Diels-Alder reaction hetero-dienes

Table 14. Titanium-promoted hetero-Diels-Alder reactions. (Hetero)diene (Hetero)dienophile Titanium sait Product...

Support-bound C-C-C-C fragments serve as components for cyclization in Diels-Alder and hetero-Diels-Alder reactions (HD). In normal Diels-Alder reactions these dienes should preferably be electron rich. The simplest way to introduce the diene is to couple a commercial diene or a diene synthesized by solution phase methodology to a support-bound group. This method, though efficient, restricts the user to a rather limited set of support-bound dienes. In several examples, 2,4-pentadiene-l-carboxylic acid and some of its derivatives were coupled to support-bound amines to give the support-bound diene, which is not particularly reactive in [2 -I- 4]-cycloadditions [301, 302]. 

In 1951 Gresham and Steadman reported that formaldehyde can be used as a dienophile in Diels-Alder reactions (hetero Diels-Alder reaction). This report led to the investigation of several dienes and aldehydes under thermal reaction conditions. These studies revealed that the reaction is restricted to the use of formaldehyde or aldehydes that contain strong electron-withdrawing groups (such as glyoxal-dehyde) as dienophiles (Scheme 1). 

Stereoselective oxycarborative addition is also achieved in cycloaddition and cyclooligomeriza-tion reactions. Thus, hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of dienes and aldehydes are not only catalyzed by main group Lewis acids, but also by transition metal complexes 10°. Tris[3-(heptafluoropropyl-hydroxymethylene)-( + )-camphorato]europium [( + )-Eu(hfc)3] and similar vanadium complexes have been used as the chiral catalyst in [4 + 2] cycloadditions of various achiral and chiral dienes to aldehydes63 67-101. With achiral silyloxydienes only moderate asymmetric inductions are observed, however, with chirally modified dienes, high double diastereoselectivities are achieved. Thus, the reaction of benzaldehyde with 3-terf-butyldimethylsilyloxy-l-(/-8-phenvl-menthoxy)-l.3-butadiene (1) gives (2/ .6/ )-4-wf-bntyldimethylsilyloxy-5,6-dihydro-6-phenyl-2-[(17 ,3/ ,45 )-8-phenylmenthoxy]-2f/-pyran (2) in 95% yield with a diasteieoselectivity of 25 1 ss. After crystallization and hydrolysis with trifluoroacetic acid, optically pure (2/ )-2,3-di-hydro-2-phenyl-4-(4//)-pyranone (3) is obtained in 87% yield. 

The thermal hetero-Diels - Alder reaction of diene 1 a to butyl glyoxylate (2 a) leads to a mixture of four possible diastereomers 3-6 in good yield with a predominance of enrfo-attack (jS-sugar) and a d.r. 69 31 in favor of the L-sugar. Dienes lb andc, in the same reaction, produce almost equal amounts of endo- and exo-products with a low selectivity in the formation of new stereogenic centers at C-5 (carbohydrate nomenclature)23-25. 

A review of cycloaddition reactions in carbohydrate chemistry is presented. The use of carbohydrate-derived dienes and dienophiles in the Diels-Alder reaction, hetero-Diels-Alder and dipolar addition reactions of carbohydrates are described. Stereochemical aspects of the cycloaddition processes are also discussed, and applications to the synthesis of natural products are included for each reaction type. Much of the material presented has appeared in the literature within the past five years however, earlier studies are also included in order to give a more representative historical perspective. 

Racemic methyl a-hikosaminide peracetate (65) has been synthesised da DL-galactodialdose derivative (66), by a process involving two hetero-Diels-Alder reactions with diene (67) (Scheme 22). A similar approach to racemic N-acetyl-neuraminic acid has been reviewed. ... 

The hetero Diels-Alder reaction of diene 387 to the aldehyde function of glyoxy-late 388 under thermal conditions proceeds with low endo-selectivity to furnish a mixture of adducts 379 (Scheme 3.75) [122]. Under the chelating influence of zinc bromide, however, the reaction proceeds with high exo-selectivity at much lower temperatures and provides the trans-isomer 390. Presumably the exo-transition... 

In 2003, Rawal reported the use of TADDOLs 177 as chiral H-bonding catalysts to facilitate highly enantioselec-tive hetero-Diels-Alder reactions between dienes 181 and different aldehydes 86 (Scheme 6.29A) [82], and also BINOL-based catalysts 178 were found to facilitate this reaction with excellent selectivities [83]. TADDOLs were also successfully used as organocatalysts for other asymmetric transformations like Mukaiyama aldol reactions, nitroso aldol reactions, or Strecker reactions to mention a few examples only [84]. In addition, also BINOL derivatives have been employed as efficient chiral H-bonding activators as exemplified in the Morita-Baylis-Hilhnan reaction of enone 184 with different carbaldehydes 86 [85]. The use of chiral squaramides for asymmetric reactions dates back to 2005 when Xie et al. first used camphor-derived squaric amino alcohols as ligands in borane reductions [86]. The first truly organocatalytic application was described by Rawal et al. in 2008 who found that minute amounts of the bifunctional cinchona alkaloid-based squaramide 180 are... 

The presence of withdrawing groups on Z, which lead to higher transfer coefficients, increases the likelihood of side reactions such as hydrolysis or aminolysis and participation in cycloaddition reactions such as the hetero-Diels Alder reaction with diene monomers and 1,3-dipolar cyclo-addition. This is an important consideration in some RAFT agent syntheses, can be critical to the choice of RAFT agent for specific polymerization conditions e.g., in aqueous media or in emulsion polymerization), and determines the ease of end group transformation processes that may be required post-RAFT polymerization. 

Metal-catalyzed asymmetric hetero Diels-Alder reactions of unactivated dienes with glyoxylates 98PAC1117. 

The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of formaldehyde with 1,3-butadiene has been investigated with the formaldehyde oxygen atom coordinated to BH3 as a model for a Lewis acid [25 bj. Two transition states were located, one with BH3 exo, and one endo, relative to the diene. The former has the lowest energy and the calculated transition-state structure is much less symmetrical than for the uncatalyzed reaction shown in Fig. 8.12. The C-C bond length is calculated to be 0.42 A longer, while the C-0 bond length is 0.23 A shorter, compared to the uncatalyzed reac-... 

The mechanism for the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of benzaldehyde 9 with the very reactive diene, Danishefsky s diene 10, catalyzed by aluminum complexes has been investigated from a theoretical point of view using semi-empirical calculations [27]. The focus in this investigation was to address the question if the reaction proceeds directly to the hetero-Diels-Alder adduct 11, or if 11 is formed via a Mukaiyama aldol intermediate (Scheme 8.4) (see the chapter dealing with hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds). 

Fig. 8.13 Schematic representation of the change in energies for the concerted hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of benzaldehyde with Danishefsky s diene and the step-wise reaction...

The Diels-Alder reaction is of wide scope. Not all the atoms involved in ring formation have to be carbon atoms the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction involving one or more heteroatom centers can be used for the synthesis of six-membered heterocycles. The reverse of the Diels-Alder reaction—the retro-Diels-Alder reaction —also is of interest as a synthetic method. Moreover and most importantly the usefulness of the Diels-Alder reaction is based on its 5y -stereospecifi-city, with respect to the dienophile as well as the diene, and its predictable regio-and c ifo-selectivities. °... 

The classical Diels-Alder reaction is a cycloaddition between a conjugated diene and a second component, called dienophile, which has at least a n bond (Equation 1.1). When one or more heteroatoms are present in the diene and/or dienophile framework, the cycloaddition is called a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. 

Scandium(lll) perfluorooctanesulfonate [Sc(OPf)3 a novel catalyst for the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of aldehydes with non-activated dienes [108]... 

Johannsen M., Yao S., Graven A., Jorgensen K. A. Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions of Unactivated Dienes With Glyoxylates Pure Appl. Chem. 1998 70 1117-1122... 

Streith J., Defoin A. Hetero Diels-Alder Reactions With Nitroso Dienophiles Application to the Synthesis of Natural Product Derivatives Synthesis 1994 1107-1117 Keywords chiral dienes, chiral nitroso dienophiles... 

Chemoselective alkenylation in the C-3 position of N-substituted 3,5-dichloropyrazin-2(lH)-ones has been described by Van der Eycken et al. [27]. When a mixture of N-substituted 3,5-dichloropyrazin-2(lH)-one, ethyl acrylate, and NEts in DME, using Pd(OAc)2/DTPB [2-(di-f-butylphosphanyl)bi-phenyl] as a precatalyst, was irradiated for 15 min at 150 °C, the desired /1-fimctionabzed ethyl acrylates could be obtained in moderate yields (Scheme 81). When styrene was used as an alkene, a mixture of E and Z products was isolated. The type of catalyst used proved to be important to avoid competitive Diels-Alder reaction of ethyl acrylate with the hetero-diene system of 3,5-dichloro-l-benzylpyrazin-2(lH)-one. 

Azadienes undergo Diels-Alder reactions to form pyridine, dihydro- and tetrahydropyridine derivatives. N-Vinyl lactim ethers undergo Diels-Alder reactions with a limited set of dienophiles. " Thioketones react with dienes to give Diels-Alder cycloadducts. The carbonyl group of lactams have also been shown to be a dienophile. Certain heterocyclic aromatic rings (among them furans) can also behave as dienes in the Diels-Alder reaction. Some hetero dienes that give the reaction are -C=C-C=0, 0=C-C=0, and N=C-C=N. ... 

The use of chiral bis(oxazoline) copper catalysts has also been often reported as an efficient and economic way to perform asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds and imines with conjugated dienes [81], with the main focus on the application of this methodology towards the preparation of biologically valuable synthons [82]. Only some representative examples are listed below. For example, the copper complex 54 (Scheme 26) has been successfully involved in the catalytic hetero Diels-Alder reaction of a substituted cyclohexadiene with ethyl glyoxylate [83], a key step in the total synthesis of (i )-dihydroactinidiolide (Scheme 30). 

Jorgensen et al. [84] studied how solvent effects could influence the course of Diels-Alder reactions catalyzed by copper(II)-bisoxazoline. They assumed that the use of polar solvents (generally nitroalkanes) improved the activity and selectivity of the cationic copper-Lewis acid used in the hetero Diels-Alder reaction of alkylglyoxylates with dienes (Scheme 31, reaction 1). The explanation, close to that given by Evans regarding the crucial role of the counterion, is a stabilization of the dissociated ion, leading to a more defined complex conformation. They also used this reaction for the synthesis of a precursor for highly valuable sesquiterpene lactones with an enantiomeric excess superior to 99%. 

Similar transformations have been performed with Danishefsky s diene and glyoxylate esters [85] catalyzed by bis (oxazoHne)-metal complexes to afford the hetero Diels-Alder product in 70% isolated yield and up to 72% ee. Jorgensen [86,87] reported a highly enantioselective, catalytic hetero Diels-Alder reaction of ketones and similar chiral copper(II) complexes leading to enantiomeric excesses up to 99% (Scheme 31, reaction 2). They also described [88] a highly diastereo- and enantioselective catalytic hetero Diels-Alder reaction of /I, y-imsaturated a-ketoesters with electron-rich alkenes... 

Several groups have reported the use of rare earth complexes as catalysts for asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction. Qian and Wang described thus the preparation and use of Yb complexes chelated by Pr-PyBOx to successfully achieve the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of methyl glyoxylate with Danishefsky s diene in 77% ee and 73% yield (Scheme 37) [98]. 

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