Diels-Alder reactions with acetal

Sorbic acid is oxidized rapidly in the presence of molecular oxygen or peroxide compounds. The decomposition products indicate that the double bond farthest from the carboxyl group is oxidized (11). More complete oxidation leads to acetaldehyde, acetic acid, fumaraldehyde, fumaric acid, and polymeric products. Sorbic acid undergoes Diels-Alder reactions with many dienophiles and undergoes self-dimerization, which leads to eight possible isomeric Diels-Alder stmctures (12). 

Cyclic 1,3-diacetoxy-l,3-dienes can be generated in situ from cyclic 1,3-diketones under the influence of isopropenyl acetate. The dienes then undergo Diels-Alder reactions with maleic anhydride giving as products 1-acetoxybicycloalkane dicarboxylic anhydride derivatives (10). The procedure is also successful with cyclic 1,2- and 1,4-diketones as well as cyclic a,j3-unsaturated ketones. The products, after hydrolysis to... 

The presence of the catalyst can also favor multiple Diels-Alder reactions of cycloalkenones. Two typical examples are reported in Schemes 3.6 and 3.7. When (E)-l-methoxy-1,3-butadiene (14) interacted with 2-cyclohexenone in the presence of Yb(fod)3 catalyst, a multiple Diels-Alder reaction occurred [21] and afforded a 1 1.5 mixture of the two tricyclic ketones 15 and 16 (Scheme 3.6). The sequence of events leading to the products includes the elimination of methanol from the primary cycloadduct to afford a bicyclic dienone that underwent a second cycloaddition. Similarly, 4-acetoxy-2-cyclopenten-l-one (17) (Scheme 3.7) has been shown to behave as a conjunctive reagent for a one-pot multiple Diels-Alder reaction with a variety of dienes under AICI3 catalysis, providing a mild and convenient methodology to synthesize hydrofluorenones [22]. The role of the Lewis acid is crucial to facilitate the elimination of acetic acid from the cycloadducts. The results of the reaction of 17 with diene... 

Today, multi-parallel synthesis lies at the forefront of organic and medicinal chemistry, and plays a major role in lead discovery and lead optimization programs in the pharmaceutical industry. The first solid-phase domino reactions were developed by Tietze and coworkers [6] using a domino Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder and a domino Knoevenagel/ene protocol. Reaction of solid-phase bound 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds such as 10-22 with aldehydes and enol ethers in the presence of piperidinium acetate led to the 1-oxa-1,3-butadiene 10-23, which underwent an intermolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with the enol ethers to give the resin-bound products 10-24. Solvolysis with NaOMe afforded the desired dihydro-pyranes, 10-25 with over 90 % purity. Ene reactions have also been performed in a similar manner [7]. 

Diketone 829 closely parallels 820 in its chemical reactivity. Introduction of a functionalized bridging carbon can be achieved with ethyl formate and base . The acetate group in 8JO 6 is remarkably easily replaced with retention by simple nucleophiles, e.g, the conversion to 8JI. The implicated peristyl-3-ene-2,6-dione (8J2) can in fact be obtained as a colorless crystalline compound. Also, 8J0a spontaneously dehydrates during ketalization to produce 8JJ. The strained double bond in 832 enters readily into Diels-Alder reaction with furan to furnish a 3 1 mixture of 834a and 834b. 

The reactivity of the produced complexes was also examined [30a,b]. Since the benzopyranylidene complex 106 has an electron-deficient diene moiety due to the strong electron-withdrawing nature of W(CO)5 group, 106 is expected to undergo inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction with electron-rich alkenes. In fact, naphthalenes 116 variously substituted at the 1-, 2-, and 3-positions were prepared by the reaction of benzopyranylidene complexes 106 and typical electron-rich alkenes such as vinyl ethers, ketene acetals, and enamines through the Diels-Alder adducts 115, which simultaneously eliminated W(CO)6 and an alcohol or an amine at rt (Scheme 5.35). 

Compound 83 is a diene that comprises four carbon atoms of a hexose chain, and it takes part in the Diels-Alder reaction with maleic anhydride to give 86% of the product 84, the stereochemistry of the addition being directed by the acetal ring [42]. 

The 1,2,4-triazine core is a synthetically important scaffold because it could be readily transformed into a range of different heterocyclic systems such as pyridines (Sect. 3.1) via intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions with acetylenes. 1,2,4-Triazines have been synthesized by the condensation of 1,2-diketones with acid hydrazides in the presence of NH4OH in acetic acid for up to 24 h at reflux temperature. Microwave dielectric heating in closed vessels allowed the reaction to be performed at 180 °C (60 °C above the boiling point of acetic acid). As a result, the reaction time was reduced to merely 5 minutes. Subsequently, a 48-membered library of 1,2,4-triazines was generated from diverse acyl hydrazides and a-diketones [139]. Two thirds of the desired heterocycles precipitated from the reaction mixture upon cooling with > 75% purity, while the remaining part of the library was purified by preparative LCMS (Scheme 56). 

The acetate ofthis alcohol is used in a Diels-Alder reaction with the interesting dienophile DEAD (diethyl azodicarboxylate—in orange). 

These examples demonstrate that a selective Heck-Diels-Alder sequence with two different alkenes is only possible either in a stepwise manner, if an alkene reacts much faster in the Heck reaction than in the subsequent cycloaddition so that the 1,3-diene can be isolated, or as a real cascade reaction if one alkene is more reactive and thus selectively reacts as a coupling partner, whereas the other one is a better dienophile. Both concepts have been used by Kollar et al. for the annelation of cyclohexene rings onto the steroidal skeleton 26 (Scheme 4) [28-30]. At 60 °C the cycloaddition was sufficiently suppressed so that the Heck coupling product 29 could be isolated and subsequently subjected to Diels-Alder reactions with different dienophiles. For a domino reaction with both methyl acrylate and dimethyl fumarate (28) present in the reaction mixture, the conditions had to be precisely adjusted so that the mixed products 31 and 32 were formed predominantly along with only small amounts of the products of a twofold reaction of either 27 (R = CC Me) or 28 with 26. These conditions also proved suitable for a cascade reaction of 26 involving allyl alcohol 27 (R = CH2OH) or allyl acetate 27 (R = CH2OAc) and dimethyl fumarate (28). 

The C-glycoside 178 was used by Boyd and Sulikowski [87] in the total synthesis of enantiomerically pure urdamycinone B (182) and 104-2 (183) making use of the diene 107 derived from shikimic acid (Scheme 29) and the NMO oxidation to generate the C-5 phenols (Scheme 40). Thus, the bromonaphthoquinone 179 (prepared by treatment of phenol 178 with NBS) formed the tetracycle 180 through a Diels-Alder reaction with the diene 107 in analogy to sugar-free reactants. Osmylation to a cis-diol, deprotection, oxidation, and acetalization gave the acetonide 181. The decisive step in the aromatization to 182 and 183 was the reaction with NMO (Scheme 46). Aromatization was also effected by direct periodane oxidation of adduct 180 to derive 182 after deprotection. 

Simple a,3-unsaturated aldehydes, ketones, and esters (R = C02Me H > alkyl, aryl OR equation l)i, 60 preferentially participate in LUMOdiene-controlled Diels-Alder reactions with electron-rich, strained, and selected simple alkene and alkyne dienophiles, - although the thermal reaction conditions required are relatively harsh (150-250 C) and the reactions are characterized by the competitive dimerization and polymerization of the 1-oxa-1,3-butadiene. Typical dienophiles have included enol ethers, thioenol ethers, alkynyl ethers, ketene acetals, enamines, ynamines, ketene aminals, and selected simple alkenes representative examples are detailed in Table 2. - The most extensively studied reaction in the series is the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of a,3-unsaturated ketones with enol ethers and E)esimoni,... 

The hydrogenation of substituted succinic anhydrides such as 65, over platinum oxide at room temperature and 3-4 atmospheres leads to the initial formation of the hydroxy lactone, 66. Further hydrogenation in acetic acid at the same temperature and pressure converts 65 into a 2 1 ratio of the lactone, 67 and the methyl acid, 68. Extended hydrogenation of the anhydride in ethyl acetate gave almost equal amounts of 67 and 68 (Eqn. 18.42). Since anhydrides such as 65 are available from Diels-Alder reactions with maleic anhydride, this procedure has synthetic utility since the hydrogenations take place exclusively on the least hindered carbonyl group of the anhydride. 

Masked o-benzoquinones (one CO group is acetal- or acylal-protected) as active dienes in Diels-Alder reactions with dienophiles (among them thiophene and pyrrole derivatives) 02ACR856. 

Diels-Alder reaction with l,2,3,4-tetrachloro-5,5-diraethoxycyclopenta-l,3-diene followed by hydrolysis of the acetal and decarbonylation gave compound 15 which was converted to syn-and an//-2,3,4,5-tetrachlorotricyclo[4.3.0.0 ]nona-2,4-diene (16). ... 

When a similar palladium(0)-catalyzed reaction is performed in an acidic medium at room temperature, i.e. in the presence of acetic acid, different products are formed. These result from a reductive ring cleavage of the methylenecyclopropane (see Section 2.2.2.1. for details) and subsequent intramolecular Diels — Alder reaction with the unsaturated side chain in the case of 5-methylenehept-6-enyl propenoate (5) to ultimately yield 3-oxabicyclo[6.3.1]dodec-8-en-2-one (7). ( )-Octa-5,7-dienyl propenoate (6), however, is stable under the reaction conditions. Product 4, obtained from the acid-free reaction, has thus been proven to be different from the potential products of an isomerization/Diels —Alder addition sequence. 

Chiral phosphoric add is also effective for aza-Diels-Alder reactions. Danishefsky s diene underwent aza-Diels-Alder reaction with aldimines by means of 21e in the presence of acetic add to give the cycloadduds with high enantios-eledivities (Equation 10.43) [89]. Brassard s diene also partidpated in the aza-Diels-Alder readion under the influence of 21j to give 5-ladams with excellent enantioselectivities [90]. 

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