Diene-Alkyne Cycloadditions

A second category of silene reactions involves interactions with tt-bonded reagents which may include homonuclear species such as 1,3-dienes, alkynes, alkenes, and azo compounds as well as heteronuclear reagents such as carbonyl compounds, imines, and nitriles. Four modes of reaction have been observed nominal [2 + 2] cycloaddition (thermally forbidden on the basis of orbital symmetry considerations), [2 + 4] cycloadditions accompanied in some cases by the products of apparent ene reactions (both thermally allowed), and some cases of (allowed) 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. 

Many combinations of atoms are conceivable, among them azides, nitrones, nitrile oxides, and ozone. As these systems have four tt electrons, they are analogous to dienes, and cycloadditions with alkenes and alkynes are allowed [4 + 2] reactions. These are discussed in Section 10.3. 

Complex examples of the diene-alkyne [4+2] cycloaddition reaction have been illustrated in syntheses of a yohimban alkaloid and vitamin D analogs (Scheme 3-21). A representative procedure for the synthesis of a vitamin D analog is provided below. 

The vinylcarbene complexes Cr(CX))5 =C(OEt)C=CXR) (X = NMe2, OEt R = alkyl, aryl) react with alkynes R OCH to form various cyclopenta[b]pyrans.30S In a two step process, addition of the alkynes NEt20Chfe u> the l-metalla-l,3-diene W(CX))s =C(OEt)CHsCHHi) results in metallatriene species that cyclise U) fwm cyclopentadiene complexes 40. Chromium Fischer type alkoxyalkenyl carbene complexes react with ketoalkynes to fcxm bicyclic lactones in a number of different processes involving 8 and 10-e cyclizations. Various dienyl carbene complexes whose parent in Crortho-substituted aromatic alcohols through a variation upon the more usual benzannulation reaction involving alkyne cycloaddition with carbene complexes. ... 

Scheme 8.1 Examples of click reactions commonly employed in polymer synthesis and functionalization reactions, (a) Copper(I)-catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition reaction, (b) Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloaddition between anthracene derivatives and maleimides. (c) Hetero-Diels-Alder between a terminal electron-deficient thiocarbonylthio group of RAFT-generated polymers and an appropriate diene, (d) Ultrafast hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between a terminal electron-deficient thiocarbonylthio group of RAFT-generated polymers and a reactive cyclopentadiene. (e) Thiol-ene click chemistry.

The photochemistry of benzene is in contrast to ground state chemistry and provides a full exploitation in synthetic applications, which is thermally not possible. The addition of an alkenes, dienes, alkynes, amines, alcohols or carboxylic acids to benzene, can occur across the ortho-, meta-, and para-positions to give three distinct products. The addition of alkene gives ortho-, meta- and paro-cycloadditions. All the addition are streospecific with respect to alkene component. 

In the case of vinylfurans and vinylpyrroles there is the possibility of cycloaddition involving either the cyclic diene system or the diene system including the double bond. 2-Vinylfuran reacts in high yield with maleic anhydride in ether at room temperature to form the adduct involving the exocyclic double bond. Similarly, 2- and 3-vinylpyrroles react with 7T-electron-deficient alkenes and alkynes under relatively mild conditions to give the corresponding tetrahydro- and dihydro-indoles (Scheme 51) (80JOC4515). 

Fluorinated cyclobutanes and cyclobutenes are relatively easy to prepare because of the propensity of many gem-difluoroolefins to thermally cyclodimerize and cycloadd to alkenes and alkynes. Even with dienes, fluoroolefins commonly prefer to form cyclobutane rather than six-membered-ring Diels-Alder adducts. Tetrafluoroethylene, chlorotrifluoroethylene, and l,l-dichloro-2,2-difluoroethyl-ene are especially reactive in this context. Most evidence favors a stepwise diradical or, less often, a dipolar mechanism for [2+2] cycloadditions of fluoroalkenes [S5, (5], although arguments for a symmetry-allowed, concerted [2j-t-2J process persist [87], The scope, characteristic features, and mechanistic studies of fluoroolefin... 

The above cycloaddition process consists of two separate [3-1-2] cycloaddition steps and represents a 1,3-2,4 addition of a multiple bond system to a hetero-1,3-diene [7S7]. The structure ot the azomethine imine intermediate has been proved unequivocally by X-ray analysis [195] Ethylene [194], acetylene [/iS2] . many alkyl- and aryl- as well sgemmal dialkyl- and diaryl-substituted alkenes [196,197, 198, 199], dienes [200], and alkynes [182, 201], certain cyclic alkenes [198, 199,... 

A one-pot procedure [9] based on the cycloaddition of 4-aryl-2-silyloxybuta-dienes 7 and bisdiene 8 with alkynes, followed by oxidative aromatization of the cycloadducts, opened a route to polycyclic phenols without isolating the cyclo-hexadiene derivative intermediates (Scheme 2.5). 

The Diels-Alder reaction is an organic chemical reaction (specifically, a cycloaddition) between a conjugated diene and a substituted alkene, commonly termed the dienophile, to form a substituted cyclohexene system. The reaction can also proceed if the alkene is replaced by an alkyne moiety or even if some of the atoms... 

Products from the Cycloaddition Reactions of (Me3Si) R2. Si=C(OSiMe3)R with Dienes, Alkenes, and Alkynes (% Yields)... 

It is not quite clear which step takes place first - the Co-catalyzed [2+2+1] cycloaddition of the outer alkyne moiety, or the Diels-Alder reaction of the diene with the inner alkyne to form a 1,4-cyclohexadiene, which then undergoes a Pauson-Khand reaction with the remaining alkyne. Recently, it has been shown that a domino reaction can also be performed using 1 mol of a 1,7-diphenyl-1,6-diyne 6/4-20 and a 1,3-diene 6/4-21 in the presence of Co/C at 150 °C under 30 atm CO, to give the polycyclic compounds 6/4-22 as sole product (Scheme 6/4.7) [282]. 

Based on his previous work on the catalytic double addition of diazo compounds to alkynes173 using Cp RuCl(COD),174 Dixneuf has developed an efficient one-step synthesis of alkenyl bicyclo[3.1.0]-hexane derivatives of type 163 from enyne precursors 162 (Scheme 43). The catalytic cycle starts with the formation of an Ru=CHR species. It then adds to an alkyne to form ruthenacyclobutene 166, which evolves into vinylcarbene 167. [2 + 2]-Cycloaddition of 167 gives ruthenacyclobutane 168. The novelty in this transformation is the subsequent reductive elimination to give 170 without leading to the formation of diene 169. This can be attributed to the steric hindrance of the CsMes-Ru group. 

The metal-mediated and metal-catalyzed [6 + 2]- and [6 + 4]-cycloaddition reactions, pioneered by Pettit and co-workers105 106 and Kreiter and co-workers,107 respectively, involve the cycloaddition of metal-complexed cyclic trienes with 7r-systems such as alkenes, alkynes, and dienes. The [6 + 2]-reactions produce bicyclo[4.2.1]nonadiene derivatives and the [6 + 4]-reactions produce bicyclo[4.4.1]undecatrienes (Scheme 32). Trienes complexed to chromium, which can be prepared on large scale (40 g) as reported by Rigby and co-workers,108 react with 7r-systems upon thermolysis or irradiation.109-111 Chromium and iron-catalyzed [6 + 2]-reactions of cycloheptatrienes and disubstituted alkynes... 

The first metal-catalyzed [4 +2]-reaction of tethered dienes with 7r-systems was reported by Wender and Jenkins using alkynes initially as the two-carbon component.21 This study was based on the earlier observation by Wender and Ihle that in the [4 + 4]-cycloaddition of bis-dienes a competing side-reaction is the [4 + 2]-cycloaddition of the diene with a mono-ene portion of a second diene. The extension of this reaction to the synthesis of seven-membered rings by trapping the metallacycloheptadiene with CO, a formal [4 + 2 + l]-cycloaddition, has been shown in preliminary studies to be feasible. For example, tethered diene-yne 160 can be converted to cycloheptadienone 163 in an Rh(l)-catalyzed [4 + 2 + l]-reaction with CO, albeit the [4 + 2]- and [2 + 2 + l]-reaction products dominate (Equation (29)). The mechanistic scheme (Scheme 44) illustrates the possible metallacyclic intermediates leading to the observed products and provided the conceptual basis for the realization of three novel reaction types ([4 + 2], [2 + 2 + 1], and [4 + 2 + 1 ]).1... 

There are two main classes of [4 + 2 + 2]-metal-catalyzed higher-order cycloadditions that have been reported. The first class involves the reaction of 1,3-dienes (the four-carbon component) with norbornadienes (both two-carbon components) and the second involves the reaction of 1,3-dienes with either two alkynes or an alkyne and an alkene as the two-carbon components (Scheme 59). 

Recognizing that intermediates in the [4 + 2]-reaction of dienes and alkynes could be intercepted with components in addition to CO as in the [4 + 2 + l]-reaction, Gilbertson and Evans independently published two new methods for the synthesis of eight-membered carbocycles involving [4 + 2 + 2]-cycloadditions. Saa and co-workers report a... 

Enyne metathesis is unique and interesting in synthetic organic chemistry. Since it is difficult to control intermolecular enyne metathesis, this reaction is used as intramolecular enyne metathesis. There are two types of enyne metathesis one is caused by [2+2] cycloaddition of a multiple bond and transition metal carbene complex, and the other is an oxidative cyclization reaction caused by low-valent transition metals. In these cases, the alkyli-dene part migrates from alkene to alkyne carbon. Thus, this reaction is called an alkylidene migration reaction or a skeletal reorganization reaction. Many cyclized products having a diene moiety were obtained using intramolecular enyne metathesis. Very recently, intermolecular enyne metathesis has been developed between alkyne and ethylene as novel diene synthesis. 

Intermolecular enyne metathesis has recently been developed using ethylene gas as the alkene [20]. The plan is shown in Scheme 10. In this reaction,benzyli-dene carbene complex 52b, which is commercially available [16b], reacts with ethylene to give ruthenacyclobutane 73. This then converts into methylene ruthenium complex 57, which is the real catalyst in this reaction. It reacts with the alkyne intermolecularly to produce ruthenacyclobutene 74, which is converted into vinyl ruthenium carbene complex 75. It must react with ethylene, not with the alkyne, to produce ruthenacyclobutane 76 via [2+2] cycloaddition. Then it gives diene 72, and methylene ruthenium complex 57 would be regenerated. If the methylene ruthenium complex 57 reacts with ethylene, ruthenacyclobutane 77 would be formed. However, this process is a so-called non-productive process, and it returns to ethylene and 57. The reaction was carried out in CH2Cl2 un-... 

Cycloaddition.2 In combination with a triarylphosphine, 1 catalyzes the cyclization of a 1,6-enyne (2) to a 1,3-diene (3), and it effects [2+2+2] cycloaddition of 2 with an alkyne to give 4, which is isomeric with the product (5) of Diels-Alder addition of 3 with an alkyne. 

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