Diels-Alder reaction -oxazolone

Avenoza A., Busto J. H., Cativiela C., Peregrina G. M. and Zurbano M. M. The use of 4-Hetaryliden- and 4-Aryliden-5(4H)-Oxazolones as Dienophiles in the Diels-Alder Reactions in Targets in Heterocyclic Systems-Chemistry and Properties vol 3. 1999, Eds. Attanasi O. A. and Spinelli D., Pb. Soc. Chim. Ital. Keywords hetero-Diels-Alder reactions... 

The Diels-Alder reaction between oxazolone and cyclopentadiene in water was investigated by Cativiela (Eq. 12.35).96 Although the reaction is very slow, the ( )-5(4H)-oxazolone reacted with cyclopentadiene in an aqueous medium for six days at room temperature to form the corresponding sprioxazolones in a 95% yield. The cycloadducts were then readily converted into amino-norbomane carboxylic acids. 

An extensive review of the use of chiral Lewis acid catalysts in Diels-Alder cycloadditions has been presented. Brpnsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acids have been shown to be highly efficient catalysts for the enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions of a- and /3-substituted-Q, /i-enals with numerous dienes. The chiral Lewis acid-catalysed Diels-Alder reaction between cyclopentadiene and alkenoyloxazolidi-nones can be catalysed by bis(oxazolone)magnesium catalysts. ... 

The 3-acyl-2(3F/)-oxazolones function as good dienophiles in cycloaddition reactions with cyclic 2,4-dienes such as cyclopentadienes and anthracenes. Thus, the thermal reaction of 3-acetyl-2(37/)-oxazolone with cyclopentadiene and the hexachloro and hexamethyl derivatives gives endo-cycloadducts exclusively. In particular, the chiral cycloadducts 221 and 223 derived from the diastereoselective Diels-Alder reactions of 3-(2-exo-alkoxy-l-apocamphanecarbonyl)-2(3/7)-oxazo-lones with hexamethylcyclopentadiene and 9,10-dimethylanthracene, respectively, are highly useful as chiral 2-oxazolidinone auxiliaries. The conformationally rigid roofed structures play a crucial role in affording excellent chiral induction (Fig. 5.54). 

The ene-reaction, which is mechanistically related to the Diels-Alder reaction, has also been reported. The thermal addition of 3-ferf-butoxycarbonyl-2(3//)-oxazolone 236 to 2,2 -biindole 235 affords 4-(2,2 -biindol-3-yl)-2-oxazolidinone 237, probably via the indoline derivative. The product is further converted to the fused aromatic compound 238 by bromination with NBS and AIBN, followed by dehydrobromination (Fig. 5.58). ... 

Saturated 2-vinyl-5(47Z)-oxazolones have been widely used as intermediates for the synthesis of polymeric compounds that will be described in Section 7.3.2.9. Apart from these polymerization reactions, the Diels-Alder reactions of 4-sub-stituted-2-vinyl-5(47/)-oxazolones 134 with cyclopentadiene are reported to give norbomenyl oxazolones 135 that are useful to prepare norbornenyl functionalized resins by azlactone ring-opening addition reactions (Scheme 7.39). 

Racemic cw-l-amino-2-phenylcyclohexanecarboxylic acid 693 can be prepared by Diels-Alder reaction of (Z)-4-benzyhdene-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolone 621 and butadiene in an analogous manner. Coupling A-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-L-proline with 693 yielded diastereomeric dipeptides that were separated chromatographi-cally. The behavior of the individual dipeptides was studied as a means to effect p-tum modulation by such cyclohexane analogues of phenylalanine. ... 

The Diels-Alder reaction of (Z)-4-arylidene-2-phenyl-5(4//)-oxazolone 707 and Danishefsky s diene is best conducted in toluene at reflux to produce both the endo and the exo stereoisomers of 708. Base treatment of the cycloadduct mixture promotes aromatization through spontaneous oxidative decarboxylation to give 3-aryl-4-benzamidophenols that are converted to 3-aryl-4-aminophenols 709 by acid... 

To extend this methodology, Diels-Alder reactions of several (Z)-4-arylidene (heteroarylidene)-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolones with butadiene, 2,3-dimethylbuta-diene, cyclopentadiene and Danishefsky s diene have been studied. This work demonstrated that the products depended on the nature of the aromatic ring and the diene used. " An interesting application of this methodology is the synthesis of racemic epibatidine 729, a new alkaloid with a 7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane skeleton that has proven to be a very potent analgesic. Preparation of 729 began with the Diels-Alder adduct 726 obtained from (Z)-4-[5 -(2 -chloropyridyhnethylene)]-2-... 

A number of other specific reactions have been studied. For example, Diels-Alder reactions of the unsaturated 5(4//)-oxazolone derived from piperonal with 2-ferf-butyldimethylsilyloxy-1,3-butadiene, piperylene, 1-acetoxy-1,3-butadiene, and Danishefsky s diene have been described. In these cases, the results are variable and are dependent on the diene with poor yields often obtained even at high temperatures. Moreover, the stereochemical outcome of these reactions has not been determined. " ... 

Irradiation of 4-(but-3-enylidene)-2-phenyl-5(477)-oxazolone 733 leads to the [4 + 2] adduct 734 derived from 733 acting as both a diene and a dienophile in a solid-state photo Diels-Alder reaction (Scheme 7.226). °... 

Diels-Alder reactions of 4-heteromethylene-5(4/7)-oxazolones have been described. ( )-4-(Chloromethylene)-5(4//)-oxazolone 737 reacts with 2,3-dunethyl-butadiene in the presence of ethylaluminum dichloride to afford the cycloadduct 738. The cycloaddition reaction is characterized by high diastereoselectivity and occurs without appreciable isomerization of the dienophile. Further synthetic transformations of 738 yield 1-amino-3,4-dimethyl-6-hydroxy-cyclohex-3-enecar-boxylic acid 739 (Scheme 1.121) Examples of Diels-Alder reactions of acyclic dienes and unsaturated 5(4//)-oxazolones are shown in Table 7.50 (Fig. 7.61). 

Z)-4-[(5)-2,2-Dimethyl-l,3-dioxolan -ylmethylene]-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolone 632 can react as a dienophile in diastereoselective Diels-Alder reactions. Thus, 632 undergoes a thermally induced Diels-Alder reaction with cyclic dienes, for example, cyclopentadiene and cyclohexadiene, to afford a mixture of the four... 

The chiral (E)-oxazolone derived from 1,2-O-isopropyIidene-D-glyceraldehyde has also been used as a dienophile in the Diels-Alder reaction and, in this case, ( /Z) isomerization of the oxazolone can be avoided using heterogeneous catalysts that promote the synthesis of trans-adducts. ... 

The X-ray crystal structure of fZ)-4-[(5)-2,2-dimethyl-l,3-dioxolan -ylmethyl-ene]-2-phenyl-5(4//)-oxazolone has been determined. " The analysis shows an almost planar disposition for the entire molecule with the exception of the dioxolane ring that adopts an envelope conformation. As such, the dioxolane ring is mainly situated on the si,si diastereotopic face of the olefinic bond, a situation that accounts for the observed diastereoselectivity in Diels-Alder reactions. 

The use of 4-heteroarylmethylene- and 4-aryhnethylene-5(47/)-oxazolones as dienophiles in the Diels-Alder reaction has been recently reviewed. More recently the reactivity of the exocyclic double bond of 4-(alkoxymethylene)-5(4//)-oxazolones with several dienes has been assessed. Reaction of 4-(methoxymethyl-ene)-2-phenyl-5(477)-oxazolone and 1,3-butadiene requires the presence of Et2AlCl as a catalyst and even then the Diels-Alder cycloadduct is obtained in low yield. 

On the other hand, lithium perchlorate catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction between 4-[(ethoxycarbonyloxy)methylene]-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolone 829 and cyclopenta-diene is more efficient and affords a mixture of the corresponding exo-830 and endo-831 cycloadducts. These cycloadducts have been converted to 2-amino-3-hydroxynorbornenecarboxylic acid derivatives 832 and 833 or to 2-amino-3-hydroxynorbornanecarboxylic acids 834 and 835 after a series of careful transformations.In addition, 830 and 831 have been further elaborated to new conformationally constrained serine analogues, the polyhydroxy 2-aminonorbor-nanecarboxylic acids 836-839 as shown in Scheme 7.257. ° ... 

Two asymmetric Diels-Alder approaches to analogues like 830 and 831 have been described. In the hrst case, chiral catalysts were employed for an enantiose-lective Diels-Alder reaction, but unfortunately, none of the chiral catalysts showed any enantioselectivity upon analysis of the reaction mixtures. Alternatively, a chiral oxazolone 840 incorporating a menthyl carbonate at C-4 was prepared and used as a dienophile with cyclopentadiene. In this case, the exo/endo ratio was 60 40 but no signihcant endo or exo diastereoselectivity was obtained (Scheme 7.258). ° ... 

The alkylation of enolates from some recently developed 2-oxazolidinone auxiliaries will be briefly discussed. The Diels-Alder reaction of the enantiomerically pure 3-(apocamphane-carbonyl)-2(3//)-oxazolone 13 with anthracene gives, diastereoselectively, a 97 3 ratio of diastereomeric adducts63. Recrystallization followed by removal of the apocamphanecarbonyl auxiliary and acylation gives the diastereomerically pure enantiomer 14 in good yield. Subsequent enolate formation and alkylation gives highly diastereoselective reactions and easily purified products due to the fact that the major product is readily crystallized. Thus alkylation... 

Bunuel, E. Gil, A. M. Diaz-de-Villegas, M. D. Cativiela, C. Synthesis of constrained prolines by Diels—Alder reaction using a chiral unsaturated oxazolone derived from (R)-glyceralde-hyde as starting material. Tetrahedron 2001,... 

Anhydro-4-hydroxyoxazoIium hydroxides, such as compound (231), behave as carbonyl ylides (232) in cycloaddition reactions, yielding bicyclic adducts with alkenes and carbonyl compounds (Scheme 24). The adducts produced by combination with alkynes fragment spontaneously in a retro-Diels-Alder reaction, giving furans (equation 57). The formation of a furan by the action of DMAD on the 4(5//)-oxazolone (233) shows that the latter exists in equilibrium with the mesoionic tautomer (234 equation 58) (79JOC626). 

SYNTHESIS AND DIELS ALDER REACTION OF 3-ACETYL-2(3H)-OXAZOLONE...149... 

An intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction between oxazolone 123 and Danishefsky s diene gave a cyclohexenone cycloadduct 124, which was elaborated into the natural product epibatidine (Scheme 30) <1998S1335>. 

This sequence has been used for the synthesis of 6-methoxymurrayanine (232) (Scheme 55) [214]. Reaction of butane-2,3-dione (226) with 4-methoxyphenyl isocyanate (227) to 4,5-dimethylene-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one (228) followed by regioselective boron trifluoride-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction with acrolein afforded the oxazolone 229. Only minor amounts of the undesired regioisomer were formed. Aromatization using 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) afforded the benzoxazol-2-one 230. Saponification of the cyclic carbamate and subsequent O-methylation led to the diarylamine 231. Finally, oxidative cyclization using stoichiometric amounts of palladium(ll) acetate provided 6-methoxymurrayanine (232). 

Diels-Alder reactions of 2-alkenyloxy-4,5-diphenyloxazoles 835 ( = 3,4) were not successful. There was no reaction up to 230°C, whereas FVP of 835 ( = 3,4) produced 4,5-diphenyl-2(3ff)-oxazolone 837 nearly quantitatively via an intramolecular ene reaction. Photolysis of 5-[(5-hexenyl)oxy]-2-phenyloxazole 838 (n = 3) afforded the azirine 840 in 54% yield as the sole photoproduct. This was postulated to arise via ring opening to the nitrile ylide 839 and recyclization. 

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