4-Cyclohepten-1 -ones substituted

These results can be explained in terms of an interplay of stereoelectronic and steric factors. Steric factors are evidently more important in the reaction of bulky cuprate clusters than in the Sakurai reaction. Thus stereoelectronic factors predominate in the allylsilane reaction. Similar effects are observed in conjugate additions to substituted cyclohepten-ones. 

The nature of the oxidation products is traceable to the nature of the rhodium-alkene interaction. Terminal alkenes and internal ones (e.g. cycloheptene), which form 77-complexes of rhodium(I), e.g. [RhCl(alkene)2]2, are selectively converted into methyl ketones, whereas alkenes which form 7r-allylic complexes of rhodium(III) (e.g. cyclopen-tene) give alkenyl ethers via oxidative substitution of the alkene by the solvent alcohol.204... 

Blechert and co-workers have also explored the use of cycloheptenes in RRM in processes where the thermodynamic driving force is the final RCM (Scheme 6). In one example of this novel process, ROM-RCM-RCM of 7 leads to an excellent yield of the substituted tetrahydrooxepin 8 <02T7503>. This strategy also featured significantly in the preparation of (+)-dihydrocuscohygrine 9 <02JOC6456>. The more common sequential reactions of strained cyclic alkenes have been reviewed <03EJO611>. 

Treatment of bicyclo[4.1.0]heptan-2-ols with perchloric acid in acetic acid caused very clean rearrangement with formation of cyclohept-3-enyl acetates (Table 1). Only in the case of cxo-7-methylbicyclo[4.1.0]heptan-2-ol was the cyclohex-2-enyl acetate the major product probably because the 7-methyl group conferred additional stabilization on the carbocation formed by j0-scission of the outer cyclopropane bond. The same type of reactant could be oxidatively rearranged using pyridinium chlorochromate to afford cyclohepten-4-ones, together with (chloromethyl)cyclohexenes. However, if the chloride in the reagent was replaced with tetrafluoroborate, or if pyridinium chlorochromate was used with silver(I) nitrate, formation of the substituted cyclohexenes was completely suppressed, e.g. formation of 7 from 6, although the reported yields were low. ... 

Use of the chiral pool typically requires a series of subsequent transformations to achieve the substitution pattern desired and sometimes may be limited by the availability of only one enantiomer. Microbial oxidations of benzene derivatives have provided an excellent route to cyclohexadienediols in enantiomerically pure form. Although this provides only one enantiomer, synthetic methods have been devised to circumvent this problem [36]. Far fewer methods exist for the enantioselective synthesis of cycloheptenes for which there exists no reaction analagous to the Diels-Alder process [37,38,39,40,41,42]. The enantioselective hydroalumination route to dihydronapthalenols may prove to be particularly important. Only one other method has been reported for the enantioselective synthesis of these compounds microbial oxidation of dihydronaphthalene by P. putida generates the dihydronaphthalenol in >95% ee and 60% yield... 

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