Transannular cyclization Diels-Alder reaction

The intramolecular Diels-Alder cyclization of cyclohexadiene-l,2-dicarboxylic anhydride-derived diester-tethered triene (86) produces the cycloadducts in a ratio of 7 1 (Scheme 31). The intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of amino acid-derived trienes (87) yield cycloaddition products (88) and (89) which are mainly cw-fused and derived from the exo-transition states (Scheme 32). A key reaction in the synthesis of the natural product momilactone A is the transannular Diels-Alder cyclization of the trans-trans-cis alkene (90) to the trans-syn-trans tricycle (91) (Scheme 33). The Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 1 l-oxapentacyclo[6,5,2,2 0 0 ]-heptadeca-4,14,16-triene-4,5-dicarboxylic anhydride (92) with cyclopentadiene proceeds with 5yn-facial selectivity to produce syn,endo and syn,exo cycloadducts (93) and (94)... 

Under high dilution Suzuki conditions 1 was converted to 2. Storage in CEXl lj for five days, or brief wanning, cyclized 2 to a single diastereomer of the transannular Diels-Alder product, that was carried on to (+)-superstohde A 3. While acychc trienes comparable to 2 could be induced to cyclize, the transannular Diels-Alder reaction proceeded with much higher diastereocontrol. 

Debenzoyltashironin, a densely functionalized polycyclic natural product that induces neurite outgrowth in fetal rat cortical neurons, was synthesized by Danishefsky and co-workers using a biomimetic synthetic route. As shown in Scheme 20.4, the cyclic quinone monoketal 10 was formed by oxidative dearomatization of 9 followed by intramolecular O-cyclization. The transannular Diels-Alder cycloaddition was observed during this process. However, a 4-minute microwave irradiation was needed to complete the reaction to give 11 in 65% yield. It is remarkable that such a complex polycyclic ring system was assembled in two steps. Incorporation of a trisubstituted allene as the dieno-phile of 9 was important because the transannular Diels-Alder reaction did not proceed when an alkene dienophile... 

Another palladium-catalysed process that has proven utility for cyclic structures is the Stille coupling between organostannanes and aiyl or vinyl halides/triflates. Specifically for the macrocyclic framework, this chemistry was applied to the preparation of cyclic trienes (102) with defined geometry (Scheme 11.11) that were intermediates for transannular Diels-Alder reactions. The intramolecular Stille reaction also has been efficiently conducted on solid phase to form 104, an advanced intermediate in the synthesis of (S)-zearalenone, from 103 by a cyclization-release strategy. ... 

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