Cyclopentanones alcohols

In a more recent study, the same organism (R. rubra) was used in an attempt to obtain enantiomerically enriched cyclopentanone alcohol (R)-20 by simple KR (Scheme 6.4) [13]. Although KR did occur under conditions of >50% conversion, the products contained a saturated cyclopentanone (R)-21 (>99% ee) as well as the expected unsaturated diol (S)-22 (>99% ee) and recovered slow-reacting enantiomer (R)-20 (>99% ee). This is a rare example where an enantiodivergent process affords products that differ in functionality rather than just stereochemistry. Although the reaction was not taken to 100% conversion, this modification would allow near-total recovery of individual enantiomers by separating the products (R)-21 and (S)-22. 

When the a,P-unsaturated ketone is hydrogenated to the alcohol, a product with an intense sandalwood odor is produced (162). Many other examples of useful products have been made by condensation of campholenic aldehyde with ketones such as cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone. 

For example, cyclohexanone is reduced by sodium borohydride 23 times faster than cyclopentanone." The explanation for this difference lies in the relative torsional strain in the two systems. Converting an sp atom in a five-membered ring to sp increases the torsional strain because of the increase in the number of eclipsing interactions in the alcohol. A similar change in a six-membered ring leads to a completely staggered (chair) arrangement and reduces torsional strain. 

The starting material for the Tiffeneau-Demjanov reaction is available by various methods. A common route is the addition of nitromethane to a cyclic ketone—e.g. cyclopentanone 7—followed by a hydrogenation of the nitro group to give the /3-amino alcohol, e.g. 1 ... 

From intermediate 12, the path to key intermediate 7 is straightforward. Reductive removal of the benzyloxymethyl protecting group in 12 with lithium metal in liquid ammonia provides diol 27 in an overall yield of 70% from 14. Simultaneous protection of the vicinal hydroxyl groups in 27 in the form of a cyclopentanone ketal is accompanied by cleavage of the tert-butyldimethylsilyl ether. Treatment of the resultant primary alcohol with /V-bromosuccini-mide (NBS) arid triphenylphopshine accomplishes the formation of bromide 7, the central fragment of monensin, in 71 % yield from 27. 

Precomplexation of 2-butylcyclopentanone with methylaluminum bis(2,6-di-hrt-butyI-4-methylphenoxide) (MAD), prior to the addition of methyllithium, leads to the exclusive formation of the equatorial alcohol via cis attack3 4. However, this methodology is apparently not applicable to 3-substituted cyclopentanones. Thus, addition of propylmagnesium bromide to... 

The photoreduction of cyclobutanone, cyclopentanone, and cyclohexanone by tri-n-butyl tin hydride was reported by Turro and McDaniel.<83c> Quantum yields for the formation of the corresponding alcohols were 0.01, 0.31, and 0.82, respectively. Although the results for cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone quenching were not clear-cut (deviations from linearity of the Stem-Volmer plots were noted at quencher concentrations >0.6 M), all three ketone photoreductions were quenched by 1,3-pentadiene, again indicating that triplets are involved in the photoreduction. 

The formation of crystal inclusion of 47 and 48 with cyclic ketones of suitable ring size (cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone) and with cyclohexene oxide are also important facts. Corresponding inclusion compounds with alcohols or amines could not be obtained. With reference to the heterocyclic guest molecules, the suitability of the ring size is likely to be the decisive factor for guest inclusion. 

The results of the olefin oxidation catalyzed by 19, 57, and 59-62 are summarized in Tables VI-VIII. Table VI shows that linear terminal olefins are selectively oxidized to 2-ketones, whereas cyclic olefins (cyclohexene and norbomene) are selectively oxidized to epoxides. Cyclopentene shows exceptional behavior, it is oxidized exclusively to cyclopentanone without any production of epoxypentane. This exception would be brought about by the more restrained and planar pen-tene ring, compared with other larger cyclic nonplanar olefins in Table VI, but the exact reason is not yet known. Linear inner olefin, 2-octene, is oxidized to both 2- and 3-octanones. 2-Methyl-2-butene is oxidized to 3-methyl-2-butanone, while ethyl vinyl ether is oxidized to acetaldehyde and ethyl alcohol. These products were identified by NMR, but could not be quantitatively determined because of the existence of overlapping small peaks in the GC chart. The last reaction corresponds to oxidative hydrolysis of ethyl vinyl ether. Those olefins having bulky (a-methylstyrene, j8-methylstyrene, and allylbenzene) or electon-withdrawing substituents (1-bromo-l-propene, 1-chloro-l-pro-pene, fumalonitrile, acrylonitrile, and methylacrylate) are not oxidized. 

Additional allene homologues were prepared by using this methodology with a variety of electrophiles (EX, Table 9.2) [6], For reactions requiring removal of a secondary allenic proton the base of choice was tBuLi. Only allenic products were formed except in the reaction with cyclopentanone, in which a small amount of the homopropargylic alcohol product was produced (last entry). 

Condensation of [3- or "y-amino alcohols with aldehydes or ketones RR CO gives the product 27. In solution the position of the equilibrium varies with R and R, and with the solvent (73). When the carbonyl reactant is a substituted benzaldehyde, the solid is found (IR, KBr) to comprise molecules of the open-chain structure 27a, whereas aliphatic aldehydes and ketones give crystals of dihydro- 1,3-benzoxazines, 27b. An interesting case is that of the condensation product of o-hydroxybenzylamine with cyclopentanone, for which McDonagh and Smith (73) suggest that ring and chain tautomers coexist in the solid. 

Rhodium and iridium nanoparhcles entrapped in aluminum oxyhydroxide nanofibers were shown by Park et al. to be suitable catalysts for the hydrogenation of arenes and ketones at room temperature, with hydrogen at ambient pressure [103]. Rhodium in aluminum oxyhydroxide [Rh/A10(0H)] and iridium in aluminum oxyhydroxide [Ir/A10(0H)], were simply prepared from readily available reagents such as RhCls and IrCls hydrates, 2-butanol and Al(O-sec-Bu) at 100°C. Substrates such as cyclopentanone, 2-heptanone, ethyl pyruvate, acetone and 2,6-dimethyl-4-heptanone were reduced to the corresponding alcohols either in n-hexane at room temperature (maximum TOF 99 h" for ethyl pyruvate) or in solventless conditions at 75 °C using 4 atm of H2 (maximum TOF 660h" for acetone, 330 for 2-heptanone). 

The reason why the carbonyl group in -santonin remained intact may be that, after the reduction of the less hindered double bond, the ketone was enolized by lithium amide and was thus protected from further reduction. Indeed, treatment of ethyl l-methyl-2-cyclopentanone-l-carboxylate with lithium diisopropylamide in tetrahydrofuran at — 78° enolized the ketone and prevented its reduction with lithium aluminum hydride and with diisobutyl-alane (DIBAL ). Reduction by these two reagents in tetrahydrofuran at — 78° to —40° or —78° to —20°, respectively, afforded keto alcohols from several keto esters in 46-95% yields. Ketones whose enols are unstable failed to give keto alcohols [1092]. 

The hydrodimerization of cinnamate esters formed with a chiral alcohol leads to asymmetric induction at the carbon-carbon bond formation step. The ester with bomeol gives a chiral cyclopentanone with greater than 95% enantiomeric excess [55]. A second approach towards achieving a chiral carbon-carbon bond formation has been to use the asymmetric oxazolidones 15 as substrates. These are reduced at... 

Both 2-cyanocycIohexanone and 2-cyanocyclopentanone give good yields of the CK-aicohol by reduction at a mercury cathode in aqueous alcohol at pH 8 [63]. Reduction of 2-carbethoxy substituted cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone under the same conditions favours the cfr-alcohol at -6° C but the thermodynamically preferred /ra 4-isomer at 80° C [64]. 

Concerning the possible rearrangement of the lithiooxirane into the alkoxy carbene 155, calculations have also shown that the activation energies of the 1,2-H shifts (to cyclopentanone enolate or cyclopentenol) are extremely high (at least 23 kcalmol" ) from 155, whereas they are much lower (between —0.4 kcalmol" and 8.8 kcalmol" ) from carbene 154. This is explained by a strong intramolecular stabilization of the carbene by the alcoholate moiety, as depicted in Scheme 66. This stabilization could signify that the formation of a carbene from the carbenoid is a disfavored process, and that the carbenoid itself is involved in the rearrangement reaction. 

During the reaction of p-methoxy benzyl alcohol with silyl enol ether 31b, dibenzyl ether 33 was observed as a by-product, which disappeared after prolonged reaction time. In fact, if 33 was used as alkylating reagent, the silyl enol ether 31b was benzylated and the desired cyclopentanone 32e was obtained in a similar yield (Scheme 25). 

SAMP-Hydrazones derived from ketones may also be cleaved by treatment with three equivalents of sodium perborate tetrahydrate at pH 7 in water/rert-butyl alcohol at 60 °C. Hydrolysis of aliphatic derivatives is effected in 4-24 hours and reactions yielding aromatic ketones proceed within 2- 3 days. This cleavage reaction furnishes the desired ketones chemoselectively in the presence of olefinic double bonds in 85-95% yield (cyclopentanone 70% yield)30. 

We have put forward (J. Am. Client. Soc. 2004, /26, 13900) an alternative approach to the enantioselective construction of cyclic quaternary centers. Addition of phenylacetylene to cyclopentanone followed by dehydration and Shi epoxidation gave the epoxide 10. Opening of the epoxide with allylmagnesium chloride proceeded with inversion, to give II. The alcohol 11 can also be carried on to bicyclic products, exemplified by the sulfone 12. 

Details of the Janda-Chen synthesis were as follows. A tetrahydropyran (THP) linker was attached to the NCPS support enabling attachment of alcohols via THP ether formation.13 The THP-NCPS resin 1 is derivatized with / -(+)-4-hydroxy-2-cyclopentanone 2, giving the THP ether-based resin 3, followed by coupling of the C13 20 fragment by enone-cuprate addition. The cuprate required was generated from the corresponding E-vinyl stannane 4. The resulting enolate was trapped as the silyl end ether... 

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