Cyclopentane, fusion with

The highest priority ring disconnective T-goals for 272 are those which disconnect a cocyclic 5,5-fusion bond and offexendo bond pair. The internal ketene-olefin cycloaddition in tactical combination with the Baeyer-Villiger transform is well suited to the double disconnection of such a cyclopentane-y-lactone ring pair. 

Several groups have prepared cyclopentane systems by intramolecular Michael addition.72 Reaction of the triester (292 Scheme 37) with phenyl vinyl ketone (293) and base produces the cyclopentane (295) in good yield via an intermolecular (giving 294) and subsequent intramolecular Michael addition.72 When the Michael acceptor is a cyclohexenone (Scheme 38), the c/s-fused hydrindanone is produced (298 or 297).72b 72f Spiro systems can also be formed by these reactions (300a,b equation 66) in which the Michael addition gives a spiro ring fusion. 

The ene reaction where both partners are simple alkenes is quite useful when the partners are linked so as to provide for an intramolecular ene reaction. There is a preference for the formation of cw-disubstituted cyclopentane and frans-disubstituted cyclohexane systems resulting from thermally induced, intramolecular ene reactions. For example, levels of transjcis control of 92 8 to > 99 1 were found for the intramolecular cyclization of methyl 2-cyano-9-methyl-3,8-decadienoate23 24. Furthermore, the same tran. -stereochemical relationship was obtained when the reaction was carried out at room temperature in the presence of zinc(II) bromide with control consistently at the 99 1 level for R and R2 either methoxycarbonyl or cyano groups24, This preference for trans fusion does not appear to be greatly altered by added substituents on the chain connecting the reacting partners (vide infra). 

Phenylseleno)butanoate 38 can be converted into cyclopentanes with predictable stereochemistry by successive ester enolate rearrangement and 5-cvo-trigonal radical cyclization545. The stereochemistry at C-3 in 39 is determined by the stereochemistry at C-l in 38. The nature of the ring fusion in 40 depends on the value of n. 

A condensation of vinyl sulphides of synthetic value involves the reaction of a-ethylthio-styrenes with an aldehyde in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst to give 3-ethylthio-indenes. Regiospecific and stereospecific pentannelation i.e, fusion of a cyclopentane ring) of an alicyclic ketone involves arylthiomethylen-ation followed by base-catalysed addition to an aj8-unsaturated ester. a-Phenyl-thiobutenolides are less reactive Michael acceptors than their sulphoxide counterparts, and /SjS-dichlorovinyl sulphides are less reactive in electrophilic reactions than their oxygen counterparts. Dimerization of aryl a-cyanovinyl sulphides occurs more readily than that of alkyl analogues, since the intermediate 1,4-diradical ArSC(CN)CH2CH2d(CN)SAr, which cyclizes to the cyclobutane, is more stable. Products obtained by photolysis of methyl vinyl sulphide are accounted for by homolysis of both vinyl—S and methyl—S bonds. The kinetics of catalysed cis-trans isomerization of aryl vinyl sulphides have been studied. ... 

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