ring compounds40s) (4.5) and strained molecules as in (4,6)406) and (4.7) 407). In the last example the tricycloP. O.O jhexane skeleton is formed. 

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