Cyclopentenylation

The reaction of alkenyl iodides or triflates, alkenylstannanes, and CO affords divinyl ketones[397,398]. Thus the capnellene skeleton 538 has been synthesized by the carbonylation of the cyclopentenyl triflate 536 with the alkenyltin 537[392], The macrocyclic divinyl ketone 540 has been prepared in a moderate yield by the carbonylative cyclization of 539[399]. 

Some naturally occurring fatty acids have ahcycHc substituents such as the cyclopentenyl-containing chauJmoogra acids (1), notable for thek use ki treatkig leprosy (see Antiparasitic agents, antimycotics), and the cyclopropenyl (2) or stercuhc acids (Table 6). 

There are also examples of electrocyclic processes involving anionic species. Since the pentadienyl anion is a six-7c-electron system, thermal cyclization to a cyclopentenyl anion should be disrotatory. Examples of this electrocyclic reaction are rare. NMR studies of pentadienyl anions indicate that they are stable and do not tend to cyclize. Cyclooctadienyllithium provides an example where cyclization of a pentadienyl anion fragment does occur, with the first-order rate constant being 8.7 x 10 min . The stereochemistry of the ring closure is consistent with the expected disrotatory nature of the reaction. 

The irradiation of 2-methoxytropone (A) leads to methyl 4-oxo-2-cyclopentenyl-acetate (D). The reaction can be followed by analytical gas chromatography and two intermediates are observed. These have the structures B and C. Indicate a mechanism by which each of the three successive reactions might occur. The first two steps are photochemical, while the third is probably an acid-catalyzed reaction which occurs under the photolysis conditions. 

The mechanism of reaction with steroids has not been elucidated. Various nonquantitative reactions occur simultaneously. Cyclopentenyl cations have been postulated as intermediates which condense with anisaldehyde to yield colored compounds [4]. It is probable that triphenylmethane dyes are also formed with aromatic compounds. 

Methyl polyfluoro-1-cyclobutenyl ethers react with sulfur trioxide to form fluoride and polyfluorocyclobutenones, but coproducts are their fluorosulfonyloxy derivatives resulting from sulfur trioxide insertion [5] (equation 5) The nonsul-fonyloxylated polyfluorocyclopentenones are favored when starting with methyl polyfluoro-1-cyclopentenyl ethers (equation 6). Ring insertion of sulfur tnoxide occurs during the reaction of 1-methoxytnfluorocyclopropene (equation 7)... 

Chloroximes and enamines have provided aminoisoxazolines which could readily be converted to isoxazoles with acid (610-612). Pyrrazoles were usually obtained from addition of chlorohydrazones to enamines (610,613). The intermediate aminopyrazolines could only be isolated from the reaction of the cyclopentenyl enamine system. Pyrazoles were also obtained from the reactions of enamines with a-diazoketones and a-diazoesters (614). 

Hydrazine hydrate can often reduce vulnerable substituents on the pyrazolcme ring. One such example is the alkene group of the cyclopentenyl ring of pyrazol-3-one 16. It was found that heating 4-(l-methoxycarbonyl-2-oxopropyl)-2-cyclo-penten-l-ol 15 with hydrazine hydrate in ethanol afforded a mixture of pyrazol-3-one derivatives 16 and 17 in a 5 2 ratio (97JHC233) (Scheme 4). 

Upon treatment of a divinyl ketone 1 with a protic acid or a Lewis acid, an electrocyclic ring closure can take place to yield a cyclopentenone 3. This reaction is called the Nazarov cyclization Protonation at the carbonyl oxygen of the divinyl ketone 1 leads to formation of a hydroxypentadienyl cation 2, which can undergo a thermally allowed, conrotatory electrocyclic ring closure reaction to give a cyclopentenyl cation 4. Through subsequent loss of a proton a mixture of isomeric cyclopentenones 5 and 6 is obtained ... 

Scheme 11 Formation of the cyclopentenyl zwitterion derivative 55 from a l-tungsta-2-diethylamino-l,3,5-hexatriene 54 [58,59]...

The densely functionalized cyclopentenyl core 11 of the potent antitumor antibiotic viridenomycin (12) was most recently prepared by treatment of enone 9 with second-generation Ru catalyst C (Scheme 2) [22]. This reaction proved to be very slow, requiring 3.5 days to give only incomplete formation of cyclization product 10 in 69% yield (86%, based on recovered 9). 

Scheme 2 RCM-based formation of a highly substituted cyclopentenone in Trost s synthesis of the cyclopentenyl core of viridenomycin (12) [22]...

C, H, 04 141-28-6) see Loxoprofen diethyl allyl(2-cyclopentenyl)malonate (C15H22O4 93981-13-6) see Cyclopentobarbital diethyl allyl(l-methylbutyl)malonate... 

At present there are seven NRTIs, which have been formally approved for the treatment of AIDS 3 -azido-2, 3 -dideoxythymidine (AZT, zidovudine), 2, 3 -dideoxyinosine (ddl, didanosine), 2, 3 -dideoxycytidine (ddC, zalcitabine), 2, 3 -didehydro-2, 3 -dideoxythymidine (d4T, stavudine), (—)-L-3 -thia-2, 3 -dideoxycytidine (3TC, lamivudine), cyclopentenyl V -cyclopropylaminopurine (abacavir, ABC), and (—)-L-5-fluoro-3 -thia-2, 3 -dideoxycytidine ((—)FTC, emtricitabine) (De Clercq 2004a) (Fig. 3). 

It occurred to us that bromination of 3-cyclopentenyl hydroperoxide would yield an adduct in which there is always a frans-3-bromine, and that ring closure would afford a [2.2.1]-peroxide with a substituent at the 5-position. This additional... 

We developed a convenient synthesis of 3-cyclopentenyl hydroperoxide via hydro-boration and autoxidation of cyclopentadiene, and bromination proceeded smoothly to afford 32 40). Ring closure with silver trifluoroacetate (Eq. 26) afforded a 5-bromo-2,3-dioxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane 34 (6%) and a 5-trifluoroacetoxy-2,3-dioxabicyclo-[2.2.1]heptane 35 (14%), and it was shown independently that 34 is rapidly converted into 35 by reaction with Ag02CCF3. To avoid the trifluoroacetate bromide substitution that accompanies and competes with the dioxabicyclization, 32 was treated with silver oxide and this slowly yielded an isomeric 5-bromo-peroxide 33 (42 %) (Eq. 26). 

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