Deca

The skeletal rearrangement of various strained cyclic compounds is carried out with a catalytic amount of soluble complexes of PdCl2. Namely, the rearrangements of bulvalene (67) to bicyclo[4.2.2]deca-2,4,7,9-tetraene (68)[54], cubane (69) to cuneane (70)[55], hexamethyl Dewar benzene (71) to hexa-methylbenzene (72)[56], and 3-oxaquadricyclanes[57] and quadricyclane (73) to norbornadiene[58-60] take place mostly at room temperature. Reaction of iodocubane (74) with a terminal alkyne catalyzed by Pd(0) and CuBr unexpectedly affords an alkynylcyclooctatetraene 75, without giving the desired cubylalkyne 76. Probably the rearrangement is a Pd-catalyzed reaction[61]. 

The multiplying affixes di-, tri-, tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta-, octa-, nona-, deca-, undeca-, and so on are used to indicate a set of identical unsubstituted radicals or parent compounds. The forms bis-, tris-, tetrakis-, pentakis-, and so on are used to indicate a set of identical radicals or parent compounds each substituted in the same way. The affixes hi-, ter-, quater-, quinque-, sexi-, septi-, octi-, novi-, deci-, and so on are used to indicate the number of identical rings joined together by a single or double bond. 

Another structure with a 10-7r-electron conjugated system is bicyclo[6.2.0]deca-1,3,5,7,9-pentaene. The crystal structure of the 9,10-diphenyl derivative (Fig. 9.6) shows the conjugated system to be nearly planar. " ... 

Bicyclo[6.2.0]deca-2,4,6,8,10-pentaene has been synthesized, and a number of molecular orbital and molecular mechanics calculations have been performed to determine whether it is aromatic or antiaromatic. Consider the structure and discuss the following points. 

An ipso attack on the fluorine carbon position of 4-fIuorophenol at -40 °C affords 4-fluoro-4-nitrocyclohexa-2 5-dienone in addtion to 2-nitrophenol The cyclodienone slowly isomenzes to the 2-nitrophenol Although ipso nitration on 4-fluorophenyl acetate furnishes the same cyclodienone the major by-product is 4 fluoro-2,6-dinitrophenol [25] Under similar conditions, 4-fluoroanisole pnmar ily yields the 2-nitro isomer and 6% of the cyclodienone The isolated 2 nitro isomer IS postulated to form by attack of the nitromum ion ipso to the fluorine with concomitant capture of the incipient carbocation by acetic acid Loss of the elements of methyl acetate follows The nitrodienone, being the keto tautomer of the nitrophenol, aromatizes to the isolated product [26] (equation 20) Intramolecular capture of the intermediate carbocation occurs in nitration of 2-(4-fluorophenoxy)-2-methyIpropanoic acid at low temperature to give the spiro products 3 3-di-methyl-8 fluoro 8 nitro-1,4 dioxaspiro[4 5]deca 6,9 dien 2 one and the 10-nitro isomer [2d] (equation 21)... 

Deca/octahydro 6-alkyloxazolo /-fused quinolines 17 were prepared and evaluated as dopaminergics (87EUP1). A series of linearly annelated 8-alkyl-deca/ octahydrooxazoloquinolines 18 and their salts were prepared for use as dopamine D2-agonists and hypertensive agents. The rran.s-( )-l-propyl-6-oxodecahydro-quinoline was brominated, then treated with urea in methanol to give the 2-amino... 

With sodium sulfide in methanol (pH = 9), deca-2,4,6,8-tetrayne (51) forms 5-methyl-(2-penta-2,4-diynyl)thiophene (52) in 60% yield (77HOU947). 

When treated with sodium disulfide in ethanol, deca-2,4,6,8-tetrayne (53) gives dithiafulvene 54 rather than 1,2-dithiins 55 (67CB107). 

Figure 3.7 [continued) (b) Chromatograms of (iii) the dichloromethane extract of strawberry fruit yoghurt analysed with an apolar primary column, with the heart-cut regions indicated, and (iv) a non-racemic mixture of y-deca-(Cio) and 7-dodeca-Cj2 lactones isolated by heart-cut transfer, and separated by using a chiral selective modified cyclodextrin column. Reproduced from A. Mosandl, et al J. High Resol. Chromatogr. 1989, 12, 532 (39f. 

The reaction of oxepin with dimethyl 5-oxo-2,3-diphenylcyclopenta-l,3-diene-l,4-dicarboxy-late takes a different course. Two products 7 and 8 can be isolated, 7 is the [4 + 2] adduct of the cyclopentadienone across the central C-C double bond of the oxepin, the other, 8, is thought to be a [4+6] cycloadduct across the triene system of the oxepin.237 In boiling benzene, the [4 + 2] adduct 7 undergoes no cycloreversion, but rearranges to the tricyclo[5.3.02,4]deca-5,8-dien-10-one system.237 The [4+6] adduct, however, is stable under thermal conditions. 

A novel example of a 3,5-disubstituted 1//-azepine is methyl 12-azabicyclo[8.3.2]penta-deca-l0,l3,14-triene- 2-carboxylate (6) obtained, albeit in low yield, by the action of basegenerated (methoxycarbonyl)nitrene on [8]paracyclophane (5).147... 

A special method, with only two examples, starts from 1,2,4-triazines.20 21 Diels-Alder reaction with the strained dienophile dimethyl tricyclo[4.2.2.02,5]deca-3,7,9-triene-7,8-dicarboxylate (14) is followed by an elimination of nitrogen via a retro-Diels-Alder process. The formed product, however, cannot be isolated, but reacts via another retro-Diels-Alder reaction and an electro-cyclic reaction to provide the azocine derivative 15. The sequence order of the reactions is not clear, but both pathways lead to the same product. 

Aluminum Picrate. [C6H2(N02)30] 3A1 mw 711.31 N 17.73% mp, fuses above 100° and explds on further heating. Can be prepd by the prolonged heating of one of its hydrates (such as di-,tetra-,deca-,or hexadeca-hydrate)to 100°. 

CYCLOBUTADIENE IN SYNTHESIS endo-TRICYCLO[4.4.0.02 5]DECA-3,8-DIEN-7,IO-DIONE... 

The synthesis of fUido-tricyclo[4.4.0.02 5]deca-3,8-dien-7,10-dione and verification of its endo-configuration has been reported earlier.3 This adduet is a useful starting material for the syntheses of tetracyclo-[5.3.0.02 6.03 10]deca-4,8-diene,s tricyclo[4.4.0.02 5]deca-3,7,9-triene,6 cis, syn, cjs-tricyclo[5.3.0.02,6]deca-4,8-dien-3,10-dione,7 and 4-oxahexa-cyclo[5.4.0.02 6.03 10.05 9.08,11]undecane.a... 

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