1.5- Cyclooctadiene transannular cyclization

Ikegami has devised an interesting approach based upon 1,3-cyclooctadiene monoepoxide as starting material (Scheme LX) Transannular cyclization, Sharpless epoxidation, and silylation leads to 638 which is opened with reasonable regioselec-tivity upon reaction with l,3-bis(methylthio)allyllithium. Once aldehyde 639 had been accessed, -amyllithium addition was found to be stereoselective, perhaps because of the location of the te -butyldimethylsilyloxy group. Nevertheless, 640 is ultimately produced in low overall yield. This situation is rectified in part by the initial formation of 641 and eventual decarboxylative elimination of 642 to arrive at 643. An additional improvement has appeared in the form of a 1,2-carbonyl transposition sequence which successfully transforms 641 into 644... 

The reactivity of different dienes towards 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)phenyl cation (6) has been studied, and for open-chain dienes, such as 2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene, only the trans-pentadienylaniline is found in a 52% yield [30], In the case of cyclic dienes, transannular cyclization takes place, leading to an arylnortricyclene from norbornadiene and to l-arylbicyclo[3.3.0]octanes from 1,5-cyclooctadiene in moderate yields (Scheme 10.18) [30]. 

When heated with dirhenium dodecacarbonyl, both 1,3- and 1,5-cyclooctadiene experience transannular cyclization with formation of the complex 176.2S3 An X-ray crystal structure analysis of 176 is available. 

One of the most popular methods for creating the anatoxin-a skeleton is by transannular cyclization of a suitably substituted cyclooctene. This approach was used in the first synthesis of racemic anatoxin-a (Campbell et al. 1979). They carried out two different methodologies in order to reach the 9-azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane structure (Scheme 7.3). The 1,5-cyclooctadiene (10) starting compound was transformed into the methyl amine 11 which was treated with hypobromous acid to produce the desired bicycle 12 as a mixture of diastereoisomers in 29% overall yield, with some amount of the azabicyclo[3.2.1] analogue (Bastable etal. 1972). 

Transannular cyclization. Treatment of 1,5-cyclooctadiene with thalliumflir) trifluoroacetate in CH2CI2 at room temperature leads to the ciy-bicyclo[3.3.0]-octenol derivatives 2 and 3. ... 

No product derived from the transannular hydrogen abstraction is observed in the addition of bromotrichloromethane, because bromine atom abstraction is sufficiently rapid to prevent effective competition by the hydrogen-abstraction process. Another example of transannular cyclization of unsaturated radicals is found in the reaction of 1,4-cyclooctadiene with acetaldehyde in the presence of benzoyl peroxide, which gives a cyclized ketone by a process involving an intramolecular addi-... 

Nevertheless, a different selectivity has really been observed83 in bromofluorination reactions of 1,5-cycloalkadienes with NBS/Et3N-3HF or Olah s reagent. The reaction of 1,5-cyclooctadiene (3) with the former reagent yields mainly the 1,2-addition product 52, but when the reaction is carried out with Olah s reagent only compounds 53 and 54, arising from the usual transannular jr-cyclization, are formed (equation 53). 

Ishii and coworkers developed a Mn(OAc)2-catalyzed hydrophosphonation of alkenes 40 (Fig. 47) [271]. The active Mn(III) catalyst is generated by reaction of Mn(OAc)2 with oxygen. Hydrogen abstraction from diethyl phosphite 169 forms a phosphonyl radical, which adds to 40. The resulting alkyl radical is reduced by 169 to continue the chain reaction. Alkylphosphonates 170 were isolated in 51-84% yield. With (3-pinene a cyclobutylcarbinyl radical ring opening was observed in 32% yield, while 1,5-cyclooctadiene underwent a tandem radical addition/ transannular 5-exo cyclization (cf. Fig. 38). 

Diethyl malonate or ethyl cyanoacetate 187 afforded bicyclo[3.3.0]octane derivatives 188 in a tandem radical addition/transannular 5-exo cyclization sequence with cyclooctadiene 131 in 76 and 78% yield, respectively [275]. (4-Pentenyl)arenes were employed in a similar tandem radical addition/radical... 

Stereoselective radical cyclization of 1,5-cyclooctadienes. Winkler and Sridar14 have noted transannular effects on the stereochemistry of cyclization of these octadienes (equation I). Thus radical cyclization of cis-1 and of the corresponding ketone (3) is highly frans-selective and is more rrans-selective than that of the monosubstituted diene 5. Cyclization of a 3,8-disubstituted cyclooctene is... 

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